| Notes: Text in English and French. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. From Wikipedia: "Anna Chromy (born July 18, 1940 in Ceský Krumlov)[1] is a painter and sculptor. Born in Bohemia (Czech Republic), she was raised in Austria, lives in France and works in Italy. She is said to be a quintessential European.[2]At the end of World War II, Anna Chromy's family moved from Bohemia to Vienna, Austria. Her family did not have enough money for her to attend art school however, so only after she married and moved to Paris was it possible. She received her education at the École des Beaux-Arts. It was here she realised an interest in Salvador Dalí and other surrealists, and began using the soft colours of William Turner in her paintings.A life-threatening accident in 1992 meant that Anna Chromy was unable to paint for eight years. She turned her attention to sculpture using bronze and marble as her medium.Chromy's best-known piece is the empty coat, known as The Cloak of Conscience, Piétà or Commendatore, located in Cathedral in Salzburg, Austria, Stavovske divadlo in Prague, National Archeological Museum in Athens and elsewhere. Chromy has since transformed The Cloak into a chapel over four metres high, carved out of a block of white marble weighing 250 tons in the Cave Michelangelo in Carrara.Other important works include the Olympic Spirit, to be placed in front of the new library in Shanghai; and Europe, a contemporary reinterpretation of the old myth, to be placed at the European institutions.[4] In 2009 her “Olivier d’Or” was presented by Albert II, Prince of Monaco to Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel. In 2008 she presented a model of The Cloak of Conscience[5] to Pope Benedict XVI at Saint Peters in Rome to mark the creation of the Conscience Institute." |