Since Escher's death in 1972, at the age of seventy-three, much previously unpublished material has become available to his biographers, who have put it to good use. The story of the artist's life is told here with the help of virtually his entire…
"Photographs depict the domes of the United States Capitol building, the Library of Congress, and the forty-three state capitols with domes, as viewed from the rotunda, looking upward into the center of the dome."--Publisher's description.
"Beginning with the Pre-Raphaelites and those pivotal French artists (de Chavannes, Moreau, Redon and others) who assured the transition from romanticism to symbolism, this magnificent (and splendidly color-illustrated) work turns to examine…