Images of Italy. Volume 1. Venice. The path to Florence. Florence. Towns of Tuscany

Pavel Pavlovich Muratov (1881-1950) - art critic, writer, true man of culture of the Silver Age. In the past, the keeper in the department of elegant arts and classical antiquities of the Rumyantsev Museum, Pavel Muratov knew how to see a historical perspective and fascinatingly talk about cultural phenomena.
Before the reader is one of the most famous books about Italy. Having visited the land of Dante, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo in 1908, Pavel Muratov forever fell in love with her beauty and wrote a book in which he managed to combine monuments, paintings and sights into unified artistic images of Italian cities.
In this book, following the author, the reader will see Venice, in which masks, carnivals and festivities are surprisingly combined with deep thoughtfulness captured on the canvases of the Venetian masters. Then it will pass through the streets of Florence, in which the history of artisan arts intertwines with the history of power, intrigues and conspiracies, and, finally, will visit the ancient cities of Tuscany.
The publication contains many photo -products of engravings, mosaic, frescoes and picturesque paintings, including the works of Bellini, Giotto, Botticelli, as well as photographs of the late XIX - early XX centuries, capturing architecture and sculpture monuments as Pavel Muratov himself saw