Monastic life, art, and technology in the 11th – 16th centuries - Ileana Burnichioiu

Monastic life, art, and technology in the 11th – 16th centuries - Ileana Burnichioiu

This impressive reference work presents the key works of Renaissance architecture, sculpture and painting through words and pictures and sets them ...

Publisher: Smithsonian BooksAuthor(s): Jay A. (Jay A. Levenson ) LevensonNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 252 x 313 x 43Cover ...

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Publisher: Torque EditionsIllustration(s): 100 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 120 x 195 x 22Cover ...

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An intimate and complete journey into the world of Gianluca Pacchioni, sculptor, designer, and master in arts and crafts.Publisher: Mondadori Elect...

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An empowering celebration of writings and artworks by working class artists in the UK, also providing advice on how to access funding in the arts

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DescriptionIn Hybrid Practices, essays by established and emerging scholars investigate the rich ecology of practices that typified the era of the ...

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Publisher: Hirmer VerlagIllustration(s): 160 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 246 x 291 x 30Cover ty...

Novel Theory offers a new history of how modernists renovated the theory of the novel, and reveals that technology played a key role in their think...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 3 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Halftones, black and white; 15 Illustrations, black and whiteN...

Publisher: Pearson Education LimitedAuthor(s): Steven SchmidNumber of pages: 1312Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 218 x 279 x 54Cover type: Paperb...

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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...

This major 2006 history of English monasticism explores the history of the Church between the conversion to Christianity in the sixth century and a...

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The monastic life was an integral part of H.H. Pope Shenouda III, not only as a monk but also as a patriarch. As a patriarch, he was very careful t...

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Part travelogue, part spiritual self-help book; A modern-day pilgrimage to ten monasteries around the world.Publisher: Short Books LtdAuthor(s): Sa...

Contributor(s): Author: Giorgio AgambenWhat is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of it...

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Making the monastic tradition available to twenty-first-century seekers, so that we can live our ordinary lives extraordinarily wellPublisher: John...

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Focussing on monasticism, its history, practice, and relevance to contemporary life, this book combines a detailed and informative exposition of th...

This first English translation of the twelfth-century Chronicle of Petershausen offers an intimate and colourful view of traditional monastic life ...

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons IncAuthor(s): Amalendu PatnaikNumber of pages: 736Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 283 x 217 x 29Cover type: Paperbac...

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