Iconoclysms:  Shattered In Venice, Rome And Barcelona

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This book is both a memoir and a story twisting the Byzantine notion of shattering images for religious reasons into a lens for viewing the history of art and architecture, real-world tragedies both personal (bereavement) and public (terrorist attacks)a damaged Renaissance canvas in Venice, a church in Rome turned inside out, a multicoloured mosaic park bench in Barcelona made of broken crockery, a dragon fountain made of old farm implements, images destroyed, space rearranged, objects repurposed.

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