Anthony Blunt

Author: Miranda Carter
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374105310
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 590

Book Description
Chronicles the life of art historian Sir Anthony Blunt, exploring his private and public personas and how he used his connections within English high society to work as a Soviet spy until he was exposed by Margaret Thatcher in 1979.

Conspiracy of Silence

Author: Barrie Penrose
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 678

Book Description
Traces the life of Blunt, art historian and Russian spy, explains how he became involved in espionage and discusses his relationship to Kim Philby.

Guide to Baroque Rome

Author: Anthony Blunt
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : it
Pages : 344

Book Description

Roman Baroque

Author: Anthony Blunt
Publisher: Pallas Athene
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
This study provides an introduction to the glories of Roman baroque architecture and its three greatest exponents, Bernini, Borromini and Cortona.

A Question of Retribution?

Author: David Canadine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780197266786
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Through previously unpublished documents, this volume revisits the public furore 40 years ago when the British Academy chose not to expel from its Fellowship the eminent art historian, Anthony Blunt, who had been exposed as a former Soviet spy. David Cannadine portrays the main characters in this episode which rocked the academic establishment.

Sicilian Baroque

Author: Anthony Blunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural photography
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description

Neapolitan Baroque & Rococo Architecture

Author: Anthony Blunt
Publisher: London : A. Zwemmer
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description

The Climate of Treason

Author: Andrew Boyle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520

Book Description
Om de engelske kontraspioner Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Harold Philby (Kim) og "Basil" ("the fifth man")

Mask of Treachery

Author: John Costello
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN: 9780446357838
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 664

Book Description
Picking up where the million-copy bestselling Spycatcher left off, here is the first book to use newly declassified documents to expose the shocking double lives of the most notorious Soviet spies of the postwar era--the Cambridge spy ring.

Pietro Da Cortona and Roman Baroque Architecture

Author: Jörg Martin Merz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300111231
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
At first a successful painter of the Roman Baroque, Pietro (Berrettini) da Cortona (1597-1669) soon emerged as an architect of equal stature. This book is the first to focus full attention on Cortona's buildings and projects and to assess his position in Roman Baroque architecture. The book discusses Cortona's major commissions, particularly SS. Luca e Martina, the Villa del Pigneto, S. Maria della Pace, and S. Maria in Via Lata, as well as the designs that remained unbuilt, such as his plans for the Palazzo Pitti in Florence and the Louvre in Paris. Cortona's great decorative cycles, including Palazzo Barberini, the Chiesa Nuova, and others are also considered as part of his stunning vocabulary of architectural decoration. The book explores Cortona's relationships and rivalries with other outstanding Roman architects to illuminate the competitive climate in which he worked, and it concludes with a review of his influence and reputation into the twentieth century.