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Treasure Palaces

Author : The Economist
Publisher : The Economist
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781610396813

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In this exuberant celebration of the world's museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Neil Gaiman, and more tell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, the Musée Rodin in Paris, and Tate Modern in London. These essays, collected from the pages of The Economist's Intelligent Life magazine, reveal the special hold that some museums have over us all. In his ode to the Museum of Anthropology in Xalapa, Mexico, the great novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes writes, “Museums, like lovers, can lose their charms. But the next time can always be the first time.” William Boyd visits the Leopold Museum in Vienna—a shrine to his favorite artist, Egon Schiele, whom Boyd first discovered on a postcard as a University student. In front of her favorite Rodins, Allison Pearson recalls a traumatic episode she suffered at the hands of a schoolteacher following a trip to the Musée in Paris. Neil Gaiman admires the fantastic world depicted in British outsider artist Richard Dadd's “The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke,” a tiny painting that also decorated the foldout cover of a Queen album, housed in the Victorian room of Tate Britain's Pre-Raphaelite collection. Ann Patchett fondly revisits Harvard University's Museum of Natural History—which she discovered at 19, while in the throes of summer romance with a biology student named Jack. In Search of the Originals is a treasure trove of wonders, a tribute to the diversity and power of the museums, the safe-keepers of our world's most extraordinary artifacts, and an intimate look into the deeply personal reveries we fall into when before great art.

Treasure Palaces

Author : Maggie Fergusson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1610399978

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Palace Pets: Treasure's Day at Sea

Author : Disney Book Group
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781484750162

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Palace Pets: Treasure's Day at Sea by Disney Book Group Pdf

Read along with Disney! Join Treasure, Ariel’s curious kitten, as she spends an exciting day in the ocean and meets a furry new friend! Girls who love the Disney princesses and the Palace Pets will love this storybook featuring word-for-word narration!

DK Eyewitness Books: Treasure

Author : Philip Steele
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756663322

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Eyewitness Treasure takes a look at the wide variety of precious objects that have been the seeds of greed, conquest, crime, and adventure over the history of humankind. Read about how these treasures were created, how they were lost, and how they've been uncovered by explorers and scientists.

Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (2 vols)

Author : Gülru Necipoğlu,Cemal Kafadar,Cornell H. Fleischer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1532 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004402508

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Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (2 vols) by Gülru Necipoğlu,Cemal Kafadar,Cornell H. Fleischer Pdf

The subject of this two-volume publication is an inventory of manuscripts in the book treasury of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II from his royal librarian ʿAtufi in the year 908 (1502–3) and transcribed in a clean copy in 909 (1503–4). This unicum inventory preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára Keleti Gyűjtemény, MS Török F. 59) records over 5,000 volumes, and more than 7,000 titles, on virtually every branch of human erudition at the time. The Ottoman palace library housed an unmatched encyclopedic collection of learning and literature; hence, the publication of this unique inventory opens a larger conversation about Ottoman and Islamic intellectual/cultural history. The very creation of such a systematically ordered inventory of books raises broad questions about knowledge production and practices of collecting, readership, librarianship, and the arts of the book at the dawn of the sixteenth century. The first volume contains twenty-eight interpretative essays on this fascinating document, authored by a team of scholars from diverse disciplines, including Islamic and Ottoman history, history of science, arts of the book and codicology, agriculture, medicine, astrology, astronomy, occultism, mathematics, philosophy, theology, law, mysticism, political thought, ethics, literature (Arabic, Persian, Turkish/Turkic), philology, and epistolary. Following the first three essays by the editors on implications of the library inventory as a whole, the other essays focus on particular fields of knowledge under which books are catalogued in MS Török F. 59, each accompanied by annotated lists of entries. The second volume presents a transliteration of the Arabic manuscript, which also features an Ottoman Turkish preface on method, together with a reduced-scale facsimile.

Buddhism and Iconoclasm in East Asia

Author : Fabio Rambelli,Eric Reinders
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441199027

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Buddhism and Iconoclasm in East Asia by Fabio Rambelli,Eric Reinders Pdf

This is a cross-cultural study of the multifaceted relations between Buddhism, its materiality, and instances of religious violence and destruction in East Asia, which remains a vast and still largely unexplored field of inquiry. Material objects are extremely important not just for Buddhist practice, but also for the conceptualization of Buddhist doctrines; yet, Buddhism developed ambivalent attitudes towards such need for objects, and an awareness that even the most sacred objects could be destroyed. After outlining Buddhist attitudes towards materiality and its vulnerability, the authors propose a different and more inclusive definition of iconoclasm-a notion that is normally not employed in discussions of East Asian religions. Case studies of religious destruction in East Asia are presented, together with a new theoretical framework drawn from semiotics and cultural studies, to address more general issues related to cultural value, sacredness, and destruction, in an attempt to understand instances in which the status and the meaning of the sacred in any given culture is questioned, contested, and ultimately denied, and how religious institutions react to those challenges.

Art of the Royal Court

Author : Wolfram Koeppe,Anna Maria Giusti,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Incrustation (Stone carving)
ISBN : 9781588392886

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Art of the Royal Court by Wolfram Koeppe,Anna Maria Giusti,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

"In the royal and princely courts of Europe, artworks made of multicolored semiprecious stones were passionately coveted objects. Known as pietre dure, or hardstones, this type of artistic expression includes?paintings in stone,? which were composed of intricately cut separate pieces that were made into magnificent tabetops, cabinets, and wall decorations. Other works included vessels and ornaments carved with virtuosic skill from a single piece of rare and brilliant lapis lazuli, chalcedony, jasper, or similarly prized substance; exquisite objects such as boxes, clocks, and jewelry; and portraits of nobles sculpted in variously colored stones. Derived from ancient Roman decorative stonework, the art of pietre dure was developed in Renaissance Florence, where the manufacture of such objects was enthusiastically sponsored by Medici princes. Ideally suited for ostentatious display, the works sent an unmistakable message of wealth and political might that was understood in centers of power everywhere. From Italy the medium spread across Europeto Prague, Madrid, Naples, Paris, and later Saint Petersburg. Precious and fragile, pietre dure objects are rarely brought together in large numbers. This richly illustrated catalogue contains more than 150 masterworks from across Europe, dating from five centuries, including almost every artistic use of semiprecious stone during this time as well as some of the finest examples of the medium. Eight essays by European and American experts discuss the individualized development of pietre dure in every European region, the latest developments in scholarship, the interrelationships between art and dynastic politics and between cultures, and a variety of techniques used to produce these luxurious masterworks."--Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

The Palace of Pleasure

Author : Joseph Jacobs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Classical literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044055327324

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The Palace Museum, Peking

Author : Wango H. C. Weng,Boda Yang
Publisher : Harry N Abrams Incorporated
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Art
ISBN : 0810914778

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The Summer Palaces of the Romanovs

Author : Emmanuel Ducamp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Palaces
ISBN : 0500516472

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The Summer Palaces of the Romanovs by Emmanuel Ducamp Pdf

Specially commissioned photographs by Marc Walter and fascinating archive images capture a bygone age of Romanov splendor that will captivate art lovers and historians alike

Ali-Pacha. La Comtesse de Saint-Ge̋ran. Nisida

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Crime
ISBN : OSU:32435021412028

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Julian Barnes from the Margins

Author : Vanessa Guignery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350125032

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Julian Barnes from the Margins by Vanessa Guignery Pdf

Exploring the archives of the Man Booker prize-winning novelist Julian Barnes – including notebooks, drafts, typescripts and publishing correspondence – this book is an extraordinary in-depth study of the creative practice of a major contemporary novelist. In Julian Barnes from the Margins, Vanessa Guignery charts the genesis and publication history of all of Barnes's major novels, from his debut with Metroland, through Flaubert's Parrot and A History of the World in 10 1⁄2 Chapters to The Sense of an Ending.

Celebrated Crimes

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Crime
ISBN : UIUC:30112119934385

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