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  • Institutions and Individuals

    The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century, Volume 2

    Edited by Stefan Krmnicek, Hadrien Rambach ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This second part of the 2 volume collection comprises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on 19th century institutions and individuals presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century.In the 19th century, developments in the study and collection of coins set the cornerstone for modern numismatics. This volume ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • Academia and Trade

    The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century, Volume 1

    Edited by Stefan Krmnicek, Hadrien Rambach ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This first part of a 2-volume collection comprises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on the 19th-century Academia and Trade presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century.In the 19th century, developments in the study and collection of coins set the cornerstone for modern numismatics. This volume comprises a ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

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    Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

    by Mary Beard ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of today’s “sculpture ... Read more

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  • Festival Architecture

    by Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory.Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods – from Antiquity to the modern era – and divided between analyses of specific festivals, set in relation to ... Read more

    $152.99 CAD

  • Rubens

    by Jp. A. Calosse ...
    The eclectic art of which the Carracci family dreamed was realised by Rubens with the ease of genius. However, the problem was much more complicated for a man of the north, who wished to add to it a fusion of the Flemish and Latin spirits, of which the rather pedantic attempts of Romanism had illustrated the difficulties. He achieved it without losing anything of his overflowing personality, his ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jan van Eyck

    The Play of Realism, Second Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Craig Harbison ...
    Jan van Eyck (1395-41) was the foremost artist of the Early Netherlandish School. Although Court painter to Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, van Eyck’s surviving work was not executed for the Duke, but for rising Court bureaucrats, Italian merchants and members of the secular clergy, for whom he created a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. Most ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of Neoclassical Art and Architecture

    by Allison Lee Palmer ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Neoclassicism refers to the revival of classical art and architecture beginning in Europe in the 1750s and lasting until around 1830, with late Neoclassicism lingering through the 1870s. Neoclassicism is a highly complex movement that brought together seemingly disparate issues into a new and culturally rich era, one that was, however, remarkably unified under the banner of classicism. This ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • 1000 Portraits of Genius

    by Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl ...
    According to the defined canons of art technique, a portrait should be, above all, a faithful representation of its model. However, this gallery of 1000 portraits illustrates how the genre has been transformed throughout history, and has proven itself to be much more complex than a simple imitation of reality. Beyond exhibiting the skill of the artist, the portrait must surpass the task of ... Read more

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  • Cities of Strangers

    Making Lives in Medieval Europe

    by Miri Rubin ...
    Series series The Wiles Lectures
    Cities of Strangers illuminates life in European towns and cities as it was for the settled, and for the 'strangers' or newcomers who joined them between 1000 and 1500. Some city-states enjoyed considerable autonomy which allowed them to legislate on how newcomers might settle and become citizens in support of a common good. Such communities invited bankers, merchants, physicians, notaries and ... Read more

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  • Classical Art

    A Life History from Antiquity to the Present

    by Caroline Vout ...
    How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian and classicist Caroline Vout provides an original history of how classical art has been continuously ... Read more

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  • Archaeology and Architecture of the Military Orders

    New Studies

    by Mathias Piana, Christer Carlsson ...
    As elite communities in medieval societies the Military Orders were driven by the ambition to develop built environments that fulfilled monastic needs as well as military requirements and, in addition, residential and representational purposes. Growing affluence and an international orientation provided a wide range of development potential. That this potential was in fact exploited may be ... Read more

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  • The Ideal City

    Its Architectural Evolution in Europe

    by Helen Rosenau ...
    The concept of the 'ideal city' is, perhaps, more important today - when planners and architects are so firmly confined by considerations of our immediate environment - than ever before. Yet it is a concept which has profoundly influenced the western world throughout history, both as a regulative model and as an inspiration.Rosenau traces the progress of the concept from biblical sources through ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD