La Quarta Durango.

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1971. Princeton, Washington, Princeton University Press - The National Gallery of Art 1979, cm.19x25, pp.XX,367, 227 illustrazioni in bianco e nero, legatura editoriale in tutta tela, con sopraccoperta figurata. Bollingen Series XXXV, 20. Edizione Inglese. Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, first published in 1550, fixed for three hundred years general European views about the art of the Renaissance, and its influence still lingers today. While much has been written about Vasari’s writings, comparatively few full-length studies have dealt with the man himself. In this book, T.S.R. Boase offers a compelling account of Vasari’s life and career. At the same time, Boase explores Vasari’s ideas about the art and artists he described in the two editions of his Lives, placing these reflections in their contemporary context and later developments in art history and criticism. The result is an important appraisal of Vasari’s achievement, which despite its imperfections is without parallel in the history of Western art.

Schnell & Steiner 2006, cm.23x31,5, pp.452, legatura editoriale cartonata con sopraccoperta figurata a colori. Der Crac des Chevaliers im heutigen Syrien gilt als die Kreuzfahrerburg schlechthin - er ist die eindrucksvollste und besterhaltene Ordensburg im Vorderen Orient. Das Buch dokumentiert die Ergebnisse aufwendiger Untersuchungen, die ein Team von Bauforschern 1999-2003 vor Ort durchgefuhrt hat. Die zahlreichen neuen Erkenntnisse ergeben ein grundsatzlich verandertes Bild von der Bauentwicklung und den Funktionen der Burg der Johanniter.