Tom ten prezentuje najcenniejsze dzieła malarstwa z najstarszych polskich muzeów: Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie (rok założenia 1879) oraz zapoczątkowanej na przełomie XVIII i XIX wieku w Puławach Kolekcji Książąt Czartoryskich. Zbiory te pozwalają dokładnie prześledzić ewolucję malarstwa polskiego, a także zawierają wiele bardzo cennych dzieł mistrzów europejskich, w tym słynną Damę z łasiczką Leonarda da Vinci. Autorami tekstów są kustosze i pracownicy naukowi obydwu muzeów. Każdy kolejny rozdział to wnikliwy esej o malarstwie danego okresu ilustrowany dziełami...
Tom ten prezentuje najcenniejsze dzieła malarstwa z najstarszych polskich muzeów: Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie (rok założenia 1879) oraz zapocząt...
Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation.
In 1797, Russia, Prussia and Austria divided Poland among themselves, rewriting Polish history to show that they had brought much-needed civilisation to a primitive backwater. But the country they wiped off the map had been one of Europe s largest and most richly varied, born of diverse cultural traditions and one of the boldest constitutional...
Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition s...
A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation.
The advent of the French Revolution confirmed the worst fears of the rulers of Europe. They saw their states as storm-tossed vessels battered by terrible waves coming from every quarter and threatened by horrific monsters from the deep. Rulers' nerves were further unsettled by the voices of the Enlightenment,...
A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governmen...
A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. Adam Zamoyski's portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at its finest. Beautifully illustrated with portraits done only from life, this magnificent book examines how Napoleone Buonaparte, the boy from Corsica, became 'Napoleon'; how he achieved what he did, and how it came about that he undid it.
A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. Adam Zamoyski's portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at its finest. Beau...