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Автор: Marcy Heidish
Год: 2014
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 296
ISBN: 9780983116479
Travel through the centuries to watch a timeless love unfold around a timeless masterpiece: the fabled cathedral of Chartres, France. In 1194, an unthinkable disaster struck that sacred site. In one June night, a firestorm devastated the cathedral, its artwork, and parts of its surrounding town. Immediately, the finest artists converged on Chartres to plan a new and innovative structure, built to endure and to surpass all that went before. Inevitably, these plans led to plots and rivalry, threatening the realization of a daring and demanding dream. Against this backdrop, two lovers struggle to conceive the new cathedral's stained glass windows, still regarded as marvels today. This quest centers on discovering the famous "Chartres blue:" unique, precious, and elusive. The pair, under increasing pressure, embarks on an intense search for the mysterious but thwarted answer. Deftly weaving fact with fiction, Marcy Heidish sets an inspirational love story against a thoroughly...
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