Author: Bernard de MontfauconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Travels of the Learned Father Montfaucon from Paris Thro' Italy
Author: Bernard de MontfauconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Travels of the Learned Father Montfaucon from Paris Thro' Italy
Author: Bernard de MontfauconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Travels through France and Italy
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770482865
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Tobias Smollett travelled through Europe with his wife in 1763-65 in a journey designed to recover his mental and physical health after the death of their daughter. The resulting travel narrative provoked controversy and anger in the eighteenth century, when it was often negatively compared to Laurence Sterne’s fictional European travels in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. Unlike Sterne’s sensitive hero, Smollett is argumentative, acerbic, and often contemptuous of local customs. In addition to a critical introduction, this edition provides extensive annotation and appendices with material on Smollett’s correspondence, the book’s reception in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, related travel writing, and Smollett’s infamous satirization as “Smelfungus” in Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey.
A Bibliography of Topographical and Geological Works on the Phlegræan Fields
Author: Robert Theodore GuntherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A Literary Companion to Rome
Author: John VarrianoPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312131128
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Arranged as a series of walks through the city, this book is both an illuminating guide for the visitor to Rome and a delight to read at home for those who love the city and want to enrich their knowledge of it. Includes 10 walking tours & illustrations.
Universal Catalogue of Books on Art: L to Z
Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Mysteriously Meant
Author: Don Cameron AllenPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421435284
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Originally published in 1971. In Mysteriously Meant, Professor Allen maps the intellectual landscape of the Renaissance as he explains the discovery of an allegorical interpretation of Greek, Latin, and finally Egyptian myths and the effect this discovery had on the development of modern attitudes toward myth. He believes that to understand Renaissance literature one must understand the interpretations of classical myth known to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In unraveling the elusive strands of myth, allegory, and symbol from the fabric of Renaissance literature such as Milton's Paradise Lost, Allen is a helpful guide. His discussion of Renaissance authors is as authoritative as it is inclusive. His empathy with the scholars of the Renaissance keeps his discussion lively—a witty study of interpreters of mythography from the past.
The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope
Author: François LeguatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mascarene Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà and its Afterlives
Author: Lisa M. RafanelliPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100083378X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelo’s well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Pietà, by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time. Lisa M. Rafanelli chronicles the object history of the Vatican Pietà and the active role played by its many reproductions. The sculpture has been on continuous view for over 500 years, during which time its cultural, theological, and artistic significance has shifted. Equally important is the fact that over its long life it has been relocated numerous times and has also been reproduced in images and objects produced both during Michelangelo’s lifetime and long after, described here as artistic progeny: large-scale, unique sculpted variants, smaller-scale statuettes, plaster and bronze casts, and engraved prints. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies, early modern studies, religion, Christianity, and theology.