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 150
... figures like the Monk Eustace . Eustace was yet another figure represented in the tales and ballads as a victim - turned- outlaw . The son of a knightly family , he had quit his monastery in the 1190s to avenge the murder of his father ...
... figures like the Monk Eustace . Eustace was yet another figure represented in the tales and ballads as a victim - turned- outlaw . The son of a knightly family , he had quit his monastery in the 1190s to avenge the murder of his father ...
Pagina 275
... figures of the Tiber and Arno , was linked to the primal site of the Fountain of the Deluge by a " water - chain " down which water flowed through a channel of stone crayfish . At the Villa Farnese at Caprarola , the sides of the water ...
... figures of the Tiber and Arno , was linked to the primal site of the Fountain of the Deluge by a " water - chain " down which water flowed through a channel of stone crayfish . At the Villa Farnese at Caprarola , the sides of the water ...
Pagina 295
... figure on top of an irregular structure , part stone , part shell , from which water would pour into a shallow basin ... figures , rather than firmly grounded on any kind of pedestal.85 By the time he came to work up a model , presumably ...
... figure on top of an irregular structure , part stone , part shell , from which water would pour into a shallow basin ... figures , rather than firmly grounded on any kind of pedestal.85 By the time he came to work up a model , presumably ...
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Aby Warburg Alpine Alps American ancient animals Anselm Kiefer arcadia architecture artist Barlow became beneath Bernini Białowieża bison Borglum British Cambridge Caspar David Friedrich century Chamonix Christian church classical climb color illus cross cult culture death Denecourt Dinocrates eighteenth Empire England English essay father Fontainebleau forest France French garden German Gothic greenwood groves Hermannsdenkmal hills holy hunting Ibid imagined imperial J. M. W. Turner Jews John John Robert Cozens Kiefer king land landscape liberty Lithuanian living London medieval memory Mickiewicz modern Mont Blanc Mount Mount Rushmore mountain myth nature Nile obelisk original Osiris pagan painting Pan Tadeusz Paris park patriotic poet Poland Polish political Ralegh Ramond Renaissance river rock Roman Rome royal Ruskin sacred scenery seemed symbol Tacitus Tadeusz temple Thames Thomas thought timber tion tradition trans trees turned village Warburg wild wilderness William woodland woods York Yosemite