The eagerly anticipated English edition of Ina Kok's widely admired and groundbreaking dissertation on the woodcut illustrations in the incunabula printed in the Low Countries between 1475 and 1501 is now available in English! Even ...

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The first complete monograph dedicated to one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) produced her first series of landscape sculptures during the mid-fifties. Shortly thereafter, the Whitney Museum ...

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En 1994, le musée du dessin et de l'estampe de Gravelines (France) publiait le premier catalogue raisonné des estampes et des lithographies de l'artiste Wifredo Lam. Depuis cette date, de nombreuses informations données par les ...

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The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume ...

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- Multi-disciplinary approach: includes essays on archaeology, language, religion, history, and art. - International field of contributors. - Thoroughly illustrated throughout. Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since ...

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Provides up-to-date study of Greco-Roman numismatic scholarship Includes nearly 900 illustrations This book attempts to make accessible to students, scholars, and the lay public annotated, up-to-date information regarding the major coinages of the Greco-Roman world. ...

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- Presents avante-garde archaeological theories alongside time-honored and traditional approaches - Mixes grand overviews with detalied studies by regional experts - Includes over 170 vivid photographs, maps, and detailed illustrations This volume explores 15,000 years ...

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An enjoyable introduction to the excellent work of Muslim artists and artisans through the ages. Islamic art in the Gulf region flourished as Islam spread out in the neighboring countries and grew across lands as ...

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- Diverse contributions in the field of public archaeology from a variety of international contributors. - An important source of debate and point of reference for seminar-based teaching and self-guided learning. - Divided into four ...

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SUBTITULO COMPLETO: PATRIMONIO ARTÍSTICO, CIENTÍFICO-TÉCNICO, ARQUEOLOGÍA, PATRIMONIO HISTÓRICO MILITAR, ETNOGRÁFICO Y ARTES DECORATIVAS Estudio de Técnicas Documentales le informa que, con la intención de ofrecer una obra a menor costo al cliente, sin alterar el ...

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In Spring 2002, mammoth bones and associated Mousterian stone tools were found in situ at Lynford Quarry, near Munford village, Norfolk, UK. Excavation was undertaken with support from the quarry owners and English Heritage. These ...

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À partir de sable et de cendres mêlés mais aussi d'un feu maîtrisé - le diable n'est pas loin -, ils fabriquent de la lumière que leur souffle modèle en objets précieux. Depuis la plus ...

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The is lexicon is an indispensable tool long awaited by researchers and students so they may better conduct and exchange the results of their research. It is also a guide for all those interested in ...

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Né Pierre-Jean Mariette 1694 a grandi avec les collections créées par son grand-père, Pierre Mariette, un marchand de copies, et son père Jean Mariette, qui imprime aussi. Si en tant que graveur n'a pas été ...

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- 8 volúmenes biográficos y temáticos - 2 volúmenes sobre películas a todo color - 16.000 entradas - 1.000 películas (una selección de las más importantes de nuestro cine) - Más de 5.000 ilustraciones muchas ...

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- A comprehensive guide to the history and interpretation of Ancien Régime Europe, with over thirty contributions from an international team of leading scholars - Looks at the main features of the Ancien Régime, how ...

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A comprehensive study of dress in Northern Europe from the early fourteenth century to the beginning of the Renaissance, this new book is the first thorough study of the history of fashion in this period ...

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The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology is a comprehensive survey of the field as seen through the eyes of nearly fifty scholars at a time when maritime archaeology has established itself as a mature branch ...

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Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures provides the first comprehensive overview by world-renowned experts of what we know today of medieval Jews' engagement with the sciences. Many medieval Jews, whether living in Islamic or Christian civilizations, ...

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The ceiling paintings in the Hall of Justice of the Alhambra have not received serious scholarly attention for the past thirty years, perhaps due to their difficult incorporation into a discrete program of Christian vs. ...

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The fifth volume of The Oxford History of Historical Writing offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally since 1945. Divided into two parts, part one selects and surveys theoretical and interdisciplinary ...

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In this moving collection of images, exhibited to great acclaim at the Hayward Gallery in 1998, the celebrated photographer has recorded what it means to be European. Spanning the years from the late 1920s to ...

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The martyrdom in 1834 of Sol Hatchuel, a Jewish girl from Tangier, traumatized the Jewish community and inspired a literary response in Morocco and beyond. This study focuses on works written in the first century ...

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Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods and is found on all continents but is particularly prevalent ...

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When researchers want to study indigenous populations they are dependent upon the highly variable way in which states or territories enumerate, categorize, and differentiate indigenous people.In this volume, anthropologists, historians, demographers, and sociologists have come ...

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The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is the custodian of more than 200 paintings by Vincent Van Gogh - the largest and most representative collection in the world. This is the second volume in a ...

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The Mark Gordon Collection of Southeast Asian Ethnographic Art offers a unique and compelling case for a greater appreciation of the genre. The visually inspiring works illustrated in this book, many published here for the ...

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Un témoignage rare et personnel sur une époque majeure de la création artistique à Paris Une iconographie exceptionnelle, rarement publiée ou inédite, regroupant tous les grands noms de la photographie d'après-guerre : Brassaï, Kertesz, Denise ...

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This book offers an examination of everyday life in the Iberian colonies of Central and South America-the indigenous peoples, their Spanish and Portuguese colonizers, and the Africans brought over as slaves. Columbus's arrival in the ...

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he Italian artist Caravaggio (1571-1610) had a profound impact on a wide range of baroque painters of Italian, French, Dutch, Flemish, and Spanish origin who resided in Rome either during his lifetime or immediately afterward. ...

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With the creation of the dramatic Supper at Emmaus and a series of intimate oil sketches of Christ on oak panels, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) overturned the entire history of Christian art. Traditionally, when depicting ...

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Presents an invaluable perspective on aspects of Macedonian society and culture in the critical period of the second half of the fourth century BC when the kingdom was growing into an empire Extensive comparanda introduce ...

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From exquisite medieval bookbindings made of precious metals and jewels to the unique and highly imaginative creations of contemporary bookbinders, this book celebrates over 100 of the most beautiful bookbindings of the last 1000 years. ...

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Today Renaissance-era prints are typically preserved behind glass or in solander boxes in museums, but these decorative objects were once a central part of everyday life. Altered and Adorned is a delightful, surprising look at ...

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- Restores coherence and context to the study of Assyriology through its emphasis on textual sources which are at the same time material artefacts - Written by an outstanding team of international scholars - Disciplines ...

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Rome publication is designed in parallel to the major international exhibition of the same name, produced by the Museum of Civilization in Quebec, the multicultural richness of Italy. It presents the fascinating history of the ...

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This year's volume focuses largely on the British Isles, with papers on dress terms in two major works of literature, the Welsh Mabinogion and the Middle English Pearl; a study of a thirteenth-century royal bride's ...

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Containing essays from leading and recent scholars in Peninsular and colonial studies, this volume offers entirely new research on women's acquisition and practice of literacy, on conventual literacy, and on the cultural representations of women's ...

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An overdue study of a groundbreaking event, this is the first book-length examination of the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. Intended to rehabilitate Manchester's image at a heady time of economic prosperity, the Exhibition ...

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Two revivers of sculpture in the twentieth century in an open dialogue This volume is devoted to the seminal work of Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) and Richard Serra (*1939 inSan Francisco). Central aspects of Brancusi's oeuvre ...

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This catalogue is the first on the outstanding collection of Arabic and Persian seals and amulets in the British Museum, by a specialist in the field. The first part focuses on the 638 Arabic, Persian ...

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This is a magnificent study of the beautifully crafted Medieval reliquaries that enshrined holy relics, and their wider historical, cultural, political and religious context. It is published in conjunction with Walters Art Museum and the ...

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One of the most prized categories of early photography was the reproduction of artworks, a role in which photographs largely replaced engravings in book imagery during the mid-nineteenth century. Photographs of paintings, sculptures, and other ...

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Of all the world's great religions, where art is used to reflect the happenings, teaching, and values of various beliefs, none is believed to have been more prolific than Buddhism. With 137 vibrant color images ...

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Major events of human prehistory such as the post-glacial recolonisation of Northern Europe and the spread of agriculture though the Mediterranean took place on landscapes that are now, at least partially, underwater. Large parts of ...

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Este es el segundo título, de los tres publicados por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Dpto. de Prehistoria), de la serie Tecnología y Conservación del Patrimonio Arqueologico, con el ánimo de cubrir el espacio, y ...

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Continua con questo sesto volume la catalogazione completa della Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, una delle gallerie più visitate in Milano. La Pinacoteca costituisce infatti una delle più originali e sistematiche collezioni artistiche milanesi: per la prima volta ...

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'The Golden Age of English Glass' features 150 objects from the collection of John H. Bryan, ranging in date from c.1650-1809. These enable a full and detailed discussion of the history of English glassmaking during ...

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Where, how, by whom and for what were the first museums of contemporary art created? These are the key questions addressed by J. Pedro Lorente in this new and expanded edition of his groundbreaking 1998 ...

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Fra Mauro's mappamundi, drawn around 1450 in the monastery of San Michele on Murano in the lagoon of Venice, is among the most relevant compendia of knowledge of the Earth and the Cosmos of the ...

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Le succès phénoménal de la maison Dior, qui ouvre ses portes en 1947 avec la collection " New Look ", prend un sens nouveau si on lui donne cette part de rêve, de merveilleux, de ...

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Au travers d'une soixantaine d'illustrations en couleurs et des textes concis cet ouvrage offre une vision très vivante et didactique des modes romantiques qui ont marqué le deuxième quart du XIXe siècle. Evanescentes, les femmes ...

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From one of the leading historians of the Jewish past comes a stunning look into a previously unexamined dimension of Jewish life and culture: the calendar. In the late sixteenth century, Pope Gregory XIII instituted ...

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This fourth volume in the Readings in Conservation series aims to promote critical thinking about the concepts and practices of textile conservation and to encourage engagement with new issues. Recognizing conservation as a dynamic social ...

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A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology offers a comprehensive overview of the development of cognitive anthropology from its inception to the present day and presents recent findings in the areas of theory, methodology, and field research ...

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The art of the 20th century can be understood fully only from a perspective that ignores boundaries between countries and continents. Werner Spies (b. 1937), teacher, critic, curator of major international exhibitions, and close friend ...

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Una grande retrospettiva dedicata a uno degli artisti pi\ noti e influenti del XX secolo. Un percorso di quasi trecento opere (provenienti dalla Fondazione Marconi, depositaria di una delle più importanti collezioni di Man Ray ...

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Universally recognised as a brilliant and gifted eighteenth-century artist, Zoffany was regarded by Horace Walpole as one of the three greatest painters in England, along with his friends Reynolds and Gainsborough. He has remained without ...

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The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg houses a relatively small but choice collection of 16th- to 19th-century British paintings, among them Thomas Gainsborough's vibrant Portrait of "A Lady in Blue" (c. 1770) and his ...

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Lustrous, warm, lightweight, strong silk has always been a symbol of wealth and status, beginning in prehistoric China. In "Pomp and Poverty: A History of Silk in Ireland", Mairead Dunlevy unfolds a colourful tale. She ...

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This is the English language edition of El Poder de los Colores by Gabriela Siracusano, published by Fondo de Cultura Economica, Buenos Aires 2005 - the result of a study of cultural practices related to ...

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Philologue, éditeur, traducteur, libraire, imprimeur, peut-être graveur et relieur, Geoffroy Tory (1480-1533) est une figure inclassable de la première Renaissance qui croise les disciplines (linguistique, stylistique, gravure, architecture, philosophie, histoire, etc.) et multiplie les innovations. ...

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Offers a new view of the incentives behind early monumental architecture Challenges received opinion on the development of communities across the archaic greek world Includes a complete catalogue of early iron age and archaic city ...

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Photography was introduced to China in the 1840s through the West's engagement in the Opium Wars and the subsequent reforms of Chinese statesmen. As a result, traditional modes of expression were dramatically transformed. Uncovered here ...

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La vision sereine et intensément poétique qu'avait Claude Gellée (1604-1682) du paysage classique a fixé une norme pour les générations à venir de peintres et de dessinateurs. Mieux que tout autre artiste, Le Lorrain savait ...

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While ancient Javanese bronze and ironwork have elicited interest, there is a lesser-known yet equally fascinating aspect of the Indonesian island's history: gold artefacts, including jewelry, clothing accessories, statues, coins, and containers. Not only do ...

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Telling the story of the Maya peoples from their earliest beginnings to the start of the 20th century, this book divides the 3,000 year time span into seven distinct sections. Each provides a detailed vignette ...

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Perspectives on Modern South Asia presents an exciting core collection of essays drawn from anthropology, literary and cultural studies, history, sociology, economics, and political science to reveal the complexities of a region that is home ...

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Hope for life after death is evidenced even in prehistoric times in Upper Egypt. The first written aids for attaining and supporting life in the hereafter were the Pyramid Texts inscribed within royal tombs towards ...

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Christian cultures across the centuries have invoked Judaism in order to debate, represent, and contain the dangers presented by the sensual nature of art. By engaging Judaism, both real and imagined, they explored and expanded ...

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A conclusione di decennali indagini archivistiche, Aron di L. Leoni ha compiuto il primo studio, capillare e sistematico, delle fonti documentarie sulla Nazione Sefardita ferrarese dal 1492 fino alla morte di Ercole II: un'impresa monumentale, ...

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One of the most significant transformations of the Roman world in Late Antiquity was the integration of barbarian peoples into the social, cultural, religious, and political milieu of the Mediterranean world. The nature of these ...

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Entre sobriété et majesté, mesure et démesure, le trône puise toujours à la même symbolique : celle de l'autorité " assise ". Pour la première fois, dans le décor somptueux du château de Versailles, lieu ...

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Ce catalogue accompagne les expositions organisées par les musées des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans et de Tours, en concertation avec la ville de Richelieu, et se veut un ouvrage de référence consacré aux collections du cardinal de ...

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This unprecedented volume accompanies the first exhibition to consider the impact of Spain's culture, history, and art on one of its greatest designers of the twentieth century, the legendary Balenciaga. Hailed as "Fashion's Picasso" by ...

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The third in a series of volumes intended to republish the primary data and interpretative studies produced by archaeologists and anthropologists in the Maya region under the umbrella of the Carnegie Institute of Washington's Division ...

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This book is the first to focus on the exile-poetry link in the case of Argentina since the 1950s. Throughout Argentina's history, authors and important political figures have lived and written in exile. Thus exile ...

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Argentina's Partisan Past is a challenging new study about the production, spread, and use of national history and identity for political purposes in twentieth-century Argentina. Based on extensive study of primary and published sources, it ...

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The role of the frame in art can refer not only to a material frame bordering an image, but also to a conceptual frame - a text, for instance, which is to serve as a ...

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Il volume ripercorre analiticamente l'esemplare vicenda artistica dello scultore danese Bertel Thorvaldsen, uno dei maggiori protagonisti dell'arte dell'Ottocento europeo. Il vasto corpus delle sue opere, dalla scultura mitologica ai grandi monumenti civili, alla scultura cristiana, ...

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Se prépare au musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen une exposition des plus exceptionnelles : seront rassemblées, dans le plus grand anonymat, des úuvres issues de collections privées majeures et à ce jour jamais exposées. L'événement ...

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A Companion to Mexican History and Culture features 40 essays contributed by international scholars that incorporate ethnic, gender, environmental, and cultural studies to reveal a richer portrait of the Mexican experience, from the earliest peoples ...

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Agenore Fabbri (Barba, 1911 - Savona, 1998) può essere considerato a buon diritto un protagonista singolare del panorama artistico contemporaneo in Italia; come nessun altro, questo artista straordinariamente creativo - che è stato scultore, ceramista, ...

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Questo denso e agile volumetto spiega in maniera chiara e divulgativa quanto sappiamo sulla struttura della comunità ebraica di Roma, illustrando allo stesso tempo il contesto storico e politico in cui essa si sviluppò. Impresa ...

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Ethnography is an extremely broad church, and the range of methodological stances adopted by ethnographers extends across theoretical, political and technological divides. As a method it is intense and often makes considerable personal demands on ...

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Le vesti dei Papi I parati della Sacrestia Pontificia presenta per la prima volta il ricco patrimonio conservato nella Sacrestia Pontificia, situata negli ambienti retrostanti la Cappella Sistina. Si tratta di materiale ricchissimo e non ...

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Russian Silver is a beautifully illustrated book which traces the history of Russian silver from before 1700 through the turbulence of the early 20th century to the American collections where much of it is found ...

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The National Gallery houses one of the most important collections of early Italian paintings outside Italy, including works by Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto and the di Cione brothers. Since these were last catalogued there have been ...

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A facsimile-edition of the 40 magnificent photographs, originally published in 1889 in the Bilder Atlas to the classic 2-volume work on Mecca by the world famous Dutch orientalist and islamologist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, together with ...

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This is the first compendium for conservation professionals involved in the preservation of paper artifacts in archives, libraries and fine art museums around the world. The global team of expert authors explain the principal interactions ...

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- Includes new essays by an international team of leading scholars - Uniquely detailed cross-cultural overview of historical writing - Thematic chapters on the connection of history with inscriptions, philosophy, and empire facilitate cross-cultural compaisons, ...

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The papers in this volume constitute a substantial body of work that provides a wide-ranging overview of current research on the technology and practice of old master paintings, covering some 700 years of European painting, ...

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Baccio Bandinelli, artiste florentin du XVIe siècle, a été l'un des sculpteurs au service de Médicis. Élève Giovan Francesco Rustici, a souffert grandement influencé par Michel-Ange. Une de ses úuvres les plus célèbres, Hercules et ...

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"A la fois scientifique et accessible à un public large, cet ouvrage présente quelques 1000 objets issus des arts décoratifs et conservés dans les départements d'Antiquités grecques, étrusques et romaines et orientales et égyptiennes du ...

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En esta magnífica obra se nos presenta un estudio pormenorizado de las lozas de reflejo metálico, tanto las realizadas en al ámbito andalusí hasta la caida de Granada, como las que se fabrican en la ...

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Une traversée de lhistoire et de la culture sépharades du Moyen Âge à nos jours. De la cohabitation des trois monothéismes dans lEspagne musulmane et chrétienne à lémergence des fanatismes musulman puis chrétien, en passant ...

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Apre il volume un esauriente saggio introduttivo in cui si ripercorre la storia delle collezioni, come quella Albani, che fanno il Museo Capitolino in Palazzo Nuovo. Altri contributi delineano poi i criteri museografici che rivelano ...

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This is the first published summary of the entire complex of the great necropoles of Rome, which were situated on Vatican Hill. The work concerns one of the most extensive, richest, and least-known Roman archaeological ...

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On the occasion of Doha being a cultural capital of the Middle East in 2010 and Istanbul being a cultural capital of Europe, Doha Orientalist museum is holding a symbolic exhibition A Journey into the ...

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For thousands of years, across mainland and island Southeast Asia, the deification of significant ancestors and the veneration of spirits of nature has formed the basis of traditional beliefs. These beliefs are in turn the ...

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The Tebtunis temple library is the only ancient Egyptian temple library of which substantial remains are preserved -- by far the richest, single source of Egyptian literary texts. This volume contains a selection of demotic ...

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This lavishly illustrated catalogue is a comprehensive historical review of Chinese ceramics covering newly excavated discoveries from the Paleolithic era thousands of years ago to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1911. Throughout China's ...

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In 1996 Mexico's Museo Nacional de Arte acquired a remarkable dossier of text and images that included an eighteenth-century document requesting permission to carry out a specific iconographic program in Tlaxcala. This discovery planted a ...

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This new volume in the AVISTA series focuses on the study of medieval limestone. As the principal building material in the Middle Ages and a prized medium for architectural sculpture, limestone played a significant role ...

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Artista Nicaraguense, presenta su trabajo de dibujos y tlitorafías, entre 1974 y 2004 This 3-volume collection presents the work of Nicaraguan painter, draftsman and lithographer Armando Morales produced since 1974. At the time he was ...

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IPCI-Canada in association with Archetype, has 140 articles, 1200 pages, and over 1200 illustrations and will be an invaluable resource for both conservators and craftspeople. The outcome of a rigorous selection process by an editorial ...

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This breathtaking presentation of historic and contemporary Islamic art offers a lively comparison between past and present. A century ago, the exhibition 'Masterpieces of Muhammadan Art' at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany, introduced ...

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Artista di grande fama nella Germania del secondo Seicento, Joachim von Sandrart (Francoforte, 1606 - Norimberga, 1688) è spesso ricordato come il "Vasari tedesco". Dopo una lunga carriera come pittore nei Paesi Bassi, Inghilterra, Italia, ...

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Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world's most remarkable books. Written in Greek in the fourth century, it is the oldest surviving complete New Testament, and one of the two oldest manuscripts of the whole ...

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Jousting was for some 500 years the major spectator sport in western Europe. And yet, despite its enormous popularity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, very little is known about its practicalities. How was ...

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Ambitious Form describes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half-century between the death of Michelangelo and the rise of Bernini. The book follows the Florentine careers of three major sculptors--Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammanati, and ...

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This volume, the first in Brill's Japanese Visual Culture series, vividly describes the efforts of the Japanese monk Shunj?b? Ch?gen (1121-1206) to restore major buildings and works of art lost in a brutal civil conflict ...

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Avec ses 6500 gravures et dessins, le cabinet des Arts graphiques du musée Fabre abrite une collection remarquable, l'une des plus importantes de France tant sur le plan quantitatif que qualitatif. De Raphaël à Matisse, ...

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The more than 300 objects featured include creations by Picasso, Eames, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Klee, and Joan Miró among others Features dolls, building blocks, puzzles, rocking horses, and children's furniture in addition to period photographs, ...

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Grove's/Macmillan Publ.,, New York, 1980. As New. Never readed. Nuevo. Nunca leido.

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In AD 1438 a battle took place outside the city of Cuzco that changed the course of South American history. The Chanka, a powerful ethnic group from the Andahuaylas region, had begun an aggressive program ...

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Dans les années 1960, Georges de Lastic avait établi le premier catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Desportes et en fit l'objet de son mémoire de l'École du Louvre en 1969. Il s'agit essentiellement d'un recollement ...

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Chine, fascinante, étonnante dans sa démesure, son énergie, sa puissance. Quelle force dans sa volonté de créer, quelle fierté pour sa jeunesse, pour tout un peuple de se sentir chinois, conscient d'un passé où l'âme ...

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Recently, the history of clothing has been the subject of intense scholarly interest, but there has been a shortage of source material available. This three-volume collection redresses the balance, bringing together rare documents and unpublished ...

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L'histoire de l'Art déco épouse celle de notre modernité. Né dans les grandes villes d'Europe et d'Amérique, contemporain du jazz, de l'automobile et des gratte-ciel, il a traversé deux guerres mondiales ainsi que la crise ...

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This work provides, for the first time, a chronological reference for the entire Roman state and its neighbours. Events of each year are covered in detail listing the elected consuls, major battles as well as ...

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This book is the first synthetic treatment of Venetian woodcarving and woodcarvers. It opens with an introduction covering all aspects of the subject - materials, techniques, patronage, genres, and style, as well as social history ...

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There is no Classical Yucatecan Maya word for "myth." But around the close of the 17th century, an anonymous Maya scribe penned what he called "the world history of the era," before Christianity came to ...

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Forse in nessun altro luogo meglio che in Messico, il passato archeologico è così profondamente legato alla costruzione della nazione. L'immaginario del passato indigeno e gli eventi che riguardano la sua graduale scoperta hanno letteralmente ...

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The late Renaissance sculptor Leone Leoni (1509-1590) came from modest beginnings, but died as a nobleman and knight with a house and art collection envied by the nobility. Leoni's success as an artist and his ...

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As documents of the built environment, as source material for architectural historians and preservation architects, and as stunning works of art, architectural drawings serve a wide and diverse audience. This book explores the materials and ...

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Japanese woodblock prints exemplified by such iconographic images as Hokusai's Great Wave, Hiroshige's Heavy Rain on Ohashi bridge, or Utamaro's enticing beauties, constitute one of the most important and influential art forms in art history. ...

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El Volumen II de este catálogo de la obra de Zurbarán se ocupa de los numerosos conjuntos que, aún saliendo de la mano del pintor, tuvieron una importante y frecuente intervención de su taller. La ...

pvp.135.0 €

A trip across time along a golden labyrinth leading to the birth of pre-Columbian civilizations. More than 250 masterpieces from the most important museums of Peru reveal the mastery and the skill of the pre-Columbian ...

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Collezione al-Sabah è il risultato della passione, conoscenza e studio dello Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah e di sua moglie, che a metà degli anni Settanta hanno iniziato una sistematica raccolta di opere d'arte rappresentativa ...

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The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culturetracks the three spectacular forces of New World literary culture-cities, festivals and wonder-from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, from the Old World to the New and ...

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Pre-Columbian Architecture in Mesoamerica is destined to become a standard reference for the serious student and an intellectual delight for the interested amateur. This authoritative yet accessible study begins with an overview of the aesthetics, ...

pvp.126.27 €

The Umayyads, the first dynasty of Islam, ruled over a vast empire from their central province of Syria, providing a line of caliphs from 661 to 750. Another branch later ruled in al-Andalus - Islamic ...

pvp.278.0 €

Strong appeal for art historians and collectors of Surrealist and early-twentieth- century art More than two thousand color plates over three volumes illustrate the oil paintings, drawings, and sketches Masson produced during the interwar years ...

pvp.350.0 €

"The History of Mexico: From Pre-Conquest to Present" traces the last 500 years of Mexican history, from the Indigenous empires that were devastated by the Spanish conquest through the election of 2006 and its aftermath. ...

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This is a magnificent, lavishly illustrated book exploring the perilous journey that the ancient Egyptians believed lay between death and the perfect afterlife a journey that could be navigated using a specially commissioned collection of ...

pvp.63.78 €

The definitive volumes celebrating the collections of the Hermitage Museum. For nearly 250 years the State Hermitage has been one of Europes most palatial museums. It encompasses more than three million works of art and ...

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Cy Twombly, born in Lexington, Virginia, in 1928, entered the stage of contemporary art with his drawings. His nervous line making distinguished him from all his colleagues who in the 50s and 60s were involved ...

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L'Apocalypse, texte fondateur de la chrétienté, a été écrit au ier siècle saint Jean, en exil à Patmos. Ses puissantes visions prophétiques ont inspiré au xive siècle l'un des plus célèbres peintres du Moyen Age, ...

pvp.210.0 €

L'Art du Moyen Age en France se veut une histoire raisonnée de l'art à cette période ; à côté d'un large panorama patrimonial, il ne néglige ni les zones de contact ni les échanges internationaux. ...

pvp.325.89 €

William Bouguereau (1825-1905) was a highly important and influential French academic painter, who taught a long succession of gifted students, primarily at the private Academie Julien in Paris. Bouguereau wanted to become a serious history ...

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Often played down in favour of the larger competition for empire between England and France, the influence of the Spanish in English Carolina and the English in Spanish Florida created a rivalry that shaped the ...

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The reign of Queen Victoria spanned a period of dramatic technical advance in the art of portrait miniature painting. Victorias patronage of the leading miniaturists of the time, and the high regard in which she ...

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Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893) is known predominantly for his close association, from 1848, with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and for his masterpiece, The Last of England (1852-5), with its poignant imagery of a young emigrant couple ...

pvp.174.39 €

This is a boxed set of Anthony Caro: Drawing in Space, Anthony Caro: Interior and Exterior, Anthony Caro: Figurative and Narrative Sculpture, Anthony Caro: Small Sculptures and Anthony Caro: Presence. The box has been specially ...

pvp.184.36 €

Appaiono, ogni tanto, dei libri che rappresentano un punto di svolta in un determinato campo di ricerca: è il caso di questopera in quattro volumi. Essa è dedicata alle 'stampe di traduzione ciòe a quelle ...

pvp.439.8 €

Gli Atti del Convegno Internazionale "Le Dessin Napolitain" (Parigi, Ecole Normale Supérieure 6-8 marzo 2008) segnano una pietra miliare negli studi sull'arte del disegno nella capitale partenopea e nel Meridione d'Italia. Promosso dall'lnstitut Européen d'Histoire ...

pvp.105.0 €

- Over 1,100 signed A-to-Z entries written by the foremost classical scholars, archaeologists, and historians and are included in this must-have resource for library collections - Maps, genealogical tables, chronologies, topical outlines, indexes, and a ...

pvp.800.0 €

This beautiful book was born out of the passion and artistic insight of Marnix Neerman and Hugo Martens. One hundred and twenty-eight masks have been photographed in such a unique style that their artistic nature ...

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The Later Stuarts spanned the reigns of monarchs James II, William and Mary and Queen Anne. It was a period in which Britain was newly established as a major European power, and which encompassed outstanding ...

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This book presents an exquisite compilation of over one thousand Chinese traditional designs found in weaving and embroidery. Known as 'zhiwen' or 'wen' in ancient China, these traditional patterns are the products of brilliant artistic ...

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Containing individual masterpieces by Botticelli, da Vinci, Michaelangelo and Titian, the extensive collection of Italian drawings at the Fitzwilliam Museum ranges from the work of Pisanello in the early fifteenth century to Sandro Chia in ...

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The Major works from all areas of sub-Saharan Africa are included in the collection's vast holdings, while the figurative sculpture and masks of Central Africa constitute its most significant focus. More than 130 of those ...

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Reelaboración de la Tesis Doctoral de D. Rodrigo Pemjean: 'Utopía y Realidad, Cuatro proyectos de vivienda colectiva de Alejandro de la Sota', libro que aborda el problema de la vivienda desde la arquitectura de Alejandro ...

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