Art and Photography
The Sistine Chapel : A Glorious Restoration, Carlo Pietrangeli (Editor), Michael Hirst (Contributor), Gianluigi Colalucci, Fabrizio Mancinelli, John Shearman (Contributor) Hardcover. The photos, taken after the restoration, provide a new outlook on this work of creative genius.
Michelangelo the Last Judgment : A Glorious Restoration, Fabrizio Mancinelli (Contributor), Gianluigi Colalucci, Okamura, Loren W. Partridge (Hardcover ) A study of the recently restored fresco. Wonderful photograohy with accompanying text.
Sister Wendy's Nativity, Sister Wendy Beckett (Hardcover) The PBS art commentator's own twist on the Christmas story.
Cezanne, Isabelle Cahn (Contributor), Henri Loyrette, Joseph J. Rishel (Contributor), Francoise Cachin Hardcover - 600 pages. Coffetable beauty.
Sister Wendy's Book of Saints, Sister Wendy Beckett (Hardcover )
Chartrés Cathedral, Malcolm Miller (paperback). Miller is the pre-eminent English language tourguide for this breathtakingly beautiful monument of Gothic architecture. He is so good, they even published this book in French!
The Home Planet, Kevin W. Kelly (paperback). Photos of Earth as seen from orbit, taken by astronauts and cosmonauts. What a view!
Sam Norkin : Drawings, Stories : Theater Opera Ballet Movies , Sam Norkin (paperback). Norkin, Broadway's other caricaturist, provides illustrations and commentary on some of the highlights of his many years of illustrating the stars. A fascinating retrospective.