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From Stone Quarry to Sculpturing Workshop

Author : Vidula Jayaswal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book From Stone Quarry to Sculpturing Workshop written by Vidula Jayaswal and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recognitior of ancient stone quarries at chunar hills with dateble epigraphs was a startling discovery made by the author of this book, in the year 1990. the followup archaological field investigations around chunar and Varanasi, which were carried out between the years 1990 and 1994, have uncovered the entire process of stone carving which was prevalent during the historical period in the Ganga plains. Besides archaeological investigations, ethnological surveys were also carried out. As a result of which it has been possible, start from quarrying of stone carving process, start from quarrying of stone blocks, their transportation to the centres of utility-carving of the sculpturing centres and the main religious centres etc.

The Portland Sculpture Trust

Author : Portland Sculpture Trust
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book The Portland Sculpture Trust written by Portland Sculpture Trust and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sculptor's Workshop

Author : Julie Van Voorhis
Publisher : Dr Ludwig Reichert
ISBN 13 : 9783954902682
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Sculptor's Workshop written by Julie Van Voorhis and published by Dr Ludwig Reichert. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carved marble was a major part of the economy of Roman cities. The material was supplied by local and regional quarries but little is known of the workshops in which the carving was carried out. The Sculptor's Workshop at Aphrodisias is a uniquely well-preserved facility of this kind supplied by a nearby local quarry. The workshop was located behind the Council House in the centre of town, and when excavated in 1967-1969 it contained remarkable remains from a high-end sculpture business. The monograph offers a complete publication of the archaeology of the workshop itself and of the finds - they include a set of stone-carving tools, a large quantity of sculpture in various states of completion, well-preserved statues (both portraits and mythological figures), and several practice pieces carved by apprentice sculptors as part of their training.

Sarnath

Author : Frederick M Asher
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606066382
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Sarnath written by Frederick M Asher and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first analytical history of Sarnath, the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist reliquary mounds (stupas), and some of the most important sculptures in the history of Indian art. This volume offers the first critical examination of the historic site. Frederick M. Asher provides a longue durée (long-term) analysis of Sarnath—including the plunder, excavation, and display of antiquities and the Archaeological Survey of India’s presentation—and considers what lies beyond the fenced-in excavated area. His analytical history of Sarnath’s architectural and sculptural remains contains a significant study of the site’s sculptures, their uneven production, and their global distribution. Asher also examines modern Sarnath, which is a living establishment replete with new temples and monasteries that constitute a Buddhist presence on the outskirts of Varanasi, the most sacred Hindu city.

Life, Death and Representation

Author : Jas Elsner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110216787
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Life, Death and Representation written by Jas Elsner and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volumepresents acollection of essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches will produce fresh insights into a subject which is receiving increased interest in English-language scholarship, with a new awareness of the important contribution that sarcophagi can make to the study of the social use and production of Roman art. The book will therefore be a timely addition to existing literature. Metropolitan sarcophagi are the main focus of the volume, which will cover a wide time range from the first century AD to post classical periods (including early Christian sarcophagi and post-classical reception). Other papers will look at aspects of viewing and representation, iconography, and marble analysis. There will be an Introduction written by the co-editors.

Realistic Painting Workshop

Author : Dan Carrel
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1610594568
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Realistic Painting Workshop written by Dan Carrel and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique, how-to art instruction book, taught by masterful artist Dan Carrel. Using Dan’s original method of painting, readers with little or no painting experience will easily learn to create realistic renderings of any subject. Through a simple process of layering and learning how to create light and shadow with paint, a complex and sophisticated image emerges. What begins as chaotic color is transformed into an orderly, realistic finished piece of art. Dan Carrel has been teaching workshops for over 30 years with amazing results. No matter what your artistic inclination, and even if you have never picked up a paintbrush, you’ll find yourself painting beyond your wildest expectations. Anchored in a positive philosophy of creative discovery, this workshop teaches Dan’s no-fail techniques through accessible, step-by-step visual instruction and inspiration.

Ashoka

Author : Patrick Olivelle
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300270003
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Ashoka written by Patrick Olivelle and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor in South Asian history There are few historical figures more integral to South Asian history than Emperor Ashoka, a third-century BCE king who ruled over a larger area of the Indian subcontinent than anyone else before British colonial rule. Ashoka sought not only to rule his territory but also to give it a unity of purpose and aspiration, to unify the people of his vastly heterogeneous empire not by a cult of personality but by the cult of an idea--"dharma"--which served as the linchpin of a new moral order. He aspired to forge a new moral philosophy that would be internalized not only by the people of his empire but also by rulers and subjects of other countries, and would form the foundation for his theory of international relations, in which practicing dharma would bring international conflicts to an end. His fame spread far and wide both in India and in other parts of Asia, and it prompted diverse reimaginations of the king and his significance. In this deeply researched book, Patrick Olivelle draws on Ashoka's inscriptions and on the art and architecture he pioneered to craft a detailed picture of Ashoka as a ruler, a Buddhist, a moral philosopher, and an ecumenist who governed a vast multiethnic, multilinguistic, and multireligious empire.

Myths and Places

Author : Shonaleeka Kaul
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000897249
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Myths and Places written by Shonaleeka Kaul and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the dialogic relationship between myths and places in the historically, geographically, and culturally diverse context of India. Given its ambiguous relationship with ‘facts’ and empirical reality, myth has suffered an uncertain status in the field of professional history, with the latter’s preference for scientifism over more creative orders of representation. Myths and Places rehabilitates myth, not as history’s primeval ‘Other’, nor as an instrument of socio-religious propagation, but as communitarian mechanisms by which societies made sense of themselves and their world. It argues that myths helped communities fashion their identities and their habitat/habitus, and were fashioned by these in turn. This book explores diverse forms of territorial becoming and belonging in a grassroots approach from across India, studying them in culturally sensitive ways to recover local life-worlds and their self-understanding. Further, challenging the stereotypical bracketing of the mythical with the sacred and the material with the historical, the multidisciplinary essays in the book examine myth in relation to not only religion but other historical phenomena such as ecology, ethnicity, urbanism, mercantilism, migration, politics, tourism, art, philosophy, performance, and the everyday. This book will be of interest to scholars and general readers of Indian history, regional studies, cultural geography, mythology, religious studies, and anthropology.

From the Quarry to the Church

Author : Michelle Beghelli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book From the Quarry to the Church written by Michelle Beghelli and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An abundant scientific production concerns the economics of construction-stone and decorative stone items used in Roman and Late Medieval architecture. Yet, despite the major economic relevance of the construction industry, the same subject in Early Middle Ages had been very little inquired. This PhD thesis (which was awarded the Leibniz Dissertation Award / Leibniz Promotionspreis 2020) was the first comprehensive work that investigated the functioning of Early Medieval building- and sculpting-workshops, and their economic and social context, on a European-wide scale and over the longue durée. Among other aspects, were analysed the modalities of procurement of stone and their costs and logistics, the recruitment and payment of workforce, the working techniques, technical knowledge, organisation of workshops and craftsmen, their relation with the commissioners, their social status, and so forth. One of the most relevant changes in comparison to the Roman period was the striking increase of mobility of masons and sculptors: they often moved over long distances and across political and administrative boundaries, thus mirroring the nature of Early Medieval secular and ecclesiastical elite-networks, as high ranked individuals (frequently bound by 'transnational' and 'trans-diocesan' alliances) sent the best masters from their regions to their counterparts in other areas. Conversely, the transport over long distances of raw stone and near-finished carved items ceased almost completely. As shown by a large statistical survey, ca. 95% of the stone used for sculpture was locally procured. The travelling craftsmen who worked it even began to be presented as a status symbol by the elites that summoned them from afar, while the Roman high-ranked individuals often expressed their prestige through the import of exotic marbles. These phenomena were the 'natural' consequence of a new, different economic context, though the transition from one production system to the next occurred very gradually. Methodologically, the research required a transdisciplinary approach, being archaeological, written and petrographic evidence equally important to reconstruct the whole picture. Additionally, the correspondence analysis / seriation (a statistical method successfully used for other categories of archaeological finds) was applied for the first time to Early Medieval sculpted fragments.

Working with Limestone

Author : Vibeke Olson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351870947
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Working with Limestone written by Vibeke Olson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume in the AVISTA series focuses on the study of medieval limestone. As the principal building material in the Middle Ages and a prized medium for architectural sculpture, limestone played a significant role in medieval artistic manufacture. The choice of material inherently informed the final product, thus understanding the material and its uses gives insight into the medieval creative process and the production-driven choices that were made by masons and sculptors. Quality limestone was a highly sought-after commodity that was often shipped across great distances; yet in other instances, masons made do with locally available resources. Through an intensive study of medium, many broader topics can be addressed, for instance the economics of medieval construction, the artistic process, or the application of modern technology in understanding and preserving medieval buildings and sculpture. The papers collected in this volume present the depth and scope of recent scholarship in the field, through a wide-ranging overview of the state of the discipline of medieval stone studies. They address such methodological approaches to the study of limestone as the use of neutron activation analysis to determine quarries of origin, issues of labor and transportation, as well as issues faced in the cleaning and conservation of limestone. This volume is the first comprehensive study in English that investigates limestone as an essential component of large-scale medieval artistic production, and as such, it is a valuable resource for both students and scholars in the field.

Negotiating Cultural Identity

Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317341309
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Cultural Identity written by Himanshu Prabha Ray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing landscape as a dynamic cultural complex in which the natural world and human practice are inextricably linked and are constantly interacting. It examines the social and cultural construction of space in the early medieval period in South Asia, as manifest in society, religious architecture and as shaped through trade and economic transactions.

The Alcalde

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alcalde written by and published by . This book was released on 1967-03 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."

Scribes and Scribalism

Author : Mark Leuchter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567696170
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Scribes and Scribalism written by Mark Leuchter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a concentrated examination of the varied roles of scribes and scribal practices in ancient Israel and Judah, shedding light on the social world of the Hebrew Bible. Divided into discussion of three key aspects, the book begins by assessing praxis and materiality, looking at the tools and materials used by scribes, where they came from and how they worked in specific contexts. The contributors then move to observe the power and status of scribal cultures, and how scribes functioned within their broader social world. Finally, the volume offers perspectives that examine ideological issues at play in both antiquity and the modern context(s) of biblical scholarship. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that no text is produced in a void, and no writer functions without a network of resources.

Ex Asia et Syria: Oriental Religions in the Roman Central Balkans

Author : Nadežda Gavrilović Vitas
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789699142
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Ex Asia et Syria: Oriental Religions in the Roman Central Balkans written by Nadežda Gavrilović Vitas and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ex Asia et Syria: Religions in the Roman Central Balkans' examines the cults of Asia Minor and Syrian origin in the Roman provinces of the Central Balkans. The author analyzes all hitherto known epigraphical and archaeological material attesting to the presence of the cults in that region, a subject yet to be the object of serious scholarly study.

Neolithic Stone Extraction in Britain and Europe

Author : Peter Topping
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789257085
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Neolithic Stone Extraction in Britain and Europe written by Peter Topping and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new title in the acclaimed Prehistoric Society Research Papers series focuses on the introduction of Neolithic extraction practices across Europe through to the Atlantic periphery of Britain and Ireland. The key research questions are when and why these practices were adopted, and what role extraction sites played in Neolithic society. Neolithic mines and quarries have frequently been seen as fulfilling economic roles linked to the expansion of the Neolithic economy. However, this ignores the fact that many communities chose to selectively dig for certain types of stone in preference to others, and why the products from these sites were generally deposited in special places such as wetlands. To address this question, 168 near-global ethnographic studies were analysed to identify common trends in traditional extraction practises to produce robust statistics about their motivations and material signatures. Repeated associations emerged between storied locations, the organisation of extraction practises, long-distance distribution of products, and the material evidence such activities left behind. This suggests that we can now probably identify mythologised/storied sites, seasonality, ritualised extraction, and the uselife of extraction site products. The ethnographic model was tested against data from 223 near-global archaeological extraction sites which confirmed a similar patterning in both material records, suggesting it can be used to interpret broad trends in many cross-cultural contexts and time periods. Finally, the new ethnoarchaeological model has been used to analyse the social context of 79 Neolithic flint mine and 51 axe quarry excavations in Britain and Ireland, and to review their European origins. The evidence which emerges confirms the pivotal role played by Neolithic extraction practices in European Neolithisation, and that the interaction of indigenous foragers with migrant miner/farmers in Britain, Ireland and elsewhere was fundamental to the adoption of the new agro-pastoral lifestyle.

The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture

Author : Colum Hourihane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195395360
Total Pages : 4064 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture written by Colum Hourihane and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 4064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers unparalleled coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from medieval Western Europe, from the 6th century to the early 16th century. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in the celebrated 'Grove Dictionary of Art' and adding hundreds of new entries, it offers students, researchers and the general public a reliable, up-to-date, and convenient resource covering this field of major importance in the development of Western history and international art and architecture.

A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India

Author : Upinder Singh
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131716779
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India written by Upinder Singh and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India is the most comprehensive textbook yet for undergraduate and postgraduate students. It introduces students to original sources such as ancient texts, artefacts, inscriptions and coins, illustrating how historians construct history on their basis. Its clear and balanced explanation of concepts and historical debates enables students to independently evaluate evidence, arguments and theories. This remarkable textbook allows the reader to visualize and understand the rich and varied remains of India s ancient past, transforming the process of discovering that past into an exciting experience.