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Category : West Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
West Virginia Blue Book
Author: Smoking and Health
Author: United States. Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Smoking
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Yale Alumni Weekly
Author: The Commercial and Financial Chronicle
Author: The Commercial & Financial Chronicle ...
Author: Senate and House Journals
Author: Kansas. Legislature. SenatePublisher:
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
In the Matter of Josef Mengele
Author: Neal M. SherPublisher:
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Category : Intelligence service
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
WORLD WAR VETERANS' LEGISLATION.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on World War Veterans' LegislationPublisher:
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Category : Veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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.
Foundation of the Force
Author: Mark R. GrandstaffPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160490415
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A study of how Air Force enlisted personnel helped shape the fi%ture Air Force and foster professionalism among noncommissioned officers in the 195Os.