Victorian Architecture presents a new and refreshing overview of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architecture in Britain and the wider British world.
Victorian Architecture presents a new and refreshing overview of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architecture in Britain and the wider British world.
El presente libro explora la construccion de la compasion de la Virgen en la cultura visual medieval entre los siglos XI y XV, analizando como el dolor de Maria ante la Pasion de Cristo se transformo en un potente lenguaje emocional y devocional.
El presente libro explora la construccion de la compasion de la Virgen en la cultura visual medieval entre los siglos XI y XV, analizando como el dolor de Maria ante la Pasion de Cristo se transformo en un potente lenguaje emocional y devocional.
Social pictorial satire presents a thoughtful exploration of caricature and illustration as tools for social commentary, showing how visual art captures everyday life while revealing subtleties, contradictions, and humour in social behaviour.
The Byzantine icon has long remained marginal to the study of art's history, only emerging from Giorgio Vasari's condemnation of the gilded, unnatural style of Byzantine painting (maniera greca) when his theories were challenged in the early twentieth century.
"e;Shehadeh's books are like beacons held up against the darkness"e; Observer"e;A heartbreaking, hopeful look at how Palestinian culture endures"e; Irish Times Forgotten is a search for hidden or neglected memorials and places in historic Palestine - now Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories - and what they might tell us about the land and the people who live on our small slip of earth between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
L'ambitieux projet d'Audubon de peindre tous les oiseaux d'Amérique du Nord résulta en un travail si important qu'il fut une des grandes étapes de l'ornithologie.
Hieronymus Bosch (S’Hertogenbosch, 1450 – 1516)Né au milieu du XVe siècle, Jérôme Bosch fait l'expérience d'un monde pris dans les luttes religieuses, où les valeurs médiévalestraditionnelles commencent à s'effondrer.
Nach einer pragnanten biografischen Einordnung konzentriert sich die vorliegende Untersuchung auf das Werk "e;Das Turkische Bad"e;, welches zu den bekanntesten, jedoch auch kontroversesten Arbeiten des Kunstlers zahlt und die Forschung bis heute vor hermeneutische Herausforderungen stellt.
Die Kunst Sibiriens ist ein faszinierendes Studienobjekt und die Artefakte, die in den Archiven des Russischen Museums für Ethnografie in Sankt Petersburg entdeckt wurden, sind nicht weniger als atemberaubend.
Wenn das Land der aufgehenden Sonne in einem der häufigen Erdbeben für immer im Meer versinken sollte, würde es durch den magischen Pinsel Hiroshiges für uns dennoch fortleben.
With outrageous anecdotes about everyone from Leonardo Da Vinci to Caravaggio to Edward Hopper, Secret Lives of Great Artists recounts the seamy, steamy and gritty history behind the great masters of international art.
Despite the central importance of connoisseurship in the rarefied world of art collecting, it occupies an uncomfortable position in modern scholarship.
Despite the central importance of connoisseurship in the rarefied world of art collecting, it occupies an uncomfortable position in modern scholarship.
A 'musical and moving' (Washington Post) meditation on the colour blue and its role in Black history and cultureThroughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color: blue.
Oft gilt die Moderne als Epoche, in der nicht mehr das einzigartige meisterhafte Kunstwerk im Mittelpunkt der Aufmerksamkeit steht, sondern die Selbstproduktion der Kunstler: von korperbasierten Performances bis hin zur zunehmenden Bedeutung kunstlerischer Selbstinszenierung.
This newly selected edition of William Morris's works brings together poetry and prose, lectures, articles, and letters from his life, ordered chronologically, with an introduction highlighting his pressing and prescient writing on matters of the natural and built environment, human and non-human relations, internationalism, migration, and social justice, as well as the wide range of his literary and artistic concerns.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring British Architecture: A Very Short Introduction presents an original and engaging overview of the architecture of the British Isles, from medieval times to the present day.
The story of Cupid and Psyche is first known through the Latin novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass by the second-century AD writer Apuleius--one of the few Latin fictions from Roman antiquity to have survived in its entirety.
The story of Cupid and Psyche is first known through the Latin novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass by the second-century AD writer Apuleius--one of the few Latin fictions from Roman antiquity to have survived in its entirety.
