Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and His Influence on Thought and Art in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780801443961 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Surviving fragments of information about Pythagoras (born ca. 570 BCE) gave rise to a growing set of legends about this famous sage and his followers, whose reputations throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages have never before been studied systematically. This book is the first to examine the unified concepts of harmony, proportion, form, and order that were attributed to Pythagoras in the millennium after his death and the important developments to which they led in art, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, music, medicine, morals, religion, law, alchemy, and the occult sciences. In this...
Surviving fragments of information about Pythagoras (born ca. 570 BCE) gave rise to a growing set of legends about this famous sage and his followers,...
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Measuring Heaven
ISBN: 9780801474095 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Surviving fragments of information about Pythagoras (born ca. 570 BCE) gave rise to a growing set of legends about this famous sage and his followers, whose reputations throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages have never before been studied systematically. This book is the first to examine the unified concepts of harmony, proportion, form, and order that were attributed to Pythagoras in the millennium after his death and the important developments to which they led in art, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, music, medicine, morals, religion, law, alchemy, and the occult sciences. In this...
Surviving fragments of information about Pythagoras (born ca. 570 BCE) gave rise to a growing set of legends about this famous sage and his followers,...
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134,86 zł |
An Introduction to Greek Art: Workplace Reform in Australia
ISBN: 9780801494802 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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History of the Art of Antiquity
ISBN: 9780892366682 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1764 and here translated into English for the first time, Winckelmann's work is an early systematic history of art in the ancient world.
Originally published in 1764 and here translated into English for the first time, Winckelmann's work is an early systematic history of art in the anci...
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History of Restoration of Ancient Stone Sculptures
ISBN: 9780892367238 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 19 papers in this volume stem from a symposium that brought together academics, archaeologists, museum curators, conservators and a practising marble sculptor to discuss varying approaches to restoration of ancient stone sculptures. changing approaches to conservation; Seymour Howard on restoration and the antique model; Nancy H. Ramage's case study on the relationship between a restorer, Vincenzo Pacetti, and his patron, Luciano Bonaparte; Mette Moltesen on de-restoring and re-restoring in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek; Miranda Marvin on the Ludovisi collection; and Andreas Scholl on the...
The 19 papers in this volume stem from a symposium that brought together academics, archaeologists, museum curators, conservators and a practising mar...
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Pots and Plays: Interactions Between Tragedy and Greek Vase-Painting of the Fourth Century B.C.
ISBN: 9780892368075 / Angielski / Twarda / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary study opens up a fascinating interaction between art and theater. It shows how the mythological vase-paintings of fourth-century B.C. Greeks, especially those settled in southern Italy, are more meaningful for those who had seen the myths enacted in the popular new medium of tragedy. Of some 300 relevant vases, 109 are reproduced and accompanied by a picture-by-picture discussion. This book supplies a rich and unprecedented resource from a neglected treasury of painting.
This interdisciplinary study opens up a fascinating interaction between art and theater. It shows how the mythological vase-paintings of fourth-centur...
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Roman Bodies: Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9780904152449 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of seventeen essays explores the dramatic changes in Western conceptions of the body, encompassing the cultural shifts that occurred across Empire, religion and science, from antiquity to the eighteenth century.
This collection of seventeen essays explores the dramatic changes in Western conceptions of the body, encompassing the cultural shifts that occurred a...
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Treasures from the Royal Tomb of Ur
ISBN: 9780924171550 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts. Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time-jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage...
This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Wool...
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Six Greek Sculptors
ISBN: 9781410210791 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CONTENTS Characteristics of Greek Sculpture Early Masterpieces Myron Phidias Polyclitus Praxiteles Scopas Lysippus Hellenistic Sculpture Index
CONTENTS Characteristics of Greek Sculpture Early Masterpieces Myron Phidias Polyclitus Praxiteles Scopas Lysippus Hellenistic Sculpture Index
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Introduction to Aegean Art
ISBN: 9781931534215 / Angielski / Miękka / 2 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This textbook is a compilation of the author's more than 35 years of teaching and excavation experience in the field of Aegean Bronze Age art history and archaeology. It is geared toward an audience of undergraduate and graduate students as an introduction to the Bronze Age art objects and architecture that have been uncovered on Crete, the Greek peninsula, and the Cycladic Islands.
This textbook is a compilation of the author's more than 35 years of teaching and excavation experience in the field of Aegean Bronze Age art history ...
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Gewalt Im Bild: Das Phänomen Der Medialen Gewalt Im Athen Des 6. Und 5. Jahrhunderts V. Chr.
ISBN: 9783110184204 / Angielski / Twarda / 816 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do depictions of violence mirror perceptions of violence? Focussing on the countless depictions of violence on the painted pots of Archaic and Classical Athens, Susanne Muth tackles this question in a fascinating groundbreaking study. Introducing a model for a new historical understanding of representations of violence Susanne Muth investigates how the Athenians shaped and handled these images. Do depictions of violence mirror perceptions of violence? Focussing on the countless depictions of violence on the painted pots of Archaic and Cla... |
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Römisches Jahrbuch Der Bibliotheca Hertziana 37
ISBN: 9783777435558 / Angielski / Twarda / 365 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focuses on Roman art from the early Middle Ages to the 18th century and its influence on European art history. German text. Das Romische Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana veroffentlicht Forschungsergebnisse der Mitarbeiter und Gaste der Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut) in Rom. Das Schwergewicht liegt auf der Kunst der Stadt Rom vom fruehen Mittelalter bis zum 18. Jahrhundert und ihrem Einfluss auf die europaische Kunstgeschichte. Die Beitrage haben ueberwiegend monographischen Charakter. Besonderer Wert wird auf die Publikation bisher unveroffentlichter Quellen sowie auf die...
Focuses on Roman art from the early Middle Ages to the 18th century and its influence on European art history. German text. Das Romische Jahrbuch der ...
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The Sanctuary of Aphaia on Aigina in the Bronze Age
ISBN: 9783777480107 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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133,55 zł |
Ancient Building Technology, Volume 2: Materials (2 Vols)
ISBN: 9789004140073 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This resume study deals with building material, which together with construction and structures, forms one of the three aspects of building, or equally one of the three factors which constitute the nature of a building. Unlike existing manuals on ancient building, this offers an analytic presentation and the subject matter extends across all ages and regions. The treatment of materials is set out according to a paradigm of nature, manufacture and use, so as to facilitate direct comparison between different modes of the one material, as also between different materials and between different...
This resume study deals with building material, which together with construction and structures, forms one of the three aspects of building, or equall...
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A Handbook of Food Processing in Classical Rome: For Her Bounty No Winter
ISBN: 9789004152366 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A careful analysis of Roman food processes, including those for cereals, olive oil, wine, other plant products, animal products, and condiments. The work combines analysis of literary and archaeological evidence with that of traditional comparative practices and modern food science.
A careful analysis of Roman food processes, including those for cereals, olive oil, wine, other plant products, animal products, and condiments. The w...
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Reading Greek Vases
ISBN: 9780521825221 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Repetition and symmetry are the fundamental aesthetic principles underlying the shape and decoration of ancient Athenian vases. This book is the first comprehensive study of the role of repetition beyond its aesthetic value, and as part of a code that conveys meaning to the viewer. Relying on the theoretical background provided through information theory and narratology, Ann Steiner uncovers the different kinds of meaning that painters created through the use of repetition. Using the reading of painted verbal inscriptions as a springboard, she demonstrates how repetition of imagery in...
Repetition and symmetry are the fundamental aesthetic principles underlying the shape and decoration of ancient Athenian vases. This book is the first...
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The Architecture of Roman Temples
ISBN: 9780521723718 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the development of Roman temple architecture from its earliest history in the sixth century BC to the reigns of Hadrian and the Antonines in the second century AD. John Stamper analyzes the temples' formal qualities, the public spaces in which they were located and, most importantly, the authority of precedent in their designs. He also traces Rome's temple architecture as it evolved over time and how it accommodated changing political and religious contexts, as well as the affects of new stylistic influences.
This book examines the development of Roman temple architecture from its earliest history in the sixth century BC to the reigns of Hadrian and the Ant...
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Hellenistic and Roman Ideal Sculpture: The Allure of the Classical
ISBN: 9780521877824 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Rachel Kousser draws on contemporary reception theory to present a new approach to Hellenistic and Roman ideal sculpture. She analyzes the Romans preference for retrospective, classicizing statuary based on Greek models as opposed to the innovative creations prized by modern scholars. Using a case study of a particular sculptural type, a forceful yet erotic image of Venus, Kousser argues that the Romans self-consciously employed such sculptures to represent their ties to the past in a rapidly evolving world. Kousser presents Hellenistic and Roman ideal sculpture as an example of...
In this book, Rachel Kousser draws on contemporary reception theory to present a new approach to Hellenistic and Roman ideal sculpture. She analyzes t...
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439,99 zł |
Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases
ISBN: 9780892369010 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The papers in this volume derive from the proceedings of an international symposium held at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in June 2006 in connection with the exhibition "The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases." The themes of the exhibition--vases executed in bilingual, coral-red gloss, outline, Kerch-style, white ground, and Six's techniques, as well as examples with added clay and gilding, and sculpted vases and additions--are the touchstones for the essays. More than twenty papers by renowned scholars are grouped under such general rubrics as Social Contexts...
The papers in this volume derive from the proceedings of an international symposium held at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in June 2006 i...
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346,03 zł |
Trojan War in Ancient Art
ISBN: 9780801481642 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The legendary characters of the Trojan War, Susan Woodford reminds us, captured the imaginations not only of Homer, the Attic tragedians, Aeschylus, Virgil, Ovid, and many other writers, but of countless Greek and Roman visual artists as well. A vibrant retelling of the Trojan myths, this handsomely illustrated book brings to life for today's readers both visual and literary traditions. Woodford is an engaging guide, as concerned with nuances of human experience as she is with aesthetic detail .As unforgettable images in story and picture reflect back on one another, Woodford offers... The legendary characters of the Trojan War, Susan Woodford reminds us, captured the imaginations not only of Homer, the Attic tragedians, Aeschylus... |
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189,20 zł |