Art
Art and artists from the earliest rock art to the flowering of the Renaissance and diverse contemporary work.
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On Portraiture: (Do Tirar Pelo Natural) [Paperback]
Francisco De Holanda (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781912168118
Published by : Ad Ilissum
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Francisco de Holanda (1517/18 – 1585) was a court painter, architect and essayist at the Lisbon court of John III of Portugal and Catherine of Austria. Son of the Netherlandish painter and miniaturist, António de Holanda (d. 1557), from whom he le... .... Learn More -
Four Centuries of Blue and White: The Frelinghuysen Collection of Chinese & Japanese Export Porcelain [Hardback]
£90.00ISBN: 9781915401090
Published by : Ad Ilissum
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This beautifully illustrated and scholarly book presents the Frelinghuysen collection of Chinese and Japanese export porcelain. It is the first major publication to consider Chinese and Japanese blue and white together.
This extraordinary... .... Learn More -
Explanations in Iconography: Ancient American Indian Art, Symbol, and Meaning [Paperback]
Carol Diaz-Granados (Editor)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £36.00
ISBN: 9798888570425
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 9
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Explanations in Iconography: Ancient American Indian Art, Symbol, and Meaning is a significant contribution to the field of archaeology – a contribution in iconography studies that has gradually been coming into its own. Iconography is a rich and ... .... Learn More -
Brittle Beauty: Reflections on 18th Century European Porcelain [Hardback]
Andreina D’Agliano (Author); Claudia Lehner-Jobst (Author); Errol Manners (Author); Rosalind Savill (Author); Selma Schwartz (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781912168293
Published by : Ad Ilissum
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Brittle Beauty presents a superlative private collection of European porcelain – radical, rare and in many cases unique pieces assembled over thirty years. Lavishly illustrated and insightfully researched, the book showcases eighty vessels and scu... .... Learn More -
Rocks in Motion: Dakhleh Oasis Petroglyphs in the Context of Paths, Roads and Mobility [Hardback]
Paweł L. Polkowski (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £48.00
ISBN: 9781789259759
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Explorations in Western Desert Rock
Volume: 1
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Rock art in Dakhleh was produced for perhaps as long as 10 millennia, resulting in the formation of hundreds of sites displaying thousands of images. In some places, petroglyphs form a true melting pot of iconographic creations, elsewhere only iso... .... Learn More -
Animation between Magic, Miracles and Mechanics: Natural and Supernatural Principles of Life in Medieval Imagery [Hardback]
Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen (Author); Laura Katrine Skinnebach (Author); Henning Laugerud (Author)
£34.00ISBN: 9788772196534
Published by : Aarhus University Press
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“Animation” implies that the image or figural object is alive, endowed with anima: a “soul”, “spirit” or “vital principle.” In the Middle Ages, holy or emphatically unholy imagery often possessed an ability to come to life, to act and do things, t... .... Learn More -
The Art of the Ring: Highlights from the Griffin Collection [Hardback]
Diana Scarisbrick (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781915401069
Published by : Ad Ilissum
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The distinguished private collection, known as the Griffin Collection, comprises in its entirety examples of every category of ring – signet, devotional, memorial, decorative – dating from antiquity to modern times. This catalogue focuses on about... .... Learn More -
Imagining the Heavens across Eurasia from Antiquity to Early Modernity [Hardback]
Rana Brentjes (Editor); Sonja Brentjes (Editor); Stamantina Mastorakou (Editor); Dagmar Schäfer (Editor)
£60.99ISBN: 9788869774256
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Art
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This book surveys how humans across Eurasia depicted their knowledge of the heavens over a period of nearly 4,000 years. Frequently focusing on enigmatic objects, the authors present a wide variety of objects – through text and pictures – from tom... .... Learn More -
Imagining the Heavens across Eurasia from Antiquity to Early Modernity [Paperback]
Rana Brentjes (Editor); Sonja Brentjes (Editor); Stamantina Mastorakou (Editor); Dagmar Schäfer (Editor)
£49.99ISBN: 9788869774249
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Art
Not yet published - available for pre-order
This book surveys how humans across Eurasia depicted their knowledge of the heavens over a period of nearly 4,000 years. Frequently focusing on enigmatic objects, the authors present a wide variety of objects – through text and pictures – from tom... .... Learn More -
Reading the Walls of Bogota: Graffiti, Street Art, and the Urban Imaginary of Violence [Hardback]
Alba Griffin (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780822947790
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Illuminations
A cultural imaginary is a structuring space through which collective understandings of cultural and society phenomena are formed, reproduced, and accepted as the norm. Reading the Walls of Bogotá uses graffiti and street art to explore the urban i... .... Learn More
