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This Is Rome is one of those books where you open the first spread and immediately feel the weight of centuries settling around you, but in Šašek’s playful way, never solemn, never heavy. Rome in his hands is not a postcard city polished for tourists, it’s a living place, a […]
Miroslav Šašek (1916–1980) was a Czech writer and illustrator best known for his iconic “This Is…” series. Šašek was born in Prague and, after finishing secondary school, enrolled at the School of Architecture, Graphics, and Painting at the Czech Technical University. Trained as an architect, he worked for a Prague […]