from the monumental modernist architecture of Richard Meier to the dynamic Central Garden designed by Robert Irwin

the authors find a fresh and nuanced approach to Marie-Antoinette’s much-told story through the objects and locations that made up the fabric of her world

Extensively illustrated with photographs by several accomplished photographers

they were reconstructed in the Neapolitan workshop of Raffaele Gargiulo

The Hours of Marie de Medici MD2021 from the monumental modernist architectureThis item is excluded from all discounts. A stunning facsimile copy of an illuminated manuscript owned by the French queen Marie de Medici. At the turn of the fifteenth century private devotionals became a specialty of the renowned GhentBruges illuminators. Wealthy patrons who commissioned work from these artists often spared no expense in the presentation of their personal prayer books, or "books of hours," from detailed decoration to luxurious