The Tuscan Year
- 192bladzijden
- 7 uur lezen
A classic of food writing: Elizabeth Romer's beautiful account of the traditional life and cooking of the Cerotti family who farm in the Tuscan valley.
Elizabeth Romer Boeken
De achtergrond van Elizabeth Romer in textielontwerp, verfijnd aan het Royal College of Art in Londen waar ze zowel studeerde als doceerde, vormt diepgaand haar creatieve output. Haar werk duikt in het rijke tapijt van geschiedenis en cultuur, en onderzoekt hoe textielkunst een spiegel is voor maatschappelijke verschuivingen en menselijke verbindingen. Ze voelt zich bijzonder aangetrokken tot de ingewikkelde details en de blijvende tradities binnen haar gekozen medium. Romer's artistieke praktijk benadrukt zorgvuldig vakmanschap en een diep begrip van haar materialen.
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World symbolize all that was magnificent and mysterious in the pre-Christian West, yet today many people would have difficulty in naming them. Most of these seven grand monuments of bronze and marble, gold and ivory, earth, fire and water cannot be visited today except in the mind's eye; either they lie in ruins or they have vanished in the sands of time. In this book, the archaeologists John and Elizabeth Romer create images of these great wonders using the words of ancient writers and modern archaeological techniques. They tell their story and place them in a world that is now lost. For the first time, this book tells the story of what might be called the archaeology of wonder. It includes the stories of the travellers and scholars who came in contact with these seven ancient wonders, the stories of the wonders themselves, and the histories of their making and breaking. It traces the archaeological hunt to find the Seven Wonders, from the earliest digs to the latest discoveries of current excavations. It also includes fresh translations of the accounts of those who sailed the seas and rivers of the ancient world to walk among these seven fabled monuments and wonder at them. A remarkable series of photographs taken especially for this book recreates the magnificent environments of the monuments, and shows something too of the real wonder of those ancient marvels
Beppina and the Kitchens of Arezzo
- 288bladzijden
- 11 uur lezen
Traditional Tuscan life through recipes. Romer found hand-written nineteenth century recipes by villager Beppina, and Pierro Aretino's 1541 account.
Dějiny novodobé imaginace Sedm nejúžasnějších důkazů vzepětí lidského ducha, tvořivosti a touze po překonání vlastní smrtelnosti, sedm velkolepých památníků, jež jsou nám důvěrně známy a které jen málokdo z nás dokáže do jednoho vyjmenovat... Vydejme se s autory na cestu proti proudu času! Přední strana: Pyramidy, 1760, olej na dřevě od Huberta Roberta (Francie, 1733–1808) Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusets
