This volume focuses solely on Andrea Mantegna’s cleaned and restored fresco decorations for “La Camera Degli Sposi” (“The Wedding Chamber”) in Mantua’s Palazzo Ducale. These frescoes are major achievements in the art of the Italian Renaissance and influenced all the leading artists of the age. This book examines the technique,
Maps of Mughal India: Gentil lived for for twenty-five years in India, spending eleven of them at the court of Shuja-ud-daula. He carried from India among other things an atlas containing 21 maps of the mughal subas that he had drawn according to the Ain-e-Akbari. the maps are reproduced here
Mark Twain is perhaps the most widely read and enjoyed of all our national writers. This Library of America collection presents his best-known works, together for the first time in one volume. Tom Sawyer “is simply a hymn,” said its author, “put into prose form to give it a worldly air,”
This Library of America volume contains the novels that, when published, transformed an obscure Western journalist into a national celebrity. The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It (sometimes called The Innocents at Home) were immensely successful when first published and they remain today the most popular travel books ever written. The Innocents Abroad (1869), based largely on
