Download or read book Luke Castello The Angel Demon of Olympus written by Lucas Stocks and published by Lucas Stocks. This book was released on 2020-01-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke Castello was never ordinary. He has spent every day hiding a secret from those close to him. The secret? He has three different personalities tangled up in his brain. The other two voices are completely different from his own and constantly cause trouble for him. He thought his life could never get more complicated… He was wrong. Demons are real… An attack on his school would change everything he thought he knew. Luke still didn’t understand. The demons were searching for demigods. Why were they there? Demigods don’t exist… Do they? They do exist. And Luke is one of them. With one of his friends kidnapped by Hell’s forces, Luke has to make a decision. Let Lucifer take someone close to him, or fight his way through Hell to save his friend. At least the Greek gods on Olympus will help him…right?
Download or read book Luke Castello The Wind The Dove and The Book written by Lucas Stocks and published by Lucas Stocks. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When both Luke’s friends and Hell’s forces spring into action, waking the Hybrid becomes a war on its own. With their old lives gone for good, they will each discover things not only about themselves, but the new world that has become the norm as well. The Wind, Peter Williams, fights full of optimism for his cause, but his own power nags at the edge of his mind. The Dove, Kassidy Ann, will do anything to see the return of the one she loves. However, a new darkness looms over her shoulders. One that isn’t easily shaken. The Book, Audrey Davis, struggles with the lingering effects of their last mission. Still, she’ll fight to her last breath if need be. Hell may not have stopped them the first time, but more sinister schemes have been put into motion. Will they prevail to reawaken the Hybrid, or will the seven commanders under Lucifer swallow them into the dark?
Download or read book Catherine Sinclair The Formation of The Holy Knights written by Lucas Stocks and published by Lucas Stocks. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first prequel book to the Luke Castello series. Either this book or Luke Castello: The Angel/Demon of Olympus would be a fine starting point to the series. Long before Luke fought against Lucifer’s army, there was another. Catherine always longed to be a hero. She knew she had demigod blood, but powers never awakened in her. All on Olympus assumed she would have a null mark, a sign of a powerless demigod. Still, Catherine persevered. She trained her body every day and was eventually accepted into Olympus’s army. Being a powerless demigod recruit isn’t any easier, however. Plenty of her fellow recruits believe she doesn’t belong there. An appearance by the three sisters of fate will force the wheels of her destiny to move, but will she like the direction? Journey with Catherine as she competes against her fellow recruits, learns dark secrets of the court of Olympus, and fights some of Lucifer’s original commanders, the deadly Sins.
Download or read book Angels and Demons in Art written by Rosa Giorgi and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sumptuously illustrated volume analyzes artists' representations of angels and demons and heaven and hell from the Judeo-Christian tradition and describes how these artistic portrayals evolved over time. As with other books in the Guide to Imagery series, the goal of this volume is to help contemporary art enthusiasts decode the symbolic meanings in the great masterworks of Western Art. The first chapter traces the development of images of the Creation and the Afterworld from descriptions of them in the Scriptures through their evolution in later literary and philosophical works. The following two chapters examine artists' depictions of the two paths that humans may take, the path of evil or the path of salvation, and the punishments or rewards found on each. A chapter on the Judgment Day and the end of the world explores portrayals of the mysterious worlds between life and death and in the afterlife. Finally, the author looks at images of angelic and demonic beings themselves and how they came to be portrayed with the physical attributes--wings, halos, horns, and cloven hooves--with which we are now so familiar. Thoroughly researched by and expert in the field of iconography, Angels and Demons in Art will delight readers with an interest in art or religious symbolism.
Download or read book European Drawings 2 written by George R. Goldner and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1992-10-08 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Getty Museum's collection of drawings was begun in 1981 with the purchase of a Rembrandt nude and has since become an important repository of European works from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. As in the first volume devoted to the collection (published in 1988 in English and Italian editions), the text is here organized first by national school, then alphabetically by artist, with individual works arranged chronologically. For each drawing, the authors provide a discussion of the work's style, dating, iconography, and relationship to other works, as well as provenance and a complete bibliography.
Download or read book The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity written by Aby Warburg and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.
Download or read book Luke Castello written by Lucas Stocks and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When both Luke's friends and Hell's forces spring into action, waking the Hybrid becomes a war on its own. With their old lives gone for good, they will each discover things not only about themselves, but the new world that has become the norm as well. The Wind, Peter Williams, fights full of optimism for his cause, but his own power nags at the edge of his mind. The Dove, Kassidy Ann, will do anything to see the return of the one she loves. However, a new darkness looms over her shoulders. One that isn't easily shaken. The Book, Audrey Davis, struggles with the lingering effects of their last mission. Still, she'll fight to her last breath if need be. Hell may not have stopped them the first time, but more sinister schemes have been put into motion. Will they prevail to reawaken the Hybrid, or will the seven commanders under Lucifer swallow them into the dark?
Download or read book The Intellectual Education of the Italian Renaissance Artist written by Angela Dressen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have traditionally viewed the Italian Renaissance artist as a gifted, but poorly educated craftsman whose complex and demanding works were created with the assistance of a more educated advisor. These assumptions are, in part, based on research that has focused primarily on the artist's social rank and workshop training. In this volume, Angela Dressen explores the range of educational opportunities that were available to the Italian Renaissance artist. Considering artistic formation within the history of education, Dressen focuses on the training of highly skilled, average artists, revealing a general level of learning that was much more substantial than has been assumed. She emphasizes the role of mediators who had a particular interest in augmenting artists' knowledge, and highlights how artists used Latin and vernacular texts to gain additional knowledge that they avidly sought. Dressen's volume brings new insights into a topic at the intersection of early modern intellectual, educational, and art history.
Download or read book The Story of San Michele written by Axel Munthe and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Dupr written by Giovanni Duprè and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè" by Giovanni Duprè. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Rambles in Rome written by Samuel Russell Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Italian Fantasies written by Israel Zangwill and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Cultural History of Tarot written by Helen Farley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enigmatic and richly illustrative tarot deck reveals a host of strange and iconic mages, such as The Tower, The Wheel of Fortune, The Hanged Man and The Fool: over which loom the terrifying figures of Death and The Devil. The 21 numbered playing cards of tarot have always exerted strong fascination, way beyond their original purpose, and the multiple resonances of the deck are ubiquitous. From T S Eliot and his 'wicked pack of cards' in "The Waste Land" to the psychic divination of Solitaire in Ian Fleming's "Live and Let Die"; and from the satanic novels of Dennis Wheatley to the deck's adoption by New Age practitioners, the cards have in modern times become inseparably connected to the occult. They are now viewed as arguably the foremost medium of prophesying and foretelling. Yet, as the author shows, originally the tarot were used as recreational playing cards by the Italian nobility in the Renaissance. It was only much later, in the 18th and 19th centuries, that the deck became associated with esotericism before evolving finally into a diagnostic tool for mind, body and spirit. This is the first book to explore the remarkably varied ways in which tarot has influenced culture. Tracing the changing patterns of the deck's use, from game to mysterious oracular device, Helen Farley examines tarot's emergence in 15th century Milan and discusses its later associations with astrology, kabbalah and the Age of Aquarius.
Download or read book Renaissance Fun written by Philip Steadman and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. How did the machines behind these shows work? How exactly were chariots filled with singers let down onto the stage? How were flaming dragons made to fly across the sky? How were seas created on stage? How did mechanical birds imitate real birdsong? What was ‘artificial music’, three centuries before Edison and the phonograph? How could pipe organs be driven and made to play themselves by waterpower alone? And who were the architects, engineers, and craftsmen who created these wonders? All these questions are answered. At the end of the book we visit the lost ‘garden of marvels’ at Pratolino with its many grottoes, automata and water jokes; and we attend the performance of Mercury and Mars in Parma in 1628, with its spectacular stage effects and its music by Claudio Monteverdi – one of the places where opera was born. Renaissance Fun is offered as an entertainment in itself. But behind the show is a more serious scholarly argument, centred on the enormous influence of two ancient writers on these subjects, Vitruvius and Hero. Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were widely studied by Renaissance theatre designers. Hero of Alexandria wrote the Pneumatics, a collection of designs for surprising and entertaining devices that were the models for sixteenth and seventeenth century automata. A second book by Hero On Automata-Making – much less well known, then and now – describes two miniature theatres that presented plays without human intervention. One of these, it is argued, provided the model for the type of proscenium theatre introduced from the mid-sixteenth century, the generic design which is still built today. As the influence of Vitruvius waned, the influence of Hero grew.
Download or read book Virtue and Beauty written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci written by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Botticelli Past and Present written by Ana Debenedetti and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent exhibitions dedicated to Botticelli around the world show, more than ever, the significant and continued debate about the artist. Botticelli Past and Present engages with this debate. The book comprises four thematic parts, spanning four centuries of Botticelli’s artistic fame and reception from the fifteenth century. Each part comprises a number of essays and includes a short introduction which positions them within the wider scholarly literature on Botticelli. The parts are organised chronologically beginning with discussion of the artist and his working practice in his own time, moving onto the progressive rediscovery of his work from the late eighteenth to the turn of the twentieth century, through to his enduring impact on contemporary art and design. Expertly written by researchers and eminent art historians and richly illustrated throughout, the broad range of essays in this book make a valuable contribution to Botticelli studies.
