History of art

A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world'A'Ap"e;[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators connected to Nazi looting.

This book explores the disappearance of Greek mythic imagery from the Roman sarcophagi in the 3rd Century.

This volume focuses on select contributions made to the Nepali periodical Chandrika, published in Kurseong, Darjeeling, India, from 1918 to 1919.

This book interrogates post-Roman art, arguing for aesthetic variety as a cross-cultural concept in early medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.

This volume focuses on select contributions made to the Nepali periodical Chandrika, published in Kurseong, Darjeeling, India, from 1918 to 1919.

This book investigates in detail how illustrated manuscripts of vernacular texts provided education to children and adolescents in Renaissance Florence.

King Arthur and the Battle for Britannia is the last in a series of three books.

Verrocchio worked in an extraordinarily wide array of media and used unusual practices of making to express ideas.

Shows how the scientific question, ''Are we automata?

Studies the interrelation of sight, touch, and the imagination in ancient and medieval Greek theories of perception and cognition.

The book traces nearly two thousand years of architectural transformations to St Paul''s Basilica, one of Rome''s principal churches.

The reuse of architectural and sculptural materials (spoliation) was common centuries earlier than previously realized, during the Roman empire.

Examines the practice and purposes of presenting the small-scale in literature, material culture and theories of cognition.

The book explores the power of representation in the Carolingian period, arguing that people used images to assert the value of artworks.

Provides the first formal account and theory of endurance as a practice in performance art and protest.

Far from being a Judeo-Christian invention, apocalyptic thought had its roots in the ancient Near East and was expressed in its art.

Explores a vital aspect of British Romanticism, the role of illustration in Romantic-era literary texts and visual culture.

This book presents a new perspective on the Italian Renaissance court by examining the circulation, collection and exchange of art objects.

Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.

Explores the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a ''sister-art'' movement between creative visual art and its literary counterparts.

The first study in English of Vitruvius'' De architectura to take the work seriously as a literary and cultural product.

Argues that Roman expansion in Italy was accomplished more by means of negotiation among local elites than through military conquest.

Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.

This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

By taking a look at colonization and subalternity, this book offers a different view on Classical Greece and its modern legacy.

This book explores the nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age through developments in pottery, textiles, and metalwork.

This extraordinary selection of objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds illuminates the rich cultures of medieval history.

Demonstrates how ancient Roman mural paintings stood at the intersection of contemporary social, ethical, and aesthetic concerns.

This volume looks at the effects of interaction and the nature of identity construction in a frontier or contact zone through the analysis of material culture, especially in mortuary settings.

Explores the complex relationship between art and religious belief in this important genre of painting.

The first study of a crucial aspect of Roman stone sculpture, exploring the functions and aesthetics of non-figural supports.

This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.

Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.

Shows how illustrated editions and paintings of the plays were originally produced and read as critical, social and political statements.

The book shows how the kings of the Western Zhou period used ritual to create and hold onto their power.

Shows how contemporary adaptations, on the stage and on the page, can breathe new life into Greek tragedy.

A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world'A'Ap"e;[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators connected to Nazi looting.

The author argues that Doric architecture originated in a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece.

A comprehensive study of Renaissance painting in Perugia, from Pietro Perugino to Raphael Santi and artists working in their circles.

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Identitat und kulturelles Erbe sowie dessen Aneignung oder Verwerfung spielen in den Wertedebatten der Gegenwart eine wichtige Rolle.

Die Entwicklung des Sozialismus von der Utopie zur Wissenschaft gehort zu den bedeutendsten Schriften Friedrich Engels'.

Von seinem Künstlervater Gustav Stettler schon als Kind gefördert und von diesem in seinen Jugendjahren geprägt, findet Peter Stettler bereits früh zu seinen wichtigsten künstlerischen Themen, denen er zeitlebens treu bleibt – Personendarstellungen, Stillleben und allen voran Aussenräume und Interieurs.

Freiheit und Menschenwürde werden viel beschworen.

Der Band erfasst erstmals das umfangreiche Gesamtwerk des aus Lauingen gebürtigen Malers Joseph Wengenmayr.

"Niemand will Antisemit sein.

Fabio Troncarelli examines the Late Antique Cassiodorian edition of the "e;Consolation of Philosophy"e; by Boethius in this new study consisting of five chapters.

Die weltpolitischen Entwicklungen der letzten Jahre haben wieder gezeigt, wie notwendig Friedensbildung ist.

Der vorliegende Band versammelt Beiträge zu politischem Bildungsbau aus architektur- und bauhistorischer sowie aus kultur- und bildungsgeschichtlicher Perspektive.

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