Orsi: La Revue Negre

Beautiful, bilingual (Italian and English) study of sixteenth-century Italian fashion and costume and the influence of Eleanor of Toledo on the Italian court, following her marriage into the Medici court. Contains 120 plates, mostly in color. ...more

Through a unique and stunning collection of paintings, sculpture, rare books, and works on paper, Divine Mirrors examines the complex relationship between sacred imagery and secular identity in the art of the Madonna. This magnificent work--born from a multi-year project that included a museum exhibition, scholarly symposium, and reinstallation of ...more

A century ago, the American national park idea was born when Abraham Lincoln signed legislation setting aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias "for public use, resort, and recreation...inalienable for all time". Over the next decade, the Yosemite park commissioners had to fight private land claims to ...more