Gijs van Hensbergen, Author . HarperCollins $35 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-621065-0
Gaudi (1852–1926) is the Catalan architect most renowned for his Sagrada Familia cathedral and Park Guell in Barcelona; both feature dripping organic forms that fascinate some viewers and repel others. Van Hensbergen (A Taste of Castille), a...
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Gijs van Hensbergen, Author . Bloomsbury $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-58234-124-8
In the runup to the Iraq War, U.N. officials in New York hid a mural version of Pablo Picasso's painting depicting the 1936 fascist terror bombing of the Basque town of Gernika (as it is spelled in Basque) under a tasteful blue shroud—testi
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Gijs van Hensbergen. Bloomsbury, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-1-63286-781-0
Art historian van Hensbergen (Gaudí: A Biography) crafts an admiring study of Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece, the Sagrada Família, tracing its evolution from local basilica to one of the world’s most recognizable structures. Weaving in
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Jean Pierre Vernant, As Told by, Linda Asher, Translator, Gijs van Hensbergen, Author , trans. from the French by Linda Asher. HarperCollins $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-019775-9
Twenty-five years ago, Vernant's grandson begged his grandfather to tell him some bedtime stories. So mythographer and classicist Vernant (of the prestigious Collège de France in Paris), told his grandson of the exploits of the gods on...
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