Encounters At Sea Paper Objects And Sentiments In Motion Across The Mediterranean An Intellectual Journey Through The Collections Of The Riccardiana Library In Florence
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Author | : G. Tarantino |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788883417924 |
Author | : Katie Barclay |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 2023-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000839206 |
The Routledge History of Loneliness takes a multidisciplinary approach to the history of a modern emotion, exploring its form and development across cultures from the seventeenth century to the present. Bringing together thirty scholars from various disciplines, including history, anthropology, philosophy, literature and art history, the volume considers how loneliness was represented in art and literature, conceptualised by philosophers and writers and described by people in their personal narratives. It considers loneliness as a feeling so often defined in contrast to sociability and affective connections, particularly attending to loneliness in relation to the family, household and community. Acknowledging that loneliness is a relatively novel term in English, the book explores its precedents in ideas about solitude, melancholy and nostalgia, as well as how it might be considered in cross-cultural perspectives. With wide appeal to students and researchers in a variety of subjects, including the history of emotions, social sciences and literature, this volume brings a critical historical perspective to an emotion with contemporary significance.
Author | : David A. Scott |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780892366385 |
This is a review of 190 years of literature on copper and its alloys. It integrates information on pigments, corrosion and minerals, and discusses environmental conditions, conservation methods, ancient and historical technologies.
Author | : Aby Warburg |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 872 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art, Renaissance |
ISBN | : 9780892365371 |
A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.
Author | : D.R. Kelley |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9401132380 |
The original idea for a conference on the "shapes of knowledge" dates back over ten years to conversations with the late Charles Schmitt of the Warburg Institute. What happened to the classifications of the sciences between the time of the medieval Studium and that of the French Encyclopedie is a complex and highly abstract question; but posing it is an effective way of mapping and evaluating long term intellectual changes, especially those arising from the impact of humanist scholarship, the new science of the seventeenth century, and attempts to evaluate, to apply, to reconcile, and to institutionalize these rival and interacting traditions. Yet such patterns and transformations cannot be well understood from the heights of the general history of ideas. Within the ~eneral framework of the organization of knowledge the map must be filled in by particular explorations and soundings, and our project called for a conference that would combine some encyclopedic (as well as interdisciplinary and inter national) breadth with scholarly and technical depth.
Author | : Amy R. Bloch |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 874 |
Release | : 2016-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131640465X |
This book examines the heretofore unsuspected complexity of Lorenzo Ghiberti's sculpted representations of Old Testament narratives in his Gates of Paradise (1425–52), the second set of doors he made for the Florence Baptistery and a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture. One of the most intellectually engaged and well-read artists of his age, Ghiberti found inspiration in ancient and medieval texts, many of which he and his contacts in Florence's humanist community shared, read, and discussed. He was fascinated by the science of vision, by the functioning of nature, and, above all, by the origins and history of art. These unusually well-defined intellectual interests, reflected in his famous Commentaries, shaped his approach in the Gates. Through the selection, imaginative interpretation, and arrangement of biblical episodes, Ghiberti fashioned multi-textured narratives that explore the human condition and express his ideas on a range of social, political, artistic, and philosophical issues.
Author | : Jacques Vallee |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2010-10-28 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 110144472X |
One of the most ambitious works of paranormal investigation of our time, here is an unprecedented compendium of pre-twentieth-century UFO accounts, written with rigor and color by two of today's leading investigators of unexplained phenomena. In the past century, individuals, newspapers, and military agencies have recorded thousands of UFO incidents, giving rise to much speculation about flying saucers, visitors from other planets, and alien abductions. Yet the extraterrestrial phenomenon did not begin in the present era. Far from it. The authors of Wonders in the Sky reveal a thread of vividly rendered-and sometimes strikingly similar- reports of mysterious aerial phenomena from antiquity through the modern age. These accounts often share definite physical features- such as the heat felt and described by witnesses-that have not changed much over the centuries. Indeed, such similarities between ancient and modern sightings are the rule rather than the exception. In Wonders in the Sky, respected researchers Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck examine more than 500 selected reports of sightings from biblical-age antiquity through the year 1879-the point at which the Industrial Revolution deeply changed the nature of human society, and the skies began to open to airplanes, dirigibles, rockets, and other opportunities for misinterpretation represented by military prototypes. Using vivid and engaging case studies, and more than seventy-five illustrations, they reveal that unidentified flying objects have had a major impact not only on popular culture but on our history, on our religion, and on the models of the world humanity has formed from deepest antiquity. Sure to become a classic among UFO enthusiasts and other followers of unexplained phenomena, Wonders in the Sky is the most ambitious, broad-reaching, and intelligent analysis ever written on premodern aerial mysteries.
Author | : Bertrand Gille |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Engineering |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Dennistoun |
Publisher | : London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Art, Renaissance |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jerzy Miziołek |
Publisher | : L'Erma Di Bretschneider |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Love in art |
ISBN | : 9788891312785 |
"This book is divided into two parts, the first comprises two chapters dealing with Karol Lanchkoronski and the fate of his collection, as well as wedding rituals in Renaissance Italy and the history of domestic painting. The second part, consisting of eight chapters, discusses the cassone panels and paintings derving from day beds--lettucci--and panelling of the walls--spalliere."--Back cover.