The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters -- Benjamin Moser, Hardcover Junior Wells From the gardens of the

From the gardens of the ancient philosophers to the dark chambers of monastic scriptoria during the Middle Ages to the cynical

from its origins in the Russian Revolution

devastating personal tragedies

despite growing up in a devout Catholic family

as he discovers wild currents of magic within him--currents that will either drown him or make him something more than he was

The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters -- Benjamin Moser, Hardcover Junior Wells From the gardens of theArriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting casually at first, and then more and more obsessively the country's great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age and began to unearth the strange, inspiring, and terrifying stories of the artists who gave shape to one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity. Beyond the sainted Rembrandt who