Prayers in stone / photographs and commentary by Alexander Liberman ; historical essays by Diane Kelder ; designed by Crosby Coughlin.

Main entry:

Liberman, Alexander, 1912-1999.

Title & Author:

Prayers in stone / photographs and commentary by Alexander Liberman ; historical essays by Diane Kelder ; designed by Crosby Coughlin.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

xi, 195 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 32 cm

Notes:
Carnac -- Paestum -- The Parthenon -- The Pantheon -- Hosios Loukas -- Santa Maria dell'Assunta on Torcello -- St. Mark's Basilica -- Chartres Cathedral -- Notre-Dame de Paris -- The Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi -- St. Peter's Basilica -- The Duomo in Orvieto -- The Medici Chapel -- Matisse's Chapel of the Rosary in Vence.

Summary:

"The book begins with a visit to Carnac, in Brittany, where an ancient culture erected three thousand huge stones in mysterious alignments. "Perhaps nothing that follows," Liberman writes, "has moved me more than the inexplicable majesty of these testaments to human yearning." Liberman ends with Matisse's Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, in southern France. Other sites in the book include the great temple complex at Paestum, south of Naples; the Parthenon in Athens; the Pantheon in Rome; the monastery of Hosios Loukas, near Delphi; and the cathedral of Santa Maria dell'Assunta on Torcello, in the Venetian lagoon, with its Byzantine mosaics."--Jacket

ISBN:

0375500219
9780375500213
0375599219

Subject:

Church architecture Europe.
Church architecture Europe Pictorial works.
Temples Europe.
Temples Europe Pictorial works.
Church decoration and ornament Europe.
Church decoration and ornament Europe Pictorial works.
Religious art Europe.
Religious art Europe Pictorial works.
Buildings Europe.
Buildings Europe Pictorial works.
Megalithic monuments Europe.
Architecture chrétienne Europe.
Architecture chrétienne Europe Ouvrages illustrés.
Églises Décoration et ornement Europe.
Églises Décoration et ornement Europe Ouvrages illustrés.
Constructions Europe.
Constructions Europe Ouvrages illustrés.
Monuments mégalithiques Europe.
passage graves.
Buildings
Church architecture
Church decoration and ornament
Megalithic monuments
Religious art
Temples
Europe

Form/genre:

Illustrated works

Added entries:

Kelder, Diane.
Coughlin, Crosby.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192432
Call No.: ID NA4600.L43; ID:97-B3522
Status: Available

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