Author: Elizabeth BrightPublisher:
ISBN: 9781884907920
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A Lasting Splendor
Author: Elizabeth BrightPublisher:
ISBN: 9781884907920
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Enduring Splendor
Author: Thomas K. SeligmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780990762645
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Enduring Splendor focuses on the rich and diverse silver jewelry traditions of India's Thar Desert region, stretching across the western states of Rajasthan and Gujarat. These traditions are considered against the background of the five-thousand-year history of jewelry making across the vast Indian Subcontinent. Drawing on recent field research carried out in the city of Jaisalmer, a thriving center of contemporary jewelry production, Enduring Splendor explores for the first time the life and work of four sonis (silversmiths or goldsmiths). To contextualize this recent production, numerous illustrations of very fine examples of ninteenth- and twentieth-century jewelry types that are still worn are included. These objects have been borrowed from the Ronald and Maxine Linde Collection of Jewelry and Ritual Arts of India, part of a promised gift to UCLA, where it will find its future home with the Fowler Museum. The Linde Collection is one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of Indian jewelry in the world. This volume highlights elaborate rural styles rendered in silver as well as selected ornate examples, largely associated with the elite, made with gold and gemstones.
The Churchman's Monthly Magazine
Author: Second Corinthians
Author: Linda L. BellevillePublisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 9780830818082
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
In this passage-by-passage commentary on 2 Corinthians, Linda Belleville shows how Paul's response to the commercial and hedonistic hotbed of Corinth can serve as model for all disciples who are confronted with a culture of individualism and materialism.
The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume VII
Author: Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691182922
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1544
Book Description
The concluding volume of a critical English edition of the monumental Indian epic The seventh and final book of the monumental Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki, the Uttarakāṇḍa, brings the epic saga to a close with an account of the dramatic events of King Rāma’s millennia-long reign. It opens with a colorful history of the demonic race of the rākṣasas and the violent career of Rāma’s villainous foe Rāvaṇa, and later recounts Rāma’s grateful discharge of his allies in the great war at Lankā as well as his romantic reunion with his wife Sītā. But dark clouds gather as Rāma makes the agonizing decision to banish his beloved wife, now pregnant. As Rāma continues as king, marvelous tales and events unfurl, illustrating the benefits of righteous rule and the perils that await monarchs who fail to address the needs of their subjects. The Uttarakāṇḍa has long served as a point of social and religious controversy largely for its accounts of the banishment of Sītā, as well as of Rāma’s killing of a low-caste ascetic. This seventh volume in the critical edition and translation of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa includes an extensive introduction and describes the complex reception history of the Uttarakāṇḍa, as well as exhaustive notes and a comprehensive bibliography.
The Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
Author: Levi Carroll JudsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The History of the Jews, from the Earliest Period Down to Modern Times
Author: Henry Hart MilmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...
Author: John Clark RidpathThe Just and the Unjust
Author: Vaughan KesterPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442903651
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
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The Civil War in Song and Story, 1860-1865
Author: Frank MoorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
This work contains songs, anecdotes, and poetry from the Civil War.