Images of Italy: Venice. The Way to Florence. Florence

Pavel Pavlovich Muratov (1881-1950) - art historian, writer, a true man of culture of the Silver Age. Formerly the keeper in the department of fine arts and classical antiquities of the Rumyantsev Museum, Pavel Muratov had the ability to see historical perspective and tell fascinating stories about cultural phenomena.
Before the reader is one of the most famous books about Italy. Having visited the land of Dante, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo in 1908, Pavel Muratov fell in love with its beauty and wrote a book in which he managed to unite monuments, paintings and landmarks into cohesive artistic images of Italian cities.
In this book, following the author, the reader will see Venice, where masks, carnivals, and festivities astonishingly combine with deep contemplation, captured on the canvases of Venetian masters. Then, they will stroll through the streets of Florence, where the history of masterpieces of art intertwines with the history of power, intrigue, and conspiracies, and finally, visit the ancient cities of Tuscany.
The publication contains numerous reproductions of engravings, mosaics, frescoes, and paintings, including works by Bellini, Giotto, Botticelli, as well as photographs from the late 19th - early 20th century, capturing architectural and sculptural monuments as seen by Pavel Muratov himself.