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1. What lies beneath: a vast world of streets and piazzas, aqueducts and catacombs--rich in history and full of surprises--is drawing more and more visitors to the subterranean reaches of Naples, Italy

Author

Hofstadter, Dan

Subjects
Cities and towns -- Description and travel, Cities and towns -- Economic aspects, Naples, Italy -- Description and travel, Naples, Italy -- Economic aspects
Abstract

Some years ago, out for a stroll in an old quarter of Naples, I suddenly began to feel woozy. The ground beneath me buckled, and the corner of a nearby […]

Published
2004

2. A life hardly less romantic and turbulent than his novels

Author

Hofstadter, Dan

Subjects
Les Miserables (Novel) -- Authorship, Les Miserables (Play), Authors, French -- Biography, Poets -- Biography, Hugo, Victor -- Biography
Abstract

A life hardly less romantic and turbulent than his novels While the 1985 centennial of the death of the greatFrench novelist and poet Victor Hugo went as unnoticed in this […]

Published
1987

3. Francois Boucher: he summed up the lives of aristocrats

Author

Hofstadter, Dan

Subjects
Art, French -- Criticism and interpretation, Artists, French -- Criticism and interpretation, Boucher, Francois -- Criticism and interpretation
Abstract

Fran*ecois Boucher: he summed up the lives of aristocrats Looking at Fran*eois Boucher's paintings of the female nude, overwhelmed by their voluptuous intimacy, we seem to feel that we know […]

Published
1986

4. The far-reaching eye of Venice's Antonio Canaletto

Author

Hofstadter, Dan

Subjects
Canaletto -- Biography, Art, Italian -- Criticism and interpretation -- 18th century AD, Painters, Italian -- Criticism and interpretation -- Biography, Landscape painters -- Criticism and interpretation -- Biography, Painting, Italian -- Criticism and interpretation -- 18th century AD, Landscape painting -- 18th century AD, Art -- 18th century AD, Miniature painting -- Criticism and interpretation -- 18th century AD, History, Criticism and interpretation
Abstract

The far-reaching eye of Venice's Antonio Canaletto You can go to Venice for any number of reasons--for your honeymoon, for Palladio's churches, for the Biennale, or (heaven help you) for [...]

Published
1989

5. In one great swoop, country bumpkin to Royal Academy

Author

Hofstadter, Dan

Subjects
West, Benjamin (American artist) -- Biography, Painters -- Biography, History
Abstract

The astonishing path of Benjamin West, from the American backwoods of the ]8th century to the glitterzing halls of England's aristocracy A few years before his death n London at [...]

Published
1989

6. In America

Author

Hofstadter, Dan

Subjects
In America (Novel) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, History
Abstract

Eve Arnold has by now produced four volumes of photo-essays. Her latest, In America, covers almost every aspect of life in this country. Here are workers and artists, derelicts and [...]

Published
1984

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