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Book Sicily Before the Greeks

Download or read book Sicily Before the Greeks written by Luigi Bernabò Brea and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted Italian archaeologist describes Sicilian culture from Palaeolithic times to the arrival of Greek colonists in the 8th century B. C.

Book Italy   s Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Italy s Eighteenth Century written by Paula Findlen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as cicisbei, and dandified Englishmen became macaroni, Italy was perceived to be a place where men became women. The great publicity surrounding female poets, journalists, artists, anatomists, and scientists, and the visible roles for such women in salons, academies, and universities in many Italian cities also made visitors wonder whether women had become men. Such images, of course, were stereotypes, but they were nonetheless grounded in a reality that was unique to the Italian peninsula. This volume illuminates the social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour.

Book Killing and Dying

Download or read book Killing and Dying written by Adrian Tomine and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killing and Dying is a stunning showcase of the possibilities of the graphic novel medium and a wry exploration of loss, creative ambition, identity, and family dynamics. With this work, Adrian Tomine (Shortcomings, Scenes from an Impending Marriage) reaffirms his place not only as one of the most significant creators of contemporary comics but as one of the great voices of modern American literature. His gift for capturing emotion and intellect resonates here: the weight of love and its absence, the pride and disappointment of family, the anxiety and hopefulness of being alive in the twenty-first century. "Amber Sweet" shows the disastrous impact of mistaken identity in a hyper-connected world; "A Brief History of the Art Form Known as Hortisculpture" details the invention and destruction of a vital new art form in short comic strips; "Translated, from the Japanese" is a lush, full-color display of storytelling through still images; the title story, "Killing and Dying", centers on parenthood, mortality, and stand-up comedy. In six interconnected, darkly funny stories, Tomine forms a quietly moving portrait of contemporary life. Tomine is a master of the small gesture, equally deft at signaling emotion via a subtle change of expression or writ large across landscapes illustrated in full color. Killing and Dying is a fraught, realist masterpiece.

Book Gidion s Knot

    Book Details:
  • Author : Johnna Adams
  • Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • Release : 2014-03-03
  • ISBN : 0822229676
  • Pages : 50 pages

Download or read book Gidion s Knot written by Johnna Adams and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of a parent/teacher conference, a grieving mother and an emotionally overwhelmed primary school teacher have a fraught conversation about the tragic suicide of the mother's son, Gidion. Gidion may have been bullied severely—or he may have been an abuser. As his story is slowly uncovered, the women try to reconstruct a satisfying explanation for Gidion's act and come to terms with excruciating feelings of culpability.

Book Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome

Download or read book Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome

Download or read book The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome written by Heather Hyde Minor and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the nexus of learned culture and architecture in the 1730s to 1750s, including major building projects in Rome undertaken by the popes.

Book The Patron s Payoff

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan K. Nelson
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2014-03-10
  • ISBN : 0691161941
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book The Patron s Payoff written by Jonathan K. Nelson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of Italian Renaissance art from the perspective of the patrons who made 'conspicuous commissions', this text builds on three concepts from the economics of information - signaling, signposting, and stretching - to develop a systematic methodology for assessing the meaning of patronage.

Book Painting for Profit

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard E. Spear
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Painting for Profit written by Richard E. Spear and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome: setting the stage / Richard E. Spear -- Naples / Christopher R. Marshall -- Bologna / Raffaella Morselli -- Florence / Elena Fumagalli -- Venice / Philip Sohm -- Five industrious cities / Renata Ago -- The painting industry in early modern Italy / Richard A. Goldthwaite.

Book Self images

    Book Details:
  • Author : André Rival
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Self images written by André Rival and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andre Rival, at home in both Paris and Berlin, has created a fascinating project out of a relatively simple idea: 100 women taking photographs of themselves. The outcome is both startling and impressive. It is an expression of contemporary female identity - self-aware, distinctive and thoroughly positive, in a series of nude photographs that inexorably capture and hold our attention, revealing at the same time the artist's highly creative approach to the medium of photography and to the individual selves of the women portrayed. The author describes his project in this way: "We are inundated with pictures of women in the media. Ordinarily, the pictures we see seek to achieve a kind of 'sameness' based on unwritten ideals of beauty; physical perfection, total fitness become the determining factors. These images of women, provoked as they are by the media industry, awakened in me the urge to confront both that industry and myself with something else. I chose to set aside my own ways of thinking and do a series of 100 women in which it was not I who would put together the photographs, but the women themselves. For this purpose, I gave them each a shutter-switch and left the room. That represented the beginning of the attempt to enable the women to become photographic subjects rather than objects; they were left to decide on their own which personal image of themselves they wanted to convey. The conditions were the same for all of the women: the same lighting, the same white background and the same unchanged camera position. It was essential to fix the location of the camera, so that the women did not perceive themselves as being pursued by an 'observer'; instead, they were able to establishdistance and camera angle themselves with the aid of a video screen that showed them each camera exposure as a still photo".

Book The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy

Download or read book The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy written by Peter Burke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an original view of the culture of early modern Italy. The book addresses particular themes - specifically those of perception and communication - as well as serving to exemplify modes of analysis in the currently developing field of historical anthropology.

Book The Forgotten Scholar  Georg Zo  ga  1755 1809

Download or read book The Forgotten Scholar Georg Zo ga 1755 1809 written by Karen Ascani and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned for his work within the fields of Numismatics, Archaeology, Egyptology and Coptic studies, Georg Zoëga was a figure of outstanding importance both in Rome and in Europe, at the end of the eighteenth century. Although highly valued by his contemporaries, Zoëga’s scientific legacy fell almost entirely into oblivion with the end of the Enlightenment. The Forgotten Scholar: Georg Zoëga (1755-1819): At the Dawn of Egyptology and Coptic Studies represents an exceptional occasion to rediscover the largely unknown scientific legacy of this Danish scholar consisting of hundreds of letters, drawings, sketches, notes, and other documents, mainly preserved in the Royal Library and in the Thorvaldsen Museum of Copenhagen.

Book From the Memoirs of Herr Von Schnabelewopski  German Classics

Download or read book From the Memoirs of Herr Von Schnabelewopski German Classics written by Heinrich Heine and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was a German poet and author of prose. His "Reisebilder" (Travel Sketches), "Die Harzeise" (Journey through the Harz Mountains), and the volume of collected poems "Buch der Lieder" (Book of Songs) are classics of German literature. --- His general interest in legends and folk tales is evident in his "Memoirs of Herr von Schnabelewopski", in which he tells, inter alia, the story of the Flying Dutchman that became the source for an opera by Richard Wagner. --- Many of his poems have been set to music by Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and other composers.

Book The Airbrush Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Seng-gye Tombs Curtis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1980-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780856132759
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book The Airbrush Book written by Seng-gye Tombs Curtis and published by . This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although important as a record of airbrush art and graphics, this is also a comprehensive technical manual of the selection and use of the tool. Beginnning with a description of how an airbrush works, the authors give detailed guidance on the advantages and disadvantages of various types before taking the reader through a course of airbrush techniques. They go on to explain more advanced exercises and conclude with an important section on care and maintenance. This book is the ultimate in airbrush information both for studio professional and ambitious amateur."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Sardinia in the Mediterranean  A Footprint in the Sea

Download or read book Sardinia in the Mediterranean A Footprint in the Sea written by Miriam S. Balmuth and published by Bloomsbury T&T Clark. This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the first settlements in the Paleolithic, and ending with the Roman period, this book brings together in a single volume the latest research in Sardinian studies. This Festschrift includes discussions over the nature of Paleolithic settlement on Sardinia, and presents new data on Neolithic chronology, architecture, religion, settlement patterns and metallurgy. The relations between Phoenician, Punic, Greek and Roman colonists and the indigenous Sards in the Iron Age are also treated.

Book White Women

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher : Running Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9781560253310
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book White Women written by and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Women, Helmut Newton's legendary first work, appeared more than twenty years ago. With it's superior mixture of aesthetics, technical perfection and bourgeois decadence it has lost nothing of its potency and attractiveness. Newton's work encompasses a wealth of themes, also embodying facets of the mass-media world of glamour, masquerade and show. Using subtle, yet striking images—like those of Paloma Picasso, Veruschka, Elsa Peretti, Karl Lagerfeld, David Hockney, and Charlotte Rampling—Newton embraces the delicate, natural beauty of the naked female body. White Women is a masterpiece of erotic visual literature.