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Book Le Voyage Pittoresque

Download or read book Le Voyage Pittoresque written by Pro Helvetia (Foundation) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Library of His Royal Highness  the Duke of York  Deceased

Download or read book Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Library of His Royal Highness the Duke of York Deceased written by Sotheby & Co. (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Galerie Espagnole and the Museo Nacional 1835 1853

Download or read book The Galerie Espagnole and the Museo Nacional 1835 1853 written by Alisa Luxenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alisa Luxenberg examines the Galerie Espagnole, a collection of Spanish paintings exhibited in the Louvre from 1838 to 1848, in conjunction with the contemporaneous Museo Nacional in Madrid, from a new and critical focus on political and cultural discourse. She analyzes the visual and critical reception of the two collections, their intersection with contemporary debates about aesthetics and patrimony, the role of the art museum, and national and international politics.

Book Visual Voyages

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  • Author : Daniela Bleichmar
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2017-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300224028
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Visual Voyages written by Daniela Bleichmar and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented visual exploration of the intertwined histories of art and science, of the old world and the new From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the depiction of the natural world played a central role in shaping how people on both sides of the Atlantic understood and imaged the region we now know as Latin America. Nature provided incentives for exploration, commodities for trade, specimens for scientific investigation, and manifestations of divine forces. It also yielded a rich trove of representations, created both by natives to the region and visitors, which are the subject of this lushly illustrated book. Author Daniela Bleichmar shows that these images were not only works of art but also instruments for the production of knowledge, with scientific, social, and political repercussions. Early depictions of Latin American nature introduced European audiences to native medicines and religious practices. By the 17th century, revelatory accounts of tobacco, chocolate, and cochineal reshaped science, trade, and empire around the globe. In the 18th and 19th centuries, collections and scientific expeditions produced both patriotic and imperial visions of Latin America. Through an interdisciplinary examination of more than 150 maps, illustrated manuscripts, still lifes, and landscape paintings spanning four hundred years, Visual Voyages establishes Latin America as a critical site for scientific and artistic exploration, affirming that region's transformation and the transformation of Europe as vitally connected histories.

Book CATALOGUE OF BOOKS

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  • Author : HENRY G. BOHN'S
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1847
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 622 pages

Download or read book CATALOGUE OF BOOKS written by HENRY G. BOHN'S and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rethinking the Mediterranean

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  • Author : William Vernon Harris
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780199265459
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Rethinking the Mediterranean written by William Vernon Harris and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This text examines the ancient and medieval history of the Mediterranean Sea and the lands around it"--Provided by publisher.

Book History of Architectural Theory

Download or read book History of Architectural Theory written by Hanno-Walter Kruft and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.

Book A Catalogue of Books

Download or read book A Catalogue of Books written by Henry George BOHN and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book prices Current

Download or read book Book prices Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book prices Current

Download or read book Book prices Current written by John Herbert Slater and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The View from Vesuvius

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  • Author : Nelson Moe
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2006-05-17
  • ISBN : 0520248260
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book The View from Vesuvius written by Nelson Moe and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-05-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that the Southern Question is far from just an Italian issue, for its origins are deeply connected to the formation of European cultural identity between the mid-eighteenth and late-nineteenth centuries."--Jacket.

Book Collecting Across Cultures

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  • Author : Daniela Bleichmar
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2011-03-17
  • ISBN : 0812204964
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book Collecting Across Cultures written by Daniela Bleichmar and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early modern age more people traveled farther than at any earlier time in human history. Many returned home with stories of distant lands and at least some of the objects they collected during their journeys. And those who did not travel eagerly acquired wondrous materials that arrived from faraway places. Objects traveled various routes—personal, imperial, missionary, or trade—and moved not only across space but also across cultures. Histories of the early modern global culture of collecting have focused for the most part on European Wunderkammern, or "cabinets of curiosities." But the passion for acquiring unfamiliar items rippled across many lands. The court in Java marveled at, collected, and displayed myriad goods brought through its halls. African princes traded captured members of other African groups so they could get the newest kinds of cloth produced in Europe. Native Americans sought colored glass beads made in Europe, often trading them to other indigenous groups. Items changed hands and crossed cultural boundaries frequently, often gaining new and valuable meanings in the process. An object that might have seemed mundane in some cultures could become a target of veneration in another. The fourteen essays in Collecting Across Cultures represent work by an international group of historians, art historians, and historians of science. Each author explores a specific aspect of the cross-cultural history of collecting and display from the dawn of the sixteenth century to the early decades of the nineteenth century. As the essays attest, an examination of early modern collecting in cross-cultural contexts sheds light on the creative and complicated ways in which objects in collections served to create knowledge—some factual, some fictional—about distant peoples in an increasingly transnational world.

Book Catalogue of the     library of     John Dent  Which will be sold by auction by mr  Evans  Mar  29  and 8 following days  2nd portion  Apr 25  and 8 following days

Download or read book Catalogue of the library of John Dent Which will be sold by auction by mr Evans Mar 29 and 8 following days 2nd portion Apr 25 and 8 following days written by John Dent and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Splendid  Curious  and Extensive Library of the late John Dent     which will be sold by auction  by Mr  Evans     on Thursday  March 29  and eight following days  Sunday excepted  1827  MS  prices

Download or read book Catalogue of the Splendid Curious and Extensive Library of the late John Dent which will be sold by auction by Mr Evans on Thursday March 29 and eight following days Sunday excepted 1827 MS prices written by John DENT (F.R.S., F.S.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book La questione romantica  Rivista interdisciplinare di studi romantici vol  15 16  Viaggio e paesaggio  Autunno 2003 primavera 2004

Download or read book La questione romantica Rivista interdisciplinare di studi romantici vol 15 16 Viaggio e paesaggio Autunno 2003 primavera 2004 written by and published by Liguori Editore Srl. This book was released on 2007 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: