Art history in a new way? approach: 15 eternal cities, their moments of artistic brilliance? and the story of the geniuses who created them, captured in their social, cultural, political and economic contexts, having at the center people - the makers, admirers and consumers of art.
Babylon: resilience?? • Jerusalem: faith?? • Rome: self-confidence • Baghdad: innovation • Kyoto: identity • Beijing: decisions • Florence: competitor?? • Benin: community • Amsterdam: tolerant?? • Delhi: envy • London: damage • Vienna: freedom • New York: Rebellion • Brasilia: love • Pyongyang: control
From Manet, Michelangelo, Velázquez and Titian to Klimt, Bruegel, Bernini, Donato Bramante, Leon, Raphael, Vitruvius and Fujiwara no Takanobu, from Filippo Brunelleschi, Lorenzo Ghiberti and Donatello to Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Leonardo, Rubens and Cy Twombly to to Perugino, Pinturicchio, Rembrandt, Vermeer, with a reverent?? for Jan van de Cappelle, Hobbema, Lahori, Gustave Doré, Van Gogh, Warhol, Pollock, Niemeyer, Lúcio Costa and Le Corbusier.
From the Sistine Chapel? at the Tower of Babel and Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, from the Itar Gate, Solomon's Temple, Hagia Sophia, the Holy City and B?ile of Caracalla at the Colosseum, through the Pantheon and the Forbidden City, passing through Pompeii, Herculaneum, Samara, Dar al-Khilafa, Heian-ky?, and the By?d?-in Temple, stopping In the Hall of the Supreme Harmony and Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo Medici, admiring the Benin bronzes, the Throne of the Great Mogul and the Taj Mahal, with a break at Carlton House, National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Secession Wien , Wiener Werkstätte ?and the Big Apple, for a greeting on the go through superquadras from Brazil and î the scary Pyongyang.
Author
Dr. Caroline Campbell studied at University College, Oxford, and at The Courtauld Institute of Art. In the past, she was director of the Department of Collections and Research at the National Gallery, London, curator at the Ashmolean Museum, curator at The The Courtauld Gallery served as The Jacob Rothschild Head at the Curatorial Department at the National Gallery, London. Î is currently the director of the National Gallery of Ireland and member? of the Center for Curatorial Leadership in New York.