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Book    The    Athenaeum

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1862
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 886 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treasures in Heaven

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  • Author : Thomas F. Mathews
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Treasures in Heaven written by Thomas F. Mathews and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a thousand years the pre-eminent expression of Armenian culture was the illuminated manuscript--above all, the illustrated Gospel Book. Brilliantly painted and often bound in silver and decorated with jewels, these volumes constitute the principal source of information on the history, religion, language, and art of Armenia. Treasures in Heaven is a comprehensive introduction in English to the art and history of Armenian manuscript painting. It reveals the degree to which this art form embodies a distinctively Armenian aesthetic and religious experience. Eighty-eight of the most significant examples of Armenian manuscript illumination are reproduced and extensively discussed in the catalog. Essays by a team of international scholars examine each of the principal schools and periods of Armenian illumination--from the earliest surviving works of the seventh century to manuscripts produced by the Armenian Diaspora communities during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Chapters on the history and religion of Armenia place illuminated manuscripts within the broader context of Armenian culture. The distinctive techniques and materials of Armenian manuscript painting and bookbinding are also explained. Contributors to this volume include Helen C. Evans, Nina G. Garsoïan, Thomas F. Mathews, Krikor H. Maksoudian, Sylvie L. Merian, Mary Virginia Orna, and Alice Taylor.

Book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle

Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treasures in Heaven

Download or read book Treasures in Heaven written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of  Punch

Download or read book The History of Punch written by Marion Harry Spielmann and published by London, Cassell, 1895- .. This book was released on 1895 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Official Catalogue of the Canadian Section

Download or read book Official Catalogue of the Canadian Section written by Sir Charles Tupper and published by . This book was released on 1885* with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Four National Exhibitions in London and Their Organiser

Download or read book Four National Exhibitions in London and Their Organiser written by Charles Lowe and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Philobiblon

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  • Author : Richard De Bury
  • Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
  • Release : 2019-06-12
  • ISBN : 0486832465
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book The Philobiblon written by Richard De Bury and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Will always hold an honorable place for bibliophiles." — The University of Chicago Press One of the earliest treatises on the value of preserving neglected manuscripts, building a library, and book collecting, Richard De Bury's The Philobiblon was written in 1345 and circulated widely in manuscript form for over a century. The first printed edition appeared in Cologne in 1473, and several others soon followed as the invention of the printing press spread throughout the late Medieval world. The chapter titles of this legendary work reflect its nature, combining the author's love for and commitment to the importance of books and the knowledge they contain with thoughts on collecting them, lending them, teaching with them, and simply enjoying them: "That the Treasure of Wisdom is chiefly contained in books," "What we are to think of the price in the buying of books," "Who ought to be special lovers of books," and "Of the manner of lending all our books to students." The Prologue ends with the following thought: "And this treatise (divided into twenty chapters) will clear the love we have had for books from the charge of excess, will expound the purpose of our intense devotion, and will narrate more clearly than light all the circumstances of our undertaking. And because it principally treats of the love of books, we have chose after the fashion of the ancient Romans fondly to name it by a Greek word, Philobiblon." This volume offers modern bibliophiles a splendid edition of one of the first books ever to study, define, and, above all, praise their passion: the all-encompassing love of books.

Book The British Museum   s Excavations at Nineveh  1846   1855

Download or read book The British Museum s Excavations at Nineveh 1846 1855 written by Geoffrey Turner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Turner's definitive study of the mid-19th century excavations by the British Museum at the Assyrian site of Nineveh documents the complete history of these excavations and provides detailed reconstructions of the architecture and sculpture in the palace of Sennacherib.

Book Living the Great Illusion

Download or read book Living the Great Illusion written by Martin Ceadel and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of one of the 20th century's leading internationalists, Sir Norman Angell, author of 'The Great Illusion', Labour MP, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, reveals that his life has hitherto been much misrepresented and misunderstood.

Book Velazquez and Murillo

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  • Author : Charles Boyd Curtis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1883
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book Velazquez and Murillo written by Charles Boyd Curtis and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds  P R A

Download or read book A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds P R A written by Algernon Graves and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism

Download or read book An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism written by Henry Stubbe and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: