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In this book, Alexander Parmington examines how images, texts and architectural form controlled and channelled movement of particular sets of people through various precincts in Classic Maya cities. Using Palenque as a case study, this book analyses specific building groups and corresponding sculptures...

Avec près de 700 articles tirés de la célèbre Encyclopaedia Universalis, le Dictionnaire des Architectes se consacre à ceux qui ont créé et renouvelé, depuis l’Antiquité, l’art de construire les bâtiments et d’aménager les villes : architectes bien sûr (d’Imhotep à Rem Koolhaas),...

Les plus grands spécialistes pour comprendre la Préhistoire Composé de textes empruntés à l’Encyclopædia Universalis, Le Dictionnaire de la Préhistoire réunit plus de deux cent cinquante articles qui invitent à la découverte de la préhistoire : les grandes périodes, les Hominidés...

Ce livre vous montre - comment vos dispositions personnelles déterminent le type d’inspiration que vous attirez - pourquoi des inspirations peuvent se perdre - comment améliorer la qualité de votre travail artistique - certains aspects invisibles d’œuvres d’art - d’où nous viennent les inspirations...

Des steppes aux remparts de la ville, des portes de la cité au marché - le lieu de l’ouverture au monde et de l’activité masculine - du marché au quartier où se tissent les relations de parenté et de voisinage, et enfin du quartier à la ruelle où se densifie la vie privée, l’étranger...

Kenyon Cox was born in Warren, Ohio, in 1856 to a nationally prominent family.  He studied as an adolescent at the McMicken Art School in Cincinnati and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.  From 1877 to 1882, he was enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and then...

The ‘Divine’ sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer, Michelangelo Buonarroti exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art, producing masterpieces that rank among the most famous in existence. Delphi’s groundbreaking ‘Masters of Art Series’ presents the world’s...

The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th century. The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the arts following the break-down of the dogmatic certitude...

The Renaissance era was launched in Italy and gradually spread to the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, France, and other parts of Europe and the New World, with figures like Robert Campin, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht DYrer, and Albrecht Altdorfer. It was the era that produced some of...

Décryptez l’art de Léonard de Vinci en moins d’une heure !Génie parmi les génies, Léonard de Vinci est une figure-clé de la Renaissance italienne, époque assoiffée de connaissances : il exerce son talent dans tous les domaines, de l’architecture à l’ingénierie, en passant par la sculpture...

Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament, preferring instead the thrill and alienation of the sublime. They rejected harmony, empathy, and femininity in a denial still...

In most histories of Italian art we are conscious of a vast hiatus of several centuries, between the ancient classic art of Rome—which was in its decadence when the Western Empire ceased in the fifth century after Christ—and that early rise of art in the twelfth century which led to the Renaissance. This...

A distinctly queer presence permeates the history of the visual arts — from Michelangelo's David and homoerotic images on ancient Greek vases to Frida Kahlo's self-portraits and the photography of Claude Cahun and Robert Mapplethorpe. The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts is a comprehensive...

REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing...