Roaring Forties Press cleverly refers to its ArtPlace Series as “café-table books” for travelers and armchair explorers.
Each book in the series explores how renowned artists or writers and world-famous cities or areas helped to define and inspire each other.
Titles include American locales such as A Journey into Steinbeck’s California and A Journey into Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexico and European subjects include A Journey into Ireland’s Literary Revival and A Journey into Michelangelo’s Rome.
Here is the publisher’s description of the Michelangelo volume just to give you and idea of what it encompasses: “From St. Peter’s Basilica to the Capitoline Hill, this unique resource provides an intimate portrait of the relationship between Michelangelo and the city he restored to artistic greatness. Lavishly illustrated and richly informative, this travel companion tells the story of Michelangelo’s meteoric rise, his career marked by successive artistic breakthroughs, his tempestuous relations with powerful patrons, and his austere but passionate private life. Providing street maps that allow readers to navigate the city and discover Rome as Michelangelo knew it, each chapter focuses on a particular work that amazed Michelangelo’s contemporaries and modern tourists alike.”
ShermansTravel recently listed the top ten cities for art lovers.
