Dunlap's mission was to give readers "a window into a splendid architectural, artistic, cultural, spiritual, and social legacy, an image of its physical form and a record of the lives that have shaped it".
Baroque buildings are the city's greatest single artistic treasure, among them the splendid Valdštejn and Clam-Gallas palaces, St. Nicholas Church, and the Antonín Dvořák Museum.
The Parthenon was restored to artistic and historical importance thanks to the splendid drawings of Western artists.
The splendid City Varieties, in Leeds, has been in constant artistic use.
Such local orders gave rise to a thriving Western-inspired school of Chinese paintings of marine, river and port scenes, some splendid examples of which expand the gallery's horizons into the artistic influences that the Company's presence played a large part in introducing into China.
Ted Chapin, artistic director of the evening, and Joseph Thalken, music director, did a splendid job of bringing fresh arrangements and original insights into the composer's life and work.
The museum, three large buildings situated in a splendid expanse of park, is a reminder that Mali is a place of long and diverse artistic traditions.
