From one of America's most acclaimed photographers: stunning images of an extraordinary and endangered landscape. The countryside south and east of Rome around the ruins of the Claudian Aqueduct is an artist's paradise. Its rare light, its evocations of ancient Roman civilization enchant the camera just as they attracted such painters as Claude, Turner, and Corot. Writers, too, have fallen under its spell - from Horace and Pliny the Elder to Goethe and Henry James. "Few other scenes on earth combine in one glance such a myriad of mighty associations," wrote one nineteenth-century chronicler. As for the great aqueduct, its "broken and disjointed arches" suggest "the vertebrae of some mighty monster." The rolling plain of the Campagna was only marginally occupied during the height of the Roman Empire: one lived either within the protective walls of Rome or in the cooler and more defendable hill towns a few miles away. After the fall of Rome, the countryside grew even more desolate. Except for a few castles and towers built in the Middle Ages and an occasional farmhouse built in the nineteenth century, the area remained barely populated for 1,400 years, haunted by its past. Then, in the late 1800s, after Italy became a nation and Rome its capital, the Campagna changed dramatically. Railroads began to weave in and out of the arches of aqueducts; suburbs began to intrude on the plain. Now the Campagna is increasingly threatened by rapid and uncontrolled urban sprawl. Sternfeld's magnificent color photographs capture poignant juxtapositions of past and present: ancient tombs, villas, arches, temples coexisting with apartment houses, malls, and the blight of the modern city. Much of the area that Sternfeld documents has been proposed as a large archaeological park, but unless legislation is enacted immediately, what little remains of the historic Campagna will be lost forever. Campagna Romana, the only modern photographic study of this legendary place, captures its wonders for all time and pleads for its preservation.

Campagna Romana: The Countryside of Ancient Rome

Richard Brilliant

Joel Sternfeld

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.

KNOPF

The author celebrates the half-century career of an American icon, featuring nearly 350 color plates of the artist's work as well as a complete overview of his life and career, including sketches and watercolor never before published and details of his relationships with the great names in jazz--Armstrong, Fitzgerald, Mingus, and Davis. 12,500 first printing.

LeRoy Neiman: Five Decades

Arts & Photography

LeRoy Neiman

Individual Artists

Harry N. Abrams

Faces of Time: Premium Edition

Voss F

Bulfinch Press

During the spring of 2004 the Minneapolis Institute of Arts held an exhibition of Roman mythological figures and portraits from the Miller Collection, an important American private collection of Roman sculpture. This richly illustrated volume presents the catalogue, comprising thirty-one portrait heads, funerary reliefs of people and animals, and mythical figures and beasts. Each work of art is presented in a full-page colour photograph with a facing description and discussion. Richard Brilliant's introductory discussion considers the collector's vision of his friend Dr Miller while Sheree Jaros introduces the catalogue itself.

Mythological Figures and Portraits: The Miller Collection of Roman Sculpture

History & Criticism

Minneapolis Institute Arts

Pompeii AD 79: The Treasure of Rediscovery

Volair

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