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Loire Valley Sketchbook

Door Jean-Paul Pigeat

Categorie
Schilderkunst
Boeknummer
#362699-KO34
Titel
Loire Valley Sketchbook
Auteur
Pigeat, Jean-Paul (text) & Fabrice Moireau (paintings)
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Macmillan
Jaar van uitgave
2003
ISBN10
0312319347
ISBN13
9780312319342
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original green boards, dust jacket, numerous colour illustrations, oblong (circa 25x29cm).
Samenvatting
Few places in the world have captured visitors' hearts like France's mythic Loire Valley. Here, the shimmering limestone chateaux constructed by the powerful Valois monarchs in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries rise like mirages above Europe's most sublimely beautiful river. Not merely stone and mortar realizations of daring architectural design, these are palaces of the imagination, the grand triumphs of Renaissance Dreams. They include the hunting chateau of Chambord, and the magnificent Chenonceau, resting on graceful arches across the Cher River--and once home to Diane De Poitiers, Catherine DeMedici, and the mysterious Nostradamus. Capturing this singular mixture of natural and manmade beauty in loving brushstrokes, Fabrice Moireau collaborates with writer Jean-Paul Pigeat to brin... (Lees verder)g this magical and enamoring land into the living rooms of American readers.
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95
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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