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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...

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,...

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...

A 500 anni dalla morte, l'opera di Leonardo da Vinci è rivista sotto un'ottica diversa rispetto a quella generalmente riconosciuta. Leonardo così annunciava il suo celeberrimo esperimento del volo: "Piglierà il primo volo il grande uccello sopra del dosso del suo magno Cecero, empiendo...

"Das Glück wohnt nur in dir selbst, erwecke es." Die beliebte Schauspielerin erzählt, wie sie dem Weg des Älterwerdens am liebsten ausgewichen wäre. Heute weiß sie: Anmutig älter zu werden verlangt ein gewisses Maß Arbeit an sich selbst. Mit Humor erzählt sie viele Anekdoten aus...

La storia meravigliosa della vita di Nicola Martinelli. Nato nel 1925, in un piccolo paese sul Lago di Garda, imparò il mestiere di sarto in una bottega locale, poi emigrò a Milano dove divenne uno dei sarti più celebri ed esclusivi. Costretto dalla salute cagionevole a interrompere la professione,...

Ob Bob Dylan, Thomas Quasthoff oder Roger Cicero – Künstler aller Genres interpretieren im Jubiläumsjahr seine Songs und zollen so dem verehrten Frank Sinatra ihren Tribut. Mehr als 60 Jahre lang begeisterte er auf den Showbühnen der Welt ein Millionenpublikum – der vollkommenste aller Crooner,...

La réussite de Paolo l'entraîne dans un tourbillon où il perd de vue ses priorités. Marié, père de jeunes enfants, il se sent constamment tiraillé entre sa carrière, qu'il veut poursuivre à tout prix, et sa famille. Poussé par son besoin d'amour irrépressible, il va de conquête en conquête,...