formerly an architectural historian with the National Park Service

The prose style and numerous photographs bring the difficult and important work of the Monuments Men to life

insightful

and second hand

in compliance with energy codes and green-building rating systems

Poussin and the Dance Mapplethorpe formerly an architectural historian withEmily A. Beeny and Francesca Whitlum Cooper Richly illustrated and engagingly written, this publication examines how the pioneer of French classicism brought dance to bear on every aspect of his artistic production. Scenes of tripping maenads and skipping maidens, Nicolas Poussins dancing pictures, painted in the 1620s and 1630s, helped him formulate a new style. This style would make him the model for three centuries of artists in the French