Ross King
Born
in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada
July 16, 1962
Genre
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
57 editions
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2002
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
66 editions
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published
1999
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
46 editions
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published
2006
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Leonardo and the Last Supper
33 editions
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published
2012
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The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
33 editions
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published
2021
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Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
25 editions
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published
2016
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Ex-Libris
44 editions
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published
1998
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Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power
34 editions
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published
2007
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Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven
8 editions
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published
2010
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Domino
27 editions
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published
1995
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“And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books or shelves to hold them.”
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“There was nothing so dangerous to a king or an emperor as a book. Yes, a great library—a library as magnificent as this one—was a dangerous arsenal, one that kings and emperors feared more than the greatest army or magazine.”
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“Quite amazing how determined kings and emperors have been to destroy books. But civilization is built on such desecrations, is it not? Justinian the Great burned all of the Greek scrolls in Constantinople after he codified the Roman law and drove the Ostrogoths from Italy. And Shih Huang Ti, the first Emperor of China, the man who unified the five kingdoms and built the Great Wall, decreed that every book written before he was born should be destroyed.”
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