Frits Scholten Livres

"Tracing the origin of these ideas in religion, alchemy, astrology and political ideology, the catalogue explores the association of bronze with perceptions about nature and cycles of life and death."--BOOK JACKET

Acquaints us with Judith Pfaeltzer's landscape and with the artist herself. This photography book describes her first encounters with art, her method of working and her fascination with her surroundings. It is suitable for art lovers as well as landscape enthusiasts.

This elegant exhibition catalog includes sixty-six works of art by this virtuoso sculptor, plus accompanying essays. Born in The Hague, Adriaen de Vries worked with the official sculptor to the Medici dukes beginning in 1580s, and in 1601 he was appointed official court sculptor to Rudolf IIin Prague, where he worked until his death. Some of his best-known works are illustrated and described in this comprehensive volume, including the Bust of Emperor Rudolph II, the fountain Mercury and Cupid, Psyche Born Aloft by Putti, Juggling Man and The Wrestlers.

When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been fractured, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men have burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and taken away his 18-month-old son. What can have motivated such an assault?.