Download or read book Dictionnaire des croyances et symboles de l Antiquit written by Jean-Claude Belfiore and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 1073 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "De "abeille" à "zodiaque", le Dictionnaire des symboles et croyances de l'Antiquité passe en revue un certain nombre de notions, de termes, d'entités, d'êtres - réels, imaginaires, mythologiques... Toutes ces entrées relèvent de la symbolique, des croyances et superstitions qui avaient cours dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine et, plus généralement, dans le monde ancien du pourtour méditerranéen, et qui imprégnaient la vie des sociétés d'alors. L'auteur nous invite donc à une promenade tant à travers le monde minéral, végétal ou animal que dans le monde des signes, des nombres, des couleurs. Il nous entraîne sur terre et sous terre, dans les mers et dans les cieux, à la rencontre de divinités, d'animaux fantastiques, d'objets précieux. Son propos est illustré de centaines de citations et de dizaines d'extraits de textes anciens. Il présente les diverses facettes de chaque symbole retenu, émaillant son texte, au ton souvent très personnel, d'histoires et d'anecdotes aussi bien tragiques ou cruelles que drôles et légères. L'ouvrage comprend également des tableaux récapitulatifs, un glossaire des termes spécialisés, un index thématique des principales notions et articles associés ainsi qu'une large bibliographie regroupant les références essentielles utilisées pour la rédaction de ce dictionnaire"--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Dictionnaire des symboles mythes et croyances written by Corinne Morel and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D'"abeille" à "zodiaque", les sujets traités regroupent un vaste champ : personnages, animaux, éléments de la nature et de la maison, nombres, couleurs, tels que les évoquent les histoires du monde entier - mythes, légendes, contes, livres sacrés, etc.
Download or read book Dictionnaire des symboles des rites et des croyances written by Catherine Pont-Humbert and published by Editions J.C. Lattes. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploration, à travers des lieux et temps différents, des croyances communes, qui en définit l'origine et explique le fonctionnement à partir de mots clés. C'est tout le domaine de la mythologie, des symboles, de la religion populaire et de la magie qui est ainsi couvert.
Download or read book Red written by Michel Pastoureau and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color red throughout the ages The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of privilege in the Western world. For many cultures, red was not just one color of many but rather the only color worthy enough to be used for social purposes. In some languages, the word for red was the same as the word for color. The first color developed for painting and dying, red became associated in antiquity with war, wealth, and power. In the medieval period, red held both religious significance, as the color of the blood of Christ and the fires of Hell, and secular meaning, as a symbol of love, glory, and beauty. Yet during the Protestant Reformation, red began to decline in status. Viewed as indecent and immoral and linked to luxury and the excesses of the Catholic Church, red fell out of favor. After the French Revolution, red gained new respect as the color of progressive movements and radical left-wing politics. In this beautifully illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau, the acclaimed author of Blue, Black, and Green, now masterfully navigates centuries of symbolism and complex meanings to present the fascinating and sometimes controversial history of the color red. Pastoureau illuminates red's evolution through a diverse selection of captivating images, including the cave paintings of Lascaux, the works of Renaissance masters, and the modern paintings and stained glass of Mark Rothko and Josef Albers.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Symbols written by J. E. Cirlot and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable reference, this informative and entertaining volume presents a key to elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas. 32 black-and-white illustrations.
Download or read book Dictionary of Symbols written by J. C. Cirlot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unvarying essential meanings of around 1,000 symbols and symbolic themes commonly found in the art, literature and thought of all cultures through the ages are clarified.
Download or read book Pink written by Michel Pastoureau and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2025-02-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Blue and other color histories, the beautifully illustrated story of pink, from the first ancient pigments to Barbie Pink has such powerful associations today that it’s hard to imagine the color could ever have meant anything different. But it’s only since the introduction of the Barbie doll in 1959 that pink has become decisively feminized. Indeed, in the eighteenth century, pink was frequently masculine, and the color has signified many things beyond gender over the course of its long history—from the prim to the vulgar, and from the romantic to the eccentric. In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau, a celebrated authority on the history of colors, presents a fascinating visual, social, and cultural history of pink in the West, from antiquity to today. Pink pigments first appear in ancient Macedonian paintings, but it was not until the eighteenth century that vivid, saturated pinks were developed for dyeing and painting. At the same time, a popular new flower—the pink rose—finally gave the color a standard name, and pink, assuming a place in everyday life, began to acquire its own symbolism, distinct from that of red, yellow, or white. Bringing the story up to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Pink describes how the color, both adored and detested, became associated with many other things, from softness and pleasure to nudity and sex. Illustrated throughout with a wealth of captivating images, Pink is an entertaining and enlightening account of the evolving role and significance of the color in art, fashion, literature, religion, science, and everyday life across the millennia.
Download or read book Dictionnaire D arch ologie Chr tienne Et de Liturgie Publi Par Le R P Dom Fernand Cabrol Avec Le Concours D un Grand Nombre de Collaborateurs written by Fernand Cabrol and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionnaire D arch ologie Chr tienne Et de Liturgie Publi Par Le R P Dom Fernand Cabrol Avec Le Concours D un Grand Nombre de Collaborateurs written by Fernand Cabrol and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mystery Religions written by S. Angus and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic study explores the Eleusinian mysteries of ancient Greece; Asiatic cults of Cybele, the Magna Mater, and Attis; Dionysian groups; Orphics; Egyptian devotees of Isis and Osiris; Mithraism; and others.
Download or read book Des fruits et des graines comestibles du monde entier written by TONELLI Nicole and published by Lavoisier. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L’étonnante diversité des fruits et des graines (baies, drupes, akènes, arilles, hespérides…), leur symbolique, les multiples anecdotes qui y sont liées mais aussi leur culture et leur commercialisation nous entraînent dans un grand voyage autour du monde riche d’odeurs, de couleurs et de saveurs. Des Fruits et des graines comestibles du monde entier captivera l’attention du lecteur curieux. Il sera également utile aux nutritionnistes, diététiciens, enseignants et étudiants en sciences qui veulent comprendre l’origine des fruits et graines, préciser des données botaniques, connaître leur valeur nutritionnelle, leur culture et les principales maladies et ravageurs les concernant.
Download or read book Orpheus in Nineteenth century Symbolism written by Dorothy M. Kosinski and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Bear written by Michel Pastoureau and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends. Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by Christianity and continued to sink lower in the symbolic bestiary before rising again in Pyrrhic triumph as the teddy bear.
Download or read book Sources in Iconography in the Blackader Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art McGill University written by Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art and published by McGill Universities Libraries. This book was released on 1997 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
