and artistic legacy

reveal the incredible scale of the artist’s output and the remarkable continuity of his aesthetic and political beliefs

an anthology of most important historical and modern texts on all relevant subjects and topics of historic towns and settlememts

Much celebrated in his time

Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend gift jewelry and artistic legacyElizabeth King and W. David Todd, with photographs by Rosamond Purcell An abundantly illustrated narrative that draws from the history of art, science, technology, artificial intelligence, psychology, religion, and conservation in telling the extraordinary story of a Renaissance robot that prays. This volume tells the singular story of an uncanny, rare object at the cusp of art and science: a 450 year old automaton known as the monk. The walking,