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Non cose morte: l'architettura è espressione viva e riflette l'animo di chi la progetta. “FKS - Riflessi e Riflessioni”, nella sua seconda edizione in e-book rinnovata e aggiornata, racconta una vita, quella di Massimiliano Fuksas. E spiega come un giovane professionista individua le idee che...

Dieses eBook wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Die Ausgabe ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) war ein Lyriker deutscher Sprache. Mit seiner in den Neuen Gedichten...

From St. Peter’s Basilica to the Capitoline Hill, this unique resource-part biography, part history, and part travel guide-provides an intimate portrait of the relationship between Michelangelo and the city he restored to artistic greatness. Lavishly illustrated and richly informative, this travel...

Discover one hundred of the greatest folk artists practicing in the United States in Folk Masters: A Portrait of America. Over the past 25 years, photographer Tom Pich has traveled the country to the homes and studios of recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts’ National Heritage Fellowship,...

Fuseli is famous for his paintings and drawings of nude figures caught in strained and violent poses suggestive ofintense emotion. He also had a affinity for inventing chilling fantasies, such as that in “The Nightmare” (1781). He had a noticeable influence on the style of his younger contemporary,...

Lіfе and Career in Detail Eric Patrick Clapton wаѕ born оn 30 Маrch 1945 іn hіѕ grandparents' homе аt Тhе Grееn, Ripley, Surrey, Еnglаnd. He wаѕ thе sоn оf 16-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton (b. 7 January 1929, d. Маrch 1999) аnd Edward Walter Fryer (b. 21 Mаrch 1920, d....

Gabrielle a tout juste vingt ans, Henry en a treize de plus. La future Colette est une jeune fille blonde, intelligente et... effrontée, à la chevelure extraordinaire. Willy, le nom de plume de Henry, est un romancier et un critique redouté qui appartient à une famille d'éditeurs scientifiques,...

Kenyon Cox was born in Warren, Ohio, in 1856 to a nationally prominent family.  He studied as an adolescent at the McMicken Art School in Cincinnati and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.  From 1877 to 1882, he was enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and then...

Spanish painter Francisco Goya completed some 500 oil paintings and murals, about 300 etchings and lithographs, and many hundreds of drawings.   The first of his great series of engravings, Los Caprichos issued in 1799. The set consists of 82 plates in etching reinforced with...

Albrecht Dürer, in Nürnberg geboren und verstorben, gehört zu den bedeutendsten deutschen Künstlern. Darüber hinaus machte ersich auch als Mathematiker einen Namen und zählt heute zu den bedeutendsten Vertretern des Humanismus und der Reformation. Diese Biographie des bedeutenden Kunsthistorikers Pastor zeichnet seinen Werdegang und sein Schaffen nach.

Goddess is the book that Madonna and her entourage did not want published. Long before the star could instruct her family and friends not to talk to the author, Barbara Victor spent more than eighteen months in Michigan, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, California, New York, and Florida, interviewing...

American ingenuity reveals itself in the simplest and most forgotten places. From familiar brand names such as Wheaties (George Cormack) to the most mundane stop at the traffic light (Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr.), the everyday presents abundant opportunity to respect and recall the intellect of the...

Lindsay Lohan is a controversial American actress, singer and celebrity party girl. Lindsay Lohan began her entertainment career when she signed with Ford Models at the tender age of three. Lohan went on to appear in commercials for companies such as Wendy's and Jell-O.   Lindsay's...

Women have played a huge role in the World Wrestling Entertainment since its existence. The company started as Capitol Wrestling Corporation in 1952, and was part of the National Wrestling Alliance. By 1963, the company was known as the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF).   In...