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Author : Alberto Toso Fei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8897928803
Author : Alberto Toso Fei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 888802879X
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Current events
ISBN : UOM:39015061586312
Author : Henry James
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547209584
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Italian Hours" by Henry James. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Arie Wallert,Erma Hermens,Marja Peek
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995-08-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892363223
Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCSD:31822010790632
Author : S. BARING-GOULD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798889424260
Author : Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226452326
The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world. "There are few scholars in the world qualified to write such a book, and certainly Kramer is one of them. . . . One of the most valuable features of this book is the quantity of texts and fragments which are published for the first time in a form available to the general reader. For the layman the book provides a readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture. For the specialist it presents a synthesis with which he may not agree but from which he will nonetheless derive stimulation."—American Journal of Archaeology "An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity."—Library Journal
Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1964-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262620014
The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465592736
Author : Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801868823
"Reizenstein's peculiar vision of New Orleans is worth resurrecting precisely because it crossed the boundaries of acceptable taste in nineteenth-century German America and squatted firmly on the other side... This work makes us realize how limited our notions were of what could be conceived by a fertile American imagination in the middle of the nineteenth century." -- from the Introduction by Steven Rowan A lost classic of America's neglected German-language literary tradition, The Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein first appeared as a serial in the Louisiana Staats-Zeitung, a New Orleans German-language newspaper, between 1854 and 1855. Inspired by the gothic "urban mysteries" serialized in France and Germany during this period, Reizenstein crafted a daring occult novel that stages a frontal assault on the ethos of the antebellum South. His plot imagines the coming of a bloody, retributive justice at the hands of Hiram the Freemason -- a nightmarish, 200-year-old, proto-Nietzschean superman -- for the sin of slavery. Heralded by the birth of a black messiah, the son of a mulatto prostitute and a decadent German aristocrat, this coming revolution is depicted in frankly apocalyptic terms. Yet, Reizenstein was equally concerned with setting and characters, from the mundane to the fantastic. The book is saturated with the atmosphere of nineteenth-century New Orleans, the amorous exploits of its main characters uncannily resembling those of New Orleans' leading citizens. Also of note is the author's progressively matter-of-fact portrait of the lesbian romance between his novel's only sympathetic characters, Claudine and Orleana. This edition marks the first time that The Mysteries of New Orleans has been translated into English and proves that 150 years later, this vast, strange, and important novel remains as compelling as ever.
Author : Procopius
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141915845
A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign. Yet all the while the dutiful scribe was working on a very different - and dangerous - history to be published only once its author was safely in his grave. The Secret History portrays the 'great lawgiver' Justinian as a rampant king of corruption and tyranny, the Empress Theodora as a sorceress and whore, and the brilliant general Belisarius as the pliable dupe of his scheming wife Antonina. Magnificently hyperbolic and highly opinionated, The Secret History is a work of explosive energy, depicting holy Byzantium as a hell of murder and misrule.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : WISC:89063018832
Author : John Michael Greer
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780007359172
Discover everything you ever wanted to know about secret societies like the Freemasons, the historical mystery of Atlantis, why King Arthur, Leonardo da Vinci and Hitler are key figures, plus conspiracy theories, forgotten sciences and ancient wisdom.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173009575390
