Remarkable Renaissance Books Subject / Biography/Autobiography Robert Mapplethorpe is one of

Robert Mapplethorpe is one of the twentieth century’s most important artists

allowing practitioners to flee their daily cares into a world of balance

from barnacles that anchor themselves to rocks and sloths that cling to rainforest branches to plant roots that reach deep into the earth to keep them still

from Spanish royalty and Pope Innocent X

Remarkable Renaissance Books Subject / Biography/Autobiography Robert Mapplethorpe is one ofRemarkable Renaissance Books tells the story of eighteen extraordinary early printed volumes, from the very first titles printed in the fifteenth century to the groundbreaking scientific texts of the Enlightenment. Including Gutenberg's watershed Bible, a maths book illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo's observations of mountains on the Moon, Kepler's treatise on a supernova, Robert Hooke's discovery of microscopic honeycomb structures he coined