Author: comte Louis-Mathieu MoléPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 34
Book Description
Discours prononcé, à l'occasion du décès de M. le Baron Bernard
Author: comte Louis-Mathieu MoléPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 34
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Author: Marina BelozerskayaPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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.
POTTER United Families
Author: Nicolas de POTTERPublisher: Nicolas de POTTER
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Nic de Potter is co-author of six kids in Brussels and six books in Bruges. - His intelligence agency investigated families during twenty years. - He uncovered best stories out of the millenium (1050-2050). - Eleventh century Graal quest with King Godfrey in Ardennes - Heroïc Celtic craftsmen Tournai, 12thC. - French textile heretics in Renaix, 13thC. - Tough rebels to bloody Duke of Alba in Brabant, 15thC. - Dutch secret support during the great sickness, 16thC. - Brilliant Flemish scouts in Bruges, 17thC. - Brave Belgian revolution leader, 18thC. - Forgotten American migrants, 19thC. - German WW1 escape, 20thC. - Vanishing of Brussels, 21thC!? - Amazing true illustrated adventures! More info and sources: www.potter.c.la
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Book of the Dead
Author: Foy ScalfPublisher: Oriental Institute Press
ISBN: 9781614910381
Category : Book of the dead
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discover how the ancient Egyptians controlled their immortal destiny! This book, edited by Foy Scalf, explores what the Book of the Dead was believed to do, how it worked, how it was made, and what happened to it.
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Author: The Last Utopia
Author: Samuel MoynPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674256522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
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