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Download or read book The Ripa Index written by Yassu Okayama and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Moral Authority of Nature by : Lorraine Daston
Download or read book The Moral Authority of Nature written by Lorraine Daston and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify. The Moral Authority of Nature offers a wide-ranging account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good, beautiful, just, or valuable. The eighteen essays cover a diverse array of topics, including the connection of cosmic and human orders in ancient Greece, medieval notions of sexual disorder, early modern contexts for categorizing individuals and judging acts as "against nature," race and the origin of humans, ecological economics, and radical feminism. The essays also range widely in time and place, from archaic Greece to early twentieth-century China, medieval Europe to contemporary America. Scholars from a wide variety of fields will welcome The Moral Authority of Nature, which provides the first sustained historical survey of its topic. Contributors: Danielle Allen, Joan Cadden, Lorraine Daston, Fa-ti Fan, Eckhardt Fuchs, Valentin Groebner, Abigail J. Lustig, Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy, Katharine Park, Matt Price, Robert N. Proctor, Helmut Puff, Robert J. Richards, Londa Schiebinger, Laura Slatkin, Julia Adeney Thomas, Fernando Vidal
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Iconography by : Roelof van Straten
Download or read book An Introduction to Iconography written by Roelof van Straten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in English, An Introduction to Iconography explains the ways that artists use references and allusions to create meaning. The book presents the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of iconography and ICONCLASS, the comprehensive iconographical indexing system developed by Henri van de Waal. It gives particular emphasis to the history of iconography, personification, allegory, and symbols, and the literary sources that inform iconographic readings, and includes annotated bibliographies of books and journal articles from around the world that are associated with iconographic research. The author of numerous articles and a four-volume reference work on Italian prints, Roelof van Straten is currently working on an iconographic index covering the prints of Goltzius and his school.
Book Synopsis Literature in the Light of the Emblem by : Peter Maurice Daly
Download or read book Literature in the Light of the Emblem written by Peter Maurice Daly and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature of the 16th and 17th centuries was informed by the symbolic thought embodied in the mixed art form of emblems. This study explores the relationship between the emblem and the literature of England and Germany during the period.
Book Synopsis The Worldmakers by : Ayesha Ramachandran
Download or read book The Worldmakers written by Ayesha Ramachandran and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision something that no one had ever seen in its totality? The Worldmakers moves beyond histories of globalization to explore how “the world” itself—variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order—was self-consciously shaped by human agents. Gathering an international cast of characters, from Dutch cartographers and French philosophers to Portuguese and English poets, Ramachandran describes a history of firsts: the first world atlas, the first global epic, the first modern attempt to develop a systematic natural philosophy—all part of an effort by early modern thinkers to capture “the world” on the page.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography by : Helene E. Roberts
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography written by Helene E. Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes by : J. Paul Getty Museum
Download or read book French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes written by J. Paul Getty Museum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each object is described and analyzed in terms of its provenance and published history, as well as its construction, materials, and conservation. With its painstaking attention to detail, this volume is the definitive catalogue of the Getty Museum's collection of French Baroque furniture and will be of interest to scholars, conservators, and all students of French decorative arts."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Picturing Performance by : Thomas F. Heck
Download or read book Picturing Performance written by Thomas F. Heck and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has long been a need to introduce performing-arts enthusiasts and students to the fascinating field of iconography, both as manifested in art history and in its more pragmatic or applied forms. Yet relatively little systematic effort has been made to collect and interpret centuries of such visual evidence in the light of the best available art-historical information, combined with corroborating textual documentation and insights from the histories of performance disciplines. Aspiring iconographers of the performing arts need to be aware that there are often several levels of interpretation which great works of visual art will sustain. This book explores these levels of interpretation: a surface or literal reading, a deeper reading of the work which seeks to enter the mind of the artist and asks how and why he put a given work together, and the deepest reading of the work relating it to the artistic traditions and culture in which the artist lived. In expounding on these levels of iconographic interpretations four discourses by scholars active in the study of visual records are given in relation to traditions, techniques, and trends: performance in general (Katritzky), music (Heck), theatre (Erenstein), and dance (Smith). Effort is made to keep abreast of modern technology influencing iconographic representations as on the Internet and virtual reality.Thomas F. Heck is Professor of Musicology and Head of the Music and Dance Library at the Ohio State University.
Book Synopsis General Index to Archæologia Aeliana, Second Series, Vols. XVII to XXV, Third Series, Vols. I to XXI by : Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne
Download or read book General Index to Archæologia Aeliana, Second Series, Vols. XVII to XXV, Third Series, Vols. I to XXI written by Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages by : Herbert Bloch
Download or read book Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages written by Herbert Bloch and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monastery of Monte Cassino, founded by St. Benedict in the sixth century, was the cradle of Western monasticism. It became one of the vital centers of culture and learning in Europe. At the height of its influence, in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries, two of its abbots (including Desiderius) and one of its monks became popes, and it controlled a vast network of dependencies--churches, monasteries, villages, and farms--especially in central and southern Italy. Herbert Bloch's study, the product of forty years of research, takes as its starting point the twelfth-century bronze doors of the basilica of the abbey, the most significant relic of the medieval structure. The panels of these doors are inscribed with a list of more than 180 of the abbey's possessions. Mr. Bloch has supplemented this roster with lists found in papal and imperial privileges and other documents. The heart of the book is a detailed investigation of the nearly 700 dependencies of Monte Cassino from the sixth to the twelfth century and beyond. No comparable study of this or any other great medieval institution has ever before been undertaken. Ironically, it was the bombing of 1944, which destroyed the monastery, that led to an unexpected revelation: the discovery, on the reverse side of some panels of the doors, of magnificent engraved figures of patriarchs and apostles. These proved to be remnants of the church portal ordered from Constantinople by Desiderius in the eleventh century, which marked the beginning of the grandiose reconstruction of the abbey and its church, the latter to become a model for many other churches. In order to solve the riddle of the doors of Monte Cassino, Bloch has investigated other bronze doors of Byzantine origin in Italy and the doors of the great Italian master Oderisius of Benevento, as well as those of S. Clemente a Casauria and of the cathedral of Benevento. Also included is a study of the political and cultural impact of Byzantium on Monte Cassino and a chapter on Constantinus Africanus, Saracen turned monk, one of the most interesting figures in the history of medieval medicine. The text is sumptuously illustrated with 193 plates; most of the more than 300 illustrations have never before been published. This three-volume work, with its nine detailed indexes, offers a wealth of information for scholars in many different fields.
Book Synopsis Iconclass Indexes by : Roelof van Straten
Download or read book Iconclass Indexes written by Roelof van Straten and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foleor Publishers is pleased to announce the publication of a new series of iconographic reference works. After his series of Iconclass indexes on Italian prints, Roelof van Straten is now preparing a ten-volume iconographic catalogue: the Iconclass Indexes: Dutch Prints. The first three volumes published (volumes 4, 7 and 8 in the series) cover the Dutch prints catalogued by Bartsch in the first five volumes of "Le Peintre-Graveur". The indices on Dutch prints are of special importance to those institutes and museums that have a copy of The Illustrated Bartsch at their disposal, because the volumes will refer to all the Dutch prints reproduced therein. Dutch prints, with their enormous spread and influence on the visual arts, will finally be accessible according to subject. "The Iconclass Indexes: Dutch Prints" will soon become an indispensable reference tool for all those who are interested in Netherlandish art and culture of the16th and 17th centuries.
Book Synopsis Bibliotheca Britannica; Or a General Index to British and Foreign Literature. By Robert Watt, M.D. in Two Parts: - Authors and Subjects by :
Download or read book Bibliotheca Britannica; Or a General Index to British and Foreign Literature. By Robert Watt, M.D. in Two Parts: - Authors and Subjects written by and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index Medicus written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.
Download or read book Cumulated Index Medicus written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lists and Indexes by : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Download or read book Lists and Indexes written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Index to All the Law in L.R.A. Notes, 1-70 L.R.A. 1-42 L.R.A. (N.S.). by : Lawyers' reports annotated. (Indexes).
Download or read book Index to All the Law in L.R.A. Notes, 1-70 L.R.A. 1-42 L.R.A. (N.S.). written by Lawyers' reports annotated. (Indexes). and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A dictionary-index of musicians (eds. F. H. Martens, M. W. Cochran, and W. D. Darby) by : Daniel Gregory Mason
Download or read book A dictionary-index of musicians (eds. F. H. Martens, M. W. Cochran, and W. D. Darby) written by Daniel Gregory Mason and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: