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Rembrandt's Whore

By: Sylvie Matton

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A sensitive innocent, Hendrickje Stoffels escapes the harsh realities of her garrison home-town to take up a servant's role in Rembrandt's household. She soon becomes his lover and closest confidante, and plays witness to the highs and lows of the great artist's life. But Hendrickje is fated to discover the hypocrisy and greed of society in Amsterdam's Golden Age. In sensuous prose, Matton paints a powerful fictional portrait of this impassioned relationship through the eyes of a remarkable woman.

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191

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Canongate Books

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ISBN 10

1838851666

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9781838851668

Vrysaki

A Neighborhood Lost in Search of the Athenian Agora

By: Sylvie Dumont

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Vrysaki

A Neighborhood Lost in Search of the Athenian Agora

By: Sylvie Dumont

Between 1931 and 1939, central Athens was transformed by the expropriation and demolition of the Vrysaki neighborhood at the foot of the Acropolis. In these few years, more than 5,000 inhabitants were displaced and 348 properties were torn down so that the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) could excavate the ancient Agora; the scale of the project and the degree to which it was documented make this a unique episode in the history of Greek archaeology. Using materials from the ASCSA Archives and a large collection of photographs from the 1930s, this volume details the history of the negotiations, the expropriations, and, most importantly, the Vrysaki neighborhood itself. Illustrating its streets, shops, houses, names, and faces, the author provides a vivid recreation of the community that was Vrysaki.

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279

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American School of Classical Studies at Athens

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1621390373

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9781621390374

Charles Matton

Enclosures

By: Charles Matton,Sylvie Matton

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Charles Matton

Enclosures

By: Charles Matton,Sylvie Matton

Charles Matton's perfect small-scale reconstructions are a disruptive yet profoundly bewitching glimpse of our physical and private world. Charles Matton (1931-2008) was a French painter, sculptor, photographer, stage designer, screenwriter, and producer. An extraordinary, multifaceted artist, Matton explored the many possibilities of visual and written expressions, only to become more aware of their limitations. His desire to create reality--and not merely represent it--led him to design, build, paint, and weave in order to reconstitute over 200 striking three-dimensional scenes of our everyday life, drawing from imaginative literary fiction, trompe l'oeil techniques, mirror illusions, and Dutch and American realist painting. His miniature boxes or "space reconstructions" will be featured at the exhibition Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities (June 7-September 18, 2011) at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

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253

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Flammarion

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2080200879

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9782080200877

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