""Engaging images accompany information about the Colosseum. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher"--

"Describes the purpose and history of the Colosseum from ancient times until today. Includes infographic, sidebars, and "That's Amazing!" features"--

As he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger artists, this supreme painter and sculptor began carving his own tomb. It was at this unlikely moment that fate intervened to task Michelangelo with the most ambitious and daunting project of his long creative life. 'Michelangelo, God's...

A celebration of the art, architecture, and timeless human passion of the Eternal City, Rome Is Love Spelled Backward explores Rome's best-known treasures, often revealing secrets overlooked in conventional guidebooks. With the ancient play on "Roma" and "Amor"-ROMAMOR-Testa invites readers to experience the world's long love affair with one of its most beautiful cities.

"The remarkable story of the two seventeenth-century geniuses. . . . A highly successful double biography." —Booklist
The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met as contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peter's in Rome, became the greatest architects of their era by designing...

Lieu central de la chrétienté, voie de transport économique, incontournable endroit de patrimoine artistique et religieux, découvrez la mal-connue Voie Francigena. La Via Francigena, la « Voie des Francs », est le nom donné au grand itinéraire de pèlerinage qui descend à Rome depuis le Nord de l'Europe. Il désigne le faisceau de chemins par lesquels les Francs étaient descendus en Italie au VIIIe siècle. Toutefois, son tracé actuel...

Enrico Massetti escribió este libro con 43 magos. En efecto: Italia posee el patrimonio artístico y cultural más notable del mundo. Y su cultura no se encuentra sólo en las grandes ciudades creativas, sino que está difusa, "repartida" por todo el territorio nacional como en ningún otro país. ¿La prueba? Le Marche. Su costa llana y arenosa se ve interrumpida por precipicios escarpados y rocosos, una región con un paisaje rico y variado junto...

Following the generations of view painters who recorded Rome for their time, Steven Brooke has produced a unique guide to the most significant sites of ancient, Christian, and modern Rome- the first collection of its kind in over 100 years. The book included 200 timeless images, historical engravings, and essays by leading art historians. Steven Brooke is the photographer of over 40 books on architecture and design and is a faculty member of the University...

Esta guía ilustra la ciudad del arte de Venecia, para una visita de dos, tres o más días. Contiene descripciones y fotos de las atracciones, incluidas las islas de la laguna de Murano, Burano y Torcello, dispuestas a lo largo de un itinerario lógico para visitar la ciudad. Los mapas detallados ilustran el itinerario de la visita. También describe todos los medios de transporte disponibles para llegar a Venecia.

Mantova (Mantua), capital de Matilde di Canossa y de los Gonzaga, es una isla encantada rodeada por tres lagos formados por el Mincio. La impresionante escenografía de la época de los Gonzaga, los maravillosos frescos de la familia Mantegna, las fabulosas invenciones de Giulio Romano en el Palacio del Té, las iglesias, las casas patricias narran la historia.A pocos kilómetros de Mantua, podemos admirar el hermoso Santuario de la Beata Vergine...