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55 Portraits Of Europe
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Author :Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert Lehman Collection Publisher :Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN 13 :0870998811 Total Pages :257 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (79 download)
Book Synopsis Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-century European Paintings by : Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert Lehman Collection
Download or read book Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-century European Paintings written by Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert Lehman Collection and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1998 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Imagining Europe by : Henry T. Edmondson III
Download or read book Imagining Europe written by Henry T. Edmondson III and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Europe: Essays on the Past, Present and Future of the European Union examines the EU from a variety of perspectives. The collection begins with the expectation that, despite its challenges, the European Union is here to say, but it also proceeds from the premise that imaginative thinking is necessary to guide the 27 member organization into the future. The book offers nine chapters and a substantive introduction to examine the EU from the point-of-view of a commercial enterprise, the writings of José Ortega y Gasset, immigration and public opinion, its relationship with China, its management of political populism, the American Federalist papers—and more. The first chapter is a summary of the history, structure and processes of the European Union for the convenience of those using this text in the classroom. The last chapter considers this latest chapter of European development, in light of the historical quest for a united Europe. The contributors to the volume are scholars residing in the U.S., Poland, France, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Turkey.
Author :Henrietta Spencer-Churchill Publisher :Rizzoli International Publications ISBN 13 :084783350X Total Pages :362 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (478 download)
Book Synopsis Blenheim by : Henrietta Spencer-Churchill
Download or read book Blenheim written by Henrietta Spencer-Churchill and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important, most visited, and most renowned of all of Britain’s stately homes, Blenheim has been home to the Churchill family for more than 300 years. Regarded as perhaps the greatest of the stately homes and the finest example of baroque architecture in Great Britain, Blenheim is a treasure of English heritage. In this stunning volume, Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, the twelfth generation of the family, takes us on a privileged tour of the palace. Designed by John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor (a protégé of Christopher Wren) in the early 1700s; with stonework, furniture, and tapestries crafted by the best talents of the age; and art and statuary by such notable artists as John Singer Sargent and Joshua Reynolds, Blenheim is filled with artistic commissions that provide a window into the history of England. In addition to the gilded staterooms and acres of landscaped gardens, Spencer-Churchill shows us the family’s private apartments, with their secret corridors and history of illustrious guests, as well as the “downstairs” staff area with its iconic bell system. With beautiful photography of the magnificent interiors and priceless collections, and Spencer-Churchill’s fascinating text, this volume illuminates Blenheim as it's never been seen before.
Book Synopsis Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe, 900–1400 by : Donald Ostrowski
Download or read book Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe, 900–1400 written by Donald Ostrowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides imagined biographies of twenty different figures from all walks of life living in Eastern Europe from 900 to 1400. Moving beyond the usual boundaries of speculative history, the book presents innovative and creative interpretations of the people, places, and events of medieval Eastern Europe and provides an insight into medieval life from Scandinavia to Byzantium. Each chapter explores a different figure and together they present snapshots of life across a wide range of different social backgrounds. Among the figures are both imagined and historical characters, including the Byzantine Princess Anna Porphyrogenita, a Jewish traveller, a slave, the Mongol general Sübodei, a woman from Novgorod, and a Rus’ pilgrim. A range of different narrative styles are also used throughout the book, from omniscient third-person narrators to diary entries, letters, and travel accounts. By using primary sources to construct the lives of, and give a voice to, the types of people who existed within medieval European history, Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides a highly accessible introduction to the period. Accompanied by a new and interactive companion website, it is the perfect teaching aid to support and excite students of medieval Eastern Europe.
Book Synopsis American and European in the Works of Henry James by : Sten Bodvar Liljegren
Download or read book American and European in the Works of Henry James written by Sten Bodvar Liljegren and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by : Josephine L. Allen
Download or read book A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Josephine L. Allen and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1954-08-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue was written in 1954 as a full index of the Museum's collection of European paintings and serves as an interesting record of the attributions that have changed since that time.
Author :Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Publisher :Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN 13 :0870998080 Total Pages :209 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (79 download)
Book Synopsis European Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book European Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1996 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalog of the museum's collection of some 300 European portrait miniatures dating from the early 16th to the mid-19th centuries. Each piece is described in detail and illustrated with bandw and color photos. Includes an overview of the history of miniature painting, notes on artists, and indices of artists, collectors, makers, and sitters. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Real Birds in Imagined Gardens by : Kavita Singh
Download or read book Real Birds in Imagined Gardens written by Kavita Singh and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of paintings produced during the Mughal dynasty (1526–1857) tend to trace a linear, “evolutionary” path and assert that, as European Renaissance prints reached and influenced Mughal artists, these artists abandoned a Persianate style in favor of a European one. Kavita Singh counters these accounts by demonstrating that Mughal painting did not follow a single arc of stylistic evolution. Instead, during the reigns of the emperors Akbar and Jahangir, Mughal painting underwent repeated cycles of adoption, rejection, and revival of both Persian and European styles. Singh’s subtle and original analysis suggests that the adoption and rejection of these styles was motivated as much by aesthetic interest as by court politics. She contends that Mughal painters were purposely selective in their use of European elements. Stylistic influences from Europe informed some aspects of the paintings, including the depiction of clothing and faces, but the symbolism, allusive practices, and overall composition remained inspired by Persian poetic and painterly conventions. Closely examining magnificent paintings from the period, Singh unravels this entangled history of politics and style and proposes new ways to understand the significance of naturalism and stylization in Mughal art.
Book Synopsis The Jewish Self-Portrait in European and American Literature by : Hans-Jürgen Schrader
Download or read book The Jewish Self-Portrait in European and American Literature written by Hans-Jürgen Schrader and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this collection originated from an international symposium at the University of Haifa and centre around a major topic in German, European and American literature, i.e. the way in which Jewish self-definition, both positive and negative, has materialized as a product of the tensions between secular culture and society on the one hand, and Jewish tradition and religion on the other. The broad range of authors (most of them of German-speaking origin) necessarily results in an almost equally broad range of answers to this central question. The volume is dedicated to the memory of the Israeli literary scholar Chaim Shoham.
Book Synopsis Muḥammad ʿAlī’s Soft Power in Europe by : Hala Ghoname
Download or read book Muḥammad ʿAlī’s Soft Power in Europe written by Hala Ghoname and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-12-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The profusion of literature on Muḥammad ʿAlī's Egypt (1805–1849) makes the Bāshā’s epoch significantly well-documented; however, one facet is perceptibly brushed out or rather overlooked. Published in 1945, Gaston Wiet’s Mohammed Ali et Les Beaux-Arts has been the only book deliberating the visual and artistic aspects of Muḥammad ʿAlī’s reign, and while it offers an extended survey of the Ottoman governor’s iconography and visual relics, the book wants the rudiments of critical analysis. The trivial number of works covering this facet of the Bāshā’s sovereignty has made it barely examined, rendering the research field with a significant epistemological gap, namely regarding art and historiography patronage for political triggers. Embarking from where Wiet's work has halted, this book attempts to critically analyze the artistic component of Muḥammad ʿAlī’s reign by dealing with the pictorial crops of the nineteenth century’s orientalist-travelers, assessing their role within the context of contemporaneous trends in Ottoman and European diplomacy and tracing Muḥammad ʿAlī’s early attempts for using pictorial propaganda and historiography in order to claim political legitimacy and to attain European recognition. The book conducts an in-depth analysis of the Bāshā’s historiographic making process with a focus on how text worked art and visual politics. The book takes an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, which commingles tools of visual analysis and contextual investigation, in its consideration of the aspects of Muḥammad ʿAlī Bāshā’s foreign policy, this book closely examines topics associated with cultural systems, modernization, traditionalism, and changeability in Egypt of the nineteenth century, while assessing the impact of global connectedness not only on Muslim cultures and societies but also on European public opinion through highlighting how Muslim rulers had adapted appealing themes and employed cultural magnets in their visual propaganda to fit within the pervasive international diplomatic trends.
Book Synopsis European Women in Persian Houses by : Parviz Tanavoli
Download or read book European Women in Persian Houses written by Parviz Tanavoli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the course of the 19th century, a relatively modern medium entered the private space of Iranian houses of the wealthy and became a popular feature of interior design in Persia. This was print media - lithographed images on paper and postcards - and their subject was European women. These idealised images adorned houses across the country throughout the Qajar period and this trend was particularly fashionable in Isfahan and mural decorations at the entrance gate of the Qaysarieh bazaar. The interest in images of Western women was an unusual bi-product of Iran's early political and cultural encounters with the West. In a world where women were rarely seen in public and, even then, were heavily veiled, the notion of European women dressed in - by Iranian standards - elegant and revealing clothing must have sparked much curiosity and some titillation among well-to-do merchants and aristocrats who felt the need to create some association, however remote, with these alien creatures. The introduction of such images began during the Safavid era in the 17th century with frescoes in royal palaces. This spread to other manifestations in the form of tile work and porcelain in the Qajar era, which became a testament to the popularity of this visual phenomenon among Iran's urban elite in the 19th and early 20th century. Parviz Tanavoli, the prominent Iranian artist and sculptor, here brings together the definitive collection of these unique images. European Women in Persian Houses will be essential for collectors and enthusiasts interested in Iranian art, culture and social history.
Download or read book East European Accessions Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance by : Alison Manges Nogueira
Download or read book Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance written by Alison Manges Nogueira and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many small Renaissance portraits were richly adorned with covers or backs bearing allegorical figures, mythological scenes, or emblems that celebrated the sitter and invited the viewer to decipher their meaning. Hidden Faces includes seventy objects, ranging in format from covered paintings to miniature boxes, that illuminate the symbiotic relationship between the portrait and its pair. Texts by thirteen distinguished scholars vividly illustrate that the other “faces” of these portraits represent some of the most innovative images of the Renaissance, created by masters such as Hans Memling and Titian. Uniting works that have in some cases been separated for centuries, this fascinating volume shows how the multifaceted format unveiled the sitter’s identity, both by physically revealing the portrait and reading the significance behind its cover.
Author :Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Publisher :Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN 13 :1588392406 Total Pages :344 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (883 download)
Book Synopsis Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Publisher :Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN 13 :0870997343 Total Pages :543 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (79 download)
Book Synopsis European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865 by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865 written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1995 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the Museum's descriptive catalogue of its 2,500 paintings, oil sketches, and finished pastels, each one illustrated and presented chronologically by national and regional school. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Book Synopsis A.L.A. Portrait Index by : William Coolidge Lane
Download or read book A.L.A. Portrait Index written by William Coolidge Lane and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A.L.A. Portrait Index by : American Library Association
Download or read book A.L.A. Portrait Index written by American Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
