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The Angel of the Left Bank : The Secrets of Delacroix's Parisian Masterpiece
The Angel of the Left Bank The Secrets of Delacroix's Parisian Masterpiece
Author: Jean-Paul Kauffmann
In this mesmerizing examination of Delacroix’s crowning masterwork, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, and of Saint-Sulpice, the grand church that houses it, Jean-Paul Kauffmann reveals the city of Paris in an entirely new way. — With the same insight and understanding he brought to his National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780812970869
ISBN-10: 0812970861
Publication Date: 2/10/2004
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
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Fabulous, elegantly written, intellectual but not stuffy, the best of french style

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Kauffmann spins off onto delightful tangents. . . . [He] makes his obsession with this painting and all it represents vivid and visceral.
Los Angeles Times

French historian Kauffmann sweeps readers up in his magnificent obsession for Eugène Delacroixs mural. . . . A masterpiece of investigation, explication, introspection, and narrative, brilliantly illuminating an artists mind and a scholars heart.
Kirkus Reviews

A passionate narrative . . . [a] quiet and insightful meditation on the human skirmish with divinity.
Los Angeles Times


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