A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age

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William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages.Amazon.com Review
It speaks to the failure of medieval Europe, writes popular historian William Manchester, that "in the year 1500, after a thousand years of neglect, the roads built by the Romans were still the best on the continent." European powers were so absorbed in destroying each other and in suppressing peasant revolts... More >>

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

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While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew.

This unusual encounter and the moral dilemma it posed raise fundamental questions about the limits and possibilities of forgiveness. Must we, can we forgive the repentant criminal? Can we forgive... More >>

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

Modigliani: A Life

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“People like us . . . have different rights, different values than do ordinary people because we have different needs which put us . . . above their moral standards.” —Modigliani

Amedeo (“Beloved of God”) Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as Van Gogh’s. In Modigliani’s time, his work was seen as an oddity: contemporary with the Cubists but not part of their movement. His work was a ... More >>

Modigliani: A Life

POPism: The Warhol Sixties

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Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is the ultimate inside story of a decade of cultural revolution. Andy Warhol's own story of the 1960s and the extraordinary scene that surrounded his studio--The Factory. Illustrated.... More >>

POPism: The Warhol Sixties

Celtic Art

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The Pictish School of Celtic art from pagan symbols to monumental sculptures, thoroughly covered and illustrated.... More >>

Celtic Art

Caravaggio: The Complete Paintings

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Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Milan 1571 Porto Ercole 1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Celebrated by some for his naturalism and his revolutionary pictorial inventions, he was considered by others to have destroyed painting. Few other artists have attracted such controversial and contradictory interpretations right up to modern times and to the latest art historical research.



The book offers a comprehen... More >>

Caravaggio: The Complete Paintings

Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, Volumes 1-2

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A landmark in art history and the most anticipated art publishing event of the new millennium.In this groundbreaking and original work of scholarship, four of the most influential and provocative art historians of our time have come together to provide a comprehensive history of art in the twentieth century, an age when artists in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere sought to overturn the traditions of the past and expectations of the present i... More >>

Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, Volumes 1-2