A.J. - Art History 1

Michelangelo's Puzzle: Forgery, Star Maps, and the Sistine Chapel will be popular with readers who are interested art crime, art history, astronomy, and puzzles. Michelangelo's Puzzle expands on Reb……続きを見る

Préoccupés par la conservation de leur collection de peintures, les amateurs d'art parisiens font appel, entre 1789 et 1870, aux restaurateurs de tableaux, une profession qui, à la même époque, se d……続きを見る

Explores the commemoration and memorialisation of the Canterbury martyr in visual and material culture. In life, and especially in death, Thomas Becket was nothing short of a medieval celebrity, who……続きを見る

Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Dürer, Michelangelo: the names are familiar, as are the works, such as the Last Supper fresco, or the monumental marble statue of David. But who were these artists, wh……続きを見る

Agnès Varda is a prolific film director, photographer, and artist whose cinematic career spans more than six decades. Today she is best known as the innovative “mother” of the French New Wave film m……続きを見る

Oscillating between the majesty of the Greco-Byzantine tradition and the modernity predicted by Giotto, Early Italian Painting addresses the first important aesthetic movement that would lead to the……続きを見る

Grounded in the belief that 'less is more', A Simple Table is about a shared love for a natural, balanced and sustainable way of living, good food and drink, and the simple measures we can take to h……続きを見る

Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory explores the narrative and stylistic approaches to imbuing natural settings in audiovisual media with a psychological dimension – or, in other words, conf……続きを見る

The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and th……続きを見る

“If you are looking for a clear and concise guide to all aspects of The Gothic, ranging from literature to architecture, history to visual arts, music to fashion, horror to fantasy, subculture to ph……続きを見る

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditiona……続きを見る

This book presents new ways of approaching photographic discourse from a queer perspective, offering discussions on what a queering methodology for photography may entail by drawing links between ar……続きを見る

For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the N……続きを見る

'A woman can carry a bag, but it is the shoe that carries the woman' - Christian Louboutin Among designers of luxury shoes, there is one whose designs are instantly recognizable: Christian Louboutin……続きを見る

Knjiga Cujte Srbi! dr Arcibalda Rajsa, velikana svetske kriminalistike i utemeljivaca savremene forenzike, duboka je refleksija o srpskom narodu, njegovim vrlinama i manama, kao i drustvenim slabost……続きを見る

Human existence is believed to be incomplete without the enrichment of culture. Some individuals wholeheartedly immerse themselves in their cultural surroundings, while others observe from a distanc……続きを見る

An in-depth look at Maya cave painting from Preconquest times to the Colonial period, plus a complete visual catalog of the cave art of Naj Tunich. In 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian accidentally discove……続きを見る

Esta obra reflexiona acerca de prácticas acontecidas en la escena artística contemporánea que comparten derivas poéticas tanto dentro de la institución arte como en espacios laterales. La mirada del……続きを見る

**Shortlisted by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) for Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume PIASA's 2024 Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best-Edit……続きを見る

Gauguin: Für mich ist ein großer Künstler der Ausdruck der höchsten Intelligenz. Ihn erreichen die Empfindungen, die feinsten und folglich ungreifbaren Übermittlungen des Gehirns… Arbeiten Sie frei ……続きを見る

Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expressi……続きを見る

Looking outward for confirmation of who they were and what defined them as "civilized," Europeans encountered the returning gaze of what we now call the East, in particular the attention of the powe……続きを見る

Shapely Bodies: The Image of Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century France constructs the first cultural history of porcelain making in France. It takes its title from two types of “bodies” treated in this……続きを見る

En esta obra colectiva ofrecemos al lector 5 ponencias presentadas, mismas que abordan diferentes aspectos que han nutrido el desarrollo del instituto. Conceptos, personajes, instituciones, transici……続きを見る

New essays that illuminate and interpret William Bartram’s journey through what would become the southeastern United States William Bartram, author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georg……続きを見る

Art historians also often examine work through an analysis of form; that is, the creator's use of line, shape, colour, texture, and composition. This approach examines how the artist uses a two-dime……続きを見る

Art historians also often examine work through an analysis of form; that is, the creator's use of line, shape, colour, texture, and composition. This approach examines how the artist uses a two-dime……続きを見る

Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, an……続きを見る

En el momento crítico previo a su expulsión de España, la Compañía de Jesús desplegó un consciente y meditado uso de la imagen con fin adoctrinador y mnemotécnico. De acuerdo con esta estrategia y c……続きを見る

Catalogo della Mostra aperta a Roma presso il Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco e il Museo Ebraico di Roma dal 05 dicembre 2018 al 05 maggio 2019 A 150 anni dalla nascita, la mostra riperco……続きを見る