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Book Synopsis Achilles Maestri and the Veiled Prince by : Victoria C. Preston
Download or read book Achilles Maestri and the Veiled Prince written by Victoria C. Preston and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his grandmother falls ill, Achilles, along with an unexpected dwarf ally, must venture to the Witch of the Northern Wood for the cure. However, unbeknownst to the travelers, they began a journey that wouldn't end in the gnarled woods of the north. A veiled entity is turning the hand of fate and creating ripples in time that would come to change every fiber of Achilles's being. In his conquest to pursue the man calling himself the Veiled Prince, he must become more than he ever imagined.
Book Synopsis Achilles Maestri and the Unchallenged King by : Victoria C Preston
Download or read book Achilles Maestri and the Unchallenged King written by Victoria C Preston and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A royal wedding awaits the people of Burgdul as two kingdoms will be united. With the coming war, Meiren struggles to gain popularity with her people and prepare. Arlo finds the truth of his origins and travels to the Third Empire amid the growing tension in Burgdul. Achilles has admired the brotherhood he's gained as a squire with hopes to be knighted and earn Meiren's favor. In an attempt to gain control over the elder dragon Wornix's soul, Achilles travels to the Valley of Kings to meet Valron, the Unchallenged King.
Book Synopsis The Shadow of Achilles by : Costas Komborozos
Download or read book The Shadow of Achilles written by Costas Komborozos and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Trojan war, a Myrmidon is washed upon strange shores, and he learns that he must learn his destiny in order to become more than an ant-sized shadow in the insurmountable shadow of history. "No demigod dreads death. But being mortal, a Myrmidon walks in the shadow of a demigod in order to make peace with death, the rushing dark of it, the unabated truth of the blackness ultimate. Achilles is dead. The Myrmidons have all fallen apart from me, the recipient of fate's undeserved succor. They emerged from the ants on Zeus' sacred oak. Zeus made them vast and innumerable as the ants on the oak. Ants became men and populated Aegina. But now they are nearly without number. Myrmidon, the Thessalian King, is our great ancestor. I feel that I am Aiacos, Achilles' grandfather, who found himself living on an island alone. Zeus gave him comfort by turning ants into people and thereby allowing Aiacos to have company. The Myrmidons were the first to build ships with sails, but now history recedes with a mere, wistful blink. I stand here on the verge of pure, static zero. No thoughts nor memories can I marshal. The ten-year siege of Troy has yielded an afterimage: the blood-rimmed bowl of the ocean being chased by a blankness too beautiful to be called oblivion. History has already marched ahead. And I, an Ant man among the dead shadows of other Ant men, drown in its unparalleled shade. A Myrmidon is an Ant man as he fights with a vast contingent of men. He is never supposed to follow without a lead. He is a man fighting with other men when death breathes the multiplied breath of the enemy. For mortals on a battlefield, death arrives sooner than imminence. Foolishness outlasts fear. I was astounded by my own survival. I stand here alone and undead on a pristine beach. The wind whispers. I trudge along the shore in the hoping of catching an echo in that whisper. I imagine Achilles rising to the throne abdicated by an Agamemnon unfit to rule. An Agamemnon driven mad by the voices of the gods. Achilles sits on the throne and motions for me to come forward. The distance between us no longer seems godlike. I, foolish mortal that I am, once again yield to a foolishness that outlasts fear. Achilles drinks from a bejeweled cup. He drinks from his own mortality. But mortality swallows him before he can swallow it. Then everything dissolves, and I see the past recede. I find myself vainly pursuing destiny's stolen bride. No, it is not Helen. It is a world displaced from its shore. I must regain my purpose and rush past the all-encircling gloom. The Trojan Aeneas escaped with other Trojans before the Greeks besieged the city of Troy. I must find Aeneas. But something else awaits than a fugitive Trojan. I need to find what remains of a world that still beats inside me."
Download or read book Titian Remade written by Maria H. Loh and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful volumes the use of imitation and the modern cult of originality through a consideration of the disparate fates of two Venetian painters - the canonised master Titian and his artistic heir, the little-known Padovanino.
Book Synopsis The Victorious Youth by : Carol C. Mattusch
Download or read book The Victorious Youth written by Carol C. Mattusch and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this full study of the statue, Victorious Youth - the first in nearly 20 years - the author takes into account the most recent art historical information and scientific data about the piece. Included is a complete conservation report.
Book Synopsis The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity by : Aby Warburg
Download or read book The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity written by Aby Warburg and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.
Book Synopsis Supports in Roman Marble Sculpture by : Anna Anguissola
Download or read book Supports in Roman Marble Sculpture written by Anna Anguissola and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figural and non-figural supports are a ubiquitous feature of Roman marble sculpture; they appear in sculptures ranging in size from miniature to colossal and of all levels of quality. At odds with modern ideas about beauty, completeness, and visual congruence, these elements, especially non-figural struts, have been dismissed by scholars as mere safeguards for production and transport. However, close examination of these features reveals the tastes and expectations of those who commissioned, bought, and displayed marble sculptures throughout the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Drawing on a large body of examples, Greek and Latin literary sources, and modern theories of visual culture, this study constitutes the first comprehensive investigation of non-figural supports in Roman sculpture. The book overturns previous conceptions of Roman visual values and traditions and challenges our understanding of the Roman reception of Greek art.
Book Synopsis Ancient Terracottas from South Italy and Sicily in the J. Paul Getty Museum by : Maria Lucia Ferruzza
Download or read book Ancient Terracottas from South Italy and Sicily in the J. Paul Getty Museum written by Maria Lucia Ferruzza and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ancient world, terracotta sculpture was ubiquitous. Readily available and economical—unlike stone suitable for carving—clay allowed artisans to craft figures of remarkable variety and expressiveness. Terracottas from South Italy and Sicily attest to the prolific coroplastic workshops that supplied sacred and decorative images for sanctuaries, settlements, and cemeteries. Sixty terracottas are investigated here by noted scholar Maria Lucia Ferruzza, comprising a selection of significant types from the Getty’s larger collection—life-size sculptures, statuettes, heads and busts, altars, and decorative appliqués. In addition to the comprehensive catalogue entries, the publication includes a guide to the full collection of over one thousand other figurines and molds from the region by Getty curator of antiquities Claire L. Lyons. Reflecting the Getty's commitment to open content, Ancient Terracottas from South Italy and Sicily in the J. Paul Getty Museum is available online at www.getty.edu/publications/terracottas and may be downloaded for free.
Book Synopsis Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy by : Blake Wilson
Download or read book Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy written by Blake Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of the dominant form of solo singing in Renaissance Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century.
Book Synopsis Notes Upon Dancing, Historical and Practical by : Carlo Blasis
Download or read book Notes Upon Dancing, Historical and Practical written by Carlo Blasis and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal by : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Download or read book The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal written by The J. Paul Getty Museum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1989-11-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 16 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, and sculpture and works of art. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 16 includes articles written by Richard A. Gergel, Lee Johnson, Myra D. Orth, Barbra Anderson, Louise Lippincott, Leonard Amico, Peggy Fogelman, Peter Fusco, Gerd Spitzer, and Clare Le Corbeiller.
Book Synopsis Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice by : Ellen Rosand
Download or read book Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice written by Ellen Rosand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi
Book Synopsis European Drawings 2 by : George R. Goldner
Download or read book European Drawings 2 written by George R. Goldner and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1992-10-08 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Getty Museum's collection of drawings was begun in 1981 with the purchase of a Rembrandt nude and has since become an important repository of European works from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. As in the first volume devoted to the collection (published in 1988 in English and Italian editions), the text is here organized first by national school, then alphabetically by artist, with individual works arranged chronologically. For each drawing, the authors provide a discussion of the work's style, dating, iconography, and relationship to other works, as well as provenance and a complete bibliography.
Book Synopsis Decadent Genealogies by : Barbara Spackman
Download or read book Decadent Genealogies written by Barbara Spackman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness. By means of an ideological and rhetorical analysis of scientific as well as literary texts, she shows how the rhetoric of sickness provided the male decadent writer with an alibi for the occupation and appropriation of the female body.
Book Synopsis ... Nicolo Paganini by : Stephen Samuel Stratton
Download or read book ... Nicolo Paganini written by Stephen Samuel Stratton and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Sculpture by : Ernest Henry Short
Download or read book A History of Sculpture written by Ernest Henry Short and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Shapes of Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment by : D.R. Kelley
Download or read book The Shapes of Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment written by D.R. Kelley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original idea for a conference on the "shapes of knowledge" dates back over ten years to conversations with the late Charles Schmitt of the Warburg Institute. What happened to the classifications of the sciences between the time of the medieval Studium and that of the French Encyclopedie is a complex and highly abstract question; but posing it is an effective way of mapping and evaluating long term intellectual changes, especially those arising from the impact of humanist scholarship, the new science of the seventeenth century, and attempts to evaluate, to apply, to reconcile, and to institutionalize these rival and interacting traditions. Yet such patterns and transformations cannot be well understood from the heights of the general history of ideas. Within the ~eneral framework of the organization of knowledge the map must be filled in by particular explorations and soundings, and our project called for a conference that would combine some encyclopedic (as well as interdisciplinary and inter national) breadth with scholarly and technical depth.
