An Artful Relic. The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy, Hardback - ***

An art-historical analysis of the Shroud of Turin as a sacred image in the artistic culture of early modern Italy.Publisher: Pennsylvania State Uni...

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Reducere. Shrouds have long held a special place among the sacred relics of Christendom. In the Middle Ages, shrouds, like holy relics, were the prize posses...

Reducere. 282A majority of scientific and historical evidence proves the Shroud of Turin is the authentic burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth. Only one test sa...

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Reducere. The Turin Shroud is a scientific journey exploring one of the greatest mysteries of the world. It has captivated the curiosity of international sci...

This book introduces two conceptual models of photography: the Turin Shroud and the universal Turing machine. The Turin Shroud inspires a discussio...

Reducere. The Turin Shroud is an intriguing scientific journey exploring one of the greatest mysteries of the world. It has captivated the curiosity of inter...

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Reducere. In 1978 Nancy moved with her young family to an island off the coast of Washington state, where she and her husband Lewis naively planned to suppor...

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Publisher: Pushkin PressAuthor(s): Lesley ChamberlainNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 158 x 293 x 20Cover type: Paperback / so...

In blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, diplomats and travellers, English nation and Italian nation, Maura O'Connor shows us the exten...

DescriptionSpirited interior d cor inspired by a love of old, a quest for authenticity, and the artful blending of old with new. Holly Kuhn's signa...

Through its examination of the religious paintings by Pontormo, this book offers a new way to understand the fraught relationship between artistic ...

This book examines crucial aspects of the important cultural relationship between Turin and Britain in the period 1600-1800, when Savoy-Piedmont wa...

Shows two worlds - the lucrative realm of the perfume makers, and the equally rivalrous domain of smell science. At the core of our sense of smell ...

Cognitively human minds produced a list of behavioral singularities that indicate a discontinuity between them and all other living things. This fa...

The Dominican friars of late-medieval Italy were vowed to a life of religious poverty. Yet their churches contained many visual riches such as work...

Featuring essays by top scholars and an expansive introduction, this volume surveys fifteenth-century Italian sculpture. It offers the most compreh...

Through the untold stories of the biracial children born from the encounter between Italian women and Black Allied soldiers in the immediate afterm...

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Provides the first comprehensive study of the architecture and architectural sculpture of Southern Peru in the late colonial period (1660s-1820s), ...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Francesca VellaIllustration(s): 14 halftones, 14 line drawingsNumber of pages: 256Collection: ...

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The Ibero-American Baroque is an interdisciplinary, empirically-grounded contribution to the understanding of cultural exchanges in the early moder...

Publisher: SkiraIllustration(s): 48 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 48Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 197 x 271 x 15Cover type: Hardba...

DescriptionServing as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of...

There isn't any triumph, there isn't any happy ending in the story of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, but there is a resolute affirmation of the continuing ...

This unique collection makes available, for the first time, translations of medieval Italian jurisprudence, including commentaries, tracts, and leg...

This volume on Norman Italy (southern Italy and Sicily, c. 1000-1200) honours the pioneering scholarship of Graham A. Loud. An international group ...

But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mys...