Simply Rome. Images of Italy XXI
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Arkady Ippolitov is the curator of the cabinet of Italian engravings in the State Hermitage Museum, a major connoisseur of Italian history and culture. The hero of his book is Rome, a marvelous city, the city of the Great Style. On the pages flashes a lot of characters: popes and emperors, the greatest artists and brilliant architects, charming beauties and irresistible adventurers - the brilliant retinue of the Eternal City. The effortless ease of the talented writer, who also possesses great knowledge and impeccable taste, fills the pages with love and graceful irony. Basilicas and palaces, squares and fountains, statues and paintings come to life under his pen. They also become characters - each has its own story, its own fate, but the whole motley kaleidoscope of diverse individual stories merges into a single narrative, which is not other than a novel. The peculiarity of Arkady Ippolitov's creative method is his encyclopedic knowledge, brilliant literary style, and free, associative thinking, which allows him to fly from one era to another without apparent effort, to build bold and witty concepts, to reveal secret codes in the history of world art.
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