Landscape And MemoryKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995 - 672 pagina's A Time Magazine Best Books of the Year. In Landscape and Memory, award-winning author Simon Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist gadfly on the slopes of Mount Rushmore. The result is a triumphant work of history, naturalism, mythology, and art, as encyclopedic as The Golden Bough and as irresistibly readable as Schama's own Citizens. "A work of great ambition and enormous intellectual scope...consistently provocative and revealing."--New York Times "Extraordinary...a summary cannot convey the riches of this book. It will absorb, instruct, and fascinate."--New York Review of Books |
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Pagina 231
... Gothic builders was that " no attentive observer ever viewed a regular avenue of well- grown trees , intermixing their branches overhead , but it presently put him in mind of the long Visto through a Gothic cathedral . " A generation ...
... Gothic builders was that " no attentive observer ever viewed a regular avenue of well- grown trees , intermixing their branches overhead , but it presently put him in mind of the long Visto through a Gothic cathedral . " A generation ...
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... Gothic while conten.plating the wine harvest in the Médoc should be so summarily dismissed . It was 1785. Hall , who described the incident in his Essay on the Origins , History and Principles of Gothic Architecture , was then on the ...
... Gothic while conten.plating the wine harvest in the Médoc should be so summarily dismissed . It was 1785. Hall , who described the incident in his Essay on the Origins , History and Principles of Gothic Architecture , was then on the ...
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... Gothic architecture and from which the peculiar forms of that style might have derived.85 Hall then went on a tour of Gothic churches in the north of England and Ireland to fortify his confidence before embarking on the experiment that ...
... Gothic architecture and from which the peculiar forms of that style might have derived.85 Hall then went on a tour of Gothic churches in the north of England and Ireland to fortify his confidence before embarking on the experiment that ...
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