Tau PublishingCathedral Cities of Italy
Written and illustrated by William Wiehe Collins
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-61956-116-8
- ISBN, EPUB ebook
- 978-1-61956-415-2
- ISBN, PDF ebook
- 978-1-61956-416-9
- Pages
- 188
- Size
- 6 × 9 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound second edition, March 2013 (first published 1911)
- Language
- English
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About this book
The cathedral cities of Italy, the heir of all the ages in art, are as full of enchantment to the lover of architecture as to the poet, the painter and the historian. Side by side with the great churches that give them their crowning splendour are the public buildings, universities, palaces and fountains that tell the story of the glorious past.
Among the many appeals which Italy makes to aesthetic appreciation is that of infinite variety: from Rome and Verona with their relics of the antique world, to the Byzantine glories of Ravenna and Venice, the Romanesque grandeur of Pisa, and the thousand Gothic pinnacles of Milan.
First published in London and New York in 1911, W. W. Collins’s tour takes the reader city by city from Como and Milan through Verona, Venice, Ravenna, Florence, Perugia, Assisi, Siena and Orvieto to Rome, Naples and Palermo, with his own color paintings of the cathedrals and their towns.
Inside
- Preface
- Chapters on some thirty cities, from Como, Milan, Pavia and Bergamo to Florence, Perugia, Assisi, Siena, Orvieto, Rome, Naples, Salerno and Palermo
- Full-color illustrations by the author