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Dewey Decimal Number: 708 EAN: 9780810939370 ISBN: 0810939371 Label: Harry N. Abrams Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 159 Publication Date: September 01, 1999 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Studio: Harry N. Abrams Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Almost as good as being there.I spent three days in Vezelay in September, 2007. Upon my return I ordered this book because it is difficult to see the detail of the sculpture at the Basilica in Vezelay because most of the sculture is at the top of columns and the lighting is not good. This book shows all the detail of the art. Rating:  - A Second OpinionMr Fleming's review is something of an academic exercise; useful, but directed at a scholarly minority. I bought this book to help me appreciate the extraordinary basilica of Vezelay, and in particular, the superb, often sublime, carving of the capitals in the nave and the great tympanae (if that's the Latin plural). In that the book serves excellently. Having visited Vezelay once with a specialist, small group on an architectural tour of Burgundy, I was moved to return on my own, and for that I ... Read More Rating: - The Essential VezelayThis book makes a superb introduction and provides a nice addition to available works for one of the best known monuments of French Romanesque art. Although the reason to buy the book is for its photographic documentation, the text by Veronique Rochon-Mouilleron, translated from French, is a straightforward, scholarly description of the iconographic subjects and themes of the great church. And certainly without this help few of us could comprehend the monument to any meaningful or serious degree. ... Read More 
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