Corcoran Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher: Lucia Marquand
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Painting
ISBN: 9781555953614

This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.

Biographical Books, 1876-1949

Biographical Books, 1876-1949
Author: R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
Total Pages: 1826
Release: 1983
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780835216036

"This book is a companion volume to Biographical books, 1950-1980, completing a comprehensive one hundred and five year bibliography of biographical and autobiographical works published or distributed in the United States"--Preface.

History of the Persian Empire

History of the Persian Empire
Author: A. T. Olmstead
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 671
Release: 2022-08-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226826333

Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point of view. "The fullest and most reliable presentation of the history of the Persian Empire in existence."—M. Rostovtzeff