The Culture of Bronze: Making and Meaning in Italian Renaissance, Hardcover - Peta Motture

The Italian Renaissance was a golden age for bronze sculpture, both on a grand scale--such as Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, or Cellini's Perseus--a...

DescriptionLeonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the preeminent figures of the Italian Renaissance. He was also one of the most paradoxical. He ...

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance.

The first comprehensive study of an important Italian Renaissance bronze-caster by a leading authority. A nucleus of sculptures cast by Andrea di A...

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The Renaissance was not just a rebirth of the mind. It was also a new dawn for the machine.When we celebrate the achievements of the Renaissance, w...

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In Penned & Painted, Lucy Freeman Sandler, one of one of the world's most respected authorities on medieval art, takes us on a personal but highly ...

The Roman Wedding: Ritual and Meaning in Antiquity - Karen K. Hersch

The sixteen women discussed in this collection were world-makers whose craft influenced cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authorit...

The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian.

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Award-winning historian Kenneth R. Bartlett applies his decades of experience teaching the Italian Renaissance to this new and beautifully illustra...

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Arguing that existing modernisation theories have been unnecessarily one-sided, Hedwig Fraunhofer offers a rewriting of modernity that cuts across ...

This book serves to give an understanding of the ways of the traditional Italian fencing schools with knives and sticks, thus contributing to their...

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DescriptionThe world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of Contentment, renowned economist John Kenneth...

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In this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.1350-1525. ...

In this fascinating study, Alison Cole explores the distinctive uses of art at the five great secular courts of Naples, Urbino, Ferrara, Mantua, an...

An illustrated key to unlocking the mysteries of paintings, sculpture and architecture by the great Italian masters, this book also provides fresh ...

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Publisher: John Hansard GalleryIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 108Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 136 x 208 x 11Cover type: Paperb...

This work throws new light on the nature and origins of ideas of racial difference. It reconstructs the evolution of the modern discourse of race a...

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An Introduction to Film Analysis is designed to introduce students to filmmaking techniques while also providing an invaluable guide to film interp...

Argues that blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship betw...

Every culture hands wisdom down through generations. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to othe...

Reducere. Pete the Cat makes his I Can Read Comics debut! From New York Times bestselling author-illustrator team James and Kimberly Dean comes the very firs...

This is the second part of a study on Bronze Age tells and on our approaches towards an understanding of this fascinating way of life, drawing on t...

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This book is of interest to all those who value and seek to understand the humanities. Beginning in the Italian Renaissance and ending in the Europ...

Publisher: Webster's Digital ServicesAuthor(s): Anthony HoldenIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 180Publication date: ...

Reducere. Architects of the Culture of Death, Paperback

This book takes the themes, energy and passions of the 'A Disorder for Everyone!' events - bringing together many of the event speakers with others...

Over the course of the last century, the focus group has become an increasingly vital part of the way companies and politicians sell their products...

Much more than a drink, wine is a real myth, with one millenary history, a very rich tradition and a vast and articulated system culturally, both a...