This book establishes the cultural background to the productions of Miltons Comus that were staged in the 1740s by Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough, at Exton Hall, his country seat in the East Midlands of England....Loe edasi...
Revealing the connections between the veneration of national landscape and eighteenth-century English vocal music, this study restores English musics connections with the picturesque. This book explores this gap, and shows how secular song, the glee...Loe edasi...
This volume uses the art of Rome to help us understand the radical historical break between the fundamental ancient pre-supposition that there is a natural world or cosmos situating human life, and the equally fundamental modern emphasis on human im...Loe edasi...
This study considers how curatorial forces are at work within an opera house dentifying the functionaries and processes that guide them....Loe edasi...
The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art surveys a broad spectrum of Christian art produced from the late second through the sixth centuries....Loe edasi...
This volume examines the meaning of this specific act in times of war. With examples drawn from Anatolia, Syria and Mesopotamia between the 3rd and 1st millennium BC, from prehistory to the Neo-Assyrian period, this fascinating study will be valuabl...Loe edasi...
In The Greek and Roman Trophy: From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power, Kinnee presents the first monographic treatment of ancient trophies in sixty years....Loe edasi...
The phenomenon of iconoclasm, expressed through hostile actions towards images, has occurred in many different cultures throughout history. The destruction and mutilation of images is often motivated by a blend of political and religious ideas and b...Loe edasi...
This book examines the use of images of violence prior to the New Kingdom. By comparing violent images from a variety of other times and cultures the book asks that we consider how Egyptian imagery was related to Egyptian violence, and why people cr...Loe edasi...
The papers range in scope from the meaning of colour in European prehistoric art to the technical art of the glazed tiles of the Shah mosque in Isfahan. Their aim is to explore a multifarious range of evidence and to evaluate and illuminate what is...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Dec-2015, Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781118886205)
A Companion to Roman Art encompasses various artistic genres, ancient contexts, and modern approaches for a comprehensive guide to Roman art....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Nov-2014, Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781118325070)
A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art presents a comprehensive collection of original essays exploring key concepts, critical discourses, and theories that shape the discipline of ancient Egyptian art....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Dec-2013, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter Inc, ISBN-13: 9781614510352)
Concentrates on the visual, material, and built aspects of the Ancient Near East from the fourth millennium BCE to the Hellenistic period....Loe edasi...
This book is an outcome of the summer conference on the theme Newcastle and Northumberland. It examines the heritage of north-eastern England ranging from the sculpture of the Roman occupation through the monuments and architecture of the Anglo-Saxo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Apr-2013, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199739318)
Medusas Gaze provides the first dedicated account of the origins and extraordinary survival of an exquisite agate bowl from ancient Alexandria to the modern day as it passed through the hands of some of historys most influentional, and colorful, c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Dec-2012, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199603626)
Achilles in Love: Intertextual Studies traces the escapades of Achilles erotic history, whether in same-sex or opposite-sex relationships, and how they were developed and revealed, or elided and concealed, in the writing and visual arts following H...Loe edasi...
Awakening intrinsic motivation in young people is the important key to securing them a meaningful and successful life. This book gives every student an opportunity to recognise their strengths, awaken their aspirations and become aware of reasons fo...Loe edasi...
