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Category : Philosophy
Languages : it
Pages : 576
Book Description
Atti del XII Congresso Internazionale di Filosofia (Venezia, 12-18 Settembre 1958): Official speeches of the closing session
Author: Atti
Author: Proceedings
Author: Atti: Official speeches of the closing session
Author: Titian Remade
Author: Maria H. LohPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368730
Category : Imitation in art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This insightful volumes the use of imitation and the modern cult of originality through a consideration of the disparate fates of two Venetian painters - the canonised master Titian and his artistic heir, the little-known Padovanino.
Wooden Eyes
Author: Carlo GinzburgPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231119603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Ginzburg, "the preeminent Italian historian of his generation [who] helped create the genre of microhistory" ("New York Times"), ruminates on how perspective affects what we see and understand. 26 illustrations.
Time in the Eternal City
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004436251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Time in the Eternal City is a major contribution to the study of time and its numerous aspects in late medieval and Renaissance Rome.
Ancient Carved Ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Author: Faya CauseyPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606066358
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
First published in 2012, this catalogue presents fifty-six Etruscan, Greek, and Italic carved ambers from the Getty Museum's collection—the second largest body of this material in the United States and one of the most important in the world. The ambers date from about 650 to 300 BC. The catalogue offers full description of the pieces, including typology, style, chronology, condition, and iconography. Each piece is illustrated. The catalogue is preceded by a general introduction to ancient amber (which was also published in 2012 as a stand-alone print volume titled Amber and the Ancient World). Through exquisite visual examples and vivid classical texts, this book examines the myths and legends woven around amber—its employment in magic and medicine, its transport and carving, and its incorporation into jewelry, amulets, and other objects of prestige. This publication highlights a group of remarkable amber carvings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. This catalogue was first published in 2012 at museumcatalogues.getty.edu/amber/. The present online edition of this open-access publication was migrated in 2019 to www.getty.edu/publications/ambers/; it features zoomable, high-resolution photography; free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book; and JPG downloads of the catalogue images.
Italian Mathematics Between the Two World Wars
Author: Angelo GuerraggioPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3764375124
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This book describes Italian mathematics in the period between the two World Wars. It analyzes the development by focusing on both the interior and the external influences. Italian mathematics in that period was shaped by a colorful array of strong personalities who concentrated their efforts on a select number of fields and won international recognition and respect in an incredibly short time. Consequently, Italy was considered a third mathematical power after France and Germany.
Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture
Author: Jane FenoulhetPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1910634972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.