Flora's Feast

Flora's Feast
Author: Walter Crane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1892
Genre: Flowers
ISBN:

As winter begins to fade, Queen Flora goes to her garden and awakens the flowers.

The Masque of Stuart Culture

The Masque of Stuart Culture
Author: Jerzy Limon
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1990
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780874133967

Limon presents an unconventional approach to the Stuart masque, discussing the masque as a form of courtly ritual rather than a truly theatrical performance. As seen from this perspective, the masque is the deepest, most complex, and many-faceted reflection of early Stuart culture.

Flora's Feast

Flora's Feast
Author: Walter Crane
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2002-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780486418582

Created by a celebrated late-Victorian era illustrator and painter. Features 40 full-color depictions of ethereal figures clad in flowery garments, each of which appears with a whimsical verse. A treasure for admirers of fine book illustration, this charming volume will also delight flower lovers of all ages and anyone enchanted by fairies and make-believe.

A Flower Wedding

A Flower Wedding
Author: Walter Crane
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2020-03-16
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

'A Flower Wedding: Described by Two Wallflowers' by Walter Crane is an exquisitely illustrated poem that transports readers to a joyous wedding celebration in 1905. Immerse yourself in the charming tale of Lad's Love and Miss Meadow Sweet as their love blossoms amidst a garden filled with a kaleidoscope of flowers. Crane's masterful artistry brings each page to life, with intricate illustrations capturing the essence of every bloom.

The Multi-Sensory Image from Antiquity to the Renaissance

The Multi-Sensory Image from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Author: Heather Hunter-Crawley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2019-01-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1315519836

This volume responds to calls in visual and material cultural studies to move beyond the visual and to explore the multi-sensory impact of the image, across a wide range of cultural and historical contexts. What does it mean to practise art history after the material and sensory turns? What is an image, if not a purely visual phenomenon, and how does it prompt non-visual sensory experiences? The multi-sensoriality of the image was a less challenging concept before the ocularcentric modern age, and so this volume brings together a global array of scholars from multiple disciplines to ask these questions of imagery in premodern or non-western contexts, ranging from Minoan palace frescoes, to Roman statues, early church sermons, tombs of Byzantine saints, museum displays of Islamic artefacts of scent, medieval depictions of the voice, and Stuart court masques. Each chapter presents a means of appreciating images beyond the visual, demonstrating the new information and understanding that consequently can be gleaned from their material. As a collection, these chapters offer the student and scholar of art history and visual culture an array of exciting new approaches that can be applied to appreciate the multi-sensoriality of images in any context, as well as prompts for reflection on future directions in the study of imagery. The Multi-Sensory Image thus illustrates that it is not only possible to explore the non-visual impact of images, but imperative.

Blue Flowers

Blue Flowers
Author: Carola Saavedra
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593086864

“Ravishing… as if Saavedra were a modern-day Borges.” —Luis Alberto Urrea, O, The Oprah Magazine A novel of dark obsession, missed connections, and violent love. Marcos has just been through a divorce and moved into a new apartment. He feels alienated from his ex-wife, from his daughter, from society; everything feels flat and fake to him. He begins to receive letters at his new address from an anonymous troubled woman who signs off as A. and who clearly believes she is writing to the former tenant, her ex-lover, in the aftermath of a violent heartbreak. Marcos falls under the spell of the manic, hypnotic missives and for the first time in years, something moves him. Blue Flowers alternates between the letters detailing the dissolution of A.'s relationship, and Marcos' growing fixation with this damaged person. The letters become a kind of exorcism as both A.'s epistolary affair and Marcos' personal life reach a crisis point. Possessed by A., he is driven to discover her true identity. Blue Flowers is a dark portrait of desire, undermining accepted truths about love and sex, violence and fear, men and women.

A Book of Masques

A Book of Masques
Author: Gerald Eades Bentley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 526
Release: 1967-04-02
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780521054553

The English court masque was one of the most extravagant and spectacular forms of entertainment ever produced, the most important period being between 1600 and 1640 when the writers included some of the best-known poets and dramatists of the age. This volume, first published in 1967, was the first selection of masques to be published in England in the twentieth century. It consists of fourteen masques, each specially edited with an introduction and commentary by a different scholar, including Ben Jonson, James Shirley, Samuel Daniel, Thomas Campion, Francis Beaumont, William Browne, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Nabbes and William Davenant. Professor Gerald Eades Bentley examines the masque as Jonson conceived it and the clash that took place between Jonson and his collaborator as designer, Inigo Jones. There is also a final essay on the influence of the masque on the drama of the period. A group of 48 plates has been prepared many of them reproducing designs by Inigo Jones.

The Rose in Fashion

The Rose in Fashion
Author: Amy de la Haye
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2020-09-04
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0300250088

Examples from jewelry, millinery, handbags, perfume, couture, and everyday dress show how the rose--both beautiful and symbolic--has inspired fashion over hundreds of years.