General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author | : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : English imprints |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : English imprints |
ISBN | : |
Author | : British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : English imprints |
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Author | : Marina Belozerskaya |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2005-10-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892367857 |
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Author | : David Hiley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 764 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780198165729 |
Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.
Author | : Dr Hilda Ellis Davidson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1134944683 |
Fragments of ancient belief mingle with folklore and Christian dogma until the original tenets are lost in the myths and psychologies of the intervening years. Hilda Ellis Davidson illustrates how pagan beliefs have been represented and misinterpreted by the Christian tradition, and throws light on the nature of pre-Christian beliefs and how they have been preserved. The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe stresses both the possibilities and the difficulties of investigating the lost religious beliefs of Northern Europe.
Author | : Natalie Zemon Davis |
Publisher | : Walters Art Gallery |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Africans in art |
ISBN | : 9780911886788 |
"This publication accompanies the exhibition Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, held at the Walters Art Museum from October 14, 2012, to January 21, 2013, and at the Princeton University Art Museum from February 16 to June 9, 2013."
Author | : John Christopher Atkinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Cleveland (England : District) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Celts |
ISBN | : 9780719025792 |
Author | : Michael Strmiska |
Publisher | : ABC-CLIO |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005-12-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1851096086 |
A study of Neopagan religious movements in North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe where people increasingly turn to ancestral religions, not as amusement or matters of passing interest, but in an effort to practice those religions as they were before the advent of Christianity.