Masters Of The Dark Eyes

Author : Klara H. Broekhuijsen
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015080716270

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Masters of the Dark Eyes by Klara H. Broekhuijsen Pdf

This study deals with the work of the most prolific Dutch book illuminators, the so-called Masters of the Dark Eyes, named after the most conspicuous aspect of their style: the dark, heavily accentuated shadows round the eyes of the figures. With their elaborately illuminated manuscripts, these masters completely dominated book production in the County of Holland during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Their work is characterized by an overwhelming wealth of decorative and pictorial richness, which is especially evident in the unusually ornate programmes of the Books of Hours, and a new type of border decoration derived from the Ghent-Bruges School. This style of painting was practised by many artists of differing talents, as demonstrated by the large number of surviving manuscripts. Not all of the illuminators worked in Holland. Some of them settled in the Southern Netherlands, others emigrated to England, where they illuminated manuscripts for members of the English court. This monograph seeks to order, analyze and evaluate the work of the Masters of the Dark Eyes, and to position their achievements within the context of book illumination in the Northern Netherlands during the 'Waning of the Middle Ages'. It explores a virtually uncharted territory of Dutch manuscript painting. The accompanying descriptive catalogue provides complementary information on more than 70 manuscripts, many of which have never been published at length before. The work is illustrated with a wide selection of colour and black-and-white reproductions.

Author : Kathryn M. Rudy
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783742363

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Piety in Pieces by Kathryn M. Rudy Pdf

Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals and plants), books were expensive and built to last. They usually outlived their owners. Rather than discard them when they were superseded, book owners found ways to update, amend and upcycle books or book parts. These activities accelerated in the fifteenth century. Most manuscripts made before 1390 were bespoke and made for a particular client, but those made after 1390 (especially books of hours) were increasingly made for an open market, in which the producer was not in direct contact with the buyer. Increased efficiency led to more generic products, which owners were motivated to personalise. It also led to more blank parchment in the book, for example, the backs of inserted miniatures and the blanks ends of textual components. Book buyers of the late fourteenth and throughout the fifteenth century still held onto the old connotations of manuscripts—that they were custom-made luxury items—even when the production had become impersonal. Owners consequently purchased books made for an open market and then personalised them, filling in the blank spaces, and even adding more components later. This would give them an affordable product, but one that still smacked of luxury and met their individual needs. They kept older books in circulation by amending them, attached items to generic books to make them more relevant and valuable, and added new prayers with escalating indulgences as the culture of salvation shifted. Rudy considers ways in which book owners adjusted the contents of their books from the simplest (add a marginal note, sew in a curtain) to the most complex (take the book apart, embellish the components with painted decoration, add more quires of parchment). By making sometimes extreme adjustments, book owners kept their books fashionable and emotionally relevant. This study explores the intersection of codicology and human desire. Rudy shows how increased modularisation of book making led to more standardisation but also to more opportunities for personalisation. She asks: What properties did parchment manuscripts have that printed books lacked? What are the interrelationships among technology, efficiency, skill loss and standardisation?

Author : Laura Messina-Argenton,Tiziano Agostini,Tamara Prest,Ian F. Verstegen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783031136627

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Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story by Laura Messina-Argenton,Tiziano Agostini,Tamara Prest,Ian F. Verstegen Pdf

How does a visual artist manage to narrate a story, which has a sequential and therefore temporal progression, using a static medium consisting solely of spatial sign elements and, what is more, in a single image? This is the question on which this work is based, posed by its designer, Alberto Argenton, to whose memory it is dedicated. The first explanation usually given by scholars in the field is that the artist solves the problem by depicting the same character in a number of scenes, thus giving indirect evidence of events taking place at different times. This book shows that artists, in addition to the repetition of characters, devise other spatial perceptual-representational strategies for organising the episodes that constitute a story and, therefore, showing time. Resorting to the psychology of art of a Gestalt matrix, the book offers researchers, graduates, advanced undergraduates, and professionals a description of a large continuous pictorial narrative repertoire (1000 works) and an in-depth analysis of the perceptual-representational strategies employed by artists from the 6th to the 17th century in a group of 100 works narrating the story of Adam and Eve.

Author : Sheila D. Muller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135495749

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Dutch Art by Sheila D. Muller Pdf

An illustrated feast for the eye and intellect Dutch Art explores developments in art, art history, art criticism, and cultural history of the Netherlands from the artists' workshops for the Utrecht Dom in 1475 to the latest movements of the 1990s. it is lavishly illustrated with 147 black-and-white photographs and 16 pages in full color. More than 100 internationally recognized scholars, museum professionals, artists, and art critics contributed signed essays to this monumental work, including historians, sociologists, and literary historians.

Author : Charles Webster Leadbeater
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781602063334

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The Masters and the Path by Charles Webster Leadbeater Pdf

One of the fundamental theosophic beliefs is that there exists a collection of true knowledge that is the foundation of all world religions. In pursuit of this truth and the perfection of mankind, humans are constantly reborn, evolving toward their highest state. In this book, originally published in 1925, Charles Leadbeater discusses the existence of Masters, or men who have reached the highest state of human consciousness, and how they can be identified. He further explains to the reader how they may make their own way on the path toward perfection. Anyone interested in religious studies will be interested in this classic example of theosophical philosophy.English clergyman turned spiritualist CHARLES WEBSTER LEADBEATER (1854-1934) was ordained as an Anglican priest, but later joined the prominent Theosophical Society and traveled to India to study alternative spiritual and occult practices, eventually settling into his life as a clairvoyant and author. His other works include Man Visible and Invisible and The Science of the Sacrament.

Author : J. Rios George J. Rios,George J. Rios
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450211987

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Masters of the Sea by J. Rios George J. Rios,George J. Rios Pdf

About the Book: Jules Verne, the "Father of Modern Science Fiction," is indeed immortal and eternally young across three centuries. In Masters of the Sea: The Adventures of Jules Verne's Mathias Sandorf, we pay tribute to Verne, who inspired pioneers throughout the world for generations. Here, we take Verne's ultimate prediction of communication with our friends of the watery deep to its outer limits. In fact, communication with these friends was heralded throughout the world when, in 2003, America used dolphins to clear mines designed to hamper the invasion from the port of Unn Qasr in southern Iraq. For the first time, a pioneering research Preface underscores why and how Verne proclaimed Mathias Sandorf his greatest epic science fiction masterpiece. His dedication of the original work claims "...I tried to make of Mathias Sandorf my Monte Cristo of extraordinary science fiction adventures." Verne drew his Austrian heroic character, Dr. Mathias Sandorf, from the reality of the battleground of Germany's conquests of Austria and France during the 30-year period prior to World War I. About the Author: George J. Rios, M.P.A., Ph.D. has distinguished himself with nine Public Service appointments including three White House assignments spanning five presidential administrations and is a former New York City Commissioner. He renders a unique service to science-fiction aficionados with his scholarly researched and adapted translation of Jules Verne's preeminent novel.

Author : Kathryn M. Rudy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004326965

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Rubrics, Images and Indulgences in late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts by Kathryn M. Rudy Pdf

Rubrics, Images and Indulgences in Late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts considers how indulgences (the remission of time in Purgatory) were used to market certain images and how images helped to spread indulgences in the decades before the Protestant Reformation.

Author : Tom Hood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026849058

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Captain Masters's Children. A Novel by Tom Hood Pdf

Author : Michael J. Gilmour
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441156730

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Tangled Up in the Bible by Michael J. Gilmour Pdf

Bob Dylan has had a profound influence on the shape of modern pop music (folk, rock, blues) and as a modern literary figure. He has also attracted enormous attention from both professional and amateur "interpreters". In this book Gilmour offers a thorough study of Dylan's reading of scriptures. He explores the ways in which Dylan transforms biblical images and concepts when he incorporates them into his literary world; it is an attempt to listen to the echoes of scripture in his published works. Gilmour closely reads Dylan's poems and songs and provides commentaries on several themes found in Dylan's work: the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus; apocalypse, justice and judgement; oppressive religion and religious irony. Through these readings, Gilmour calls attention to the various ways Dylan uses scripture both in an explicit and an implicit manner.

Author : Mathijs Lamberigts,A. A. den Hollander
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9042917857

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Lay Bibles in Europe 1450-1800 by Mathijs Lamberigts,A. A. den Hollander Pdf

This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference entitled Lay Bibles in Europe 1450-1800. The conference took place in Amsterdam in April 2004 and was organized by Biblia sacra, a joint Dutch-Flemish research group. The clamor for Bibles in the vernacular flourished within lay renewal movements of the late 14th century, including groups like the Brethren and Sisters of the Common Life. In the early 16th century, humanists like Erasmus and Lefvre d'taples stimulated vernacular Bible reading. As the Protestant Reformation became established, lay Bibles were produced on a large scale. In reaction to this development, Catholic theologians issued 'orthodox' Bible translations in various vernaculars based on the Vulgate. In sum, from the 15th to the 18th century, editions from various confessional or ideological backgrounds appeared throughout Western Europe. Of course, the invention and spread of the printing press greatly enhanced the distribution of these editions. The essays collected in this volume approach Lay Bibles in Europe 1450-1800 from various perspectives, including the history of books, art history and church history.

Author : Harold Klemp
Publisher : ECKANKAR
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781570433689

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Those Wonderful ECK Masters by Harold Klemp Pdf

Would you like to have personal experience with spiritual masters that people all over the world--since the beginning of time--have looked to for guidance, protection, and divine love? Are you tired of feeling you're going it alone, yet want to retain the freedom to make choices and determine your own values? Are you curious why some people seem certain that God personally intervenes in their lives? Would you like to be one of them? Then this book speaks to you. Inside are true stories that will amaze you and at the same time may strike a familiar chord in your heart. You may be one of the countless people who have been touched by a meeting with an ECK Master, or you may simply know deep inside that you are indeed special to God. These spiritual Masters of yesterday, today, and tomorrow want to share with you what they have achieved--the fulfillment of a spiritual destiny. The ECK Masters are Co-workers with God who can help you make the most of every decision you will ever face, meet your daily challenges on higher ground, and experience the boundlessness of God's love. Would you like to meet one? Look inside. of a lifetime awaits you. Eckankar is a modern-day spiritual teaching with ancient roots founded in 1965 by Paul Twitchell. Harold Klemp is the current spiritual leader of Eckankar since 1981.

Author : Angelle M Vinet
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781483471235

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James McNeill Whistler an Evolution of Painting from the Old Masters: Identified By Two Missing Masterpieces by Angelle M Vinet Pdf

The discovery of this masterpiece Whistler's "Portrait of William Merritt Chase," along with another important Whistler painting, "Harmony in Black, No10," reveals exciting new discoveries on Whistler's artistic methods, from the Old Masters and the artistic truisms of the Renaissance. Documented analysis including x-ray examination, forensics and recognized paintings by Whistler's followers will confirm this portrait and "Harmony in Black, No10," with x-ray revealing two lost paintings. These Whistler paintings connect scholarship and identify paintings worthy of merit and what makes a masterpiece a masterpiece.

Author : M. J. Trow
Publisher : BLKDOG Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring by M. J. Trow Pdf

Book one in the Inspector Lestrade series. ‘In the circus, nothing is what it seems …’ Walk up! Walk up! This way for the greatest show on earth! It is 1879. Disraeli is at Number Ten. The Zulu are being perfectly beastly to Lord Chelmsford. And Captain Boycott is having his old trouble again. What has this to do with the young Detective-Sergeant Sholto Lestrade? Absolutely nothing. Or has it? He has his work cut out investi-gating mysterious goings-on at ‘Lord’ George Sanger’s Circus. First, the best juggler in Europe is shot in full view of a thousand people. Then Huge Hughie, the dwarf, dies an agonizing death under the Ether Trick. Finally, the Great Bolus dies by swallowing the wrong sword. And all of this after two bodies have been found with multiple slashes … And what is the link with Mr Howard Vincent, founder of the CID? And has the Prince Imperial really been caught by the Impis? A trail of murder is laid among the llama droppings as the World’s Second Greatest Detective goes undercover to solve the Case of the Sawdust Ring.

Author : Adam Benforado
Publisher : Crown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780770437787

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Unfair by Adam Benforado Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Unfair succinctly and persuasively recounts cutting-edge research testifying to the faulty and inaccurate procedures that underpin virtually all aspects of our criminal justice system, illustrating many with case studies.”—The Boston Globe A child is gunned down by a police officer; an investigator ignores critical clues in a case; an innocent man confesses to a crime he did not commit; a jury acquits a killer. The evidence is all around us: Our system of justice is fundamentally broken. But it’s not for the reasons we tend to think, as law professor Adam Benforado argues in this eye-opening, galvanizing book. Even if the system operated exactly as it was designed to, we would still end up with wrongful convictions, trampled rights, and unequal treatment. This is because the roots of injustice lie not inside the dark hearts of racist police officers or dishonest prosecutors, but within the minds of each and every one of us. This is difficult to accept. Our nation is founded on the idea that the law is impartial, that legal cases are won or lost on the basis of evidence, careful reasoning and nuanced argument. But they may, in fact, turn on the camera angle of a defendant’s taped confession, the number of photos in a mug shot book, or a simple word choice during a cross-examination. In Unfair, Benforado shines a light on this troubling new field of research, showing, for example, that people with certain facial features receive longer sentences and that judges are far more likely to grant parole first thing in the morning. Over the last two decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have uncovered many cognitive forces that operate beyond our conscious awareness. Until we address these hidden biases head-on, Benforado argues, the social inequality we see now will only widen, as powerful players and institutions find ways to exploit the weaknesses of our legal system. Weaving together historical examples, scientific studies, and compelling court cases—from the border collie put on trial in Kentucky to the five teenagers who falsely confessed in the Central Park Jogger case—Benforado shows how our judicial processes fail to uphold our values and protect society’s weakest members. With clarity and passion, he lays out the scope of the legal system’s dysfunction and proposes a wealth of practical reforms that could prevent injustice and help us achieve true fairness and equality before the law.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Art
ISBN : HARVARD:FL1IIK

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The Works of Eminent Masters, in Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Decorative Art by Anonim Pdf