[sufue]

Another Ross King title, The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism, has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US. I still haven't gotten to Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, but definitely did read and really like Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, so I'm going to get this one too, and now I'll have two Ross King titles in my TBR list.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Judgment-Pari.../dp/B00480O9LO

Spoiler:

The Judgment of Paris chronicles the dramatic decade between two famous exhibitions-the scandalous Salon des Refuses in 1863 and the first Impressionist showing in 1874-set against the rise and dramatic fall of Napoleon III and the Second Empire after the Franco-Prussian War. A tale of many artists, it revolves around the lives of two, described as "the two poles of art"-Ernest Meissonier, the most famous and successful painter of the 19th century, hailed for his precision and devotion to history; and Edouard Manet, reviled in his time, who nonetheless heralded the most radical change in the history of art since the Renaissance. Out of the fascinating story of their parallel lives, illuminated by their legendary supporters and critics-Zola, Delacroix, Courbet, Baudelaire, Whistler, Monet, Hugo, Degas, and many more-Ross King shows that their contest was not just about Art, it was about competing visions of a rapidly changing world.

With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, King recalls a seminal period when Paris was the artistic center of the world, and a revolutionary movement had the power to electrify and divide a nation.

Originally Posted by sufue

I read Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King a long time ago in DTB and loved it. So I'm excited to see that King's Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US. This one will float to the top of my TBR list pretty fast, like right now!

link: https://www.amazon.com/Michelangelo-.../dp/B00N8LIIH0