Download or read book Delvaux and Antiquity written by Sophie Basch and published by Exhibitions International. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antiquity as inspiration can be revealed in the works of Paul Delvaux as from the beginning of the 1930s and gets more important during World War II, for example with the theme of the tragic city. His interest in antiquity is characterized by antique sculpture and leads the artist to the elaboration of a theatralic human figure. These theatralic and dramatic representations put on mythical figures like Pygmalion, Venus or Penelope as well as sirens, ephebes and hamadryads. Delvaux also evokes a certain secret sacrality of so-called "places of memory" as temples and antique places like the Acropolis, Olympia or Pompeii. Places which Delvaux visited on the occasion of his two journeys to Italy in 1937 and 1939 as well as on his travel through Greece in 1956. Finally, we should not forget a most important aspect of Delvaux's reception of antiquity: that of melancholic withdrawal.
Download or read book Paul Delvaux written by Paul Delvaux and published by Exhibitions International. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph investigates the work of the Belgian Surrealist painter Paul Delvaux, a colleague of Rene Magritte's whose best-known works feature odd groupings of female nudes who stare into space, transfixed, while making enigmatic gestures in Surreally mismatched settings--for example while walking down an empty street, reclining in a train station or gathering in a complex of classical buildings. Sometimes these haunting muses wander through space accompanied by a skeletons; other times, they sit silently in long and sombre Puritanical dresses, as if serving out a penance.
Download or read book Paul Delvaux 1897 1994 written by Paul Delvaux and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome written by Lindsay C. Watson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome proposes that the magic-working of antiquity was in reality a highly pragmatic business, with very clearly formulated aims - often of an exceedingly malignant kind. In seven chapters, each addressed to an important arm of Greco-Roman magic, the volume discusses the history of the rediscovery and publication of the so-called Greek Magical Papyri, a key source for our understanding of ancient magic; the startling violence of ancient erotic spells and the use of these by women as well as men; the alteration in the landscape of defixio (curse tablet) studies by major new finds and the confirmation these provide that the frequently lethal intent of such tablets must not be downplayed; the use of herbs in magic, considered from numerous perspectives but with an especial focus on the bizarre-seeming rituals and protocols attendant upon their collection; the employment of animals in magic, the factors determining the choice of animal, the uses to which they were put, and the procuring and storage of animal parts, conceivably in a sorcerer's workshop; the witch as a literary construct, the clear homologies between the magical procedures of fictional witches and those documented for real spells, the gendering of the witch-figure and the reductive presentation of sorceresses as old, risible and ineffectual; the issue of whether ancient magicians practised human sacrifice and the illuminating parallels between such accusations and late 20th century accounts of child-murder in the context of perverted Satanic rituals. By challenging a number of orthodoxies and opening up some underexamined aspects of the subject, this wide-ranging study stakes out important new territory in the field of magical studies.
Download or read book Democratic Peace written by Jorg Kustermans and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances the theory that ‘democratic peace’ does not exclusively refer to an absence of war among democracies but should also be thought of as a particular way of ‘doing, thinking and feeling’ peace. Democratic peace is not only then a statistical finding or a rhetorical commonplace invoked to justify foreign policy decisions. Rather, the notion also refers to a historically and culturally situated practice. Taking this reconceptualization as the theoretical point of departure, the author develops a historical reconstruction of democratic peace laying bare its historical background and assessing its political significance. Tentatively situating it within the cultural history of modernity, he reconstructs how the idea of a democratic peace informed diplomatic action at the onset of the cold war and during the Arab Spring. The primary audience are researchers in international relations, specifically democratic peace theorists, peace researchers, cultural sociologists, and international practice theorists.
Download or read book The Culture of Animals in Antiquity written by Sian Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known, others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to a key area of study in ancient history: the part played by animals in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. It brings new ideas to bear on the wealth of evidence – literary, historical and archaeological – which we possess for the experiences and roles of animals in the ancient world. Offering a broad picture of ancient cultures in the Mediterranean as part of a wider ecosystem, the volume is on an ambitious scale. It covers a broad span of time, from the sacred animals of dynastic Egypt to the imagery of the lamb in early Christianity, and of region, from the fallow deer introduced and bred in Roman Britain to the Asiatic lioness and her cubs brought as a gift by the Elamites to the Great King of Persia. This sourcebook is essential for anyone wishing to understand the role of animals in the ancient world and support learning for one of the fastest growing disciplines in Classics.
Download or read book Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity written by Gabriele Marasco and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive study of Greek and Latin historiography from Constantine to the end of the sixth century AD. It aims to examine the development of late antique historiography, stressing chiefly the relations between pagan and Christian historians, their polemics but also their often neglected agreements. Of special importance is the study of the Church historians who are considerable but not adequately known sources for the political and social history of the period. Greek and Latin Historiography in Late Antiquity is a highly valuable and useful reference tool for both scholars and students. Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity has been selected by Choice as Outstanding Academic Title (2005).
Download or read book The History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St Peter Westminster written by Edward Wedlake Brayley and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St Peter Westminster Including Notices and Biographical Memoirs of the Abbots and Deans of that Foundation the Whole of the Literary Department by Edward Wedlake Brayley written by John Preston Neale and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Museum of Ancient Art written by Musée d'Art Ancien and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections of Flemish paintings, drawings, sculptures, tapestries and objets d'art from the 14th to 18th centuries and also of 19th century paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. Each is accompanied by commentary principally from curators of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
Download or read book The History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St Peter Westminster Including Notices and Biographical Memoirs of the Abbots and Deans of that Foundation Illustrated by John Preston Neale The Whole of the Literary Department by Edward Wedlake Brayley In Two Volumes Vol 1 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Biographical History of the Fine Arts written by Shearjashub Spooner and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Biographical History of the Fine Arts Being Memoirs of the Lives of Eminent Painters Engravers Sculptors With Plates of Monograms Fourth Edition written by Shearjashub Spooner and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Biographical History of the Five Arts being memoirs of the lives and works of eminent painters engravers sculptors and architects written by SPOONER and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: