Renaissance

ISBN: 9781907975769
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The sixteenth century was an exciting period in the history of European theatre. In the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, Germany and England, writers and actors experimented with new dramatic techniques and found new publics. The... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781848020344
Published by : English Heritage
The garden created by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, at Kenilworth Castle in the early 1570s was one of the wonders of Elizabethan England. It is also the best documented of all the great gardens of its age, providing the starting point for ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781781592304
Published by : Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Series: Military History from Primary Sources
This remarkable work features a comprehensive survey of the defining events of Renaissance warfare in the British Isles as described by the great Victorian military writer James Grant. The modern reader seeking an insight into the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905981410
Published by : Maney Publishing
Henry VIII used his wardrobe, and that of his family and household, as a way of expressing his wealth and magnificence. This book encompasses the first detailed study of male and female dress worn at the court of Henry VIII (1509-... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783777480619
Published by : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Series: Römische Studien der Bibliotheca Hertziana
Volume: 34
Central-plan buildings, i.e. churches constructed on a ground plan that is circular, square, polygonal or in the shape of a Greek cross, etc., have been among the central paradigms of the architecture of the period in Renaissance studies since Jac... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515102094
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Forschungen zur Geschichte und Kultur des Östlichen Mitteleuropa (FGKÖM)
Volume: 42
The history of women's art and gendered cultural practices has had a troubled record in Hungary as in many countries of East-Central Europe, and it mostly features as a missing phenomenon. This "lack" is often attributed on the one hand to state-s... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975295
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Certain words played a crucial role in the making of the European Renaissance, and still recur today in our shifting understanding of it. Discretion and grace, to take two examples studied here, express how individuals thought abo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788859611615
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
The publication, outcome of the project Die kirchen von Siena and produced with the support of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz , contains 28 inventories written between 1389 and 1547, that describe the movable properties kept in the Cath... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788859609490
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
A long-awaited work, which describes from a multiplicity of perspectives one of the greatest artistic heritages of the fourteenth century. The first volume of the book, thanks to the contributions of well-known international scholars, describes th... .... Learn More