Author : Mario Praz
Release : 2009-10-15
Genre : Aesthetics
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The House of Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The House of Life write by Mario Praz. This book was released on 2009-10-15. The House of Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In simplest terms, it is a house tour, but Mario Praz's Roman apartment was no ordinary house it was a wunderkammer, a house of wonders, rooms replete with objects d'art and sculpture, walls hung with paintings and prints, bureaus overflowing with postcards and ephemera. And Praz is no ordinary guide; he leads you, the reader, through each room discussing the objects therein. What emerge are his passions, his immense erudition, his insatiable curiosity, his undeniable amiability, his infectious enthusiasm. What emerges is a multi-layered disquisition on the nature of art, on the challenge of investigation and discovery, on the way in which art and the objects we choose to surround us tell stories.