Marguerite Yourcenar – a Dream of Stone

Best known for her seminal novel ‘Memoirs of Hadrian’, an imagined autobiography of the Roman emperor, Marguerite Yourcenar brings the same depth of inquiry and inventive speculation to her lyric prose on art and artists in this title in the ‘Ekphrasis’ series. In these five jewel-like essays, Yourcenar meditates on the decay of time, the desire both satiated and refused by art, and the imagery animating the lives, works, and dreams of Michelangelo, D?rer, and Piranesi.