Tom Henry

A definitive overview of one of the most celebrated figures of the Italian Renaissance Among the great figures of the Italian Renaissance, Raphael (1483–1520) is unarguably the artist who has been most widely and consistently admired across the centuries. He had an extraordinary and perhaps unrivaled capacity for self-reinvention—as he progressed from Umbria to Florence and Rome—and an ability to draw strength from the other great artists around him, seemingly growing in stature the more daunting the competition became. This insightful, impeccably researched, and comprehensive volume chronicles the progress of his career in all its richness and complexity. Sumptuous production values and generous illustrations go hand in hand with its rigorous and wide-ranging scholarship. The essays explore Raphael’s paintings and drawings, his frescoes in the Vatican Stanze, his designs for tapestries, sculptures and prints, and his engagement with architecture. Detailed and authoritative catalogue entries examine many of Raphael’s finest works. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press

Jack Pascoe ended a well-earned holiday prematurely to pay an unscheduled visit to his laboratory. There he discovered that two of his partners, Sally and Liam Jennings, had taken advantage of his absence to steal the lynchpin of his cloning system, just when he'd been finally ready to share it with the world. In the days that followed, Jack would be assailed on all sides, as so-called friends and lovers joined forces with a disgruntled police officer and a shadowy character known only as The Dutchman, all determined to destroy him. Treachery, as Jack was about to discover, is a slippery slope. Until he found someone he could trust, something to stop an inevitable slide into the abyss, it seemed he would lose not only his laboratory and his freedom, but maybe his life too.

Luca Signorelli ist einer der au ergew hnlichsten Vertreter der italienischen Renaissancemalerei. Nach der Restaurierung seines Hauptwerks, des monumentalen Freskenzyklus in der Cappella di San Brizio im Dom von Orvieto, steht nun die lange ueberf llige Monographie seines Werkes an. Luca Signorelli (Cortona, um 1455 1523) gilt neben Pietro Vannucci, genannt Perugino, als Hauptvertreter der mittelitalienischen Renaissancemalerei. Schon in seiner Fruehzeit zeigte sich Signorelli stark beeinflu t von den monumentalen, hart umrissenen Gestalten des Piero della Francesca und den plastisch durchmodellierten K rpern der Pollaiuoli. Auf dieser Basis entwickelte er sein Hauptanliegen, die Seelenzust nde und Affekte der Gestalten in unterschiedlichen Posen und Bewegungen einzufangen, wofuer er konzentrierte Lichtfuehrung, strenge Plastizit t, bisweilen kuehne Verkuerzungen und eine intensive Farbgebung einsetzte. Laurence B. Kanter gibt in dem einfuehrenden Text einen umfassenden Einblick in die kuenstlerische Entwicklung des Malers. In einem ausfuehrlichen uvrekatalog erfa t Tom Henry insgesamt 148 Werke mit ueberwiegend sakraler Thematik: neben den Fresken in Orvieto und Loreto, sowie seinem Anteil an den umfangreichen Wandbildzyklen in der Sixtinischen Kapelle und der Abtei Monteoliveto Maggiore auch umstrittene Zuschreibungen, Neuzuschreibungen oder gar wiederentdeckte Gem lde dieses au ergew hnlichen Meisters.

The second collection from the author of the wildly popular "Dogless in Metchosin" (1995), a BC bestseller and a BC Book Award finalist.

"Paul Bunyan was in BC, that much we can prove. For evidence there is the Inside Passage, the Gulf Islands, Mount Baker and canned meat." So begins Paul Bunyan on the West Coast, a chronicle of Paul's last adventures, when he worked his way across the continent and finally reached the great conifer forests of the West Coast. It was here he faced his greatest challenges: fallers of old-growth coast timber would often die of old age before they finished making a cut and the next generation would have to finish it off.Half Canadian, half American and half Scottish, Bunyan was so big he combed his beard with a pine tree, and he fed salesmen and lawyers to his pet moosehound, Elmer. The Inside Passage was dug when he went up north and dragged a glacier back down the coast, and Mount Baker wound up in its present location when Babe, Paul's giant blue ox, got tired of being tied to it in eastern Washington and moved it a few miles.