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Denys Calvaert was lived in Italy for almost entire of his living, where he was branded as Fleming. He was an intense learner of history, architecture and human anatomy, and his paintings are described by their superior structural composition and rich colors. Denys Calvaert learning the art of paintings...

Paul Delaroche (1797 – 1856) was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting history. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic scenes that often portrayed subjects from English and French history. The emotions emphasised in Delaroche's paintings appeal to Romanticism while...

Specifically intended for high school readers and junior college students, this new addition to the Daily Life through Artifacts series provides not only the full benefit of a reference work with its comprehensive explanations and primary sources, but also supplies images of the objects, bringing...

eBook Interactivo. Resumimos aquí la muestra de la mejor producción artística humana, que nació de un pueblo guerrero y comerciante como los helenos, que se convirtió en el emblema del género humano durante varios siglos. Aunque su actividad económica fue semejante a la de los fenicios, por...

Since the foundation of the Au Lac kingdom three centuries ago – famous for their bronze drums and their magnificent artilleries – until the works of the painters from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Indochina, created in Hanoi in 1925, the arts of Vietnam have been marked by its profoundly original...

Ce volume réunit douze études de cas : des vies d’architectes européens, écrites par des historiens de l’art et de l’architecture allemands, espagnols, français, italiens, russes, suédois. Il s’agit d’architectes qui, nés et éduqués dans une culture, héritiers d’une ou plusieurs...

In light of the recent rise of right-wing populism in numerous political contexts and in the face of resurgent nationalism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, and demagoguery, this book investigates how historical and contemporary cultural producers have sought to resist, confront, confound, mock, or call...

This latest volume in the Swedish Rock Art series bridges the gap between analysis and interpretation of rock art imagery, location and chronology in the northern and southern regions of Scandinavia. Long viewed as belonging to distinctive regional traditions, there are many underlying similarities,...

Queeriser l’art, ce n’est pas vouloir promouvoir un art queer, si tant est que cela existe ou que cela puisse exister, et encore moins vouloir esthétiser ou « artistiser » la pensée et la pratique queer. C’est renoncer définitivement à toute ontologie comme à tout paradigme, c’est rejeter...

‘The Divine Artist’ - ‘Art for God’s Sake’ “God the Divine Artist became the art – He, Jesus, hung on the wooden frame of the cross. He would provide the inspiration for the future artists in these end-times, and to emblazon buildings and canvases, with a chiaroscuro spectrum of Renaissance...

This book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent transformations from the late 1980s to 2004. It explores the emergence of 'contemporary art' in Armenia from within and in opposition to the practices, aesthetics and institutions of Socialist Realism and National...

For many, perhaps most, the title Early Celtic Art summons up images of Early Christian stone crosses in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, or Cornwall; of Glendalough, lona or Tintagel; of the Ardagh Chalice or the Monymusk Reliquary; of the great illuminated gospels of Durrow or Lindisfame. But as Stuart...

Émancipée des récits de vie d’artiste et d’un statut de « fille de l’archéologie » qui, de la Renaissance au xixe siècle, en ont orienté les pratiques, l’histoire de l’art traverse depuis une trentaine d’années un moment important dans sa constante redéfinition disciplinaire....

Sacred Art - A Hollow Bone for Spirit: Where Art Meets Shamanism tells the story of sacred art across cultures, continents and historical periods and makes a plea for sacred art to once again take its rightful place in our perception. Making sacred art means stepping outside the realm of ego-led consciousness...