Images of Italy. Volume 2. Rome. Lazio. Naples and Sicily

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.
The reader will have to comprehend a special sense of Rome, following the development of the eternal city from the time of antiquity to Baroque. To admire the landscapes of the Roman campaign, to see the uniqueness of the cities of Lacuum. To be in the noisy Naples with his passion for profit and entertainment and, finally, moor on Sicily.
An illustrative series of publications includes photoreproductions of engravings piranesi, as well as canvases of the famous French admirers of Italy: Claude Lorren and Nicola Pusssen. Particular attention is deserved by rare personnel of the late XIX - early XX centuries, capturing a real Italian flavor: the Neapolitans are dried on them, then spaghetti, then dance