Detailed, illustrated, examination of the system of proportion used in Egyptian art, based on standardisation of the natural relations of various parts of human anatomy.
Facsimile reissue of part I of complete catalogue of the inscribed stelae, reliefs and paintings in the Petrie Museum, detailed over 200 New Kingdom monuments.
Facsimile reissue of part III of complete catalogue of the inscribed stelae, reliefs and paintings in the Petrie Museum, detailed over 140 Late Period monuments.
Material and visual culture of China’s long 19th century is understandably overshadowed by the traumatic warfare, land shortages, famines and uprisings which impacted the lives of a population of...
Perspectives on Insularity, Connectivity, and Belonging
Edited by Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9798888571514
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-12-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
192 Pages
Case studies from Cyprus, Crete and Sardinia reconsider through evidence from archaeology, art, and history, assumptions about island identity and isolation and interaction, commerce and mobility involving other islands and the Mediterranean mainland
Edited by Rana Brentjes, Sonja Brentjes and Stamantina Mastorakou
Other Dagmar Schäfer
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9788869774249
Publisher: Mimesis International
Pub Date: 2024-10-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Mimesis International
750 Pages
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 tombs, churches, temples, caves, museums, libraries and even a bathroom. Analyzing and contextualizing the
Kunst, Moral und Kreativität in der Frühen Neuzeit
by Jana Graul
Price: $110.00
ISBN: 9783777440194
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Pub Date: 2024-07-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
480 Pages
Warum stellten die Künstler aus Renaissance und Barock sich so oft als Zielscheibe des Neides dar? Der Band hinterfragt die geläufige Idee, sie seien dem Laster besonders verfallen gewesen, und legt die rhetorischen Strategien ihrer Neidklagen offen, die vor allem auf die Steigerung des eigenen Ruhmes zielten.
Im 18. Jahrhundert erlebte ein jahrtausendealtes Metier seine wahrhaft glänzende Wiederauferstehung: Die Lackkunst mit ihrem aus dem Orient herüberwehenden Flair von Luxus und Erlesenheit wurde bei Bürgertum und Adel zum Erkennungszeichen eines wirtschaftlichen Aufschwungs.
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