Facing certain death, Mowgli must overcome his reluctance to leave his wolf family and return to the "man village." But he is not alone on his quest: Aided by Bagheera the panther, and later by the carefree bear Balloo (Phil Harris), he braves the jungle's many perils. Released: ...
Anthony M. Cummings.Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250–1750: From the Priorate of the Guilds to the End of the Medici Grand Duchy. University of Chicago Press, 2023.Assigned for Review. David Alff.The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region.University of Chicag...
Florence, his father died in Arezzo, and Giorgio had still to find a job in Florence under the rules of the Medici family. He became, for a short time, court painter of Alessandro Medici (1532-1537), who was murdered by his enemies. From 1537 until 1546, Vasari went to Venice, Naples...
the rediscovery of the classics, the rise of the Medici and fall of the Borgias, the astonishing artistic achievements of Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Cellini, the impact of the Inquisition, and the expansion of secular Humanism. Palmer
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray was shortlisted for the Booker Prize last year and is even more impressive than his second novel Skippy Dies which I read last year. It is a portrait of the Barnes family who live in a small Irish town and have fallen on hard times following the financial ...
Photos of the work: Books On Books Collection. If you live where red kites thrive, you will see them most often singly, in pairs or threes. If you are lucky, you may see as many as eight or ten at a time. Near Harewood House in West Yorkshire where red kites were reintroduced in...
“Pat Sweet“. 18 January 2023.Books On Books Collection. Artist’s miniature book. “Tommy Thompson“. 21 August 2022.Books On Books Collection.Reference. “Dave Wood“.Books On Books Collection. Artist’s book. [In progress] Clodd, Edward. 1913.The Story of the Alphabet. London: Hodder...
and instead it’s a series of moments in the life of an aristocratic family in Sicily from the mid nineteenth century to the early twentieth. The main character is a physically imposing, intelligent, proud, cooly distant member of a deteriorating noble family with a leopard on its escutcheon....
' At the time, she was a convent girl.When she was 16 she was visiting, with her mother, Maya Picasso, an exhibition on Pablo's last decades at the Villa Medici in Rome. The erotic drawings spread out before the inquisitive and impressionable teenage girl were a revelation.They were ...
the found brick and arch of marble fragments to Little Sparta and Finlay’s art finds one of its echoes in the cover’s cutout and the marble-white textured board behind it. Another echo lies in the words “metamorphosis” and “metaphoric” laid out to form an arch on the page below....