Author: Helene E. Roberts
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136787925
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 2586
Book Description
First published in 1998. The Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography compares the uses of iconographic themes from mythology, the Bible and other sacred texts, literature, and popular culture in works of art through various periods, cultures, and genres. Art historians now tend to study narrative themes depicted in works of art in relation to such subjects as gender and sexuality, politics and power, ownership and possession, ceremony and ritual, legitimacy and authority. The Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography reflects these new approaches by ordering the themes of various iconographic sources in particular biblical, mythological, and literary texts according to these new emphases.Each handsomely illustrated entry discusses the major relevant iconographic narratives and the historical background of each theme. A list of selected works of art that accompanies each essay guides the reader to examples in art that depict the theme under discussion. Each essay includes a list of suggested reading that provides further sources of information about the themes. A general bibliography of reference books is listed separately and can be used in association with all the essays. With 119 entries written by 42 experts, the Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography is an important reference work for art historians, students of art history, artists, and the general reader.
Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography
Author: Helene E. Roberts
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136787925
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 2586
Book Description
First published in 1998. The Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography compares the uses of iconographic themes from mythology, the Bible and other sacred texts, literature, and popular culture in works of art through various periods, cultures, and genres. Art historians now tend to study narrative themes depicted in works of art in relation to such subjects as gender and sexuality, politics and power, ownership and possession, ceremony and ritual, legitimacy and authority. The Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography reflects these new approaches by ordering the themes of various iconographic sources in particular biblical, mythological, and literary texts according to these new emphases.Each handsomely illustrated entry discusses the major relevant iconographic narratives and the historical background of each theme. A list of selected works of art that accompanies each essay guides the reader to examples in art that depict the theme under discussion. Each essay includes a list of suggested reading that provides further sources of information about the themes. A general bibliography of reference books is listed separately and can be used in association with all the essays. With 119 entries written by 42 experts, the Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography is an important reference work for art historians, students of art history, artists, and the general reader.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136787925
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 2586
Book Description
First published in 1998. The Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography compares the uses of iconographic themes from mythology, the Bible and other sacred texts, literature, and popular culture in works of art through various periods, cultures, and genres. Art historians now tend to study narrative themes depicted in works of art in relation to such subjects as gender and sexuality, politics and power, ownership and possession, ceremony and ritual, legitimacy and authority. The Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography reflects these new approaches by ordering the themes of various iconographic sources in particular biblical, mythological, and literary texts according to these new emphases.Each handsomely illustrated entry discusses the major relevant iconographic narratives and the historical background of each theme. A list of selected works of art that accompanies each essay guides the reader to examples in art that depict the theme under discussion. Each essay includes a list of suggested reading that provides further sources of information about the themes. A general bibliography of reference books is listed separately and can be used in association with all the essays. With 119 entries written by 42 experts, the Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography is an important reference work for art historians, students of art history, artists, and the general reader.
McClure's Magazine
Philosophers and Actresses. [Translated from the French.]
Forgotten Virgo
Author: Kathleen Wine
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600003933
Category : Epic literature, French
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
"Cette étude trouve dans les traditions à la fois savantes et politiques associées à la déesse Astrée une invitation à relire l'œuvre d'Honoré d'Urfé à la lumière de la pastorale et de l'épopée virgiliennes. Pourtant, refusant l'absolutisme naissant d'Henry IV, d'Urfé encouragea ses lecteurs à oublier la déesse et l'épopée bourbonienne qu'il avait lui même esquissée. Il réussit ainsi à libérer le monde pastoral de sa dépendance vis-à-vis de l'humanisme et de l'absolutisme, offrant au public du dix-septième siècle un mythe fertile d'autonomie personnelle et littéraire."--
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600003933
Category : Epic literature, French
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
"Cette étude trouve dans les traditions à la fois savantes et politiques associées à la déesse Astrée une invitation à relire l'œuvre d'Honoré d'Urfé à la lumière de la pastorale et de l'épopée virgiliennes. Pourtant, refusant l'absolutisme naissant d'Henry IV, d'Urfé encouragea ses lecteurs à oublier la déesse et l'épopée bourbonienne qu'il avait lui même esquissée. Il réussit ainsi à libérer le monde pastoral de sa dépendance vis-à-vis de l'humanisme et de l'absolutisme, offrant au public du dix-septième siècle un mythe fertile d'autonomie personnelle et littéraire."--
A Handbook of Modern French Painting
Author: Daniel Cady Eaton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting, French
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting, French
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The Outline of Knowledge: The romance of the arts, by F. H. Martens
Author: James Albert Richards
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Man as Hero
Author: Pierce Rice
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393730562
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Pierce Rice surveys the role of the human figure in public art.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393730562
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Pierce Rice surveys the role of the human figure in public art.
The Age of Fable, Or, Beauties of Mythology
Author: Thomas Bulfinch
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819628107
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819628107
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
A Short History of Art
Author: Julia B. De Forest
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Great Painters of the XIXth Century and Their Paintings
Author: Léonce Bénédite
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description