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Brand: Andrew Graham-dixon
EAN: 9780241954645
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples through which Caravaggio moved and which Andrew Graham-Dixon describes brilliantly in this book, are those of cardinals and whores, prayer and violence. On the streets surrounding the churches and palaces, brawls and swordfights were regular occurrences. In the course of this desperate life Caravaggio created the most dramatic paintings of his age, using ordinary men and women - often prostitutes and the very poor - to model for his depictions of classic religious scenes. Andrew Graham-Dixon's exceptionally illuminating readings of Caravaggio'spictures, which are the heart of the book, show very clearly how he created their drama, immediacy and humanity, and how completely he departed from the conventions of his time.

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Brand: Andrew Graham Stables
EAN: 9781445682730
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The city of Carlisle, a border town, was very much at the heart of the conflict between Scotland and England for many hundreds of years, and it has been the gateway for invading forces both north and south. It has seen its fair share of atrocities, violence and destruction, and is well-known for its reiving past. It began as an important outpost of the Roman Empire and the most significant fort at the west end of Hadrian’s Wall.\n\nIn Secret Carlisle, Andrew Graham Stables uncovers the hidden heritage of the only city in Cumbria. The book delves into Carlisle’s history, revealing its intriguing secrets, and also looks at the people who have helped shape the identity of this distinctive city. Illustrated throughout, this book will be of immense interest to residents and visitors alike.

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EAN: 9781445684116
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The Cumbrian city of Carlisle has a rich and colourful history. Being so close to the Scottish border, Carlisle became a military stronghold and its surviving eleventh-century castle bears testament to this. During the Industrial Revolution it grew into a major centre of textile manufacture and an important railway hub and has long been key to North Cumbria's industry. The 'Great Border City' remains the main cultural and commercial centre for this part of the country and there are clear reminders of its past everywhere.\n\nAuthor and historian Andrew Graham Stables takes the reader on a fascinating A-Z tour of the city's history, exploring its lesser-known nooks and crannies, and along the way relating many a tale of the most interesting people and places. Fully illustrated with photographs from the past and present, the A-Z of Carlisle will appeal to residents and visitors alike.

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EAN: 9781445683911
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Richmond is one of the most scenic towns in Britain, well known for its magnificent castle, bustling marketplace and Georgian Theatre Royal, while Swaledale is one of the country's most beautiful and inspirational rural areas.Secret Richmond & Swaledale looks beyond the familiar to discover the lesser-known parts of the town and the surrounding area's long and illustrious past. Local author Andrew Graham Stables takes the reader on an enlightening and entertaining journey through the past, delving beneath the surface to reveal dark deeds and strange tales with long-forgotten facts and amusing stories. This book will lift the lid on the hidden secrets that even most local people don't know.

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Brand: Andrew Graham
EAN: 9781445674087
Categoria: Libri e riviste

From its earliest days as a Roman legionary fortress, through the Middle Ages when the town grew as a major trading centre and became Henry VIII's northern capital; through the grandeur and decadence of Georgian York and into the nineteenth century when the city became an important railway hub, confectionery manufacturer and pioneer of social housing, to its current status as a majour tourist destination and sustainable city, York has a proud and distinctive identity. This extraordinary history is embodied in the rich architecture that has shaped this beautifully preserved city, famed for its Gothic cathedral.\n\nYork in 50 Buildings explores the history of York through a selection of its greatest architectural treasures. From the magnificent medieval York Minster to the first neoclassical building in Europe, this unique study celebrates York's architectural heritage in a new and accessible way. Local architectural historian and photographer Andrew Graham guides the reader on a tour of the city's historic buildings and modern architectural projects.

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Brand: Andrew Graham Stables
EAN: 9781445691817
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This is an illustrated history of England's largest and most historically diverse county. It provides a nostalgic look at Yorkshire's ancient, medieval and industrial past, and highlights some of its most important historic sites, as well as the changing face of its towns and cities.\n\nThe photographs are taken from the Historic England Archive, a unique collection of over 12 million photographs, drawings, plans and documents covering England's archaeology, architecture, social and local history. Pictures date from the earliest days of photography to the present and cover subjects from Bronze Age burials and medieval churches to cinemas and seaside resorts.\n\nHistoric England: Yorkshire will explore the four corners of the county from the industrial centre of Sheffield to the beauty of historic York. Yorkshire is a county of huge contrasts with vast swathes of unspoilt, beautiful countryside, littered only with picturesque villages, and long stretches of ever-changing coastline. West Yorkshire towns like Huddersfield, Halifax and Bradford were the beating heart of the Industrial Revolution and the steel towns of South Yorkshire like Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield were fuelled by the coal mining industry. The county contains two national parks, the North Yorkshire Moors and the Yorkshire Dales, both Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is also filled with historic castles, cathedrals and abbeys, including Richmond Castle, Fountains Abbey and York Minster. This book will help you to uncover its vibrant and fascinating history.

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EAN: 9781445673264
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Teesdale is the second largest designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England and Wales, and has a population of over 25,000. There is also a vast amount history contained within its picturesque valleys, which have attracted many writers and artists: Sir Walter Scott hid in a secret cave by the River Greta to pen some of his verses, and Charles Dickens took inspiration for his books following a visit. For centuries a fertile land under attack by the Scots, yet a king of Scotland was born here in an English castle. Richard III left a permanent legacy, but did he also ensconce the murderer of the princes in this northern dale? Sir Winston Churchill inspected the troops as secret preparations were undertaken for D-Day and only fragments remain of the Queen Mother’s childhood castle. Add to this one of the finest museums in the North built in the style of a French chateau, the largest waterfall in England and villages lost under reservoirs and you will be amazed at the secrets Teesdale will reveal.

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Brand: Andrew Graham Dixon;dk
EAN: 9780241629031
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The ultimate introduction to global art, presenting 30,000 years of creativity in one lavishly illustrated book.\n\nDiscover all you need to know about art history in this definite guide. Art: The Definitive Visual Guide brings a gallery of more than 2,500 of the world's finest paintings and sculptures into your home. \n\nSpanning 30,000 years, from cave paintings to contemporary art, this stunning chronological exploration of every major artistic movement introduces the major milestones of each period, from the tomb paintings of Ancient Egypt, Qing Dynasty Chinese art, through to 20th century Cubism and African art today. \n\nDedicated spreads explain how art works, for example introducing how artists use colour and composition. A visual timeline of key works gives an overview of the scope of each major movement, and each era and art movement is introduced with key information, placing art in the context of its time. \n\nExplore the pages of this awe-inspiring art history book to discover: \n\n- Over 2500 of the world's most influential paintings and sculptures.\n- Stunning artwork from more than 700 artists.\n- 'Closer Look' sections offer detailed analysis of key paintings.\n- Picture-packed gallery spreads explore how different artists have approached a range of themes.\n- Stunning DPS images presenting important works of art.\n- Genre/theme spreads broaden the coverage of art across the world.\n\nThe 6 core chapters are structured chronologically, starting with prehistoric art and ancient civilizations, right the way up until modern day artwork, so there's something for everyone to explore, learn and love. From Romanticism in the 19th Century, to Realisim in the 20th Century, whether it's Pop Art or Expressionism, Minimalism and so much more - the beautiful full-color illustrations and striking imagery, make this art book the perfect gift for the art and history lover in your life, as well as an ideal coffee table book. \n\nDoubling up as a riveting reference book for anyone with an interest in art history who wants to gain a broader knowledge of the subject, as well as the perfect classroom companion in schools, libraries and more, Art: The Definitive Visual Guide is a must-have for your bookshelf. Created in collaboration with Bridgeman, the biggest art library in the world, Art: The Definitive Visual Guide is a must-have for your bookshelf.

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Brand: Andrew Graham-dixon
EAN: 9788804708872
Categoria: Libri e riviste

La straordinaria capacità di Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio di esprimere il dramma dell'uomo attraverso la pittura riflette, come in pochi altri casi nella storia dell'arte, la sua esistenza reale, una vita fatta \"di lampi nella più buia delle notti\". Nato nel 1571 nella cittadina lombarda di Caravaggio, visse in seguito tra Milano, Roma e Napoli, lavorando per cardinali e potenti signori dell'epoca, che si contendevano i migliori artisti per le proprie casate. Appena uscito dalle grandi chiese e dai lussuosi palazzi, si ubriacava nelle bettole, andava a prostitute, incappava in risse di strada, durante una delle quali si macchiò di omicidio. Per sfuggire all'arresto scappò a Napoli e quindi a Malta. Lì, dopo essere entrato nell'ordine dei cavalieri di San Giovanni per evitare la condanna a morte che pendeva su di lui, fu incarcerato per aver aggredito un cavaliere di rango superiore, ma riuscì a evadere. Morì pochi anni dopo mentre tornava a Roma a chiedere al papa la grazia per i suoi crimini. Aveva trentotto anni. Per ricostruire la storia di questo artista unico, Andrew Graham-Dixon ha lavorato oltre un decennio, con le metodologie di un vero detective e avvalendosi di documenti scoperti di recente.

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Brand: Andrew Graham Stables
EAN: 9781445653815
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Secret Penrith goes behind the facades of the familiar to discover the lesser-known aspects of the town's fascinating past. Penrith has many secrets, and as you walk along the streets, you are walking through history. There are clear reminders of the town's past everywhere, waiting for you to stop, look and listen to their intriguing stories. Join author Andrew Graham Stables on a journey through this beautiful town and its history. You may think you know Penrith, but take another look around and you will find more than you could possibly imagine.

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EAN: 9780714835501
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Brand: Andrew O'hagan
EAN: 9780571273713
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Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize\n\nA Guardian, Spectator, Sunday Times, Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year\n\n'What a stunning novel.' Graham Norton\n\n'Funny, passionate, heartbreaking.' Tracey Thorn\n\n'Life-enhancing.' Scotsman\n\n'Unforgettable.' Colm Toibin\n\n'Spectacular.' Books of the Year, Spectator\n\n'An incredible book . . . about men and how important friendship can be to men.' Douglas Stuart\n\n'My god this is gorgeous. Wild, wise, wonderful . . . Absolutely brilliant.' Russell T Davies\n\nEveryone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.\n\nIn the summer of 1986, James and Tully ignite a friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over, they rush towards a magical weekend of youthful excess in Manchester played out against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded. And there a vow is made: to go at life differently. \n\nThirty years on, the phone rings. Tully has news.

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Brand: Andrew Gailey
EAN: 9781913394400
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'You haunt me everywhere.' So wrote Edward Burne-Jones to Frances Graham, his muse for the last 25 triumphant years of his life: 'I haven't a corner of my life or my thoughts where you are not'. He drew her obsessively, included her in some of his most famous paintings, and showered her with gifts. Even when she betrayed him to marry, he would return to her. To him 'all the romance and beauty of my life means you.' This is the first biography of his muse. In a discreet, subtle, human way, her life is a study in power - artistic, social, political, familial, local - and all the more fascinating for being played out from a perennial position of weakness. \nWhat makes a muse? The word conjures up for the artist a human cocoon of sexual allure and worship: part inspiration, part lover and protector. Yet however beguiling, demanding and volatile a muse could be, it remained a life surrendered to the art of another. In Victorian England, this was especially so with the hierarchies between the sexes so firmly entrenched. The life of a muse to a Pre-Raphaelite artist was no different: Ruskin and Effie Gray, Rossetti and Lizzie Siddal, both powerfully destructive relationships that ended respectively in divorce and death. The one who survived was Frances Graham. She had a restless, irrepressible intelligence, able to mix at her small dinners politicians and aristocrats with writers, artists and the up and coming, be they Oscar Wilde or Albert Einstein. In time, she became the confidante of three government ministers, including Asquith, the Liberal leader. 'The Portrait of a Muse' is the tale of a remarkable woman living in an age on the cusp of modernity.

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Brand: Graham Robb
EAN: 9781509804719
Categoria: Libri e riviste

‘A book worth reading’ Andrew Marr, Sunday Times\n\nThe Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest region in Great Britain, fought over by Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and James V. After the Union of the Crowns, most of its population was slaughtered or deported and it became the last part of the country to be brought under the control of the state. Today, its history has been forgotten or ignored.\n\nWhen Graham Robb moved to a lonely house on the very edge of England, he discovered that the river which almost surrounded his new home had once marked the Debatable Land’s southern boundary. Under the powerful spell of curiosity, Robb began a journey – on foot, by bicycle and into the past – that would uncover lost towns and roads, reveal the truth about this maligned patch of land and result in more than one discovery of major historical significance.\n\nRich in detail and epic in scope, The Debatable Land takes us from a time when neither England nor Scotland could be imagined to the present day, when contemporary nationalism and political turmoil threaten to unsettle the cross-border community once more. Writing with his customary charm, wit and literary grace, Graham Robb proves the Debatable Land to be a crucial, missing piece in the puzzle of British history.\n\nIncludes a 16-page colour plate section.

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EAN: 9781906011345
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For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald. All around him friends and acquaintances were \"disappearing\". Although the slightest mistake might have caused his own disappearance, he did not shrink from getting firsthand experience of this war of terror; he attended clandestine guerilla conferences, helped relatives trace the missing, and took tea with a torturer who was not ashamed to make the most chilling confessions.

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Brand: Andrew Martin
EAN: 9781781255605
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Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes. The reality could often be as thrilling: early British travellers on the Orient Express were advised to carry a revolver (as well as a teapot).\n\nIn Night Trains, Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great European sleeper trains by using their modern-day equivalents. This is no simple matter. The night trains have fallen on hard times, and the services are disappearing one by one. But if the Orient Express experience can only be recreated by taking three separate sleepers, the intriguing characters and exotic atmospheres have survived. Whether the backdrop is 3am at a Turkish customs post, the sun rising over the Riviera, or the constant twilight of a Norwegian summer night, Martin rediscovers the pleasures of a continent connected by rail. By tracing the history of the sleeper trains, he reveals much of the recent history of Europe itself. The original sleepers helped break down national barriers and unify the continent. Martin uncovers modern instances of European unity - and otherwise - as he traverses the continent during 'interesting times', with Brexit looming. Against this tumultuous backdrop, he experiences his own smaller dramas, as he fails to find crucial connecting stations, ponders the mystery of the compartment dog, and becomes embroiled in his very own night train whodunit.

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Brand: Michael D. O'brien
EAN: 9788821578793
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Alexander Graham conduce da sempre un'esistenza tranquilla ad Halcyon, una piccola cittadina canadese a nord del lago Ontario. È un uomo convinto che con la prematura scomparsa della moglie la sua vita abbia imboccato la parabola discendente, ma quando Andrew, il figlio minore, che studia in Inghilterra, scompare senza lasciare traccia, Graham parte alla volta di Oxford deciso a ritrovarlo. Graham scopre che Andrew ha aderito a una misteriosa setta che ha plagiato la sua mente; per salvare il figlio non gli resta che dare inizio a un lungo inseguimento che lo condurrà agli estremi confini del mondo e lo costringerà ad affrontare la fame e le torture e a incrociare il suo cammino con i Servizi segreti di due superpotenze.

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