Art

ISBN: 9781912476954
Published by : Origin
East Lothian, a unitary authority area including the old county of Haddingtonshire, is one of Scotland's most historic places - John Knox was born in Haddington in the early years of the sixteenth century; important links were forged with the Low ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714151304
Published by : British Museum
Divine women – in many guises – have featured in every world faith from deep history until the present day, inspiring people and cultures across the world. In a cross-cultural and global approach, this book discusses Eve alongside Inan... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861592371
Published by : British Museum
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 237
The art of Edvard Munch is striking for the originality and universality of its themes, which cross moments in place and time. Yet he was very much an artist of the nineteenth century, and the focus of this publication is to show how especially in... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781783276943
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
Volume: 19
Medieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying side-by-side, and hand in hand, immortalised in elegantly carved stone: what Philip Larkin's poem An Arundel Tomb later described as their "stone fidelity".
This first full ac... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781783276981
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
Volume: 21
This book explores the ways in which early medieval England was envisioned as an ideal, a placeless, and a conflicted geography in works of art and literature from the eighth to the eleventh century and in their modern scholarly and popular afterl... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780995756632
Published by : Cornucopia Books/Caique Publishing
Series: The Buccleuch Houses
Volume: 1
With its picturesque domes, walls of pale pink sandstone and splendid Dumfriesshire setting, Drumlanrig is one of Scotland’s most romantic castles, its story entwined with that of the country itself. Today’s castle was superimposed on ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781783276844
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
Volume: 23
The Ashburnham Pentateuch is an early medieval manuscript of uncertain provenance , which has puzzled and intrigued scholars since the nineteenth century. Its first image, which depicts the Genesis creation narrative, is itself a site of mystery; ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781783276639
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
Volume: 43
While famous artists such as Holbein, Rubens, or Van Dyck are all known for their creative periods in England or their employment at the English court, they still had to make ends meet, as did the less well-known practitioners of their craft. This... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783935751339
Published by : Kerns Verlag
Series: Tübingen Publications in Prehistory
Over 40,000 years ago modern Homo sapiens spread across the European continent. Archaeological finds attributed to these early human beings were produced on the Swabian Jura in Southwest Germany, especially in the caves of the Ach and Lone valleys... .... Learn More