Classical Splendor

Author : Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300221718
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Splendor written by Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsome book explores in depth a group of stunning painted and gilded furniture designed by the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820), best known for originating the plans for the United States Capitol. The furniture was made in Philadelphia for one of the city's finest houses--the home of William and Mary Wilcocks Waln, which Latrobe also designed. Drawing on a multiyear conservation and research project, Classical Splendor reveals new insights into the patrons, makers, and history behind these extraordinary pieces. In addition to extensively documenting each item, the book attests to Latrobe's significant contributions to American furniture design--his pieces for the Waln house introduced, and served as exemplars of, a classical style rooted in ancient Greek and Roman design. Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: Philadelphia Museum of Art (09/03/16-01/01/17)

Author : Jack Basehart
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780847826254
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Splendor written by Jack Basehart and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-illustrated tour through 50 magnificent villas and palaces built by the Italian aristocracy, covers country retreats in Tuscany and the Vento, impressive residences in Rome and Sienna, fortress-like castles and grand villas in Trieste and Sicily, and many more.

Author : Wuji Liu
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253355805
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunflower Splendor written by Wuji Liu and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive anthology of Chinese poetry from the 12th century B.C. to the present. "This magnificent collection has the effect of a complete library rather than of an anthology of poetry.... A lyric quality comes through into our own language... Every page is alive with striking and wonderful things, immediately accessible." -- Publishers Weekly "Sunflower Splendor is the largest and, on the whole, best anthology of translated Chinese poems to have appeared in a Western language." -- The New York Times Book Review "This remarkably fine anthology should remain standard for a long time." -- Library Journal ..". excellent translations by divers hands. Open to any page and listen to the still, sad music... " -- Washington Post Bookworld

Author : Steve Kronen
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781929918782
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Splendor written by Steve Kronen and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Kronen's poems explore the hardships that daily challenge the human heart. Some of the poems in Splendor focus on our inescapable vulnerability due to aging or accident. Splendor also includes love poems to the author's wife and daughter. Many of the poems are rhymed and metered and use formal elements such as sonnets, villanelles, a sestina, a Dantean canzone, nonce forms, and others. Steve Kronen's first book, Empirical Evidence (1992), won the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition. Poems from Splendor have appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, The New Criterion, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Agni, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere.

Author : Germán Campos Muñoz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350170275
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Classics in South America written by Germán Campos Muñoz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the long and complex history of the Greco-Roman tradition in South America, arguing that the Classics have played a crucial, though often overlooked, role in the self-definition in the New World. Chronicling and theorizing this history through a detailed analysis of five key moments, chosen from the early and late colonial period, the emancipatory era, and the 20th and 21st centuries, it also examines an eclectic selection of both literary and cinematographic works and artefacts such as maps, letters, scientific treatises, songs, monuments, political speeches, and even the drafts of proposals for curricular changes across Latin America. The heterogeneous cases analysed in this book reveal cultural anxieties that recur through different periods, fundamentally related to the 'newness' of the continent and the formation of identities imagined as both Western and non-Western – a genealogy of apprehensions that South American intellectuals and political figures have typically experienced when thinking of their own role in world history. In tracing this genealogy, The Classics in South America innovatively reformulates our understanding of well-known episodes in the cultural history of the region, while providing a theoretical and historical resource for further studies of the importance of the Classical tradition across Latin America.

Author : Rinpoche Urgyen (Tulku)
Publisher : Rangjung Yeshe Publications
ISBN 13 : 9627341568
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blazing Splendor written by Rinpoche Urgyen (Tulku) and published by Rangjung Yeshe Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With unsurpassed honesty and humility, the highly influential meditation master Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche offers a glimpse into the remarkable reality of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as an in depth portrait of the lost culture of old Tibet. This grand narrative stretches across generations, providing an inspiring glimpse into a realm of remarkable human achievement quite different from our familiar, mundane world. Intimate in tone, these personal memoirs recount the influences and experiences that shaped one of the great spiritual teachers of our time. Blazing Splendor is of both spiritual and historical importance.

Author : Thomas Percy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry written by Thomas Percy and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Schröer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry written by Schröer and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 566 pages
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Download or read book Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Percy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ... The Sixth Edition, Etc written by Thomas Percy and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: