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The Odyssey by Joanne Mattern, Wishbone Classics Staff
Odysseus, the most heroic of the ancient Greek warriors, journeys home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.

AUTHOR: Joanne Mattern, Wishbone Classics Staff
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Five Christmas Plays for Children
Description not available.Offers directions and scripts for five simple plays, using a minimum of costumes and props, and casts of variable sizes, that demonstrate the true meaning of Christmas for church and Sunday school groups.
PUBLISHER: Abingdon Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Venetian Colour by Paul Hills
From the Middle Ages to this day, the colours of Venice have cast their spell over visitors to the city and inspired artists as diverse as Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Velazquez, Turner, and Monet. This wide-ranging book traces the origin of that enchantment by exploring for the first time Venetian colour in relation to social, cultural, and environmental forces. Italian Renaissance art historian Paul Hills shows how, between 1250 and 1550, the city of Venice and the luxuries manufactured and traded there prompted particular ways of attending to colour. He argues that Venetian colour -- in buildings, table glass, and dress as well as paintings-was the product of a lagoon site and a mercantile culture. Exquisitely illustrated with over one hundred and fifty works of art and architecture, the book analyzes the colored marbles and mosaics in San Marco, examines the achievements of the Murano glass makers of the fifteenth century, and focuses attention on Giovanni Bellini's pictorial light and colour. Discussion of Renaissance dress and sumptuary regulations illuminates the social dimension of Venetian colour. The author shows, for example, how Titian's portraits responded to new fashions in velvets, satins, and semi-translucent veils. In the final chapter Hills questions the traditional opposition of Florentine line to Venetian colour, suggesting that Titian's bravura handling of the brushstroke was nurtured through his early experience of mosaics and woodcuts.

AUTHOR: Paul Hills
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Pride & Prejudice by Andrew Worrall, Anna Quindlen, Donald J. Gray, Frank W. Bradbrook, Isobel Armstrong
Excellent for both libraries & personal collections! All ages can enjoy the easy-to-read features of this LARGE PRINT unabridged Classic with LRS Readability Plus(tm): Sharp, bold EXTRA LARGE 18 point type. Wide spacing & margins. High-opacity non-glare white paper providing good contrast for both library & home reading. Durable highest quality binding allowing book to lay open flat with full-color hard covers. This timeless classic, PRIDE & PREJUDICE is a novel defined by romance, rivalry & ritual - a classic of its genre. A wonderful story of romantic love developing amid the constraints of social mores & familial rivalries.

AUTHOR: Andrew Worrall, Anna Quindlen, Donald J. Gray, Frank W. Bradbrook, Isobel Armstrong
PUBLISHER: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Carl & Karin Larsson by Elisabet Hidemark, Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark, Michael Snodin, Victoria and Albert Museum Staff
This lavishly illustrated book about the influential Larssons includes Carl`s Ett Hem paintings, as well as photographs of their Sunborn home.

AUTHOR: Elisabet Hidemark, Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark, Michael Snodin, Victoria and Albert Museum Staff
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Childsplay by Julie Harris, Kerry Muir, Kris Johnson
A selection from over fifty sources including published and unpublished plays, blockbuster movie hits, independent films, foreign films, teleplays, poetry, and diaries.

AUTHOR: Julie Harris, Kerry Muir, Kris Johnson
PUBLISHER: Limelight Editions
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture