Download or read book Painting in Stone written by Fabio Barry and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multimedia revival in 19th-century England. Poetry, the lens for understanding costly marbles as an artistic medium, summoned a spectrum of imaginative associations and responses, from princes and patriarchs to the populace. Three salient themes sustained this “lithic imagination”: marbles as images of their own elemental substance according to premodern concepts of matter and geology; the perceived indwelling of astral light in earthly stones; and the enduring belief that colored marbles exhibited a form of natural—or divine—painting, thanks to their vivacious veining, rainbow palette, and chance images.

Download or read book Melchiorre Caf written by Alessandra Anselmi and published by Midsea Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the first truly collective attempt to study the work of Melchiorre Cafa'. In a variety of studies, it discusses specific and synoptic issues related to his oeuvre. The book also presents a check-list of works by (or attributed to) the artist; this check-list aims at establishing a critical repertory of his oeuvre.

Download or read book Documenting the Roman Army written by J. J. Wilkes and published by University of London Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten papers, resulting from a colloquium in honour of Margaret Roxan held at the Institute of Classical Studies in 2002, examine the written record of the Roman army from archaeological and historical perspectives. Contents: The commissioning of equestrian officers (A R Birley); An Augustan officer on the Roman army: Militaria in Velleius Paterculus and some inscriptions (D B Saddington); Having been a soldier' (Lawrence Keppie); Der Kaiser als Herr des Heeres (Solobodan Dusanic); Auxiliary deployment in the reign of Hadrian (Paul Holder); Auxiliaries, legionaries and the operation of Hadrian's Wall (David J Breeze); Ostraca and the Roman army in the eastern desert (Valeries A Maxfield); Documenting the Roman army at Carlisle (R S O Tomlin); The future of Roman military diplomata (Peter Weiss) .

Download or read book Using Italian Vocabulary written by Marcel Danesi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Italian Vocabulary provides the student of Italian with an in-depth, structured approach to the learning of vocabulary. It can be used for intermediate and advanced undergraduate courses, or as a supplementary manual at all levels - including elementary level - to supplement the study of vocabulary. The book is made up of twenty units covering topics that range from clothing and jewellery, to politics and environmental issues, with each unit consisting of words and phrases that have been organized thematically and according to levels so as to facilitate their acquisition. The book will enable students to acquire a comprehensive control of both concrete and abstract vocabulary allowing them to carry out essential communicative and interactional tasks. • A practical topic-based textbook that can be inserted into all types of course syllabi • Provides exercises and activities for classroom and self-study • Answers are provided for a number of exercises

Download or read book Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell Universit degli Studi di Firenze Le collezioni geologiche e paleontologiche The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence The Geological and Paleontological Collections written by Simonetta Monechi and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo, is one of the oldest scientific museum in the world. With this third volume on the collections of the Geology and Paleontology Section, Firenze University Press continues its series dedicated to the six Sections of the Museum. The first part of the volume shows a detailed and fascinating descriptions of the history of this museum section's collections, the contribution of scholars who from the 17th century endeavoured to expand and study the Florentine geological-paleontological collections, and the importance of the collections to the development of modern geological-paleontological thinking. The second part describes and documents the collections, that are presented in geo-chronological order, divided into the Invertebrate, Vertebrate, Paleobotanical and Geological collections. In the last part are presented the most important activities and research projects, based on this important cultural heritage, carried out by the paleontologists of the University of Florence.

Download or read book Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts written by Michelle Brown and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a historiated initial? What are canon tables? What is a drollery? This revised edition of Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms offers definitions of the key elements of illuminated manuscripts, demystifying the techniques, processes, materials, nomenclature, and styles used in the making of these precious books. Updated to reflect current research and technologies, this beautifully illustrated guide includes images of important manuscript illuminations from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum and beyond. Concise, readable explanations of the technical terms most frequently encountered in manuscript studies make this portable volume an essential resource for students, scholars, and readers who wish a deeper understanding and enjoyment of illuminated manuscripts and medieval book production.

Download or read book Dante and the Victorians written by Alison Milbank and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milbank (English, U. of Cambridge) argues that an understanding of Victorianism's reception of Dante is essential for understanding its notions of history, nationalism, aesthetics, and gender as well as the often strange intersections between any two or more of them. She offers a new genealogy of literature in modern times, substituting a continuous Dantism for the conventional tale of Victorian realism and historicism challenged by modernist symbolism. She also finds Dante to be the first writer to historicize, fictionalize, and humanize the eternal realm, and therefore the route through which history, secularized fiction, and positivist humanism can be traced to a lost transcendent. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book The Rural Architect written by Joseph Gandy and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Venice Antiquity written by Patricia Fortini Brown and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inscriptions, medals, and travelers' accounts, on more learned humanist and antiquarian writings, and, most importantly, on the art of the period, Brown explores Venice's evolving sense of the past. She begins with the late middle ages, when Venice sought to invent a dignified civic past by means of object, image, and text. Moving on to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, she discusses the collecting and recording of antiquities and the incorporation of Roman forms.

Download or read book The Other Nomads written by Aparna Rao and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Courts and the Development of Commercial Law written by Vito Piergiovanni and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly in English, one article in German.

Download or read book Birgu a Maltese Maritime City written by Lino Bugeja and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Private Collection of Edgar Degas written by Julie A. Steiner and published by Abrams. This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue and its companion volume of essays are published in conjunction with the exhibition "The Private Collection of Edgar Degas," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 1, 1997, to January 11, 1998.

Download or read book Approaches to Medieval Malta written by Anthony Luttrell and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Painting written by Francesca Castria Marchetti and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning ten periods, this remarkable history features the work of nearly eighty legendary American artists. Annotation. Editor Marchetti is joined by two other art historians, Roberta Bernabei and Stefano Ruzzi, in presenting 400 landmark American paintings. Seventy-seven painters are represented, each with several thoroughly captioned paintings (full- or half-page) and biographical and interpretive text. Arrangement is chronological, beginning with the Anglo-Saxon tradition and continuing with the discovery of the West, the taste for reality, and American impressionists, through abstract expressionism and pop art and graffiti. Each era is briefly overviewed. The book was originally published in Italian.

Download or read book Roadside Songs of Tuscany written by Francesca Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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