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A powerful middle grade novel-in-verse about one boy's experience surviving the Holocaust.Moishe Moskowitz was thirteen when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family learned the language of fear. The wolves loomed at every corner, yet Moishe still held on to the blessings of his mother's blueberry pierogis, of celebrating the Sabbath as a family, of a loyal friend. But each day the darkness weighed more heavily on Moishe as his family was broke...

Giovanni Bastianini (1830-1868) was a Florentine sculptor whose creationsanswered to the growing demand for Renaissance and Renaissance-like works ofart during the second half of the 19th century. Arguably the most infamous andgifted imitator/faker of Italian Renaissance sculpture, he became a subject of greatcontroversy during his lifetime that continues to this day.This book examines Bastianini¿s total oeuvre, exploring the differencesbetwee...

A powerful middle grade novel-in-verse about one boy's experience surviving the Holocaust.Moishe Moskowitz was thirteen when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family learned the language of fear. The wolves loomed at every corner, yet Moishe still held on to the blessings of his mother's blueberry pierogis, of celebrating the Sabbath as a family, of a loyal friend. But each day the darkness weighed more heavily on Moishe as his family was broke...

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In the year 1260 Nicola Pisano, the sculptor who initiated the revival of classicizing ideals that would later form a major component of Italian Renaissance art, created a remarkable and unusual monument for the Baptistry of Pisa, a hexagonal pulpit supported by seven colorful columns and displaying on its parapet five visually compelling narrative reliefs, several years later he designed a second pulpit, this time for the cathedral of Siena. ...

This book presents in word and image the facade of Orvieto Cathedral, the reliefs of which are considered to be among the most beautiful and powerful of the Trecento. The town of Orvieto, located half-way between Rome and Florence, played an important and strategic role in the political struggles in Italy during the latter part of the thirteenth century. Frequently the place of residence for popes and their Angevins allies, it became the seat ...