Author: Florence Cole QuinbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Equestrian Monuments of the World
Author: Florence Cole QuinbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Equestrian Statues of the World ...
Author: American Scenic and Historic Preservation SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Equestrian statues
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Equestrian Monuments
Author: Luis ChavesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781733408240
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Poetry. Translated by Julia Guez and Samantha Zighelboim. In Luis Chaves's EQUESTRIAN MONUMENTS, the stately figure of a former president, Leon CortÈs, is counterbalanced by a cast of mock-heroic or non-normative foils: a cross-dresser, a singleton, homunculus, thief, and gardener. Dialogue from The Exorcist coexists alongside lines from the Latin Kyrie, Rex, while sweeping statements about entire generations, continents, and genres find a basis in the most intimate details of home-life. The intersections are uncanny, sometimes hilarious, often sad and unsettling. Chaves's hyper-caffeinated imagination renders each image in this remarkable collection in a way that orients the reader and provides a moment's stasis and clarity before "the waves come and the waves erase it."
The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople
Author: Elena N. BoeckPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107197279
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Biography of the medieval Mediterranean's most cross-culturally significant sculptural monument, the tallest in the pre-modern world.
The Horse and Jockey from Artemision
Author: Séan A. HemingwayPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520233085
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In 1928, and again in 1937, parts of a large-scale bronze horse and nearly complete jockey were recovered from the sea off Cape Artemision in Greece, where they had gone down in a shipwreck. These original Hellenistic sculptures, known together as the "Horse and Jockey Group from Artemision," are among the very few surviving bronze sculptures from antiquity. Seán Hemingway has been allowed by the National Museum in Athens to investigate the horse and jockey statuary group as no one ever has before, and in this book, combining archaeological and art historical methods of investigation, he provides the first in-depth study of this rare and beautiful monument. New technical analyses of the statues by Helen Andreopoulou-Mangou form an appendix to the volume. Hemingway begins with an introduction to Hellenistic bronze statuary and what we know about this extraordinary class of ancient sculpture. He then recounts with riveting detail the discovery and painstaking restoration of the statue group, describing the technique of its creation and carefully reviewing scholarly knowledge and speculation about it. He also provides a valuable compendium of what is known about ancient Greek horse racing, the most prestigious and splendid of all Greek sports. After a full consideration of all the available evidence, he speculates further about the work’s original meaning and function. His study provides a glimpse of the excellence achieved by Hellenistic bronze sculptors, and it will become the definitive resource on this unique sculpture from ancient Greece.
City of the Soul
Author: John A. PintoPublisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 0875981720
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
City of the Soul critically examines how an international cast of visitors fashioned Rome's image, visual and literary, in the century between 1770 and 1870 - from the era of the Grand Tour to the onset of mass tourism. The Eternal City emerges not only as an intensely physical place but also as a romantic idea onto which artists and writers projected their own imaginations and longings. The book will appeal to a wide audience of readers interested in the history of art, architecture, and photography, the Romantic poets, and other writers from Byron to Henry James. It will also attract the interest of historians of urbanism, landscape, and Italy. Nonspecialists and armchair travelers will enjoy the diverse literary and artistic responses to Rome.
Monument Reporter
Author: The New International Encyclopaedia
Author: Frank Moore ColbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The New International Encyclopædia
Author: Frank Moore ColbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
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