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Total Pages : 55 pages
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Download or read book SIMON PIETERSZ VERELST. written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Pietersz Verelst
Publisher : Humanities Press International
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Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Simon Pietersz Verelst written by Simon Pietersz Verelst and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1979 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Union List of Artist Names: Q-Z written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John C. Barentine
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319227955
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)
Download or read book The Lost Constellations written by John C. Barentine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casual stargazers are familiar with many classical figures and asterisms composed of bright stars (e.g., Orion and the Plough), but this book reveals not just the constellations of today but those of yesteryear. The history of the human identification of constellations among the stars is explored through the stories of some influential celestial cartographers whose works determined whether new inventions survived. The history of how the modern set of 88 constellations was defined by the professional astronomy community is recounted, explaining how the constellations described in the book became permanently “extinct.” Dr. Barentine addresses why some figures were tried and discarded, and also directs observers to how those figures can still be picked out on a clear night if one knows where to look. These lost constellations are described in great detail using historical references, enabling observers to rediscover them on their own surveys of the sky. Treatment of the obsolete constellations as extant features of the night sky adds a new dimension to stargazing that merges history with the accessibility and immediacy of the night sky.
Author : Karen Pierce Goulding
Publisher : Crimson
ISBN 13 : 178059125X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Royal London written by Karen Pierce Goulding and published by Crimson. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where is the only tube station where a crown prince has died? Where is the oak tree where Good Queen Bess took her rest? Which Queen befriended the Elephant Man – and played a part in the development of the modern Olympic Games? Where are the favourite shopping haunts of today’s young royals? From Westminster to Greenwich, Kensington to the Tower of London, no other city in the world is steeped in quite as much royal history as London. Overflowing with royal boroughs, royal palaces, royal parks and gardens, London has played host to key historical events for over a thousand years. Royal London brings together the best of the drama and intrigue of royal history, and guides readers to the very spot where the events happened. Topics covered also include: • Royals round the monopoly board • Royals sporting London • Royal stops on the underground • Royal food and drink • Areas named after royals • Royal monuments/statues/plaques • Royals and the military • Royal plots and conspiracies A unique and indispensable guide for Londoners and visitors alike with an interest in all things royal.
Author : Nathaniel Wolloch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783277254
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Macaulay and the Enlightenment written by Nathaniel Wolloch and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new intellectual biography of Thomas Babington Macaulay, showing how nineteenth-century British liberal culture retained and transformed the ideas of the Enlightenment in a rapidly changing world.
Author : Richard Green (Gallery : London, England)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Exhibition of Fine Old Master Paintings written by Richard Green (Gallery : London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrea Zuvich
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526753081
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain written by Andrea Zuvich and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-09-19 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert in Stuart England examines the sexual lives of Britons in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in this frank, informative, and revealing history. Acclaimed Stuart historian Andrea Zuvich explores the sexual mores of Stuart Britain, including surprising beliefs, bizarre practices, and ingenious solutions for infertility, impotence, sexually transmitted diseases, and more. Along the way, she reveals much about the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behavior. Zuvich sheds light not only on the saucy love lives of the Royal Stuarts, but also on the dark underbelly of the Stuart era with histories of prostitution, sexual violence, infanticide, and sexual deviance. She looks at everything from what was considered sexually attractive to the penalties for adultery, incest, and fornication. Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain touches on the fashion, food, science, art, medicine, magic, literature, love, politics, faith and superstition of the day.
Author : Sir Robert Clermont Witt
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Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Painters and Draughtsmen Represented in the Library of Reproductions of Pictures & Drawings written by Sir Robert Clermont Witt and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Morris
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717036
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Geography Is Destiny written by Ian Morris and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the ten-thousand-year history of Britain's relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world. When Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the 48 percent who wanted to stay and the 52 percent who wanted to go each accused the other of stupidity, fraud, and treason. In reality, the Brexit debate merely reran a script written ten thousand years earlier, when the rising seas physically separated the British Isles from the European continent. Ever since, geography has been destiny—yet it is humans who get to decide what that destiny means. Ian Morris, the critically acclaimed author of Why the West Rules—for Now, describes how technology and organization have steadily enlarged Britain’s arena, and how its people have tried to turn this to their advantage. For the first seventy-five hundred years, the British were never more than bit players at the western edge of a European stage, struggling to find a role among bigger, richer, and more sophisticated continental rivals. By 1500 CE, however, new kinds of ships and governments had turned the European stage into an Atlantic one; with the English Channel now functioning as a barrier, England transformed the British Isles into a United Kingdom that created a worldwide empire. Since 1900, thanks to rapid globalization, Britain has been overshadowed by American, European, and—increasingly—Chinese actors. In trying to find its place in a global economy, Britain has been looking in all the wrong places. The ten-thousand-year story bracingly chronicled by Geography Is Destiny shows that the great question for the current century is not what to do about Brussels; it’s what to do about Beijing.
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Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book World Collectors Annuary written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ingvar Bergström
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Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Still Lifes of the Golden Age written by Ingvar Bergström and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leigh Jones Handal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493061860
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Storied & Scandalous Charleston written by Leigh Jones Handal and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quaker William Penn once described "Charles Town" as “a hotbed of piracy,” full of wayward women “who frequented a tap room on The Bay and infected a goodly number of the militia with the pox.” Since the Carolina Colony was founded and named for Charles II, the Merry Monarch, it’s no surprise that Charlestonians have always had a flair for flouting the rules. In the 18th century, Bostonian Josiah Quincy complained that Charlestonians, “are devoted to debauchery and probably carry it to a greater length than any other people.” In Storied & Scandalous Charleston, storyteller Leigh Jones Handal weaves tales of piracy, rebellion, ancient codes of honor, and first-hand accounts of the madness that ensued as the city fell first to the British in 1780 and then to the Union in 1865. Meet some of the foremost female criminals of the day—lady pirate Anne Bonny and highwaywoman Livinia Fisher. And learn how centuries of war, natural disasters, bankruptcy, and chaos shaped modern Charleston and the Carolina Low Country.
Author : Fred G. Meijer
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
ISBN 13 : 9789040088025
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Collection of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Paintings Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward written by Fred G. Meijer and published by Spotlight Poets. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939, the Ashmolean Museum received a bequest of ninety-four still-life paintings by Dutch and Flemish artists, assembled over many years by Theodore and Daisy Linda Ward. The collection - known as the Daisy Linda Ward Bequest - is one of the most important of its kind. The original catalogue of the collection written by Professor J.G. van Gelder and published in 1950, has long been out of print. Knowledge of the subject also changed significantly since 1950. The present catalogue written by one of the leading present-day scholars of still-life paintings is much more than a revised version of van Gelder's publication. It includes an essay on the background to the collection and a discussion of the taste for and the interpretation of Netherlandish still-life painting. It also includes an extensive discussion of each of the works dealing with questions of style and content and ranging widely over other issues affecting the history of the subject. This book will serve not only as a catalogue of the collection but also as an important and up-to-date work of reference.
Author : Laura J. Snyder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246523
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing written by Laura J. Snyder and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world. On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek—a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher—gazed through a tiny lens set into a brass holder and discovered a never-before imagined world of microscopic life. At the same time, in a nearby attic, the painter Johannes Vermeer was using another optical device, a camera obscura, to experiment with light and create the most luminous pictures ever beheld. “See for yourself!” was the clarion call of the 1600s. Scientists peered at nature through microscopes and telescopes, making the discoveries in astronomy, physics, chemistry, and anatomy that ignited the Scientific Revolution. Artists investigated nature with lenses, mirrors, and camera obscuras, creating extraordinarily detailed paintings of flowers and insects, and scenes filled with realistic effects of light, shadow, and color. By extending the reach of sight the new optical instruments prompted the realization that there is more than meets the eye. But they also raised questions about how we see and what it means to see. In answering these questions, scientists and artists in Delft changed how we perceive the world. In Eye of the Beholder, Laura J. Snyder transports us to the streets, inns, and guildhalls of seventeenth-century Holland, where artists and scientists gathered, and to their studios and laboratories, where they mixed paints and prepared canvases, ground and polished lenses, examined and dissected insects and other animals, and invented the modern notion of seeing. With charm and narrative flair Snyder brings Vermeer and Van Leeuwenhoek—and the men and women around them—vividly to life. The story of these two geniuses and the transformation they engendered shows us why we see the world—and our place within it—as we do today. Eye of the Beholder was named "A Best Art Book of the Year" by Christie's and "A Best Read of the Year" by New Scientist in 2015.
Author : Art Gallery of South Australia
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Island to Empire written by Art Gallery of South Australia and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The important book surveys Britain's art tradition from the British Renaissance in the mid-16th century as the country became the center of the "civilized" world. With the prohibition against t the religious imagery that is basic to European art, the British developed a down-to-earth perspective, a confidence and an individualism that became their hallmark.
Author : Sotheby's (Firm)
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Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogues of Sales written by Sotheby's (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1990-04-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
