Sophie’s World meets Italian art in a very special title that is both a guide and a coming-of-age novel, a starting point for knowledge and an incentive to travel.

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David is a graduate student in art history at the University of Halifax in Canada. Thanks to a scholarship he embarks on an exciting journey across Italy to discover the treasures he has been studying all his life. Twenty different cities in twenty days, a kind of modern Grand Tour in the footsteps of illustrious predecessors like Goethe. David’s thoughts and comments about important topics, places and artists – different in every chapter – appear in the e-mail dialogue between him and his mentor, the extraordinary lecturer who chose him to be his pupil.
A cornucopia of history, art and culture, told in simple, clear language accessible to all.

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A thrilling journey across the times and places that were fundamental to art history, from the wonders of the ancient world to Enlightenment.

A journey packed with increasingly new images, that follows human evolution, from the primitive already capable of wonder and spirituality to the philosopher in search of a universal order, to the master of their own world with the advent of humanism and the Renaissance. The aim of this book is not to cover all the landmarks of art history, but to attempt to explore the complexity of elements and starting points that make up the art experience in every place and era, through a pattern of considerations and cross references that show how our evolution is inextricably linked to our longing for beauty.

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