Maria: 6239 books

Catholic priests all across Poland were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps at the beginning of World War II. This memoir by Fr. Henryk Maria Malak (1912-1987) is their story and his. Through the author's eyes we witness the German invasion, atrocities against the local population, and the...

Nuova avventura per Arnaldo Bertini, l’avvocato protagonista del romanzo «La porta dell’inferno», primo grande successo nella commedia thriller di Massimo Maria Tucci. Ritornano anche il coinquilino (o convivente?) di Arnaldo, Marco Ewing, stilista e cuoco provetto, la mozzafiato ispettrice...

"Es ist der 9. Juli 2015, vierzehn Uhr und zwei, drei kleinliche Minuten. In La Laguna, der alten Hauptstadt des Archipels, beträgt die Lufttemperatur 29,1 Grad. Der Himmel ist klar, wolkenlos und so hellblau, dass er auch weiß sein könnte". Damit fängt es an. Und mit Rosa, die zurückkehrt...

"Penso che se il diavolo non esiste, ma l'ha creato l'uomo, questi l'ha creato a sua immagine e somiglianza" (F. Dostoevskij - I Fratelli Karamazov) Lucrezia, un'aspirante giornalista che si occupa di necrologi, si ritrova coinvolta in un bizzarro mistero: un certo Filippo Ricasoli...

Sie sind auf der Suche nach dem wohl spannendsten Krimi-Adventskalender des Jahres? Erst eins, dann zwei, dann drei, dann vier … Lassen Sie sich von 24 hochkarätigen deutschsprachigen Krimi-Autorinnen und Autoren auf eine mörderische Adventszeit einstimmen. In 24 Kurzkrimis wird quer durch die...

Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (1712 – 1793) was a Venetian painter of veduta (a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, actually more often print, of a cityscape or some other vista), a member of the Venetian School. His early vedutas show influence both from Canaletto and Luca Carlevarijs....

Chartres Cathedral and the Sagrada Familia are emanations of the same idea: celestial Jerusalem. There are deep similarities between the two temples, with intrinsic messages that are usually ignored. Gaudí was inspired by Chartres Cathedral to design and build the Sagrada Família. He and the Maitre...

With his signature graphic style, embrace of figural distortion, and bold defiance of conventional norms of beauty, Egon Schiele was one of the leading figures of Austrian Expressionism. He was an Austrian painter, a protégé of Gustav Klimt and important figurative painter of the early 20th century....

Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 – 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German princes and those of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose...

Winslow Homer was American painter, illustrator and etcher, one of the two most admired American late 19th-century artists and is considered to be the greatest pictorial poet of outdoor life in the United States and its greatest watercolorist. Nominally a landscape painter, in a sense carrying on...

William Blake was English artist, draughtsman, engraver, philosopher, and poet, one of the most remarkable figures of the Romantic period. In art as in life Blake was an individualist who made a principle of nonconformity. He had a prejudice against painting in oils on canvas and experimented with...

Vincent van Gogh practiced a variety of occupations, including that of an art dealer and pastor, before deciding to become a painter at the age of 27. During his artistic career, which lasted 10 years - from 1880 to 1890 - he created about 900 paintings and above than 1100 drawings, watercolors and...

In Feng Shui love, marriage and family are synonymous. Romance is not a goal for itself - lonely people could discover their love, but they should not think that Feng Shui is a way of providing romance throughout their lives. Feng Shui has the potential to create what the Chinese call "hey"...

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians...