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Author : Hollis Read
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023452539
Author : Maureen C. Miller
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781501728204
This lavishly illustrated book looks at the art and architecture of episcopal palaces as expressions of power and ideology. Tracing the history of the bishop's residence in the urban centers of northern Italy over the Middle Ages, Maureen C. Miller asks why this once rudimentary and highly fortified structure called a domus became a complex and elegant "palace" (palatium) by the late twelfth century. Miller argues that the change reflects both the emergence of a distinct clerical culture and the attempts of bishops to maintain authority in public life. She relates both to the Gregorian reform movement, which set new standards for clerical deportment and at the same time undercut episcopal claims to secular power. As bishops lost temporal authority in their cities to emerging communal governments, they compensated architecturally and competed with the communes for visual and spatial dominance in the urban center. This rivalry left indelible marks on the layout and character of Italian cities.Moreover, Miller contends, this struggle for power had highly significant, but mixed, results for western Christianity. On the one hand, as bishops lost direct governing authority in their cities, they devised ways to retain status, influence, and power through cultural practices. This response to loss was highly creative. On the other hand, their loss of secular control led bishops to emphasize their spiritual powers and to use them to obtain temporal ends. The coercive use of spiritual authority contributed to the emergence of a "persecuting society" in the central Middle Ages.
Author : Priscilla Ching Chung
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004065075
Author : Gülru Necipoğlu
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015021615631
Necipoglu demonstrates the palace's role as a vast stage for the enactment of a ceremonial that emphasized the sultan's absolute power and his aloofness from the outside world. In the absence of the monumentality, axiality, and rational geometric planning principles now usually associated with imperial architecture, the author's deciphering of the palace's iconography is all the more revealing.
Author : Susan McCaffray
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501758003
"In the face of a changing social landscape in their rapidly growing nineteenth-century capital, Russian monarchs reoriented their display of imperial and national representation away from courtiers and toward the urban public. When attacked at mid-century, monarchs retreated from the palace. As they receded, the public claimed the square and the artistic treasures in the Imperial Hermitage before claiming the palace itself. By 1917, the Winter Palace had come to be the essential stage for representing not just monarchy, but the civic life of the empire-nation. What was cataclysmic for the monarchy presented to those who staffed the palace and Hermitage not a disaster, but a new mission, as a public space created jointly by monarch and city passed from the one to the other. This insightful study will appeal to scholars of Russia and general readers interested in Russian history."--Amazon.
Author : Gail Feigenbaum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606062982
This book explores the principles of the display of art in the magnificent Roman palaces of the early modern period, focusing attention on how the parts function to convey multiple artistic, social, and political messages, all within a splendid environment that provided a model for aristocratic residences throughout Europe. Many of the objects exhibited in museums today once graced the interior of a Roman Baroque palazzo or a setting inspired by one. In fact, the very convention of a paintings gallery— the mainstay of museums—traces its ancestry to prototypes in the palaces of Rome. Inside Roman palaces, the display of art was calibrated to an increasingly accentuated dynamism of social and official life, activated by the moving bodies and the attention of residents and visitors. Display unfolded in space in a purposeful narrative that reflected rank, honor, privilege, and intimacy. With a contextual approach that encompasses the full range of media, from textiles to stucco, this study traces the influential emerging concept of a unified interior. It argues that art history—even the emergence of the modern category of fine art—was worked out as much in the rooms of palaces as in the printed pages of Vasari and other early writers on art.
Author : Alice M.W. Hunt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004304123
In Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape, Alice Hunt investigates the social and symbolic meaning of Palace Ware by understanding these vessels as a vehicle through which intricate interregional, intercultural relationships were negotiated, established and maintained.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Science
ISBN : UIUC:30112077174263
Author : Senta C. German
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)
ISBN : UOM:39015060569863
Are we to believe that Late Minoan Crete was over-run with dancers and bull leapers? As Senta German shows, dancing and bull-leaping were the most prevalent themes of Late Bronze Age glyptic art although, aside from their demonstration of a social and perhaps symbolic activity, they also had a much deeper function in Late Minoan society.
Author : Amy Aisen Kallander
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292748385
In this first in-depth study of the ruling family of Tunisia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Kallander investigates the palace as a site of familial and political significance. Through extensive archival research, she elucidates the domestic economy of the palace as well as the changing relationship between the ruling family of Tunis and the government, thus revealing how the private space of the palace mirrored the public political space. “Instead of viewing the period as merely a precursor to colonial occupation and the nation-state as emphasized in precolonial or nationalist histories, this narrative moves away from images of stagnation and dependency to insist upon dynamism,” Kallander explains. She delves deep into palace dynamics, comparing them to those of monarchies outside of the Ottoman Empire to find persuasive evidence of a global modernity. She demonstrates how upper-class Muslim women were active political players, exerting their power through displays of wealth such as consumerism and philanthropy. Ultimately, she creates a rich view of the Husaynid dynastic culture that will surprise many, and stimulate debate and further research among scholars of Ottoman Tunisia.
Author : Laurence Leamer
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781250177513
Where Trump Learned to Rule To know Donald J. Trump it is best to start in his natural habitat: Palm Beach, Florida. It is here he learned the techniques that took him all the way to the White House. Painstakingly, over decades, he has created a world in this exclusive tropical enclave and favorite haunt of billionaires where he is not just president but a king. The vehicle for his triumph is Mar-A-Lago, one of the greatest mansions ever built in the United States. The inside story of how he became King of Palm Beach—and how Palm Beach continues to be his spiritual home even as president—is rollicking, troubling, and told with unrivaled access and understanding by Laurence Leamer. In Mar-A-Lago, the reader will learn: * How Donald Trump bought a property now valued by some at as much as $500,000,000 for less than three thousand dollars of his own money. * Why Trump was blackballed by the WASP grandees of the island and how he got his revenge. * How Trump joined forces with the National Enquirer, which was headquartered nearby, and engineered his own divorce. * How by turning Mar-A-Lago into a private club, Trump was the unlikely man to integrate Palm Beach’s restricted country club scene, and what his real motives were. * What transpires behind the gates of today’s Mar-A-Lago during “the season,” when President Trump and assorted D.C. power players fly down each weekend. In addition to copious interviews and reporting from inside Mar-A-Lago, Laurence Leamer brings an acute and unparalleled understanding of the society of Palm Beach, where he has lived for twenty-five years. He has written an essential book for understanding Donald Trump’s inner character.
Author : Michael Minkenberg
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781782380108
Capital cities have been the seat of political power and central stage for their state's political conflicts and rituals throughout the ages. In the modern era, they provide symbols for and confer meaning to the state, thereby contributing to the "invention" of the nation. Capitals capture the imagination of natives, visitors and outsiders alike, yet also express the outcomes of power struggles within the political systems in which they operate. This volume addresses the reciprocal relationships between identity, regime formation, urban planning, and public architecture in the Western world. It examines the role of urban design and architecture in expressing (or hiding) ideological beliefs and political agenda. Case studies include "old" capitals such as Rome, Vienna, Berlin and Warsaw; "new" ones such as Washington DC, Ottawa, Canberra, Ankara, Bonn, and Brasília; and the "European" capital Brussels. Each case reflects the authors' different disciplinary backgrounds in architecture, history, political science, and urban studies, demonstrating the value of an interdisciplinary approach to studying cities.
Author : SIDNEY EDI-OSAGIE
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781449743642
The book, "Your Destiny and Your Palace" is a book resource which details the various challenges and pitfalls people face in the quest for their land of promise, the palace of their dreams and desires. Aside from providing information about most common mistakes and issues people experience on the journey to the palace, it also contains helpful tips, inspirational truths and wisdom on how to be effective and successful in their quest for the palace. One may be curious as to the motivation for a work like this. The truth is this book is the result of years of study and research into the reasons people fail or succeed in their quest for the palace. Most of the insights and examples used in this work are biblical, but insights and experience has also been drawn from other secular sources as well as the writer’s personal experiences.
Author : Lim SK
Publisher : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789812299963
For 5,000 years, kings and emperors had ruled China with the palace as their power hub. Yet the common people knew little of the goings-on there, even though court affairs greatly affected their lives. In this book, we unveil the secrets of the Chinese palace. You will learn about the physical palaces of the various dynasties of China although most of them no longer exist. Meet the occupants of the palace: the emperors, empresses, imperial concubines and siblings, eunuchs and many others, and find out how the notable ones altered the course of history. You will be surprised to know that although authority was vested in the emperor, there were numerous occasions when others, such as the empress, concubines, eunuchs and even imperial siblings around him, supplanted his power. Renowned cartoonist Tian Hengyu now relives these stirring tales with the deft strokes of his pen to shed new insights into Chinese history.
Author : sir Matthew Digby Wyatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591075306