Loire Valley Sketchbook

by Fabrice Moireau and Jean-Paul Pigeat

ew places in the world have captured visitors' hearts like France's mythic Loire Valley. Here, the shimmering lime-stone chateaux constructed by powerful Valois monarchs in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries rise like mirages above Europe's most sublimely beautiful river. Not merely stone and mortar realizations of daring architectural design, these are palaces of the imagination, the grand triumphs of Renaissance dreams. They include the hunting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312319347
• ISBN13: 9780312319342
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 2.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 11.3" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

A different guide to the Loire

Another great book in the sketchbook series wandering through the Loire. High quality paper and printing, great art work and relaxed prose make for a fabulous book - highly recommended

Great Sketches and Informative Too!

I purchased this book because I had seen other books with paintings by Fabrice Maireau, and really liked them. I was pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed this even more than I thought I would, before I purchased. I hadn't realized the area has been classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, and the sketchbook helps provide an insite to the area.

watercolour sketchbook

thank you very much!!!!!not only the book arrived in a reasonably short time, but it was in perfect conditions, really as new!I'll buy again from this seller.

bravo

we were in the Loire valley May-2005, we took a lot of pictures, but the drawing in this book are even more close to the images left in mind.