Konrad
and Alexandra (pdf)
A
Chronicle of a Great Love
Illustrated with contemporary
photograps
2011
A historical novel taking place in Georgia, Russia, Italy, and Germany, 1898-1998
Rolf Gross
Writings and Travels
..My First Novel 1995-2000
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Konrad
and Alexandra (pdf) |
A historical novel taking place in Georgia, Russia, Italy, and Germany, 1898-1998 |
Photo Essays and Travelogs in HTML
...Monographs
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Reading Hieronymus Bosch Right to Left 1450 - 1516 |
A New Approach to Bosch's Paintings 2005 - 2009 |
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160 0000-12 000 BC |
The Migrations of H.sapiens outof Africa to Europe and India NEW 2012 |
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The Frescoes and Painters of Tuscany 1240 - 1557 |
A Guide to the Frescoes of
Tuscany and their Painters |
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A History of Romanesque Architecture 300-1300 AD |
An illustrated and annotated collection of churches in Western Europe and the Levante, selected according to my dreams and liking. NEW 2013 |
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A Picture-Album on the Beauty of Russia
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A History of Indian Art and Architecture
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An illustrated account of the architecture of the Subcontinent
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History of Islamic Architecture 625 - 1857 . |
A profusely illustrated Essay on the Architecture of Islam, from Mecca to the Alhambra and the Mosques of India (2007)
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The Travels of Ibn Battuta Ilustrated
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Excerpts from the “Rihla”, Battuta's travelogue illustrated with many photos from the internet (2010) |
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Sven Hedin's Expedition to Central Asia 1893-1897 |
Sven Hedin's First Expedition through Cenral Asia NEW 2012
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2009 |
63 Artists and their work illustrated
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The Paintings of Gerhard Richter 1962 - 2008 |
Selections from Richter's Work with Explanatory Notes, and Videos |
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Glass
on Fire 1977 - 2012 |
A Cornucopia Created by the Great Glassblower NEW Jan 2013 |
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The Erratic Life of Lafcadio Hearn
1850 -1904 |
An illustrated biography of a peripatetic journalist who became one of the saints of modern Japan.
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Exhibitions
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1892 - 1941 |
The life and poems of the
Russian poetess in a new translation |
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The
Historical Photographs of 1846 - 1916 |
50 Photographs from the
collection of the Museum of Fine Arts |
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The
People of Imperial Russia 1905 - 1916 |
The first color photos of Russia from the Collection of the US Library of Congress |
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The Renaissance Fair in Southern California 1973 -1981
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A Mirror of California's Innocent Seventies and Eighties
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.....Travelogs
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1953-2005 |
Pictures of many visits
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1954 + 1990 |
Istanbul and Eastern Anatolia
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1997 -2002 |
Exploring Tuscan frescoes and painters
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1976 - 2001 |
Pictures from many visits to my beloved country
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1977 + 1989 |
Samarkand and Shahr-i-Zabz
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1983 + 1987 |
Two 7-week trips solo across China from Beijing to Dunhuang to Kunming
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1986 - 1999 |
The power spots of the Kathmandu Valley
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1986 |
Kashmir and Ladkh with Cornelius
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Winter 1989 |
Buddhist Lands in Winter
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1989 |
Varanasi and Khajuraho with Barbara
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1993
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From Burgundy to the Mediterranean Coast
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1995
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An expedition to the end of the world
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1997
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Madrid's Museums and Andalucia
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2003 |
Four weeks exploring Rome, Sicily and Southern Italy
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2006 |
On the road with Marc and Monique |
.....Travel
Guides
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2013 |
An Illustrated Guide to the
Camino Frances from |
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2012 |
How to sail the Aegean Islands:
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2011 |
Monuments of the Antique, the Papal, and the Third Rome. A Guide for Cornelius and his friends
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Old
Ballrooms for Angels
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An illustrated Guide to the Architecture of the Baroque Churches of Southern Germany The Old Webpage is especially for old friends – like Polly! |
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A Guide to California and the Southwest 2004
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A leisurely trip through California and the Indian Country
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The
Stones of Greece |
A Guide to the archeological
sites of Greece: |
....My Novels and Writings in Kindle Format
....Unpublished Writings in PDF Format
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A biographical note to my readers
I was
born Rolf Werner Friedrich Gross - the initials honor my two
grandfathers, one a pastor, the other one a polyglot engineer -
in Silesia, Germany in 1931. I live with my wife Barbara in
California. We have two adult children, Susanne in Denver and
Cornelius in Rome, Italy. All three often appear in my writings,
e.g. Susanne on the author's photo. Already during my years as a physicist I was lucky to be able to travel widely, teaching in the USSR, Georgia, Central Asia, and China. "Konrad and Alexandra" and the "The Return of the Monkey King" are based on these experiences. We fell in love with Greece. "Mount Athos-The Garden of the Virgin" and "Along the Way to Arcadia" are meditations on this country and its past. "The Snow Dancer", a second novel, explores my attraction to Buddhist Dzogchen, to which Cornelius introduced me. Dreams of visiting Tibet finally became reality in 1995. I organized a minor expedition for members of my family to the far West of the country. The diary of this strenuous trip, "Tibet, To the End of the World" will appear as a Kindle edition shortly Fascinated with the paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, I wrote a biography of this enigmatic man, when in 2002 new research permitted dating all his paintings. The richly illustrated Kindle version of this historical fiction is available as "The Life and Times of Hieronymus Bosch". It should be read on a color monitor such as Kindle-for-PC, Mac, or iPad. The Kindle device still shows color images only in black-and-white. An alternative is to explore the entries on this website which show annotated photo-essays on my publications and many additonal subjects in large format. I would appreciate to hear your comments and criticism, good or bad, via e-mail (see below). |
....Rolf
W. F. Gross
....Pacific
Palisades, CA, July 2011
....personal
e-mail
