Art History category: 15294 books
Blick Mead: Exploring the 'first place' in the Stonehenge landscape
Archaeological excavations at Blick Mead, Amesbury, Wiltshire 20052016
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The Stonehenge landscape is one of the most famous prehistoric places in the world, but much about its origins remains a mystery and little attention has been paid to what preceded, and thus may have influenced, its later ritual character. Now, the discovery of a uniquely long-lived Mesolithic occupation...
by J.D. Lewis-Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art. There are as many as 15,000 known rock art sites, created over the course of thousands of years up until the nineteenth century. There are possibly just...
Oh, That's Another Story
Images and Tales of Sag Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Long-time Sag Harborites writer Alexandra Eames and painter Whitney Hansen have collaborated on this eloquent portrait in words and images of the 300-year-old village of Sag Harbor, NY.From its beginnings as a leading whaling port in the nineteenth century Sag Harbor developed into an industrial center...
Imagining Identity in New Spain
Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulation of their bodies and the spaces they inhabited....
by Narim Bender
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Jacques-Louis David (1748 – 1825) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the pre-eminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, heightened...
by Ernesto Ballesteros Arranz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2015
eBook Interactivo. Cuando el arte bizantino ha creado ya sus mejores obras surge una nueva religión que da lugar a una potente civilización y a un arte completamente original, aunque sin duda muy influenciado por los estilos orientales que ya hemos mencionado. Este arte islámico va a extenderse...
by M. Jourdain
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on embroidery in the Tudor and Stuart eras. With details on history, development, popularity, and influence, this volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in the history of the textiles industry, and would make for a fantastic addition...
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Gothic art finds its roots in the powerful architecture of the cathedrals of northern France. It is a medieval art movement that evolved throughout Europe over more than 200 years. Leaving curved Roman forms behind, the architects started using flying buttresses and pointed arches to open up cathedrals...
A Saving Science
Capturing the Heavens in Carolingian Manuscripts
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
In A Saving Science, Eric Ramírez-Weaver explores the significance of early medieval astronomy in the Frankish empire, using as his lens an astronomical masterpiece, the deluxe manuscript of the Handbook of 809, painted in roughly 830 for Bishop Drogo of Metz, one of Charlemagne’s sons. Created...
The Power and the Glorification
Papal Pretensions and the Art of Propaganda in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Focusing on a turbulent time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, The Power and the Glorification considers how, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the papacy employed the visual arts to help reinforce Catholic power structures. All means of propaganda were deployed to counter the papacy’s...
by Mr Richard Hayman
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Illuminated manuscripts are among the most beautiful, precious and mysterious works of Western art. Before the printing press was invented, books were produced by hand and their illustration using brightly coloured pigments and gold embellishments was a labour of love and an act of piety in itself....
Painting the Town Red
Politics and the Arts During the 1919 Hungarian Soviet Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
The intensely political cultural production that erupted during Hungary's short-lived Soviet Republic of 1919 encompassed music, art, literature, film and theatre. Painting the Town Red is the little-known history of these developments.*BR* *BR*The book opens with an overview of the political context...
Art for Equality
The NAACP's Cultural Campaign for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's oldest civil rights organization, having dedicated itself to the fight for racial equality since 1909. While the group helped achieve substantial victories in the courtroom, the struggle for civil rights extended...
Federico Barocci and the Oratorians
Corporate Patronage and Style in the Counter-Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In 1586, Federico Barocci delivered his Visitation of the Virgin and St. Elizabeth to the Chiesa Nuova in Rome. For the next quarter century, Barocci dominated the art scene in Rome; there was no other artist from whom it was harder to get work and no other artist charged such high prices. Having...