A selection of twelve previously published papers by Ernst Grube which examine specific materials used in Islamic decorative arts. Six papers examine pottery and tiles, one considers Ilkhanis stucco work as represented in the mausoleum ...

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The Kyrenia ship, a Greek merchantman built around 315 BC and sunk off the north coast of Cyprus 294-291 BC, was excavated between 1967 and 1972 under the direction of Michael Katzev. The importance of ...

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The journal of the transatlantic art dealer, René Gimpel (1881-1945), is evaluated for its legacy. The transatlantic art dealer, René Gimpel (1881-1945), maintained an interwar journal for twenty-one years until, like many Jews in France, ...

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The basis for our understanding of Leonardos theory of art was, for over 150 years, his Treatise on Painting, which was issued in 1651 in Italian and French. This present volume offers both the first ...

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SINTESIS ARQUITECTURA Nº57

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This groundbreaking re-examination of the beginnings of Leonardo da Vincis (1452-1519) life as an artist suggests new candidates for his earliest surviving work and revises our understanding of his role in the studio of his ...

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Amidst the tumult and revolution that characterized the latter half of the 20th century in Latin America and the US, women artists were staking their claim in nearly every field. This wideranging volume examines the ...

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Gerhard Richter's oeuvre embraces in excess of three thousand individual works. Over a period of five decades he has created a stylistically heterogeneous, complex body of work that testifies to his status as the most ...

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Islamic artists channeled their energies not into easel painting and large-scale sculpture, but rather into what Western scholars, obeying a very different hierarchy of art forms, rather disparagingly termed the "decorative arts" or even "the ...

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In May 1939, the celebrated American architect Frank Lloyd Wright visited London and gave four lectures at the Royal Institute of British Architects. The meetings were hailed at the time as the most remarkable events ...

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Este libro es un estudio sobre un fenómeno muy frecuente en Arquitectura pero sin embargo no estudiado hasta ahora con profundidad. Se trata de los ejes de espacio y de luz que atraviesan los edificios ...

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La arquitectura clásica es un lenguaje visual y, como tal, tiene sus propias normas gramaticales. Con esta premisa de partida, John Summerson nos introduce en los fundamentos y los orígenes de la arquitectura clásica y, ...

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This meticulously researched catalogue presents an authoritative assessment of the works of Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), one of the 18th century's most celebrated painters. Born in Lucca, Batoni established himself in Rome and received commissions from ...

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This fascinating book is the first comprehensive art-historical study of what it meant to be an American artist in the 18th- and early 19th-century transatlantic world. Susan Rather examines the status of artists from different ...

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The International Handbooks of Museum Studies make up a multi-volume reference work that offers scholars, students, and museum professionals a state-of-the-art survey of the burgeoning field of museum studies. Featuring original essays by an international ...

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«A los doce años yo dibujaba como Rafael», sentenció Picasso en 1946. Ese genio precoz explotó en A Coruña, la ciudad en la que reconoció que se despertaron sus sentidos. Es en Galicia donde inicia ...

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Wearing Culture connects scholars of divergent geographical areas and academic fields-from archaeologists and anthropologists to art historians-to show the significance of articles of regalia and of dressing and ornamenting people and objects among the Formative ...

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In this book Contributors reject the popularised link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilisation, arguing that a series of periodic collapses, including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD 750-1050), were not caused solely ...

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Philip Johnson influenced art, architecture and design during the second half of the 20th century A review of his body of work in relation to other architects and artists, focusing on postmodernism and postmodern art ...

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Pensar la arquitectura recopila diversos escritos de Peter Zumthor cuyo valor reside en la reflexión que acompaña a la intesidad de su obra. Escritos a lo largo de diez años, los textos constituyen un raro ...

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The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years ago to the beginnings ...

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"La villa romana de La Olmeda se construyó en el siglo IV en lo que hoy es el Municipio palentino de Pedrosa de la Vega, sufrió la ruina de sus muros dos siglos después tras ...

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Cuando se ven las cosas con la calma y la serenidad que provee el tiempo cumplido, los arquitectos que somos profesores sentimos la obligación de transmitir a nuestros alumnos lo más esencial de nuestras ideas. ...

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En el ejercicio profesional de la arquitectura caben muchas cosas. Quizá tantas que uno de los retos más probables a los que se enfrenta el arquitecto, especialmente cuando es joven, es el de distinguir lo ...

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Que la arquitectura sea el tema central del último libro de Jean-Louis Déotte se debe a que sus últimas investigaciones sobre Walter Benjamin lo han llevado hasta este punto, pero a su vez es el ...

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Lindsay Allason-Jones has been at the forefront of small finds and Roman frontier research for 40 years in a career focussed on, but not exclusive to, the north of Britain, encompassing an enormous range of ...

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Segunda edición ampliada Con prólogo de Steven Holl y epílogo de Peter MacKeith Publicado originariamente en inglés en 1996, Los ojos de la piel se ha convertido en un clásico de la teoría de la ...

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The use Chaucer made of costume rhetoric, and its function within his body of works, are examined here for the first time. The study explores Chaucer's knowledge of the conventional imagery of medieval literary genres, ...

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This study provides a new analysis of the pictorial ensemble of the Torre de la Parada, the hunting lodge of King Philip IV of Spain. Created in the late 1630s by a group of artists ...

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Federico García Lorca (1889-1936) is widely regarded as the greatest Spanish poet of the twentieth century; Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) is Spain's most performed composer of the same period. The two were very different - ...

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Between 1850 and 1920 female travel and travel writing underwent an explosion. It was an exciting period in the history of travel, a golden age. Transportation had improved but mass tourism had not yet robbed ...

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With his "Letter of 1493" to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage to the present-day Americas, creating visions that seduced the European imagination and birthing a fascination with those "new" lands ...

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Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War is a history of art during wartime that analyzes images in various media that circulated widely and were encountered daily by Spaniards on city walls, in print, ...

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Although there is an obvious association between pilgrimage and place, relatively little research has centred directly on the role of architecture. Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000-1500: Southern Europe and Beyond synthesizes the work of a distinguished ...

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Funerary Sculpture is the first volume on sculpture from the Agora in over 50 years, bringing together all the sculpted funerary monuments of the Athenian Agora, Classical through Roman periods, which were discovered during excavation ...

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La tapisserie a longtemps représenté le summum du raffinement et du faste en termes de décor d'intérieur. Au-delà de la qualité des matériaux et du tissage qui donnait toute leur valeur à ces oeuvres, la ...

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Themes of the American West have been enduringly popular, and The American West in Bronze features sixty-five iconic bronzes that display a range of subjects, from portrayals of the noble Indian to rough-and-tumble scenes of ...

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In the eighteenth century, New Spaniards (colonial Mexicans) so lauded their nuns that they developed a local tradition of visually opulent portraits, called monjas coronadas or "crowned nuns," that picture their subjects in regal trappings ...

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Franciscans in sixteenth-century New Spain were deeply ambivalent about their mission work. Fray Juan de Zumárraga, the first archbishop of Mexico, begged the king to find someone else to do his job so that he ...

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Comment le Moyen Âge a-t-il appréhendé l'espace géographique? Un très grand nombre de témoignages textuels et figurés subsistent. Mais ils sont difficiles à interpréter; ils donnent souvent lieu à anachronisme ou sont négligés parce qu'ils ...

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La Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando y la Fundación MAPFRE organizan conjuntamente esta exposición en la que se analiza el interés de Anton Raphael Mengs por la Antigüedad y la preeminencia que ...

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Il volume pubblica per la prima volta i testi del cerimoniale di Napoli, parte in italiano e parte in spagnolo. Di questi ultimi è data - a fronte una traduzione italiana (antica e, in piccola ...

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This companion is a collection of newly-commissioned essays written by leading scholars in the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to British art history. * A generously-illustrated collection of newly-commissioned essays which provides a comprehensive introduction ...

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This new publication brings together a range of leading scholars from Europe, America and the Middle East to discuss the most recent research in the field of Byzantine glass and mosaics in an interdisciplinary context. ...

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The enslaved population of medieval Iberia composed only a small percentage of the general populace at any given point, and slave labor was not essential to the regional economy during the period. Yet slaves were ...

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In 1940 the art historian J.J.M. Timmers introduced the name 'Master of Elsloo' to describe the anonymous creator of a late-Gothic wooden statue of St Anne with the Virgin and Child in St Augustine's Church ...

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As the first comprehensive volume devoted entirely to women of both the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg royal dynasties spanning the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection illuminates their complex and often contradictory political ...

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Exposition organisée par le Louvre-Lens, du 4 décembre 2013 au 10 mars 2014, puis au Palazzo delle Esposizioni de Rome, du 14 avril au 20 juillet 2014. L'exposition présente la civilisation étrusque dans son contexte ...

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À la fin du Moyen Âge, l'Orient méditerranéen fait l'objet de nombreuses descriptions et de représentations cartographiques en Occident : Orient sacré de la Bible et des Évangiles, Orient épique et féodal des Croisades et ...

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Aussi surprenant que cela puisse paraître, il a fallu attendre Näckte Männer [Hommes nus], organisée par le musée Leopold de Vienne (octobre 2012-mars 2013), pour qu'une exposition d'envergure aborde la représentation de l'homme nu, un ...

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Acknowledged as one of the most important sets of early English tapestries, the Four Seasons set at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, raise many scholarly questions surrounding the design, production and uses of woven tapestry in sixteenth ...

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This is a richly illustrated exploration of Queen Victoria's portrayal in photography and her role in shaping the medium. In January 1839, photography was announced to the world. Two years prior, a young Queen Victoria ...

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As the first book-length study of waterborne festivities in Renaissance and early modern Europe, this collection of essays draws on a rich array of sources, many previously un-researched, to explore aspects of scenography, choreography, music, ...

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This book presents one of the most valuable collection of Italian miniatures put together by a private collector, which contains 228 pieces - entire pages, parts of pages, or individual initials - taken from the ...

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Emphasizing on the one hand the reconstruction of the material culture of specific residences, and on the other, the way in which particular domestic objects reflect, shape, and mediate family values and relationships within the ...

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Il y a un peu plus de 300 ans, à l'occasion du Salon 1704, soixante-dix oeuvres oeuvres ornaient la Grande Galerie du Louvre. Sous l'Ancien Régime, le Salon était organisé par l'Académie royale de peinture ...

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This superb book is dedicated to Edvard Munch's vast and fascinating oeuvre of works on paper. Featured in beautiful colour reproductions are key images related to well-known prints and drawings, as well as lesser known ...

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Study of the influence of Japanese Meiji art on the Modern Art movement in the West with superlative examples drawn from the Khalili Collection From the 1860s to the 1890s, the rise of Japonisme and ...

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This book reconsiders debates about historical memory from the perspective of the theory of emotions. Its main claim is that the demise of the Spanish empire in 1898 spurred a number of contradictory emotional responses, ...

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On account of a technological and material deployment beyond all human scope, the First World War ranks as the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century but the worlds that collapsed in 1914 had already become ...

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More than 500 Baroque and later ivories from the V&A's outstanding collection are illustrated and discussed in this scholarly catalogue. Included here is every ivory sculpture made after 1550 from a collection comprising German, Austrian, ...

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Understanding the ways in which human communities define themselves in relation to landscapes has been one of the crucial research questions in anthropology. Place and Identity in Classic Maya Narratives addresses this question in the ...

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This book examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage. Through the use of notarial records and civil court cases, it argues that the socio-economic ...

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As the study of world history evolves from a Eurocentric perspective to a more global viewpoint, formerly marginalized groups are now the focus of discussion, revealing a background rich with important military, political, social, and ...

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Connu et admiré dans le monde entier, comme en témoignent les grandes collections qui se sont créées en Europe, aux États-Unis ou au Japon, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) s impose aujourd hui comme un véritable précurseur ...

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Cette synthèse décrit les grands mouvements qui ont marqué l'évolution de l'école picturale française du Moyen Age jusqu'à aujourd'hui et aborde des techniques, courants et artistes peu connus du grand public.

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For centuries, America's permutations of climate and landscape and its tantalizing suggestion of unlimited possibilities have inspired some of history's greatest minds to embark on both literal and imaginary journeys of exploration, none more so ...

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Après l'ouvrage retraçant l'évolution du dessin français au XIXe siècle (publié en 2011), cette nouvelle synthèse du même auteur, professeur à l'École du Louvre, est consacrée à l'histoire du dessin français au XVIIe siècle, une ...

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Ce catalogue présente pour la première fois les vases antiques de la Collection des frères Auguste et Eugène Dutuit, grands collectionneurs , qui ont fait don d'un ensemble sans équivalent au Petit Palais. Les 136 ...

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La Renaissance et le Grand Siècle ont été l'âge d'or des traités d'architecture. D'Alberti, au milieu du Quattrocento à Claude Perrault à la fin du XVIIe siècle ont été écrits les ouvrages fondamentaux qui fixaient ...

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Photographe proche des surréalistes, reporter de guerre, artiste expérimental et même activiste, telles sont les multiples facettes d'Henri Cartier-Bresson. Les différents aspects de son travail sont présentés autour de deux sujets majeurs: les quêtes incessantes ...

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En 2014 se conmemora en España el IV Centenario del fallecimiento del Greco (7 de abril de 1614, en Toledo), una efeméride que ha sido considerada oficialmente como un acontecimiento de especial interés cultural. Aunque ...

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For decades after he joined the French Communist Party in 1944, Picasso produced works that connected directly-if in complex and varied ways-to his left-wing political beliefs. Picasso and the Politics of Visual Representation brings together ...

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The Roman Catholic Church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women's lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church's ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts ...

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Catalogue de l'exposition "Goya et la modernité, un artiste témoin de son temps", présentée à la Pinacothèque de Paris (11 octobre 2013 - 16 mars 2014). Le contexte historique et politique dans lequel Goya a ...

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In the same style, manner, and format as The Louvre: All the Paintings (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2011), every Old Master painting on display in the Vatican, as well as hundreds of additional masterpieces and ...

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Sait-on qu'il existe des peintures murales romaines en Tunisie ? Personne n'en a conscience, étant donné que les mosaïques d'Afrique du Nord ont occulté jusqu'à présent les décors peints. Ce livre, fruit d'un long et ...

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The present work is the result of the First International Chariot Conference, jointly organised by the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) and the American University in Cairo (AUC) (30 November to 2 December 2012). The ...

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William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Age'a time that saw many political, social, intellectual, technical, and industrial changes. His manuscripts, ...

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Nikolai Khardzhiev, a Russian literary scholar, was a friend and admirer of the modern painters of his time. He collected work by masters such as Kazimir Malevich, Olga Rozanova, El Lissitzky, Mikhail Matyushin and Vladimir ...

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As they had during the Renaissance, ruins in the eighteenth century continued to serve as places of exchange between antiquity and modern times and between one architect and another. Rome functioned as a cultural entrepôt, ...

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Antonio Stradivari is, perhaps, the only maker of violins who ranks alongside Van Gogh and Turner as an artist. A household name to many, he is associated with secret formulae and mystical processes ensuring his ...

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Félix Vallotton (1865-1925), peintre d'origine suisse naturalisé français en 1900, est un artiste à cheval sur deux siècles, deux pays et plusieurs tendances esthétiques, des Nabis à la Neue Sachlichkeit (La Nouvelle Objectivité, 1918-1930), courant ...

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The digitalization of the world seems to require manual compensation. Everywhere, people are crocheting, embroidering, knitting, and weaving. The boundary between arts and crafts appears to be blurring. As early as 1878, Gottfried Semper referred ...

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Japanese erotic art, or shunga , has a long history, with thousands of high- quality paintings, prints, handscrolls and illustrated books produced by artists both celebrated and anonymous, mostly from the late seventeenth to the ...

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Private maritime predation was integral to the Spanish American Wars of Independence. When colonists rebelled against Spanish rule in 1810 they deployed privateers - los corsarios insurgentes - to prosecute their revolutionary struggle at sea. ...

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Ce coffret présente l'oeuvre de six artistes majeurs qui ont révolutionné l'art du XXe siècle : Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso et Vincent Van Gogh. Chaque livre guide le lecteur ...

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Artistic and musical creativity thrived in the Venetian Republic between the early 16th century and the close of the 18th century. The city-state was known for its superb operas and splendid balls, and the acoustics ...

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This sumptuous volume salutes everything Art Deco-from historically significant art and design through to the present day. The Art Deco style is so recognizable and widespread that its original influence on the culture in which ...

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Presenting Albrecht Dürer's art alongside the work of his predecessors and contemporaries, this exhaustive survey allows readers to fully grasp the significance of his artistic achievement. This magnificent volume considers every aspect of Albrecht Dürer's ...

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Deuxième volume du catalogue des dessins réunis par le collectionneur genevois Jean Bonna, cet ouvrage regroupe quelque soixante-dix feuilles d'artistes originaires d'Allemagne, des Flandres, de Hollande et de Suisse. Certaines de ces pages ont été ...

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Representations of monsters and the monstrous are common in medieval art and architecture, from the grotesques in the borders of illuminated manuscripts to the symbol of the "green man", widespread in churches and cathedrals. These ...

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As seen from the perspective of 1492, the medieval expansion of Latin Europe was nowhere as dramatic or enduring as in the Iberian Peninsula and the Atlantic. Its Christian kingdoms continued their advance against Al-Andalus ...

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Painting has always been regarded by the Chinese as a supreme art, equal to those of poetry and philosophy. But dating back over 2,500 years, many Chinese paintings were made to be viewed just for ...

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The V&A's renowned Fashion in Detail series has become essential reading for historians, costumers, designers, and fashion students alike. This impressive volume brings together for the first time highlights from all the titles in the ...

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Sculptor and furniture designer Wendell Castle has carved a distinct path over nearly six decades of a distinguished career, and this long-awaited recording of his oeuvre, 'Wendell Castle: A Catalogue Raisonne', 1958-2012, beautifully delivers. The ...

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Fire-breathing dragons, beautiful mermaids, majestic unicorns, terrifying three-headed dogs-these fantastic creatures have long excited our imagination. Medieval authors placed them in the borders of manuscripts as markers of the boundaries of our understanding. Tales from ...

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In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent 'prosthetic memory'. The central theme of the child and the monster ...

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Le texte intégral de l'Éloge de la Folie d'Érasme, illustré par les oeuvres d'artistes de la Renaissance du Nord, de Bosch à Bruegel, et accompagné des dessins d'Hans Holbein le Jeune, réalisés pour l'édition de ...

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Durant des siècles et dans des régions aussi diverses que le Bassin méditerranéen, le Moyen- Orient ou l'Asie centrale, des artistes ont perpétué la tradition des motifs géométriques islamiques. Armés d'une règle et d'un compas, ...

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The accompanying title to the British Museum exhibition, Beyond El Dorado: power and gold in ancient Colombia, 17 October 2013 - 23 March 2014. For the people of Colombia, the value of gold lay in ...

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The delicate beauty of the cashmere shawl was first brought to Europe by the East India Companies and Napoleon's campaigns. Woven in Kashmir, its fabric was so light that, according to legend, a whole shawl ...

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Posters by their very nature are ephemeral: crookedly plastered on a roadside billboard, tacked to the back of a tabac, they lasted a few weeks until advertisers issued another imaginative argument for soap or an ...

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Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition " 1925 quand l'Art Déco séduit le monde " à la Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Paris, du 15 octobre 2013 au 17 février 2014 Le début du XXe ...

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The Virgin of Guadalupe is famously migratory, traversing continents and crossing and recrossing oceans. Guadalupe's earliest cult originated in medieval Iberia, where Our Lady of Guadalupe from Extremadura, Spain, played a significant role in the ...

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Accompanying an exhibition that examines the figure drawings of the young Albrecht Dürer, this catalogue focuses on his formative years from around 1490, when he completed his artistic training, to 1496, when he established himself ...

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The opening photograph is of the gun that fired the first shot of the war. The final photograph is of an audio recording showing the arrival of silence on the eleventh hour of the eleventh ...

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Over the seven decades of Pablo Picasso's artistic career, there were subjects to which he returned again and again. These include women, bulls, and the Old Masters as well as political and literary themes, circus ...

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Baccarat celebrates more than 250 years as one of the most important and prestigious luxury houses. Acclaimed for its high-quality traditional craftsmanship of fine crystal stemware, barware, candelabra, perfume bottles, and jewelry, Baccarat is known ...

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El escultor español Julio González (1876-1942) fue pionero en la escultura de hierro soldado, un material al que llevó a un nivel de expresividad y plasticidad sin precedentes. González, nacido en Barcelona, aprendió el oficio ...

pvp.280.0 €

Examines the crown-sponsored architecture and urbanism of Naples during the reign of King Charles of Bourbon (1734-59). Shows how structures and public spaces helped consolidate royal authority and refashion the city into a royal capital"--Provided ...

pvp.181.18 €

Le Musée Cernuschi, parallèlement à ses bronzes archaïques chinois, conserve un fonds important de bronzes archaïsants, de la dynastie Song à la dynastie Qing (IXe-XXe siècles) actuellement tous en réserve ; longtemps dédaignés, ces bronzes ...

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Con motivo de la exposición retrospectiva de Braque en Grand Palais, septiembre 2013 - 13 enero 2014, se ha reeditado, segunda edición limitada, de este "libro de artista" con 18 ilustraciones, grabados de Braque. Ce ...

pvp.330.0 €

Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines a history of contact between modern Europe and East Asia through three collectors: Henri Cernuschi, Emile Guimet, and Edmond de Goncourt. Drawing on a ...

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El reconocimiento del papel de los animales en las antiguas dietas, en las economias, politicas y los rituales, es vital para poder entender a las culturas del pasado en su totalidad. Por el otro lado, ...

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For more than 50 years, international organizations have been recommending diffusion policies and strategies based on the idea of democratising society's physical and intellectual access to archaeological heritage. A vast array of initiatives, resources, activities ...

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Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville offers a reassessment of the impact of plague in the early modern era, presenting sixteenth-century Seville as a case study of how municipal officials and residents worked ...

pvp.90.68 €

Investigating the complex history of visual arts engagement with literature, this collection demonstrates that the art of the book is a fully interdisciplinary and distinctly modern form. The essays in the collection develop new critical ...

pvp.90.48 €

Medieval stairs, galleries and upper chambers in cathedrals, abbeys, and parish churches have been an enduring source of fascination to historians and archaeologists since the eighteenth century, but their practical purposes have long been shrouded ...

pvp.59.34 €

What are European archaeologists doing abroad? What have they been doing there for the past three to four centuries? Are they doing things differently nowadays? To address these questions, this book explores the scope, impact ...

pvp.81.45 €

An engaging history and examination of the studio furniture movement, "Speaking of Furniture: Conversations with 14 American Masters" is an informative, firsthand presentation of the creative processes of 14 diverse and highly accomplished artisan furniture ...

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Whether we care to admit it or not, we have always distinguished between those arts that we consider superior and the lesser or minor forms. Giorgio Vasari is usually credited with formally structuring the primary ...

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The Mediterranean has been for millennia one of the global cockpits of human endeavour. This book presents an interpretive synthesis for a generation on the rise of the Mediterranean world from its beginning, before the ...

pvp.56.31 €

Si Verlaine a surnommé " maudits " quelques-uns de ses amis, c'étaient surtout pour lui des poètes que le public avait méconnus. Ce terme de " maudit " a pris depuis une toute autre dimension ...

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Como su propio nombre indica, "Del construir" se centra en el mundo de la arquitectura, de la producción de las obras, de quienes las concibieron y realizaron, de las técnicas usadas, de los materiales empleados. ...

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The nineteen papers collected in this volume explore a notable phenomenon, that of retrospection in the art and architecture of Romanesque Europe. They arise from a conference organized by the British Archaeological Association in 2010, ...

pvp.92.6 €

Over the course of the 18th century a great number of artists, ranging from established painters and sculptors to amateurs, experimented with etching, an accessible form of printmaking akin to drawing. In a period when ...

pvp.62.02 €

Through its 14 chapters, this book presents the outcomes of the recent exploration of Bahriya, an Egyptian oasis located in the Western Desert about 350 km south-west of Cairo. Part I of the volume is ...

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Located within the deep tropical rainforest of Chiapas, Mexico, the Maya site of Bonampak is home to the most complete and magnificent mural program of the ancient Americas. In three rooms, a pageant of rulership ...

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As Spain encountered economic and political crises in the seventeenth century, the imagery of musical performance was invoked by the state to represent the power of the monarch and to denote harmony throughout the kingdom. ...

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Las mayores innovaciones poéticas del Siglo de Oro dependen en buena medida de la teorización en torno al concepto de los géneros literarios y de la experimentación y cambios a los que estos fueron sometidos. ...

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The European Textile Forum was founded as an annual meeting for academics, craftspeople, re-enactors and enthusiasts to share their experiences and compare notes. The conference takes place over a week, which not only allows time ...

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This significant work reconstructs the repertory of insignia of rank and the contexts and symbolic meanings of their use, along with their original terminology, among the Nahuatl-speaking communities of Mesoamerica from the fifteenth through the ...

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This lavishly illustrated volume presents a comprehensive architectural study of 87 individual temples and sanctuaries built in the Roman East between the end of the 1st century BCE and the end of the 3rd century ...

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Heritage, memory, community archaeology and the politics of the past form the main strands running through the papers in this volume.The authors tackle these subjects from a range of different philosophical perspectives, with many drawing ...

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Written sources from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, from the third to the first millennia BC, provide a wealth of terms for textiles. The twentytwo chapters in the present volume offer the first ...

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Vitrines and glass cabinets are familiar apparatuses that have in large part defined modern modes of display and visibility, both within and beyond the museum. They separate objects from their contexts, group them with other ...

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Margaret of Parma: A Life presents a woman who had a vital part in the political dramas of Reformation Europe. A natural child of Charles V, she was educated in the courts of Brussels, Florence, ...

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Nouveau volume de la collection "Rencontres de l'École du Louvre', La galerie des Glaces après sa restauration. Contexte et restitution rassemble les contributions du colloque international organisé par l'École du Louvre, le musée national des ...

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The sheer complexity of the subject of European furniture, ranging through an enormous variety of styles with often only small regional differences, makes it unrealistic to cover it adequately in anything less than the detailed ...

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This book, like the authors' previous volume on American painting materials and techniques from the colonial period to 1860, is the first overview of an important but largely unknown aspect of American art from 1860 ...

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Exploring the aristocratic villas and court culture of Córdoba, during its 'golden age' under the reign of the Umayyad dynasty (r. 756-1031 AD), this study illuminates a key facet of the secular architecture of the ...

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Estudio histórico, formal, iconográfico e iconológico del altar relicario del Monasterio de Piedra, una de las joyas más importantes del arte gótico y mudéjar de España, conservado desde 1851 en la Real Academia de la ...

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This book focuses on the cross-currents and points of contact in film production among so-called Hispanic countries (Spain, Portugal and Latin America), and in particular the impact that co-production and supranational funding initiatives are having ...

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Topics in this volume range widely throughout the European middle ages. Three contributions concern terminology for dress. Two deal with multicultural medieval Apulia: an examination of clothing terms in surviving marriage contracts from the tenth ...

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As Spaniards built colonies in the New World, men of the cloth saw within ancient ruins and inhabited native towns great potential for easing the colonization effort. In the Yucatan, which is the locus of ...

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Dalla metà del Cinquecento, per circa due secoli, la scultura in avorio fu apprezzata nelle corti europee come una delle massime e più sofisticate forme di espressione artistica. I più importanti scultori del periodo barocco, ...

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The Bajío (West-Central Mexico) has been considered by various authors to be a key region for understanding the processes of interaction and migration among Central, West, and Northern Mesoamerica. Since the late 1990s, our knowledge ...

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A comprehensive study of a wide range of Andalusian ivory artefacts from the Middle Ages. As well as examining the Late Roman background to Hispano-Muslim ivory working, the book gives weight to the full chronological ...

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Taxing systems, conceived as institutionalized means of extraction of goods and services from the population, are a key part in the analysis of the social and territorial fabrics of our history. This volume analyses those ...

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A series of recent excavations has revealed the monumental sacred structures of the Chavín culture, whose people populated the coastal regions of Peru on thousand years before the Inca and which is regarded today as ...

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An exceptional selection of Lichtenstein's sculptures from 1968 to the end of the artist's life, from early ceramic sculptures to large-scale public works. The planned exhibition at the Fondazione Vedova in Venice (Biennale Arte 2013) ...

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Galicia, a non-state nation in north-west Spain, has often been portrayed as a sentimental nation, a misty land of poets and legends. This book offers the first study of this trope as a feminizing, colonial ...

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In the past, girls from rural southeastern Europe spent their childhoods weaving, sewing, and embroidering festive dress so that upon reaching puberty they could join the Sunday afternoon village dances garbed in resplendent attire. These ...

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Exposition du 4 mai au 22 septem bre 2013 au Musée Christian Dio r de Granville . De son enfance normande passée à Granville, dans un environnement naturel semblable à celui recherché par les artistes ...

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The Codex Borgia, a masterpiece that predates the Spanish conquest of central Mexico, records almanacs used in divination and astronomy. Within its beautifully painted screenfold pages is a section (pages 29-46) that shows a sequence ...

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This volume brings together new research by some of the world's leading experts, exploring the artistic production and cultural context of Renaissance sculpture from Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise to the small bronzes of Giambologna and ...

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Behind each archaeological shipwreck recovery lies a team of highly skilled specialists: divers, archaeologists, engineers, scientists, conservators, curators, historians, designers etc. While each boat found presents a unique combination of problems to be overcome, the ...

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A shift of global proportions occurred in May 1808. Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain and deposed the Spanish king. Overnight, the Hispanic world was transformed forever. Hispanics were forced to confront modernity, and to look beyond ...

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This volume contains papers from The World of Iron Conference which took place at The Natural History Museum, London in 2009. Through a combination of thematic and regional sessions, the scope of the conference allowed ...

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An introduction to the multidisciplinary field of hominin paleoecology for advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students, Early Hominin Paleoecology offers an up?to?date review of the relevant literature, exploring new research and synthesizing old and ...

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This lavishly illustrated book documents the most distinguished works from the Metropolitan Museum's extensive collection of domestic, ecclesiastical, and presentation silver from the Colonial and Federal periods. Detailed discussions provide a stylistic and socio-historical context ...

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The conservation profession has its roots in the intellectual movements of the first half of the 19th century, following the Enlightenment. Scholarly study of objects made available by important archeological excavations and discoveries gave birth ...

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This multifaceted book reviews the vast range of types of printmaking that flourished in France during the 19th century. Studies of this period's printmaking tend to be confined to histories of individual processes, such as ...

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The debate about environmental standards for museum collections has by no means been resolved. Climate change, ever increasing energy bills, the complexity of air-conditioning systems, the feasibility of alternative climate control strategies and the real ...

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Este libro evalúa la aportación del documental cinematográfico y televisivo producido en España a partir de los años 90 al debate en torno a la memoria de la represión franquista, por un lado, así como ...

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Le Romantisme, mouvement d'idées et de culture, imposa un changement radical dans la vision de l'homme et de la réalité, dans le goût et dans les arts, et fut à l'origine d'une révolution dans la ...

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Incomparable masterpieces of Netherlandish drawing from the collection of Vienna's Albertina The entire artistic spectrum is opened up page by page: landscapes, seascapes, topographical views, portraits, rural genre scenes, and still lifes The Albertina owns ...

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This superbly illustrated book provides a fascinating insight into the costumes and fabrics of theTudor and Stuart age. Detailing both the leading fashions of the day and the appeal to painters of timeless 'classical' dress, ...

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In conjunction with the 2008-9 exhibition Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a series of lectures brought together major international scholars in a variety ...

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The present monograph takes its place in a now well established Tradition of seeing sarcophagi as visual statements of deceased Individuals that used allegories to plot lives and personal memories against mythological and other idealised ...

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In the history of photography in Mexico, portraiture is an important, established tradition, transcending styles, subjects and decades. Mexican Portraits includes more than 350 portraits from more than 80 well-known Mexican photographers, including Romualdo García, ...

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The papers in this volume were presented as papers or posters at the ninth meeting dedicated to the use of lasers in the conservation of artworks (LACONA), hosted by the British Museum and University College, ...

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William Morris Textiles was the first comprehensive survey of the many hundreds of original, colorful textiles produced by William Morris (1834-1896) and the two commercial companies he founded and managed. To this day it remains ...

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Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World examines the structure, scale, and complexity of economic systems in the pre-Hispanic Americas, with a focus on the central highlands of Mexico, the Maya Lowlands, and the ...

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Figure majeure de la reliure d'art des trente dernières années, Jean de Gonet s'est très tôt affirmé en rupture complète avec les modalités et les décors de la reliure dite de création. Mettant à nu ...

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"Artists have been drawn to the plays of Shakespeare for more than three centuries. For the artist, the challenge was to re-create the characters and the drama not on the living stage, but to freeze ...

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A Companion to Luis Buñuel presents a collection of critical readings by many of the foremost film scholars that examines and reassesses myriad facets of world-renowned filmmaker Luis Buñuel's life, works, and cinematic themes. - ...

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Esta obra cierra un ambicioso proyecto, iniciado a finales de la década de 1980 por un grupo de jóvenes profesores que nos propusimos estudiar la Monarquía hispana con una nueva metodología, abandonando los estrechos caminos ...

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Al-Andalus, the Arabic name for the medieval Islamic state in Iberia, endured for over 750 years following the Arab and Berber conquest of Hispania in 711. While the popular perception of al-Andalus is that of ...

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The scenes and inscriptions of each of the forty-two stelae are described in detail, with full translations, textual notes and explanatory diagrams. Each catalogue entry includes a wideranging general commentary on phraseology, formulae and titles, ...

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Hieronymus Cock (1518-1570) was an Antwerp painter and printmaker. Together with his wife, he was one of the first to establish a publishing house for prints. From 1548 their firm "At the Sign of the ...

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The Archaeology of Race looks at how racial and social theory was practically applied by British historians and archaeologists to interpret the past during the late nineteenth century, particularly through the use of material culture ...

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This collection offers a new lens through which to examine Spain's cinema production following the isolation imposed by the Franco regime. The seventeen key films analyzed in the volume span a period of 35 years ...

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From 1650 to 1900 Paris was the undisputed centre of fashion and taste in Europe. Home to a unique concentration of artists, designers, patrons, critics, and a keen buying public, Paris was the city where ...

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This book presents research results on the interaction processes between societies that inhabited in the Calchaquí Valley (Province of Salta, northwestern Argentina) and those from surrounding regions between the 9th and 16th centuries. Such study ...

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Don Quixote among the Saracens considers how Cervantes' work reflects the clash of civilizations and anxieties towards cultural pluralism that permeated Golden Age Spain. The fictional Don Quixote was constantly defeated in his knightly adventures. ...

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Each civilization devised its own solution for manufacturing the color blue. The names of the different pigments often reflect this geographic diversity: from Egyptian blue to copper phthalocyanine, ranging through Maya and Han blues, smalt, ...

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This is the fifth volume to appear in the Getty Conservation Institute's Readings in Conservation series, which gathers and publishes texts that have been influential in the development of thinking about the conservation of cultural ...

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Encapsulating two decades of research, Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca is the first major treatment of the lower Río Verde region of Oaxaca, investigating its social, political, and ecological history. Tracing Formative ...

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This collaborative collection considers the packaging, presentation and consumption of medieval manuscripts and early printed books in Europe 1350-1550. The book showcases innovative research on the history of the book from a range of established ...

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Isabel de Villena (1430-1490) is one of the most fascinating women of the Spanish middle ages. Related to the royal family, she became abbess of the Poor Clare convent, the Santa Trinitat, in Valencia in ...

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A comprehensive history of high fashion in Paris from Madame Grès and Balenciaga to Yves Saint Laurent and Yohji Yamamoto, spanning all aspects from clothing and accessories to perfume. Ever since Charles Frederick Worth dressed ...

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Offering a new perspective on global trade relations during the Age of Exploration, Portugal, Jesuits, and Japan explores the relationships between Portuguese merchants, Jesuits, and the Japanese during the nanban period (1543-1614). Created to accompany ...

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In a society where split-second decisions about the value of things are grounded on how they look, museum visitors are often drawn to visually striking or iconic objects. This book investigates the question of the ...

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Throughout History, the Indian Ocean has been a zone of interaction between far-flung civilizations served by ports, and connected with the Mediterranean by the Gulf and Red Sea. The dhows that were the vehicles of ...

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Este libro constituye un rico y sugestivo análisis sobre los intrincados mecanismos que nutren el cuerpo del coleccionismo de arte hispánico, entre los que cabe destacar los efectos de las desamortizaciones, el denso entramado de ...

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On August 3, 1492, the same day that Columbus set sail from Spain, the long and glorious history of that nation's Jewish community officially came to a close. The expulsion of Europe's last major Jewish ...

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The plaza has been a defining feature of Mexican urban architecture and culture for at least 4,000 years. Ancient Mesoamericans conducted most of their communal life in outdoor public spaces, and today the plaza is ...

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A new type of Jewish art emerged in Late Antiquity, when artists produced visual depictions that had not existed earlier within a Jewish context - figural images (including pagan motifs), biblical scenes, and religious symbols. ...

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When the Europeans first arrived in America, they had a number of preconceptions, prejudices, expectations and hopes about what life in the New World would be like. This book examines the different visions and representations ...

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Giovanni Bastianini, probabilmente il miglior imitatore fiorentino della scultura italiana rinascimentale dell'Ottocento, è stato oggetto di una controversia che continua ancora oggi. Analizzando la dicotomia tra il suo stile pseudo-rinascimentale e contemporaneo, Moskowitz pone saldamente ...

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L'autore ha voluto dedicarsi allo stretto rapporto esistente fra la pittura napoletana del XVII e XVIII secolo e le figure presepiali del '700 e viceversa: all'influenza che taluni personaggi, animali, accessori del presepe hanno avuto ...

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The studies collected in this volume, some of them rather difficult to access, date mostly from the last fifteen years and focus primarily on Persian book painting of the 14th to the early 16th centuries. ...

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Accompanies the exhibition Medievel to Monet at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut, USA, October 2012 - February 2013 This is both a major reference title on French art and a book aimed at general art-lovers An ...

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El libro parte de la consideración de que los requisitos que afectan a la arquitectura (construcción, función, belleza, lugar) son tantos y tan dispares que el proyecto arquitectónico solo puede cumplirlos acudiendo a la contradicción ...

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Où mettre le choeur ? Dès l'origine de l'architecture chrétienne, cette question a été une préoccupation constante des bâtisseurs d'églises et une source de... Lire la suite tension entre les usagers, laïcs et clercs, individus, ...

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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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EN UN MOMENTO COMO ESTE, EN QUE SE PLANTEAN PROFUNDOS CAMBIOS METODOLÓGICOS EN LA ENSEÑANZA DE LA ARQUITECTURA Y SE GENERAN CANDENTES CUESTIONES SOBRE LA DESCODIFICACIÓN Y JUSTIFICACIÓN DE LAS CREACIONES ARQUITECTÓNICAS, LO TRATADO EN ...

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Éste es un libro que los estudiantes de arquitectura querrán tener en su habitación de estudio y en sus mochilas. También es un libro que querrán mantener alejado de los profesores, ya que expresa en ...

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El lugar elegido donde se plantea el ejercicio de PFC, Centro de Artes Escénicas en Ciutadella de Menorca es el de las canteras abandonadas de S'Hostal - Líthica Este libro recoge una selección de las ...

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Reflexiones sobre la arquitectura pretende explicar el pensamiento actual sobre la arquitectura de un modo claro y accesible. El texto expone conceptos teóricos clave como la representación, la forma y el espacio, usando para ello ...

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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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Todo parece indicar que un importante número de arquitectos en activo se verán abocados a abandonar la profesión y deberán adaptarse a actividades más o menos relacionadas con la arquitectura o, en el peor de ...

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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 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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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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Peter Eisenman utiliza en este libro su método de análisis de la arquitectura, basado en la lectura de los diferentes aspectos que conforman una obra, para examinar diez edificios y proyectos desarrollados entre 1950 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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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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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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Josep Lluís Sert siempre se sintió muy cercano al mundo artístico, y defendió una síntesis intelectual entre la arquitectura y las artes plásticas. A lo largo de su vida, la relación entre paisaje, arquitectura y ...

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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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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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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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Juan Navarro Baldeweg, pintor y arquitecto, reflexiona en este volumen sobre las particularidades de su doble oficio y los procesos que emplea para proyectar. En una única y larga conversación mantenida en Barcelona con jóvenes ...

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El movimiento moderno en arquitectura constituye en la actualidad tanto una condición permanente como un fenómeno histórico superado. Los nueve ensayos que conforman este libro se publican ahora en una edición revisada y actualizada, con ...

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

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

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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 ...

pvp.320.0 €

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 ...

pvp.493.1 €

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 ...

pvp.124.0 €

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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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 ...

pvp.94.33 €

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 €

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 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 ...

pvp.18.0 €