Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
WORLD HISTORY: BCE TO C 500 CE. Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in full in this edition. With style, learning and wit, Gibbon takes the reader through the history of Europe from the second...
Publisher
Sony Music Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Language
English
Description
Ma and garden designer Messervy tour gardens from Boston to Toronto to create a visual garden to interpret Bach's music. Explores relationship between music and architecture by placing cellist Ma, playing Bach's Suite no. 2 for unaccompanied cello, in computer-generated three-dimensional recreation of Piranesi's prison etchings.