Author: Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Great Art Treasures of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg: Art of the early cultures, classical antiquities, oriental works of art, coins and medals, arms and armour
Author: Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Great Art Treasures of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg: Western European art, Russian art and culture
Author: Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies for 1994
Author: Patt LeonardPublisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9781563247514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
This text provides a source of citations to North American scholarships relating specifically to the area of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It indexes fields of scholarship such as the humanities, arts, technology and life sciences and all kinds of scholarship such as PhDs.
Later Chinese Bronzes
Author: Philip K. HuLuxury 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.
Copper and Bronze in Art
Author: David A. ScottPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892366385
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
This is a review of 190 years of literature on copper and its alloys. It integrates information on pigments, corrosion and minerals, and discusses environmental conditions, conservation methods, ancient and historical technologies.
Witnesses to History
Author: Lyndel V. ProttPublisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231041282
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
This Compendium gives an outline of the historical, philosophical and ethical aspects of the return of cultural objects (e.g. cultural objects displaced during war or in colonial contexts), cites past and present cases (Maya Temple Facade, Nigerian Bronzes, United States of America v. Schultz, Parthenon Marbles and many more) and analyses legal issues (bona fide, relevant UNESCO and UNIDROIT Conventions, Supreme Court Decisions, procedure for requests etc.). It is a landmark publication that bears testament to the ways in which peoples have lost their entire cultural heritage and analyses the issue of its return and restitution by providing a wide range of perspectives on this subject. Essential reading for students, specialists, scholars and decision-makers as well as those interested in these topics.
Dosso's Fate
Author: Dosso DossiPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892365050
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Dosso Dossi has long been considered one of Renaissance Italy's most intriguing artists. Although a wealth of documents chronicles his life, he remains, in many ways, an enigma, and his art continues to be as elusive as it is compelling. In Dosso's Fate, leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines examine the social, intellectual, and historical contexts of his art, focusing on the development of new genres of painting, questions of style and chronology, the influence of courtly culture, and the work of his collaborators, as well as his visual and literary sources and his painting technique. The result is an important and original contribution not only to literature on Dosso Dossi but also to the study of cultural history in early modern Italy.
Frozen Tombs of Siberia
Author: Сергей Иванович РуденкоPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520013957
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Sergei Ivanovich Rudenko was a prominent Russian/Soviet anthropologist and archaeologist who discovered and excavated the most celebrated of Scythian burials, Pazyryk in Siberia. During the excavation of Pazyryk tombs, he discovered the world's most spectacular tattooed mummy said to belong to the Pazyryk Culture which flourished between the 7th and 3rd centuries BC. Herodotus and other ancient writers referred to the Altay as "the golden mountain". It was there that the impregnable citadel of the Scythians (or Sacae) lay hidden for centuries. Rudenko, however, was cautious enough not to assign his findings to the Scythians. He attributed the kurgan finds to the formidable Iron Age horsemen and warriors, whom he dubbed the "Pazyryks." Although they left no written records, Pazyryk artifacts are distinguished by a sophisticated level of artistry and craftsmanship. The Pazyryk tombs discovered by Rudenko were in an almost perfect state of preservation. They contained skeletons and intact bodies of horses and embalmed humans, together with a wealth of artifacts including saddles, riding gear, a chariot, rugs, clothing, jewelry, musical instruments, amulets, tools, and an "apparatus for inhaling hemp smoke." Also found in the tombs were fabrics from Persia and China, which the Pazyryks must have obtained on journeys covering thousands of miles.
Treasures of the Hermitage Museum
Author: Five Mile Press StaffPublisher: Five Mile Press
ISBN: 9781742114064
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Celebrates one of the world's finest art collections, the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia that boasts masterpieces by da Vinci and Monet as well as many uniquely Russian items, such as glorious Faberge pieces. This book features four 96-piece jigsaws.