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Download or read book Iconoclasm written by Stacy Boldrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word 'iconoclasm' is most often used in relation to sculpture, because it is sculptures that most visibly bear witness to physical damage. But damage can also be invisible, and the actions of iconoclasm can be subtle and varying. Iconoclastic acts include the addition of objects and accessories, as well as their removal, or may be represented in text or imagery that never materially affects the original object. This book brings together a collection of essays each of which fundamentally questions the meaning of the word iconoclasm as a descriptive category. Each contribution examines the impact of iconoclastic acts on different representational forms, and assesses the development and historical implications of these various destructive and transformative behaviours.
Book Synopsis Thirteenth-century Wall Painting of Salisbury Cathedral by : Matthew M. Reeve
Download or read book Thirteenth-century Wall Painting of Salisbury Cathedral written by Matthew M. Reeve and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisionist study of the wall-paintings of Salisbury Cathedral, setting them in the context of thirteenth-century religious reform.
Download or read book American Printer and Bookmaker written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Formation of English Gothic by : Peter Draper
Download or read book The Formation of English Gothic written by Peter Draper and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original account of architecture in England between c.1150 and c.1250, Peter Draper explores how the assimilation of new ideas from France led to an English version of Gothic architecture that was quite distinct from Gothic expression elsewhere. The author considers the great cathedrals of England (Canterbury, Wells, Salisbury, Lincoln, Ely, York, Durham, and others) as well as parish churches and secular buildings, to examine the complex interrelations between architecture and its social and political functions. Architecture was an expression of identity, Draper finds, and the unique Gothic that developed in England was one of a number of manifestations of an emerging sense of national identity. The book inquires into such topics as the role of patrons, the relationships between patrons and architects, and the wide variety of factors that contributed to the process of creating a building. With 250 illustrations, including more than 50 in color, this book offers new ways of seeing and thinking about some of England’s greatest and best-loved architecture.
Book Synopsis The Long Lives of Medieval Art and Architecture by : Jennifer M. Feltman
Download or read book The Long Lives of Medieval Art and Architecture written by Jennifer M. Feltman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional histories of medieval art and architecture often privilege the moment of a work’s creation, yet surviving works designated as "medieval" have long and expansive lives. Many have extended prehistories emerging from their sites and contexts of creation, and most have undergone a variety of interventions, including adaptations and restorations, since coming into being. The lives of these works have been further extended through historiography, museum exhibitions, and digital media. Inspired by the literary category of biography and the methods of longue durée historians, the introduction and seventeen chapters of this volume provide an extended meditation on the longevity of medieval works of art and the aspect of time as a factor in shaping our interpretations of them. While the metaphor of "lives" invokes associations with the origin of the discipline of art history, focus is shifted away from temporal constraints of a single human lifespan or generation to consider the continued lives of medieval works even into our present moment. Chapters on works from the modern countries of Italy, France, England, Spain, and Germany are drawn together here by the thematic threads of essence and continuity, transformation, memory and oblivion, and restoration. Together, they tell an object-oriented history of art and architecture that is necessarily entangled with numerous individuals and institutions.
Download or read book The American Printer written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Four Great Venetians by : Frank Preston Stearns
Download or read book Four Great Venetians written by Frank Preston Stearns and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Body Adorned written by Vidya Dehejia and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sensuous human form-elegant and eye-catching-is the dominant feature of premodern Indian art. From the powerful god Shiva, greatest of all yogis and most beautiful of all beings, to stone dancers twisting along temple walls, the body in Indian art is always richly adorned. Alankara (ornament) protects the body and makes it complete and attractive; to be unornamented is to invite misfortune. In The Body Adorned, Vidya Dehejia, who has dedicated her career to the study of Indian art, draws on the literature of court poets, the hymns of saints and acharyas, and verses from inscriptions to illuminate premodern India's unique treatment of the sculpted and painted form. She focuses on the coexistence of sacred and sensuous images within the common boundaries of Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu "sacred spaces," redefining terms like "sacred" and "secular" in relation to Indian architecture. She also considers the paradox of passionate poetry, in which saints praised the sheer bodily beauty of the divine form, and nonsacred Rajput painted manuscripts, which freely inserted gods into the earthly realm of the courts. By juxtaposing visual and literary sources, Dehejia demonstrates the harmony between the sacred and the profane in classical Indian culture. Her synthesis of art, literature, and cultural materials not only generates an all-inclusive picture of the period but also revolutionizes our understanding of the cultural ethos of premodern India.
Book Synopsis Reading Gothic Architecture by : Matthew M. Reeve
Download or read book Reading Gothic Architecture written by Matthew M. Reeve and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of how architecture was read by those viewing it has, in recent years come to the forefront of research, encompassing a range of interpretive strategies. Here contributors look at Gothic architecture, aiming to widen the field of study as well as examine the ways in which the architecture was read.
Book Synopsis Vlad Dracula : The Impaler by : Albert Ernst
Download or read book Vlad Dracula : The Impaler written by Albert Ernst and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1456, the night of Vlad’s coronation: a dastardly plot, a joint venture between the Ottoman Empire and Catholic Hungary to kill the Impaler’s beloved, sets off some of the worst atrocities in history, enshrining the name Dracula as a synonym for terror. He drank the blood of his victims, and filled the castles of the land with wretches destined for the stake: Scourge of the Saxons, champion of the peasants, national hero who saved his country from Islamic conquest, Vlad was all of these, and much, much more... His name has become a byword for cruelty, Vlad’s draconian policies the horror of Europe. But who was the man behind the legend? Written off by historians, the Dacians were thought to have vanished immediately after the Roman conquest of Dacia, but Vlad, Son of the Devil, would revive the ancient Gaulish pride, bringing hope to the oppressed Wallach remnants of Transylvania through a dastardly series of impalements: he would become known in Romanian as Vlad Țepeș, the Impaler! A man more terrifying than any vampire.
Book Synopsis The Present State of Europe, Or, The Historical and Political Mercury by :
Download or read book The Present State of Europe, Or, The Historical and Political Mercury written by and published by . This book was released on 1697 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Present State of Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 1697 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ ... Collected out of the works of H. Bunting, and done into English by R. B. [i.e. Richard Brathwait?] by : Heinrich BUENTING
Download or read book Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ ... Collected out of the works of H. Bunting, and done into English by R. B. [i.e. Richard Brathwait?] written by Heinrich BUENTING and published by . This book was released on 1629 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Colombia Before Independence by : Anthony McFarlane
Download or read book Colombia Before Independence written by Anthony McFarlane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-16 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and analyzes economic and political developments in Colombia during the final century of Spanish rule. Its purpose is threefold: first, to provide a general portrait of Colombian society during the late colonial period, showing the character of economic, social, and political life in the territory's principal regions; second, to assess the impact on the region of European imperialist expansion during the eighteenth century; and third, to provide a context for understanding the causes of independence. The book offers the only available survey of Colombian history and historiography for this period.
Book Synopsis Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time by : Sir Daniel Wilson
Download or read book Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time written by Sir Daniel Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Anatomy of melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostics, and several cures of it by : Robert Burton
Download or read book The Anatomy of melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostics, and several cures of it written by Robert Burton and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Anatomy of Melancholy by : Robert Burton
Download or read book The Anatomy of Melancholy written by Robert Burton and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: