Baroque Antiquity

Author : Victor Plahte Tschudi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110714986X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baroque Antiquity written by Victor Plahte Tschudi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As if in a Bright Mirror -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography of Cited Works -- Index

Author : Margaret Lyttelton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baroque Architecture in Classical Antiquity written by Margaret Lyttelton and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Molly A. Warsh
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469638983
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Baroque written by Molly A. Warsh and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearls have enthralled global consumers since antiquity, and the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella explicitly charged Columbus with finding pearls, as well as gold and silver, when he sailed westward in 1492. American Baroque charts Spain's exploitation of Caribbean pearl fisheries to trace the genesis of its maritime empire. In the 1500s, licit and illicit trade in the jewel gave rise to global networks, connecting the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean to the pearl-producing regions of the Chesapeake and northern Europe. Pearls—a unique source of wealth because of their renewable, fungible, and portable nature—defied easy categorization. Their value was highly subjective and determined more by the individuals, free and enslaved, who produced, carried, traded, wore, and painted them than by imperial decrees and tax-related assessments. The irregular baroque pearl, often transformed by the imagination of a skilled artisan into a fantastical jewel, embodied this subjective appeal. Warsh blends environmental, social, and cultural history to construct microhistories of peoples' wide-ranging engagement with this deceptively simple jewel. Pearls facilitated imperial fantasy and personal ambition, adorned the wardrobes of monarchs and financed their wars, and played a crucial part in the survival strategies of diverse people of humble means. These stories, taken together, uncover early modern conceptions of wealth, from the hardscrabble shores of Caribbean islands to the lavish rooms of Mediterranean palaces.

Author : Margaret Lyttelton
Publisher : London : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500690024
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baroque Architecture in Classical Antiquity written by Margaret Lyttelton and published by London : Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beatrice Hanssen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520926196
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin's Other History written by Beatrice Hanssen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-03-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered to be an impenetrable, hermetic treatise, Walter Benjamin's The Origin of German Tragic Drama has rarely received the attention it deserves as a key text, central to a full understanding of his work. In this critically acclaimed study, distinguished Benjamin scholar Beatrice Hanssen unlocks the philosophical and ethical dimensions of his thought with great clarity and sophisitication.

Author : F. Escrig
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 184564039X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Structures in Architecture written by F. Escrig and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in antiquity and finishing in the Baroque, this book provides a complete analysis of significant works of architecture from a structural viewpoint. A distinguished architect and academic, the author's highly illustrated exploration will allow readers to better understand the monuments, get closer to them and to explore whether they should be conserved or modified. Contents: Stones Resting on Empty Space; The Invention of the Dome; The Hanging Dome; The Ribbed Dome; A Planified Revenge - Under the Shadow of Brunelleschi; The Century of the Great Architects; The Omnipresent Sinan; Even Further; Scenographical Architecture of the 18th Century; The Virtual Architecture of the Renaissance and the Baroque.

Author : Alois Riegl
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606060414
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Baroque Art in Rome written by Alois Riegl and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delivered at the turn of the twentieth century, Riegl's groundbreaking lectures called for the Baroque period to be judged by its own rules and not merely as a period of decline.

Author : Lilian H. Zirpolo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538111292
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture written by Lilian H. Zirpolo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on famous artists, sculptors, architects, patrons, and other historical figures, and events.

Author : Michel Delon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135959986
Total Pages : 1512 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment written by Michel Delon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed translation of Michel Delon's Dictionnaire Europen des Lumires contains more than 350 signed entries covering the art, economics, science, history, philosophy, and religion of the Enlightenment. Delon's team of more than 200 experts from around the world offers a unique perspective on the period, providing offering not only factual information but also critical opinions that give the reader a deeper level of understanding. An international team of translators, editors, and advisers, under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture, has brought this collection of scholarship to the English-speaking world for the first time.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polish Encyclopaedia: The Polish language. History of literature. History of Poland written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: