Libros de la editorial BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS

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  • PACIFIC ART IN DETAIL

    NEWELL, JENNIFER

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2011)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-7141-2590-9
    • EAN: 9780714125909
    • Páginas: 144
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.24,00 €

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    The art of the Pacific Islands is exciting, varied, vibrant and ever-changing. Across the great breadth of the Pacific, artists have always employed a wide variety of materials and techniques to create objects for specific ...

  • TREASURES OF HEAVEN "SAINTS, RELICS AND DEVOTION IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE"

    BAGNOLI, MARTINA

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7141-2330-1
    • EAN: 9780714123301
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.58,50 €

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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 ...

  • THE HERITAGE OF 'MAÎTRE ALPAIS'

    LA NIECE, SUSANE

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2010)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-86159-182-4
    • EAN: 9780861591824
    • Páginas: 100
    • Fecha de edición: 2010

    pvp.31,81 €

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    Focusing on the differences and similarities between the renowned 'Alpais' Limoges ciborium, dated to c. 1200, in the Musée du Louvre, and examples in the British Museum, the National Museums of Scotland, together with two ...

  • 5000 YEARS OFTEXTILES

    HARRIS, JENNIFER

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2010)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-7141-5089-5
    • EAN: 9780714150895
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2010

    pvp.26,89 €

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    This is the classic, comprehensive, colour survey of textile art and production worldwide, from prehistory to the present day. It is both an authoritative work of reference and a visual delight. The book opens with ...

  • JOURNEY THROUGH THE AFTERLIFE: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

    TAYLOR, JOHN H.

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2010)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7141-1989-2
    • EAN: 9780714119892
    • Páginas: 0
    • Fecha de edición: 2010

    pvp.40,00 €

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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 ...

  • JOURNEY THROUGH THE AFTERLIFE "ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD"

    TAYLOR, JOHN H.

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2010)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7141-1993-9
    • EAN: 9780714119939
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2010

    pvp.63,78 €

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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 ...

  • JAPANESE PRINTS "UKIYO-E IN EDO 1700-1900"

    TINIOS, ELLIS

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2010)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7141-2453-7
    • EAN: 9780714124537
    • Páginas: 144
    • Fecha de edición: 2010

    pvp.21,00 €

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    Japanese woodblock prints of the Edo period (1615-1868) were the products of a highly commercialised and competitive publishing industry. Their content was inspired by the vibrant popular culture that flourished in Edo (Tokyo). At any ...

  • THE ORIGINAL COPY "PHOTOGRAPHY OF SCULPTURE, 1839 TO TODAY"

    MARCOCI, ROXANA

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2010)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-87070-757-5
    • EAN: 9780870707575
    • Páginas: 242
    • Fecha de edición: 2010

    pvp.48,82 €

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    Since its birth in the first half of the nineteenth century, photography has offered extraordinary possibilities of documenting, redefining and disseminating works of art. Through crop, focus, angle of view, degree of close-up and lighting, ...

  • COSMETIC SETS OF LATE IRON AGE AND ROMAN BRITAIN IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

    JACKSON, RALPH

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2010)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-86159-181-7
    • EAN: 9780861591817
    • Páginas: 208
    • Fecha de edición: 2010

    pvp.53,27 €

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    Cosmetic sets are small two-piece bronze toilet implements for the preparation of mineral powders, probably colourings for the eyelids and face. Found almost exclusively in Britain, they range in date from the Late Iron Age ...

  • JEWELLERY IN THE AGE OF QUEEN VICTORIA: A MIRROR TO THE WORLD "A MIRROR TO THE WORLD"

    GERE, CHARLOTTE

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2010)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7141-2819-1
    • EAN: 9780714128191
    • Páginas: 544
    • Fecha de edición: 2010

    pvp.65,75 €

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    This book rewrites the history of jewellery in the age of Victoria. The age of Victoria is taken in its widest sense to encompass jewellery made throughout Europe and America, displayed at the great international ...

  • ENGLISH AND IRISH DELFTWARE 1570-1840

    DAWSON, AILEEN

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2010)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-7141-2810-8
    • EAN: 9780714128108
    • Páginas: 32
    • Fecha de edición: 2010

    pvp.48,83 €

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    Tin-glazed earthenware has been made in Europe since the 15th century. In Britain, floor tiles and drug pots were made in Aldgate, London in the 16th century by immigrant potters from the Low Countries. In ...

  • SOUTH INDIAN PAINTINGS "A CATALOGUE OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS"

    DALLAPICCOLA, ANNA L.

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2010)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7141-2424-7
    • EAN: 9780714124247
    • Páginas: 384
    • Fecha de edición: 2010

    pvp.98,93 €

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    The British Museum's collection of South Indian paintings consists of around 1000 items ranging from the 17th to the 20th century and representing a wide variety of themes and techniques. Only a very few examples ...

  • ITALIAN RENAISSANCE DRAWINGS "FRA ANGELICO TO LEONARDO"

    CHAPMAN, HUGO

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2010)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-7141-2667-8
    • EAN: 9780714126678
    • Páginas: 336
    • Fecha de edición: 2010

    pvp.39,45 €

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    This sumptuously illustrated catalogue charts the history of drawing in Italy from 1400, just prior to the emergence in Florence of the classically inspired naturalism of the Renaissance style, to around 1510 when Michelangelo, Raphael ...

  • THE ART OF BENIN

    BARLEY, NIGEL

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2010)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7141-2591-6
    • EAN: 9780714125916
    • Páginas: 144
    • Fecha de edición: 2010

    pvp.27,29 €

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    Photographic introduction to the West African kingdom of Benin, touring the highlights of the British Museum's collection. Introduces the kingdom, court and culture, with sections on kingship, ceremony, women, Europeans and animals

  • ROMAN CAMEO GLASS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

    ROBERTS, PAUL

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2010)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7141-2267-0
    • EAN: 9780714122670
    • Páginas: 128
    • Fecha de edición: 2010

    pvp.51,10 €

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    Cameo glass represents the ultimate achievement in Roman luxury glass, and the British Museum has the world's largest and finest collection. This comprises over seventy pieces, including two of only a dozen surviving complete cameo ...

  • ANCIENT CYPRUS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM "ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF DR VERONICA TATTON-BROWN"

    KIELY, THOMAS

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2009)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-86159-180-0
    • EAN: 9780861591800
    • Páginas: 120
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.40,73 €

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    The ancient Cypriot collections of the British Museum have inspired the essays in this volume in honour of Veronica Tatton-Brown, who for many years was their curator. Written by her academic colleagues and friends, the ...

  • REVOLUTION ON PAPER "MEXICAN PRINTS 1910-1960"

    ADES, DAWN

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2009)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-7141-2670-8
    • EAN: 9780714126708
    • Páginas: 176
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.32,00 €

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    Between 1910 and 1920, Mexico was convulsed by socialist revolution, from which emerged a strong left-wing government that laid great stress on art as a vehicle for promoting revolutionary values. This led to a pioneering ...

  • THE HOXNE LATE ROMAN TREASURE "GOLD JEWELLERY AND SILVER PLATE"

    JOHNS, CATHERINE

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2009)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-7141-1817-8
    • EAN: 9780714118178
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.97,73 €

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    Complete catalogue of the gold jewellery and silver artefacts from the Hoxne Treasure in the British Museum
    The Hoxne treasure, a spectacular collection of gold and silver coins, gold jewellery and silver artefacts, was buried ...

  • INTELLIGIBLE BEAUTY "RECENT RESEARCH ON BYZANTINE JEWELLERY"

    ENTWISTLE, CHRIS

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2009)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-86159-178-7
    • EAN: 9780861591787
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.78,00 €

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    The field of Byzantine jewellery (4th-15th centuries) is a rapidly expanding one and a large amount of important research has been conducted within the last ten years, both by scholars on the continent and in ...

  • MOCTEZUMA "AZTEC RULER"

    MCEWAN, COLIN

    BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2009)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-7141-2585-5
    • EAN: 9780714125855
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.31,10 €

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    Moctezuma (reigned 1502-1520) inherited and then consolidated Aztec control over a politically complex empire that by the early 16th century stretched from the shores of Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico. Moctezuma was regarded as ...