Dark Water: Art, Disaster, and Redemption in Florence (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780767926492)

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.

Author: Robert Clark
ISBN-10: 0767926498
ISBN-13: 9780767926492
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/06/2009
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.26w x 0.77d