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  • SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS OF GRECE AND ROME

    LEWIS, M.J.T.

    CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-521-79297-4
    • EAN: 9780521792974
    • Páginas: 398
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.111,79 €

    Disponible en 10 ó 15 días

    The Greeks and, especially, the Romans are famous for the heroic engineering of their aqueducts, tunnels and roads. They also measured the circumference of the earth and the heights of mountains with fair precision. This ...

  • BEYOND AESTHETICS PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS

    CARROLL, N.

    CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-521-78656-0
    • EAN: 9780521786560
    • Páginas: 450
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.38,46 €

    Agotado

    Beyond Aesthetics brings together philosophical essays addressing art and related issues by one of the foremost philosophers of art at work today. Countering conventional aesthetic theories - those maintaining that authorial intention, art history, morality ...

  • CHRISTIANS AND JEWS IN THE OTTOMAN ARAB WORLD. THE ROOTS OF SECTARISM

    MASTERS, B.

    CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-521-80333-5
    • EAN: 9780521803335
    • Páginas: 238
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.68,25 €

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    Masters explores the history of Christians and Jews in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman empire and how their identities as non-Muslims evolved over four hundred years. At the start of this period, in the ...

  • THE CASTE WAR OF YUCATAN

    REED, NELSON A.

    STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-8047-4001-2
    • EAN: 9780804740012
    • Páginas: 448
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.43,68 €

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    This is the classic account of one of the most dramatic episodes in Mexican history'the revolt of the Maya Indians of Yucatán against their white and mestizo oppressors that began in 1847. Within a year, ...

  • THE ROBERT LEHMAN COLLECTION XIV: EUROPEAN TEXTILES

    THURMAN MAYER, CH.

    PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-691-09032-0
    • EAN: 9780691090320
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.140,23 €

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    This volume, the tenth to be published in a projected series of sixteen, catalogues the European textiles and objects made of fabric in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
    Robert Lehman ...

  • VIRTUE AND BEAUTY: LEONARDO'S GINEVRA DE' BENCI AND RENAISSANCE PORTRAITS OF WOMEN

    BROWN, D.A.

    PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-691-09057-3
    • EAN: 9780691090573
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.84,74 €

    Disponible en 10 ó 15 días

    This beautifully illustrated and exquisitely designed volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings celebrates the extraordinary flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Included are many ...

  • GUSTAV KLIMT: MODERNISM IN THE MAKING

    BAILEY, COLIN B.

    ABRAMS (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-8109-3524-2
    • EAN: 9780810935242
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.73,32 €

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    The most remarkable artist of late-19th-century Vienna, Gustav Klimt developed a highly personal style that combines decorative pattern with a mysterious, smoldering eroticism. This beautiful volume - the most comprehensive survey in English of the ...

  • HIERONYMUS BOSCH: THE COMPLETE PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS

    KOLDEWEIJ, JOS

    ABRAMS (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-8109-6735-9
    • EAN: 9780810967359
    • Páginas: 208
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.74,53 €

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    One of the most enigmatic painters who ever lived, Hieronymus Bosch (c.1453-1516) is also one of the most enduringly popular. His fantastical scenes of grotesque creatures, devils, and monsters are open to many interpretations, keeping ...

  • VILLAS AND GARDENS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY AND FRANCE

    BENES, M.

    CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-521-78225-8
    • EAN: 9780521782258
    • Páginas: 428
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.132,22 €

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    This volume focuses on selected villas and their gardens in France and Italy from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Interdisciplinary and fundamentally contextualizing in approach, the essays examine the relationship between landscape and court ...

  • MONKS AND MERCHANTS: SILK ROAD TREASURES FROM NORTHWEST CHINA

    JULIANO, L.

    ABRAMS (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-8109-3478-8
    • EAN: 9780810934788
    • Páginas: 352
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.82,34 €

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    Stunning works in precious metals, glass, and stone - many recently excavated and virtually unknown outside China - shed new light on a pivotal epoch in Chinese history. From the 4th through 7th century, monks ...

  • GREAT MASTERS OF MEXICAN FOLK

    FERNANDEZ DE CALDERON, C.

    ABRAMS (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-8109-6745-8
    • EAN: 9780810967458
    • Páginas: 552
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.102,17 €

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    As every traveler to Mexico discovers, the nation is home to some of the world's most vibrant folk art. This sumptuous book, bursting with undreds of bright, colorful illustrations, introduces 180 living artists from throughout ...

  • BRAZIL: BODY AND SOUL

    SULLIVAN, E.J.

    ABRAMS (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-8109-6933-9
    • EAN: 9780810969339
    • Páginas: 600
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.102,17 €

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    This magnificent volume - and the exhibition it accompanies at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - is a soaring tribute to the harmonious nature of Brazilian art and culture. Juxtaposing Baroque masterpieces from the 17th ...

  • THE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO ART

    GOVIGNON, B.

    ABRAMS (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-8109-9060-9
    • EAN: 9780810990609
    • Páginas: 391
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.22,24 €

    Disponible en 10 ó 15 días

    Concise and straightforward, The Beginner's Guide to Art explains world art from paleolithic cave paintings to ancient Greek temples, Byzantine icons, Japanese architecture, Oceanic sculpture, African masks, and the 20th-century avant-garde. Clearly organized, profusely illustrated ...

  • MAGNIFICENT TIFFANY SILVER

    LORING, JOHN

    ABRAMS (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-8109-4273-8
    • EAN: 9780810942738
    • Páginas: 345
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.73,32 €

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    This elegant volume is the first comprehensive look at the superbly crafted silver created by Tiffany & Co. over the course of its 150-year history: the prize-winning 1,250-piece Mackay table service that remains the single ...

  • GIFTS TO THE TSARS, 1500-1700: TREASURES FROM THE KREMLIM

    SHIFMAN, B.

    ABRAMS (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-8109-0600-6
    • EAN: 9780810906006
    • Páginas: 336
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.83,54 €

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    From 1547, when Ivan the Terrible declared himself tsar of Russia, to 1712, when Peter the Great moved the capital to St. Petersburg, one of
    the highlights of Moscow court life was the formal ...

  • A WORLD HISTORY OF FILM

    SKLAR, R.

    ABRAMS (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-8109-0606-8
    • EAN: 9780810906068
    • Páginas: 592
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.94,43 €

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    Covering a wide variety of classics as well as recent films, Robert Sklar's highly informative and entertaining history of motion pictures is the standout volume in the field. With a global perspective and exceptional breadth ...

  • BELLES LETTRES: ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS BY THE MASTERS OF FRENCH LITERATURE

    AYALA, R. DE

    ABRAMS (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-8109-0617-4
    • EAN: 9780810906174
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.74,53 €

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    Here is a sumptuous look at the original manuscripts of more than 100 famous French writers from the 13th to the 20th century. A billet-doux for francophiles and bibliophiles, Belles Lettres offers a comprehensive look ...

  • FORTUNY

    DESCHODT, ANNE MARIE

    ABRAMS (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-8109-1133-8
    • EAN: 9780810911338
    • Páginas: 188
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.80,00 €

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    Double-cut velvets, gilded silks, hand-beaded chiffons - with a couturier's craftsmanship, Mariano Fortuny (1871-1949) married sensual fabrics to precise designs and created opulent clothes and costumes for luminaries such as Isadora Duncan, Sarah Bernhardt, and ...

  • FIVE CENTURIES OF BRITISH PAINTING: FROM HOLBEIN TO HODGKING

    WILTON, A.

    THAMES & HUDSON (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-500-20349-1
    • EAN: 9780500203491
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.26,00 €

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    Britain has played a key part in the history of the last five centuries, and its art reflects this in absorbing and complex ways. Andrew Wilton, Keeper and Senior Research Fellow at Tate Britain, traces ...

  • AN EGYPTIAN BESTIARY

    GERMOND, PH.

    THAMES & HUDSON (2001)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-500-51059-9
    • EAN: 9780500510599
    • Páginas: 224
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.74,53 €

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    Of all the world's early civilizations, it was that of ancient Egypt that fostered the closest relationship with the animal world. In all aspects of life, both secular and sacred, animals were treated as symbols ...