Research Catalog
Prayers in stone
- Title
- Prayers in stone / photographs and commentary by Alexander Liberman ; historical essays by Diane Kelder ; designed by Crosby Coughlin.
- Author
- Liberman, Alexander, 1912-1999.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Random House, ©1997.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Use in library | NA5450 .L524 1997q Oversize | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- xi, 195 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 32 cm
- Summary
- "The book begins with a visit to Carnac, in Brittany, where an ancient culture erected three thousand huge stones in mysterious alignments. "Perhaps nothing that follows," Liberman writes, "has moved me more than the inexplicable majesty of these testaments to human yearning." Liberman ends with Matisse's Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, in southern France. Other sites in the book include the great temple complex at Paestum, south of Naples; the Parthenon in Athens; the Pantheon in Rome; the monastery of Hosios Loukas, near Delphi; and the cathedral of Santa Maria dell'Assunta on Torcello, in the Venetian lagoon, with its Byzantine mosaics."--Jacket
- Subject
- Church architecture > Europe
- Church architecture > Europe > Pictorial works
- Temples > Europe
- Temples > Europe > Pictorial works
- Church decoration and ornament > Europe
- Church decoration and ornament > Europe > Pictorial works
- Religious art > Europe
- Religious art > Europe > Pictorial works
- Buildings > Europe
- Buildings > Europe > Pictorial works
- Megalithic monuments > Europe
- passage graves
- Buildings
- Church architecture
- Church decoration and ornament
- Megalithic monuments
- Religious art
- Temples
- Europe
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works.
- Contents
- Carnac -- Paestum -- The Parthenon -- The Pantheon -- Hosios Loukas -- Santa Maria dell'Assunta on Torcello -- St. Mark's Basilica -- Chartres Cathedral -- Notre-Dame de Paris -- The Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi -- St. Peter's Basilica -- The Duomo in Orvieto -- The Medici Chapel -- Matisse's Chapel of the Rosary in Vence.
- ISBN
- 0375500219
- 9780375500213
- 0375599219 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- ocm37991279
- 37991279
- SCSB-577294
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library