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Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing [Hardback]
Laura J. Snyder (Author)
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ISBN: 9780393077469
Published by : W.W. Norton & Company Ltd
On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher gazed through a tiny lens set into a brass holder and discovered a never-before imagined worl... .... Learn More -
The Rape of Europa: The Intriguing History of Titian's Masterpiece [Hardback]
Charles Fitzroy (Author)
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ISBN: 9781408192092
Published by : Bloomsbury
`The Rape of Europa' is one of Titian's great masterpieces, a work charged with eroticism and classical mystique behind which lies a tale as compelling as the painting itself. Here Charles FitzRoy weaves a unique account of its history and the pai... .... Learn More -
Treasures from India: Jewels from the Al-thani Collection [Hardback]
Navina Haidar (Author)
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ISBN: 9780300208870
Published by : Metropolitan Museum of Art
India's rich tradition of jeweled arts has produced extravagant and opulent creations that range from ornaments for every part of the body to ceremonial court objects such as boxes, daggers, and thrones. Starting with the Mughal rulers of India (... .... Learn More -
Elevated Rock Art [Hardback]
Johan Ling (Author)
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ISBN: 9781782977629
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Swedish Rock Art Research Series
Volume: 2
How may Bohuslän rock art and landscape be perceived and understood? Since the Bronze Age, the landscape has been transformed by shore displacement but, largely due to misunderstanding and certain ideas about the character of Bronze Age society, ... .... Learn More -
Sculpting Simulacra in Medieval Germany 1250-1380 [Hardback]
Assaf Pinkus (Author)
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ISBN: 9781472422651
Published by : Ashgate
Engaging with the imaginative, nonreligious response to Gothic sculpture in German-speaking lands and tracing high and late medieval notions of the 'living statue' and the simulacrum in religious, lay, and travel literature, this study explores th... .... Learn More -
The Medieval Salento [Hardback]
Linda Safran (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812245547
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
Located in the heel of the Italian boot, the Salento region was home to a diverse population between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Inhabitants spoke Latin, Greek, and various vernaculars, and their houses of worship served sizable congregatio... .... Learn More -
Delacroix and the Matter of Finish [Hardback]
Eik Kahng (Editor); Marc Gotlieb (Editor); Michele Hannoosh (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780300199444
Published by : Yale University Press
This groundbreaking publication centers on a previously unknown variation of Eugene Delacroix's (1798-1863) dramatic masterpiece The Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, published here for the first time. This book offers a compelling reasse... .... Learn More -
Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn [Paperback]
Aruna D'Souza (Author); Jill Casid (Author)
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ISBN: 9780300196856
Published by : Yale University Press
With globalization steadily reshaping the cultural landscape, scholars have long called for a full-scale reassessment of art history's largely Eurocentric framework. This collection of case studies and essays, the latest in the Clark Studies in th... .... Learn More -
Religious Poverty, Visual Riches [Hardback]
Joanna Cannon (Author)
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ISBN: 9780300187656
Published by : Yale University Press
The Dominican friars of late-medieval Italy were vowed to a life of religious poverty. Yet their churches contained many visual riches, as this groundbreaking study reveals. Works by supreme practitioners - Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto and Simone Marti... .... Learn More -
Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua Vol. XI [Hardback]
Peter Thonemann (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780907764380
Published by : Roman Society Publications
Series: JRS Monograph
Volume: 12
Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua XI: Monuments from Phrygia and Lykaonia is a corpus of 387 Greek and Latin inscriptions and other ancient and medieval monuments from inner Anatolia (Phrygia, Lykaonia, and south-western Galatia). M... .... Learn More
