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These judges held a unique position. As \"fathers to the people\" they were at once judge and detective, responsible for all aspects of keeping the peace and for discovering, capturing, and punishing criminals.\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most celebrated historical magistrates was Judge Dee, who lived in the seventh century A.D. This book, written in the eighteenth century by a person well versed in the Chinese legal code, chronicles three of Judge Dee's most celebrated cases, interwoven to form a novel. A double murder among traveling merchants, the fatal poisoning of a bride on her wedding night, and an unsolved murder in a small town under Judge Dee's jurisdiction — these are the crimes. They take Judge Dee up and down the great silk routes, through clever disguises, into ancient graveyards where he consults the spirits of the dead, and through some clever deduction.\u003cbr\u003eAfter translating \u003ci\u003eDee Goong An,\u003c\/i\u003e Robert Van Gulik continued the adventures of Judge Dee in fiction he wrote himself. This, however is the only place where you can find the originals of Judge Dee, the venerable Sergeant Hoong, the treacherous Ma Joong, and the other members of Dee's detective force. As the first publication of \u003ci\u003eDee Goong An\u003c\/i\u003e in the United States, this edition makes these cases accessible for the first time.\u003cbr\u003eWhile the cases are superb for reading, they also show the Chinese system of law enforcement and legal proceedings (which are quite different from Western forms). 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In the 60 years of creative activity encompassed by this volume, the artist produced scores of sketches, drawings, and studies — nudes, heads, figure studies, Madonnas, anatomical drawings, studies of children and animals, mythical representations, and religious works. This book reproduces 46 of his finest drawings, embodying most of his artistic themes and techniques, and executed in his characteristic media of pen and ink, and red and black chalk. The extraordinary strength, grace, and clarity of his renderings are beautifully illustrated on every page. \u003cbr\u003eThe compositions, carefully reproduced on fine-quality paper, range from youthful studies modeled after ancient sculpture and early Renaissance frescoes to the otherworldly religious creations of his old age. Many are preliminary drawings executed in connection with some of his most important commissions: the marble \u003ci\u003eDavid\u003c\/i\u003e of 1501–04; the famous cartoon of 1504 for the projected fresco in the Palazzo Vecchio, \u003ci\u003eThe Battle of Cascina\u003c\/i\u003e; the paintings on the vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, executed 1508–12; and the imposing fresco of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e in the same chapel, executed 1535–14; as well as several of the more highly finished allegorical presentation drawings of the early 1530s. In some cases, e.g. \u003ci\u003eThe Battle of Cascina\u003c\/i\u003e, the drawings are all that remain of a lost masterpiece. 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