The Path to Rome for painters and calligraphers ―

for painters and calligraphers ― for anyone eager to approach Chinese art from a fresh and rewarding perspective ― his book is must reading

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"A very able and even-tempered presentation

Rényi excels in both approaches

The Path to Rome for painters and calligraphers ―Hilaire Belloc's best work according to the author, as well as most critics The Path to Rome is less concerned with Rome itself than with a pilgrim's journey to the Eternal City. A spirited Catholic apologist, Belloc traveled on foot from Toul (near Nancy), France, and crossed the Alps and the Apennines in order to, in his words, "see all Europe which the Christian Faith has saved." Afterward, he turned his pen from his usual polemics to literature,