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‎Metropolitan improvments or London in the Nineteenth century : being a series of views, of the new and most interesting objects, in the British metropolis & its vicinity […] with historical, topographical & critical illustrations, by James Elmes M. R. I. A. Author of The Life of Sir Christopher Wren, Lectures on Architecture &c. / London and its environs in the Nineteenth century, illustrated by a series of views from original drawings, by Thomas H. Shepherd. With histrorical, topgraphical and critical notices.‎

‎Londres, Jones & Co, 1829. 2 vol. in-4. Demi-veau glacé cerise d'époque, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre et de tomaison noirs. ‎

‎Ensemble regroupant deux ouvrages illustrés de gravures en taille-douce d'après des compositions de Thomas H. Shepherd représentant principalement des vues de monuments et d'habitations de Londres.Le volume comprenant Metropolitan improvments est constitué de 2 titres gravés et ornés (le premier est daté 1827 et le second est daté 1829), de 79 planches regroupant 158 compositions et d'une carte. Le feuillet de titre imprimé et les deux feuillets de dédicace au roi sont manquants. Le volume comprenant London and its environs est constitué d'un titre gravé et de 79 planches regroupant 192 compositions. Dans chaque volume, les planches sont suivies de textes de James Elmes décrivant les principaux monuments.Cachet HD aux titres gravés des deux volumes.Léger enfoncement aux coiffes supérieures, quelques usures aux mors ; rousseurs. ‎

‎A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. Mediaeval Panel Painting in Tuscany. 12th to 13th century. A Supplement‎

‎Boskovits, Miklos: A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. Mediaeval Panel Painting in Tuscany. 12th to 13th century. A Supplement. Giunti, 2021. 799 pages, fully illustrated in colour. Hardback. 31 x 24cms. The Mediaeval Panel Painting in Tuscany is the catalogue raisonné of twelfth and thirteenth century Tuscan paintings. The project's goal was to draw up a complete index of Italian panel paintings from the origins to the end of the thirteenth century. The book consists of five parts. The first, dedicated to twelfth-century panel paintings, examines the earliest works from Tuscany as a whole since it is not possible to pinpoint variations among local schools in those years. It is only starting from the thirteenth century that Boskovits could begin to trace the developments of figurative language in Tuscany's main cities, from Lucca to Pisa. The book then focuses on thirteenth-century Sienese painting, reconstructing the career of the Master of Tressa, through to the works of Duccio di Buoninsegna up to year 1300, omitting those paintings that by then were in dialogue with Giotto's innovations. The last part is dedicated to paintings from the Arezzo area, focusing largely on the career of Margarito d'Arezzo.‎

‎The Mediaeval Panel Painting in Tuscany is the catalogue raisonné of twelfth and thirteenth century Tuscan paintings. The projects goal was to draw up a complete index of Italian panel paintings from the origins to the end of the thirteenth century. The book consists of five parts. The first, dedicated to twelfth-century panel paintings, examines the earliest works from Tuscany as a whole since it is not possible to pinpoint variations among local schools in those years. It is only starting from the thirteenth century that Boskovits could begin to trace the developments of figurative language in Tuscanys main cities, from Lucca to Pisa. The book then focuses on thirteenth-century Sienese painting, reconstructing the career of the Master of Tressa, through to the works of Duccio di Buoninsegna up to year 1300, omitting those paintings that by then were in dialogue with Giottos innovations. The last part is dedicated to paintings from the Arezzo area, focusing largely on the career of Margarito dArezzo. Text in English‎

‎Ars Habsburgica. New Perspectives on Sixteenth-Century Art‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 268 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:45 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503595948.‎

‎Summary Starting from a political reality, which is, at the same time, artistic and cultural, the book Ars Hasburgica aims to review the still so common historiographical conception of the Renaissance that conceives this period from a geographically Italocentric, artistically classicist and politically centered the idea of "national" arts and schools. But Renaissance is a more global and complex phenomenon. What this book aims to offer is an idea of the art of that period that considers the role played by the Habsburg dynasty and its various courts in this period, trying to verify whether, by applying other historiographic models, and having the art of the Casa de Austria as a focus, traditional ideas can continue to be maintained well into the twenty-first century. We refer to the so-called "Vasari paradigm", on which art history of the sixteenth century has largely been built over the last centuries. It is also intended to structure concepts about the art of the period not so much around nationalist considerations and identities of the arts, but to raise these issues throughout ideas such as that of the court as a political, artistic and cultural sphere, in the wake of the classical studies by Norbert Elias, Amedeo Quondam or Carlo Ossola. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Ars Habsburgica, or New Perspectives on Sixteenth-Century European Art Fernando Checa and Miguel ngel Zalama Habsburg Politics and Cultures in the Sixteenth Century: the Cosmopolitan Iberian Experience of Empires and Kingdoms Fernando Bouza A Theory of Art for the Habsburg Renaissance Fernando Checa Rethinking Vasari: Art and Arts in the Sixteenth Century Miguel ngel Zalama The Antithesis between the Vasarian Canon and the Habsburg Model of the Arts: Defining National Identity in the Italian Risorgimento Matteo Mancini Luxury and Identity in the Sixteenth-Century Habsburg Courts Jes s F. Pascual Molina Food as a Strategy of Power: the Political Role of Banquets in Prince Philips's Felic simo Viaje (1548-1551) Vanessa Quintanar Cabello His Polis: The Habsburg Naval Epic in the Mediterranean V ctor M nguez Habsburg Mars: The House of Austria and the Artistic Representation of Land Warfare Antonio Gozalbo Nadal Sixteenth-Century Notions on Spolia and Triumph Representation Antonio Urqu zar-Herrera The Armamentarium Heroicum of Archduke Ferdinand of Tyrol Christian Beaufort-Spontin The Habsburgs and Emblematic Literature: a Historiographical Assessment Patricia Andr s Gonz lez Books and Libraries in the Construction of the Habsburg Dynasty's Image during the Sixteenth Century Jos Luis Gonzalo S nchez-Molero Epic and Truth: Writing for the Habsburgs in Sixteenth-Century Spain Mar a Jos Vega Philip II as Rex Pacificus: Belligerence and Pacifism in Epic Versions of the Battle of Saint-Quentin (1557) Lara Vil Notes on the Contributors Index of Names‎

‎Futuristic Fiction, Utopia, and Satire in the Age of the Enlightenment. Samuel Madden's 'Memoirs of the Twentieth Century' (1733)‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 460 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:10 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503606026.‎

‎Summary Published anonymously in 1733, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century is one of the earliest futuristic novels known in Anglophone and Euro-American literature. It foregrounds an acceleration of history brought about by an increasing degree of global interconnectedness, and the exclusion of prophetism and astrology as credible ways to know the future. The work of Samuel Madden, an Irish writer and philanthropist of Whig sympathies, it consists of a collection of diplomatic letters composed in the 1990s, which the narrator claims were brought to him from the time to come by a supernatural entity. Through these correspondences, twentieth-century world scenarios are spread out before the reader, in which British naval power rules the waves and international commerce, while the transnational scheming of the Jesuits threatens the independence of weaker European courts. This book - which includes a study followed by an annotated edition of the text - assesses the cultural significance of this literary work, as an apt observatory on how historical time as a cultural construction was shaped, during the eighteenth century, by new forms of transnational circulation of information, and by the dubious space carved out in European culture by seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century debates on the nature of historical knowledge. Through and by means of the Memoirs case study, this volume aims to contribute to a wider cultural history of the future and speculative fiction. The novel's ironic distancing of beliefs considered to be superstitious and absurd - such as divination techniques and occult and magical disciplines - offers an exceptional testimony to the negotiation of the boundaries of verisimilitude and credibility within a religious enlightenment. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Knowledge, Power, and Time in the Age of the Enlightenment Part I. Samuel Madden's Eighteenth-Century Memoirs from the Future I. Where was the Future? II. When was the Future? III. An Irish Whig between Philanthropism and Literature IV. An Eighteenth-Century Twentieth Century V. An (Unreliable) Historian of the Future VI. A 'good genius' and the 'scene of things below' VII. Empirical Science, Global Consciousness, and 'the History of Future Times' VIII. Blurring the Dichotomy between History and Fiction IX. Satirising Past Futures X. 'Publishing' the Letters XI. 'This prodigious society': Anti-Jesuit Satire XII. Whose Credulity, whose Credibility XIII. Bookish Mysteries and an 'alternate George VI' XIV. Concluding Remarks Part II. Memoirs of the Twentieth Century A Note on the Text Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century Notes to the Text Bibliography Index ‎

‎Chinese painting and calligraphy. 5th century BC 20th century AD. Chinese painting and calligraphy. 5th century BC 20th‎

‎Chinese painting and calligraphy. 5th century BC 20th century AD. Chinese painting and calligraphy. 5th century BC 20th century AD. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)./Chinese painting and calligraphy. 5th century BC 20th century AD. Kitayskaya zhivopis' i kalligrafiya. 5yy vek do n.e. 20 vek n.e. China. Zhaohua publishing house / Zhaohua Publishing House. 1984. 166 p. SKUalb41d16430a95cc6b7.‎