Dark Water: Art, Disaster, and Redemption in Florence by Robert Clark

Author: Robert Clark
eBook Title: Dark Water: Art, Disaster, and Redemption in Florence
ISBN10: 0767926498
ISBN13: 978-0767926492
Language: English
Publisher: Anchor (October 6, 2009)
Category: Travel
Subcategory: Europe
Size ePub vers.: 1899 kb
Size PDF vers.: 1479 kb
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Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement.

Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and its aftermath through the voices of its witnesses. Two American artists wade through the devastated beauty; a photographer stows away on an army helicopter to witness the tragedy first-hand; a British “mud angel” spends a month scraping mold from the world’s masterpieces; and, through it all, an author asks why art matters so very much to us, even in the face of overwhelming disaster.