This fascinating & fact-packed guide provides all the practical advice you need for a journey back to the golden age of one of Europe`s great cultural cities. Take in the sights & sounds, marvel at Brunelleschis sublime cathedral dome, wonder at the sculptures & paintings that have made this the art capital of its day, & lose yourself in the thrilling (and often riotous) local feasts & festivals. Along the way, you will find out about the most important & influential families in Florence, the up-&-coming artists Michelangelo & Leonardo, & the humanist philosophers battling the Church. Here, too, is the darker side of life in the city, from its taverns & brothels to the grisly punishments meted out to wrongdoers & the reckless rabble-rousing of Savonarola. Also featured is invaluable advice if you`re planning to travel outside of Florence to the stunning cities of Pisa, Siena, Arezzo & Cortona including how to recognize & avoid bandits, mercenaries & condottieri. This witty book will appeal to travellers, museum-goers or anyone who wonders what it would really have been like to visit this model of Renaissance culture. ...

Sienese art was very deliberately shaped & sustained by the patronage of powerful & wealthy families, such as the Petrucci, Piccolomini & the Spannochi, to provide an artistic language for an ambitious city. These commissions drew on Siena`s famed decorative traditions & introduced the influences of foreign artists, such as Signorelli, Pintoricchio & Raphael. Rarely enslaved to the emerging naturalistic convention, a direct line can be traced from Sienese artists such as Vecchietta & Francesco di Giorgio to Matteo di Giovanni, Neroccio de` Landi, Pietro Orioli & Beccafumi. These artists combined exquisite colour, decoration, sinuous line & delicate beauty, with ambitious compositions & figure style. This beautiful catalogue reveals Sienese painting, drawing & sculpture as one of the most distinctive, elegant & moving schools of Italian art, created during a period of fascinating power shifts within the city itself. ...

Rendalen area in Norway in a series of GPS compatible recreational Turkart maps at 1:100, 000 with cartography from Norway’s topographic survey & additional tourist information. Contours lines are drawn at 20m intervals. The overprint varies from title to title, but

Includes:: local footpaths, in some cases distinguishing between easy & more difficult trails, as well as mountain huts & campsites. Many titles also indicate cycle or ski routes, other accommodation possibilities, sport & recreational facilities, including alpine skiing slopes, places of interest, etc. The maps have a UTM grid & margin ticks giving latitude & longitude. Map legend

Includes:: English. Several titles have on the reverse additional tourist information, although in most cases in Norwegian only. To see the list of Turkart maps at 1:100, 000 & links to Turkart series at 25K, 50K & Hiking Sets please click on the series link above.



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Uncle Charles, the quiet, measured art historian, taught Pierre everything he knows about art. But after his death, Uncle Charles` private notebooks reveal the intensity & passion of his short love affair with a younger woman. Little does Pierre know that the unravelling of this doomed love affair will change his own life for ever. But then he happens to meet the daughter of his uncle`s lover... Rendezvous in Venice is a superbly crafted homage to love & art, & the ties which bind the two. ...

Achieving initial recognition with the seminal photo-essay ” Die Deutschen” in 1962, Rene Burri has maintained the vantage point of ”unassuming reporter” throughout his career. His egalitarian approach to photography has allowed him access to many events & people who remain elusive to the rest of us. After joining the photo agency Magnum in the late 1950s, Burri travelled extensively around the world from the Middle East to South America & the breadth of his travels is fully represented in this comprehensive book. Included are key moments in Burri`s career, such as his 1960s portraits of famous artists like Picasso, Giacometti & Le Corbusier which he took for ” Du” magazine. It was around this same time that he took the photograph used for the now iconic poster of Che Guevara smoking a cigar. Since the 1960s, Burri photographed war zones such as Cambodia & Vietnam & made films for the BBC. A contemporary of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Burri takes photographs with a unique warmth & egalitarianism that distinguishes him from his peers.” Rene Burri Photographs” is the culmination of several years of scholarly research by Hans-Michael Koetzle into Burri`s important contribution to reportage photography. The book begins with an introduction that describes the history, politics & artistic influences that have coloured Burri`s work. Each of the 22 chapters that follow it is accompanied by a brief essay that gives an overview of the images in that particular section, the time period & political climate. Each page is also accompanied by extended captions explaining the images. ...

Renfrew in 1895 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers most of the small town of Renfrew, extending southward to Moorpark. Features include White Cart Water, Renfrew Forge & Steel Works, Albert Cabinet Works, GSWR Renfrew Branch with station, Town Hall, town centre, Home Farm, Millburn Bridge, Elderslie House, The King`s Inch, etc. On the reverse is a trade directory of Renfrew in 1896. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Renfrew North & Yoker in 1896 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the northern part of Renfrew around Meadowside Street, extending across the Clyde to Yoker. Features include Blythswood House, Black Cart Water, Engineering & Shipbuilding Works, London Works, Wharf station, Ferry Road Head, Yoker, Distillery, Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Railway, Glasgow Yoker & Clydebank Railway with Yoker station, southern outskirts of Clydebank, etc. On the reverse is a directory shipbuilders & ship finishers. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Street plan of Rennes, with an enlargement for the town centre, part of an extensive series covering French cities & towns from Blay-Foldex, the country’s largest, oldest & most experienced publisher of urban mapping. Blay plans include outer suburbs &, where appropriate, adjoining localities forming part of the urban agglomeration & provide brief descriptions of the town’s main sights, contact details for hotels & other places of interest, etc. The plans show one way streets, car parks & pedestrian zones. Important public buildings are clearly marked & identified. Blay street maps are usually double-sided & include an enlargement for the town centre & a street index with separate lists of “edifices publics”: main public buildings, places of worship, schools, sport facilities, stations, etc. Each of the outer suburbs or the adjoining localities, identified with its postcode, has a separate index. Many titles also provide a road map of the environs. All the text is in French only.PLEASE NOTE: to see the list of Blay-Foldex street plans of French towns & cities please click on the series link – the series description also

Includes:: a comparison between Blay & IGN street plans.

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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Map No. 115, Rennes
- Saint-Malo, at 1:100, 000, part of the TOP100 series from the Institut Géographique National (IGN). These
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