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Revered by artists and collectors since the seventeenth century, Claude Lorrain was a master of landscape painting, raising the reputation of the art form to new heights. His paintings present ideal……続きを見る

Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best kn……続きを見る

Like the figure of the governess, the seamstress occupied a unique place in the history of the nineteenth century, appearing frequently in debates about women's work and education, and the condition……続きを見る

Between Islam and Byzantium provides the first complete analysis of the development of the visual expression of medieval Armenian rulership during the years 884-1045 CE. During this period, the Arme……続きを見る

The eighteenth century is recognized as a complex period of dramatic epistemic shifts that would have profound effects on the modern world. Paradoxically, the art of the era continues to be a relati……続きを見る

In The Natural Order and Other Texts, Peter Shield presents the first English translations of the artist Asger Jorn's three philosophical texts - The Natural Order, Value and Economy and Luck and Ch……続きを見る

How did women Surrealists such as Leonora Carrington and Claude Cahun take up the question of female identity in terms of their own aesthetic and intellectual practice? What was the response of wome……続きを見る

Examined here is the historical figure and architectural patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan, the young mother of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV, who for most of the latter half of the seventeenth centu……続きを見る

This is the first modern scholarly edition of the letters and memoirs of Joseph Severn, English painter and deathbed companion of John Keats. It includes letters from a remarkable collection of neve……続きを見る

Art, Gender and Religious Devotion in Grand Ducal Tuscany focuses on the intersection of the visual and the sacred at the Medici court of the later sixteenth to early seventeenth centuries in relati……続きを見る

This interdisciplinary collection explores the relationships between women and built space in England between the 1870s and the 1940s. Historians working in cultural, literary, architectural, urban,……続きを見る

Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this fren……続きを見る

Although Americans have shown interest in Italian Baroque art since the eighteenth centuryーThomas Jefferson bought copies of works by Salvator Rosa and Guido Reni for his art gallery at Monticello,……続きを見る

In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself. In this volume, Kim Grant analyzes thi……続きを見る

This provocative study argues that some of the most inventive artwork of the 1890s was strongly influenced by the methods of experimental science and ultimately foreshadowed twentieth-century modern……続きを見る

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of al……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Kunst - Kunstgeschichte, Note: 1,5, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Kunsthistorisches Institut), Veranstaltung: 'Lithographie - Medium zwischen Ta……続きを見る

This volume examines the motives behind rejections of beauty often found within contemporary art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately ugly and alienating. It reflects on the……続きを見る

Invented during a period of anxiety about the ability of human memory to cope with the demands of expanding knowledge, photography not only changed the way the Victorians saw the world, but also pro……続きを見る

Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to describe visual things. But there is an……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Kunst - Kunstgeschichte, Note: 3, Universität Hamburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Um 1020 ließ der Hildesheimer Bischof Bernward eine 3,79 m hohe Bron……続きを見る

Why is it important to go back to the past? Maybe because you want to understand the present and even foresee the future. It could also be because you want to see the struggles and experience the vi……続きを見る

Il cosiddetto ‘epistolario’ manoscritto di Girolamo Borsieri è la fonte privilegiata per accostarci dall’interno a uno dei momenti più entusiasmanti dell’arte lombarda di età moderna, il primo Seice……続きを見る

Starkey is the former poet laureate of Santa Barbara, CA. One of the only books of its kind, it can be marketed as a tourist's guide to Rome (in verse). All of the poems are inspired by major Roman ……続きを見る

Is it possible, at all, to visit ancient Greece without leaving the comforts of home? Of course, it is! You have this educational book to take you where you want to go in Athens. The next pages will……続きを見る

Egypt is one of the really mysterious and very interesting topics in the world of history. Your child should be able to see it too. This book’s goal is to spark interest in history for all children ……続きを見る

Unleash both the historian and architect in your kids with this Ancient Roman Roads and Architecture History Book. There is a whole different but beautifully thought-of world in the ancient Rome tha……続きを見る

Let’s visit Ancient Rome, and have some great learning fun with the Romans. The Roman way of living has been the subject of many history books, and the source of knowledge widely used today. This bo……続きを見る

Storia urbana, politica e sociale della periferia romana.Le borgate nate in epoca fascista rappresentano una pagina fondamentale della storia di Roma contemporanea. Additate come i luoghi più malfam……続きを見る

There used to be a time when designers were trained in the history of composition. Now you just buy a fuckin' piece of software and now you've become a designer. "Art Chantry . . . Is he a Luddite?"……続きを見る