‎Arrayed in Splendour. Art, Fashion, and Textiles in Medieval and Early Modern Europe‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Paperback, 264 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:3 b/w, 111 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503579658.‎

‎Summary Precious textiles, fabrics, embroideries, and tapestries played an important role in medieval and early modern cultures of representation. The high esteem in which the textile arts were held was not only due to the enormous material value of gold and silk, which had to be imported from distant regions, but also to the extremely complex and time-consuming production conditions which required a level of technical expertise that was present only in a few highly specialized centers. In stark contrast to their medieval and early-modern reception, it has been only in recent years that the traditional view of the textile arts in art-historical discourse as an 'applied' art, and therefore a 'low' one, has undergone a fundamental shift. The aim of this volume is to provide insight into the current state of research on the topic. Ranging from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, this collection of essays of leading scholars in the field offers an invaluable window into the complexity of the textile arts and their medium, from the overpowering splendour of liturgical and princely garments and the luxurious fabrics used for them in the Middle Ages and early modern period, to the visual world of monumental room decorations in the form of tapestries. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction - Christoph Brachmann Clothing for a Marriage Made in Heaven: The Role of Textiles in Ecclesiastical Consecration Rites - Evelin Wetter Love and Resurrection: The Luxembourg Dynasty's Funeral Garments at St Vitus Cathedral in Prague - Christoph Brachmann All That Glitters: Cloth of Gold as a Vehicle for Display 1300-1550 - Lisa Monnas The Making of Appearances at the 1530 Augsburg Imperial Diet - Ulinka Rublack The Two Faces of Power: The Image Strategy of Cosimo I de' Medici - Roberta Orsi Landini Representatives of Power - Tapestries Made for Kings and Emperors - Katja Schmitz-von Ledebur Virtue and Vice: Clothing and Kingship at the Courts of Charles I and Charles II (1625-85) - Maria Hayward Arrayed in Splendour: An Africanist's Perspective - Victoria L. Rovine‎

‎latin et la litt rature n o-latine au XIXe si cle. Pratiques et repr sentations‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, v + 299 pages, Size:160 x 240 mm, Languages: French, English, Italian. ISBN 9789492771322.‎

‎Summary Le XIXe si cle est connu comme l' poque o l'essor des nationalismes et des langues nationales en Europe a d finitivement rel gu le latin aux marges du monde social. Or, si le latin conna t alors un ind niable d clin, il n'en demeure pas moins tout un temps une langue importante pour les nations modernes. Le pr sent volume tudie les manifestations d'une tradition linguistique pluris culaire qui ne s'est pas teinte l'aube de la modernit . Fruit d'une collaboration internationale, il rassemble des contributions portant sur diff rents pays d'Europe occidentale et centrale. Les auteurs retracent l'histoire du latin au XIXe si cle, s'interrogent aussi bien sur les raisons de son succ s que sur celles de son d clin et pr tent une attention particuli re aux aspects th matiques et stylistiques des textes. La litt rature n o-latine, qui n'est pas indiff rente au surgissement des romantismes europ ens, est pass e la loupe. L'ouvrage met galement en vidence l'inflexion que l'inspiration latine antique a pu donner une oeuvre po tique en langue moderne. TABLE OF CONTENTS Christophe Bertiau, "Le latin, une mati re ?bourgeoise?? Sur le d clin du latin dans l'enseignement l' poque contemporaine" The article refutes the received idea of Latin being a "bourgeois" school subject. It states on the contrary that the political and economic rise of the bourgeoisie accounts for the decline of Latin in secondary education during the last two centuries. Although Latin kept its dominant position in the curriculums throughout the nineteenth century, its supremacy was increasingly challenged by certain exponents of the bourgeoisie, who demanded school learning to be more markedly connected to the professional world. Jan Spoelder, "The decline of Latin as the academic language at Dutch universities and its consequences for education in Latin" In the eighteenth century, Latin lost its status as the universal scholarly language in countries like France, Germany and Britain. However, the Royal Decree of 1815 provided that Latin remained the exclusive academic language in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. More and more tension arose between maintaining classical educational ideals and the with to use the vernacular. Only when the Act on Higher Education was passed in 1876, this meant in practice the end of the mandatory use of Latin at Dutch universities. This new situation also ended the raison d' tre of the Latin school, the kind of education that had prepared for university entrance in the towns of the Dutch Republic and the later Kingdom. This type of school was reorganised to meet the altered requirements of the modern time under the name of Gymnasium. This school, with compulsory Greek and Latin, is still flourishing magnificently at the moment. Patrizia Paradisi, "Il latino nelle cerimonie ufficiali del Regno d'Italia, dall'Universit di Bologna al Campidoglio a Roma (Gandino, Albini e Pascoli)" Patrizia Paradisi stresses the significance Latin displayed for the official ceremonies of the Kingdom of Italy at the time of Giovanni Battista Gandino, Giuseppe Albini and Giovanni Pascoli. It thus appears how Latin was used to compose speeches, letters, an inscription for a medal, a hymn or a journal on the occasion of various ceremonies. Giacomo Dalla Piet , "L'evoluzione stilistica del latino all'interno della curia romana nel secolo XIX" Giacomo Dalla Piet sketches how the Latin style of encyclical letters developed during the nineteenth century. He interprets the adoption of a high style, which was to become increasingly Ciceronian, under the pontificate of Leo XIII as testament to the latter's universalist project and new way of conceiving papacy. ?ime Demo, "Stubborn persistence at the outskirts of the West: Latin in nineteenth-century Croatia" The article gives an insight into the status of Latin in nineteenth-century Croatia. Latin retained there until the mid-century a decided importance as a means of international communication, as a political instrument, as a medium of instruction or as a literary language. However, Croatian tended towards more and more superseding Latin in its uses. As a result, Latin was hardly ever used outside Church and education in the second half of the century. Neven Jovanovi?, "Two gentlemen-translators from nineteenth-century Dubrovnik" The author analyses the Latin translations of Antonio Sivrich and Blasius Ghetaldi, two poets from Dubrovnik. He compares how both translators worked and reflects upon the reasons why they rendered into Latin Italian sonnets and anacreontic poems (Sivrich) or Ivan Gunduli?'s Croatian epos Osman (Ghetaldi). Svorad Zavarsk , "?Et meus vere paradisus audit: mandra, poesis?: The poetry of Antonius Faber" Svorad Zavarsk presents the work of the neo-Latin poet from Bratislava Antonius Faber. He affirms that the main interest of A.?Faber's little classical poetry is its originality. This poetry can be seen as a compromise between traditional neo-Latin poetry and the romantic revival. It epitomises quite good the linguistic situation of Hungary at that time, where the national language was more and more often preferred to Latin. Florian Schaffenrath, "Antonio Mazzetti's neo-Latin epic poem on Emperor Ferdinand I (1838)" Florian Schaffenrath tackles a panegyric (gratulatio) addressed by Antonio Mazzetti to Emperor Ferdinand?I and examines its reception. He highlights the enthusiasm this poem motivated by current political affairs elicited, even though Latin verses no longer were in fashion. Antonino Zumbo, "Scrivere una novella romantica in versi latini: il Polymetron di Giovanni Andrea Vinacci" The article deals with the Polymetron, a romantic short story written in Latin verses by Andrea Vinacci. The story displays a Byronian inspiration and is located in the nineteenth-century Italian independence wars. Both these characteristics suggest that far from a mere formal dialogue with the Ancients has neo-Latin literature always attempted to stay in tune with its time. Romain Jalabert, "Des vers latins romantiques, en France" Romain Jalabert shows that a whole part of nineteenth-century French neo-Latin poetry was opened up to Romanticism. Original Latin poems inspired by Romanticism and Latin translations of poems in modern languages were no oddities. Schools played a leading role in this new tendency. Alphonse de Lamartine enjoyed great success as a source of inspiration for Latin poets. Dirk Sacr , "Colonel William Siddons Young (1832-1901) as a Latin poet" Dirk Sacr presents the life and work of the atypical British neo-Latin poet Colonel William Siddons Young (1832-1901). Young was an army officer in the Bengal civil service. Although some Latinists considered him as the greatest living Latin poet, his Latin verses display imperfections and he rapidly fell into oblivion after his death. But because of his atypical profile, he could serve the cause of Latin as a universal language. Through the figure of Young, this article provides us with an overview of the evolution of living Latin in the late nineteenth century. Marie-France David-de Palacio, "Un epigrammaton liber fin-de-sie cle: les ?latineries? de Jean Richepin" This contribution demonstrates on the basis of Jean Richepin's "Latineries" how a writer can breath new life into his own poetic language by imitating ancient authors. Whereas the style models on the epigrams of Roman Antiquity, and more specifically of Martial, the content exhibits a "Gallic" character.‎

‎uirtus, la fides et la pietas dans les Punica de Silius Italicus‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, 532 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:2 tables b/w., Language(s):French, Latin, Greek. ISBN 9782503590301.‎

‎Summary Au cours de la guerre d'Hannibal, Rome connut d'abord de multiples revers jusqu' se retrouver au bord de l'effondrement. Elle parvint ensuite se redresser, puis finit par craser ses ennemis barbares. Pour Silius, il existe indubitablement un lien entre les revers subis par les Sagontins, Regulus, Solimus, Varron et les autres protagonistes peu ou prou vertueux et leur mauvaise application ou leur incapacit lier la fides la pietas. De m me, les victoires de Scipion en Hispanie puis en Afrique d coulent-elles d'une meilleure compr hension de ces valeurs. Par la mani re dont il construit les pisodes centraux des Punica, le po te flavien oblige en outre s'interroger sur le type de vertu affich par les acteurs historico- piques et envisager diff rentes mani res d'interpr ter les v nements en fonction de leur conduite morale. Si le lecteur doit se poser diverses questions li es la vertu et la morale, et valuer les indices fournis par Silius pour finalement comprendre toute l'importance d'un comportement moral et vertueux, il lui faut en outre se rendre compte que le sch ma vertueux propos par le po te est loin d' tre binaire ; la vision de l' tranger des Romains dans les Punica ne l'est d'ailleurs pas non plus. Silius insiste sur la n cessit de parvenir un quilibre entre la uirtus, la fides et la pietas sans jamais exclure aucune de ces trois valeurs du mos maiorum pour devenir un exemplum moral. Pour ce faire, il tablit nombre de liens entre l' chec militaire et le manque d' thique sous-tendant l'incapacit constituer un exemple de vertu. En fournissant un exemplum moral en la personne de Scipion l'Africain dans le but de montrer au lecteur quel point il est important de vivre de fa on vertueuse, Silius, comme son mod le historiographique Tite-Live, combat le rel chement, et participe l'effort de r g n ration morale entrepris par Domitien. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction g n rale Premi re partie : Silius Italicus entre les Anciens et les Modernes I. La biographie de Silius Italicus II. La litt rature antique consacr e Silius Italicus et son oeuvre III. Les Punica : une oeuvre prisonni re du pass ? IV. Silius Italicus et Domitien V. Silius Italicus et ses pr d cesseurs piques et historiographiques Deuxi me partie : la uirtus, la fides et la pietas dans les Punica de Silius Italicus I. La fides et la pietas lors du si ge de Sagonte II. Regulus : un exemplum moral incomplet III. Le dictateur Fabius Maximus : un espoir dans l'urgence IV. Cannes : exemplum et anti-exemplum moraux VI. Zama et la vertu exemplaire de Scipion l'Africain VII. De la mort d'Hannibal la troisi me guerre punique Conclusion g n rale Annexes Bibliographie Indices‎

‎Vie d'Auguste de Nicolas de Damas‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, 180 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language(s):French, Latin, Greek. ISBN 9782503600475.‎

‎Summary N en 64 avant J.-C. au sein d'une famille appartenant l' lite aristocratique de Damas, Nicolas fut un polygraphe renomm . La partie sauvegard e de son ?uvre, mal connue, se compose notamment d'une Vie d'Auguste, qui constitue le plus ancien compte rendu d taill conserv non seulement du meurtre de C sar, mais aussi des dix-neuf premi res ann es de la vie d'Octave/Octavien. Dans la mesure o Nicolas consid rait le premier princeps comme le seul Romain digne d' mulation et que sa biographie constitua le moyen par lequel il obtint la confiance d'Auguste, a-t-il fait davantage ?uvre d'apolog te que d'historien ? Sa Vie d'Auguste est-elle digne de foi ? Telles seront les questions qui serviront de fil rouge au pr sent ouvrage. Ainsi ambitionnons-nous de combler un certain nombre de lacunes historiographiques. La premi re section de ce travail retracera la biographie de Nicolas, d terminera ses objectifs r dactionnels, le situera par rapport ses mod les litt raires, et examinera le contenu de la Vie d'Auguste. Nous insisterons sur le fait que si des similitudes intertextuelles entre les Res Gestae et la biographie d'Auguste ont t constat es, elle ne peut avoir d pendu du testament politique de l'empereur, car elles trouveraient leur origine dans les M moires d'Auguste. La seconde section d peindra Octave/Octavien tel que pr sent dans la Vie d'Auguste. Nous insisterons sur les liens qu'entretenaient C sar et son petit-neveu. La volont de Nicolas de rationaliser tout en colorant son r cit constitue l'une de ses constantes. Cependant, sa biographie fait la part belle aux topoi. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Partie I : La Vie d'Auguste de Nicolas de Damas Biographie de Nicolas de Damas Le titre exact de l'?uvre et les objectifs de sa r daction La p riode de r daction de la biographie d'Auguste Contenu de la biographie d'Auguste Les mod les litt raires et les sources de Nicolas Les auteurs s' tant inspir s de pr s ou de loin de la Vie d'Auguste de Nicolas Conclusion Partie II : Octave/Octavien selon la Vie d'Auguste de Nicolas de Damas L'ascendance et la jeunesse d'Auguste L' ducation d'Octave La personnalit d'Octave Octave et C sar La mort de C sar Quand Octave devint Octavien Octavien et Cic ron Octavien et Marc Antoine Conclusion Conclusion g n rale Bibliographie Indices‎

‎Dans le miroir de Johan Huizinga. Ecrire et penser l'histoire au prisme de la France‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 420 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:12 col., 4 tables b/w., Language: French. ISBN 9782503609027.‎

‎Summary crire et penser l'histoire au prisme de la France L'automne du Moyen ge (1919) est assur ment l'un des grands classiques de l'historiographie, et le livre comme son auteur, Johan Huizinga (1872-1945), connaissent une attention internationale renouvel e. Mais force est de constater que l'historien n erlandais demeure en France une r f rence marginale en dehors du milieu des m di vistes, la diff rence de son autre chef d'?uvre, Homo ludens (1938). Or, la prise en compte de l'ensemble de ses crits permet de mesurer combien son approche peut clairer les d bats pist mologiques de notre temps. Pionnier de l'histoire culturelle, Huizinga met la force des repr sentations au premier plan du processus historique ; il pratique et pr conise une d marche herm neutique et non causale ou structurelle. Car - et c'est l une divergence majeure avec notamment Lucien Febvre et Marc Bloch - il s'agit moins pour lui d'expliquer le pass travers ses traces que de comprendre ses acteurs travers leurs signes. D'o le privil ge des sources narratives et iconographiques dans une criture qui, elle-m me, prend la forme du r cit : un r cit nourri d'abondantes r f rences fran aises. C'est pourquoi le pr sent livre s'efforce de retracer, travers les relations de Huizinga avec la France, sa conception et son criture de l'histoire, notamment dans L'automne du Moyen ge dont on propose ici une relecture. Mais aussi de regarder la France, son histoire et ses historiens dans le miroir de Johan Huizinga, convaincu que l'on est des vertus d'un regard tranger pour clairer le d bat national. TABLE OF CONTENTS Pr face d' lodie Lecuppre-Desjardin Introduction. Le miroir de Huizinga? Chapitre 1. Johan Huizinga: portrait d'un exemple sans cole Chapitre 2. Homo academicus : tre historien aux Pays-Bas au temps de Huizinga Chapitre 3. Le champion de la querelle des Pays-Bas : les engagements patriotiques de Johan Huizinga Chapitre 4. Johan Huizinga et la France: rencontres, r ception, traduction (1897-1945) ? Chapitre 5. Le miroir de la France (1): Huizinga et l'histoire de France Chapitre 6. Le miroir de la France (2): Huizinga et les d bats fran ais sur la nation Chapitre 7. Analyse d'un crit patriotique: Nederland's beschaving in de zeventiende eeuw (1941) Chapitre 8. Huizinga et les fondateurs des Annales: essai d' pist mologie compar e Chapitre 9. Un classique pour la post-modernit Conclusion. Dix th ses sur L'automne du Moyen ge Bibliographie Annexes Index des noms de personne‎

‎"Ready-Made" Urbains. Paris‎

‎Picard 2000 In-4 broché 27 cm sur 23,8. 159 pages. Bon état d’occasion.‎

‎ Bon état d’occasion ‎

‎Moulins d'autrefois‎

‎ARTHAUD. 2001. In-4. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 143 pages illustrées en couleur - jaquette correcte. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 720-Architecture‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 720-Architecture‎

‎Chapelles de nos campagnes in-4,relié avec jaquette illustrée,143 pages,nombreuses illustrations en couleur.‎

‎ Arthaud 2000‎

‎Très bon état‎

‎Van Dyck‎

‎, Phaidon Press Ltd, 1982 Hardcover, 240 pages, English, 315 x 250 mm, in fine state. ISBN 9780714822112.‎

‎Kilengi. Afrikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung Bareiss‎

‎Hannover, Kestner-Ges, 1997 Leinen, 426 Seiten, 32.5 x 25 cm. viele Abbildungen Deutscher text.‎

‎Ausstellung 30. August - 19. Oktober 1997. Im Almanach des Blauen Reiters ver ffentlichten Franz Marc und Wassily Kandinsky 1912 auch afrikanische Skulpturen aus Kamerun, neben zahlreichen Bildern unterschiedlicher Ethnien, Zeichnungen von Kindern, Laien sowie Volkskunst und Beispiele aus der europ ischen Kunst. Gesucht und entdeckt wurde in der afrikanischen Kunst das "Urspr ngliche", die gro e Kraft aller tief empfundenen Kunst. Der Blaue Reiter, der keine strenge programmatische Ausrichtung verfolgte, griff mit dem Blick auf Afrika einen Aspekt auf, den Picasso 1905 bei seiner ersten Begegnung mit afrikanischer Kunst thematisierte und den die " Fauves "-K nstler fast leitmotivisch verfolgten. Wie die K nstler der "Br cke" in Dresden, so gingen auch die M nchner "Blauen Reiter" in die V lkerkundemuseen, um f r ihre eigene Kunst dort Anregungen zu finden. Seit dieser ersten ffnung der Augen durch die Avantgardisten in der Zeit vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg ist das Interesse an afrikanischer Kunst lebendig geblieben. Zu berraschend und origin r sind die vielf ltigen Gestaltungsmittel im plastischen Bereich, um nur in der einen oder anderen Lesart aufgebraucht werden zu k nnen. Neben formalen Kriterien ist auch der Umgang mit den unterschiedlichen Materialien voll gro er berraschungen. In der Sammlung Bareiss sind zahlreiche Masken, Skulpturen, St be, Throne u. a. vorhanden, die nicht unter puristischen Gesichtspunkten "bereinigt" wurden, sondern noch Textile, Federn, Bastgeflecht etc. haben und so die Verbindung mit dem Kost m des T nzers aufzeigen. Die Skulpturen lassen so trotz der Statik musealer Pr sentation ihren "bewegten" Sinn erkennen. Unter dem Gesichtspunkt einer von Aktion und Performance belebten Kunst erhalten so diese afrikanischen Kunstwerke eine neue Qualit t. Zahlreiche Abbildungen in dem Text von Christopher D. Roy tragen hier zu einem besseren Verst ndnis bei. "Walter Bareiss Leidenschaft f r afrikanische Kunst ist langsam gewachsen. Als treibende Kraft seiner Sammelt tigkeit wirkte nicht wie bei vielen anderen die Bedeutung afrikanischer Kunst f r die abstrakte Moderne. Ihn faszinierte die enge Verflechtung der Kunstformen mit der Mythologie und Religion und ihre Rolle in der Tradierung von Wissen und der Bes nftigung von Naturkr ften. Der rote Faden, der sich durch seine Auswahl zieht, ist die pers nliche Begeisterung f r die sthetische Kraft der Objekte, Kilengi - Freude, die durch Sch nheit entsteht." (Peter Noever).‎

‎LES STYLES de l'ARCHITECTURE et du MOBILIER‎

‎Un ouvrage de 128 pages, format 125 x 190 mm, illustré, broché, publié en 2006, Editions J.P. Gisserot, bon état‎

‎Ren Magritte - A bis Z ‎

‎Leuven, Ludion/Albertina, 2011 Hardcover, 208 Seiten, 27 x 20 cm, Text Deutsch. *Wie neu. ISBN 9789461300256.‎

‎Ren Magritte - A bis Z ‎

‎Orthodox Christianity and Modern Science: Theological, Philosophical, Scientific and Historical Aspects of the Dialogue‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 186 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9782503592671.‎

‎Summary Orthodox Christian theology is based on a living tradition that is deeply rooted in Greek Patristic thought. However, few systematic proposals about how this theology can respond to questions that arise from modern science have yet appeared. This volume, consisting of eleven essays by different authors about how this response should be formulated, therefore represents a significant contribution to Orthodox thinking as well as to the broader science-theology dialogue among Christians. The variety of approaches in the essays indicates that there does not yet exist among Orthodox a consensus about the methodology that is appropriate to this dialogue or about how the questions that arise from specific scientific insights should be answered. Nevertheless, they indicate the ways in which Orthodox approaches to science differ significantly from most of those to be found among Western Christian scholars, and in this way they point to an underlying unity of perspective that is rooted in the Orthodox tradition. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface General Aspects of the Dialogue between Orthodox Theology and Natural Sciences Christopher C. Knight, Tradition Seeking Understanding Doru Costache, One Description, Multiple Interpretations Sergey S. Horujy, Cosmic Liturgy, Orthodox Theology, and Integral Ecological Expertise Philosophical Aspects of the Dialogue between Orthodox Theology and Science Alexei V. Nesteruk, The Dialogue between Theology and Science in View of an Irreducible Ambiguity in Hermeneutics of the Subject Tatiana Litvin, Knowledge of God and Phenomenological Foundations of Religious Experience Orthodox Theology of Nature, Ecological Insights and Bioethics Elizabeth Theokritoff, Orthodox Theology, Ecology and Science Bruce Foltz, 'The Lord Is in this Place, Yet I Did Not See It' Gayle E. Woloschak, Reflections on Gene Editing Technology Historical Aspects of the Relationship between Orthodox Theology and Science Adrian Lemeni, References of Father Dumitru Staniloae's Thought in the Dialogue between Theology and Science Kirill Kopeikin, Contemporary Russian Orthodoxy Gheorghe Stratan, Orthodoxy and Future Science‎

‎Sze Tsung Leong : History Images ‎

‎, Steidl Dap 2006, 2006 Hardcover, 144 pages, ENG, 350 x 285 mm, book is in good condition, with photo's in clear colours, . ISBN 9783865212740.‎

‎Since 2002, Sze Tsung Leong has been photographing the dramatic changes that are transforming the cities of China, revealing a process that begins with the destruction of traditional neighborhoods and ends in the mass construction of new urban environments. He travels with a large-format view camera, visiting cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Nanjing, Pingyao and Xiamen, and the resulting highly detailed images portray the immense scale of the upheaval and of the contradictions created by its uncertain and fluctuating environment. Traditional buildings in the process of being demolished are juxtaposed against the glass walls that are about to replace them; seemingly abandoned buildings on the verge of destruction, or in the midst of construction, reveal clues of habitation; historic areas survive as a result of neglect and isolation rather than intent; and obscured in the midst of expansive, culturally ambivalent spaces, small Chinese script on indistinct signs serves as the only hint that these environments are in China. Collectively, the photographs in History Images capture the erasure and subsequent absence of history, and the moment of anticipation for the new future to unfold; it is an urban reality caught in the tenuous period after the end of one history and at the beginning of another.‎

‎Early Betts Medal Companion: Medals of America's Discovery and Colonization (1492?1737)‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, xxii + 324 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:300 col., Language: English. ISBN 9780897223898.‎

‎Summary This book is a companion to C. Wyllys Betts's masterpiece, American Colonial History Illustrated by Contemporary Medals, and should be used in conjunction with Betts's book and not as a substitute. Betts' Contemporary Medals is the definitive work in the area of American colonial medals and has been for over 100 years. It is far from perfect and includes medals that, upon reflection, have little or nothing to do with America, while at the same time ignoring others closely associated with the American colonial experience. Betts also included some medals that do not exist. The present book does not take on the daunting?if not quixotic?task of including all the medals associated with the Americas that Betts failed to describe. Rather, it follows the course set out by him?right, wrong, or indifferent. If Betts included a medal in his book, it is discussed and illustrated here. The only medals added are those closely associated with variants already included or those indispensable to an understanding of a medallic series. This volume updates and illustrates each listing in the first two chapters of Betts. With only a few exceptions, every Betts medal described in Chapters I and II of Betts's book is illustrated here, many for the first time. These medallic images, along with the historical narrative, bring the story of America's discovery and colonization to life. In instances where additional images are included, they are used to explain some aspect of the medal and not the historical account. This was C. Wyllys Betts's vision: history told only through contemporary medals. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1. The Period of Discovery Chapter 2. The Period of Colonization Index‎

‎Lalique : A Collector's Guide ‎

‎, Crescent Books 1989, 1989 Hardcover, 192 pages, ENG, 305 x 235 mm, book itself is in good condition, illustrations in colours and b/w. ISBN 045863690951.‎

‎Presents the creations of the most successful glassmaker of the 20th century, with details on the origin, value and techniques used in many of Lalique's finest bottles, ashtrays and clocks‎

‎later Flemish pictures : In the collection of her Majesty the Queen‎

‎, Royal Collection Enterprises Limited, 2007 Hardcover, 421 pages, English, 310 x 255 x 40 mm, 240 colour illustrations, Condition as New. ISBN 9781902163635.‎

‎The Royal Collection contains one of the finest and most varied collections of Old Master paintings in the world. The 147 works catalogued in the present volume are by Flemish artists who were active principally in the seventeenth century; they include a large and outstandingly good group of genre paintings by David Teniers the Younger, and other paintings by such diverse artists as Jan Brueghel, Gonzalez Coques, Frans Francken, Frans Snyders, Karl Philips Spierincks and Jan Wildens. The most important group of works, however, are those by Rubens. The full range of the artist's practice is represented in the collection. There are works that are entirely by his hand, and others that were carried out either with known collaborators or with the help of his studio. The introduction to the catalogue gives a fully documented history of the growth of the collection from the early Stuarts to the reign of Queen Victoria. The close relations Charles I enjoyed with Rubens are discussed in detail, and there is a full account of the important acquisitions made by later members of the royal family, notably Frederick, Prince of Wales and George IV.‎

‎Eye and Art in Ancient Greece : A Study in Archaeoaesthetics‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller , 2018 Hardcover, 256 pages., 4 b/w ills, 61 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm, English, . ISBN 9781909400030.‎

‎Eye and Art in Ancient Greece examines the art of ancient Greece through reconstructions of how the Greeks saw and understood the products of their own visual culture. The material is approached using a newly developed methodology of archaeoaesthetics by which past modes of vision and perception are examined in conjunction with prevailing notions of pleasure and judgement with the purpose of identifying the visual and psychological contexts within which the aesthetics of a culture emerge. Through a wide-ranging examination of ideas found in early written sources, the book examines various key aspects of Greek visual culture, such as continuity and change, nudity, identity, lifelikeness, mimesis, personation and enactment, symmetria, dance, harmony, and the modal representation of emotions, with the aim of comprehending how and why choices were made in the conception and making of artifacts. Special attention is given to factors contributing to the formation of taste and the emergence and transmission over time of concepts of art and beauty and the means by which they were identified and judged. The approach facilitates encounters with the material in ways that give rise to new insights into how the ancient Greeks experienced their own visual culture and how Greek art may be understood by us today. Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe, a British citizen born in Oxford, studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy, before moving to the United States to undertake undergraduate and graduate studies in art history. He subsequently received a Ph.D. in art history from Bryn Mawr College and is currently the Eleanor Barton and Aileen ?Ninie? Laing ?57 Endowed Professor in Art History at Sweet Briar College. He has held visiting scholar positions at Oxford University in England and the American Academy in Rome. He lives in Virginia.‎

‎French Painters of the Seventeenth Century‎

‎Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1988, 1988 Hardcover, 288 pages, English, 388 ills.in colour and b/w, 300 x 230 mm, book in fine state,. ISBN 9780821216118.‎

‎Traces the development of painting in France during the 1600s and profiles the careers of the major French painters of the period‎

‎Rembrandt. Rembrandt - Citadelles & Mazenod - Christopher Wright‎

‎, Citadelles & Mazenod, 2000 Reli avec jaquette d' diteur + slipcase, 359 pages, Texte en Francais, Illustrations en couleurs en noir & blanc nombreuses illustrations dans et hors texte. *TRES bon etat! . ISBN 9782850881039.‎

‎Rembrandt n'a cess de susciter des interrogations et des recherches de par le monde. Beaucoup ont voulu trouver dans sa vie la clef de son g nie, et dans son ?uvre, d'une grande complexit affective et spirituelle, un reflet de sa vie. Mais la d finition m me de cet ?uvre pose probl me, car au fil du temps, les attributions ont constamment vari . Le nombre de tableaux qui, un moment ou un autre, ont t associ s au nom de Rembrandt, d passe le chiffre ahurissant de mille ! Aujourd'hui, il a t ramen autour de trois cents. Face ces al as, Christopher Wright s'est livr une tude tr s rigoureuse de la vaste documentation existant sur l'artiste et s'est attach un examen minutieux de sa production : il a vu personnellement la quasi-totalit des peintures reproduites dans ce livre. Rembrandt, ici red couvert, appara t ainsi d barrass des interpr tations psychologiques, romantiques ou dramatiques qui troublent la perception que l'on peut avoir de son art. L'originalit du pr sent ouvrage r side dans l'approche adopt e par l'auteur : les ?uvres sont r parties en fonction de leur th me, et trait es selon un ordre chronologique. Le lecteur peut ainsi s'impr gner pleinement du myst re des peintures religieuses, de la magie des paysages, de la virtuosit des portraits de la bourgeoisie n erlandaise, ou de la profonde humanit qui se d gage des autoportraits. A travers l'abondante s lection des illustrations en couleurs, chefs-d'?uvre et tableaux m connus s' quilibrent harmonieusement. Le livre s'ach ve avec une partie documentaire - notamment une liste chronologique des peintures, ainsi qu'un floril ge de critiques parues dans le pass - pour mieux entrer dans l'univers pictural du ma tre.‎

‎Architectuur Belgi 25 jaar in 75 projecten.‎

‎, Lannoo, 2014 Gebonden, Hardcover 304 Pagina's met prachtige illustraties in kleur, nieuwstaat. ISBN 9789401420389.‎

‎Architectuurexpert Christophe Van Gerrewey over een kwarteeuw Belgische architectuur. In een kwarteeuw ontpopte Belgi zich van architecturale woestenij tot gidsland. Van Gerrewey schetst die evolutie aan de hand van 75 iconische gebouwen en projecten. Een extra hoofdstuk wordt besteed aan projecten van Belgische architecten in het buitenland.‎

‎Henk Visch Exactly how I remembered it‎

‎, Posture Editions Nr 08, 2014 PB, 297 x 210 mm, 64 pages, Illustrated. EN-NL edition. ISBN 9789491262081.‎

‎?It is as if the images in this book close their eyes and immediately transform each other into a little impression we can take with us to the next page. And so, as we read the book, we take each individual image with us. Because the book is arranged in three parts, we feel we are getting closer and closer to the core, and to the truth; the more naked, the thinner and sharper the images become, the closer we come to the essence. Or is it the other way round? And once we are beyond the halfway point, we go through the same process all over again in the other direction. Perhaps every page of Exactly how I remembered it contains the same image, one that we change ? by looking, reading, turning the pages and remembering ? into another lie.? From: ?Images to take away? Christophe Van Gerrewey, in: Exactly how I remembered it‎

‎Nikolaas Demoen Labyrinth‎

‎, Posture Editions Nr 34, 2020 HB, 297 x 210 mm, 72 pages, Illustrated. ENG edition. ISBN 9789491262357.‎

‎Labyrinth takes us on a walk through the spaces constructed within the pages of the book and visualises a world in which the exit can?t be found. With the morphology of the house (windows, doors, steps and curtains) and the theatre (curtains, stage, perspective), a world is evoked in which nothing can serve as a point of reference. The experience is similar to surfing on the internet, scrolling through instagram, unfolding the gallery map of Art Brussels or shopping in a French supermarket. All images in the book are woodcuts. Christophe Van Gerrewey has written a text that actually creates an imbroglio. The entire book is printed in letterpress. The book launch coincides with the screening of Demoen?s film Papers, books and bolero, on view at Kunsthal Gent. Book launch at Kunsthal on 7 Feb 2020.‎

‎RUSKIN. Een reisverhaal bij werk van Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen‎

‎, W Z W Books, 2009 PB, 194 x 124 mm, 48 pag. NL edition. ISBN 9789077833087.‎

‎Het Brusselse architectenbureau Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen is een van de meest veelbelovende jonge praktijken in de mondiale architectuur. In samenwerking met het bureau werd in 2007 een reisverhaal gepubliceerd van Christophe Van Gerrewey, dat als in een pelgrimage verschillende ontwerpen van Office opzoekt. Ge llustreerd met foto's of collages is dit boek niet alleen de allereerste introductie tot het werk van Office - het is tevens een spannend verhaal over de rol van tijd, gebouwen en ontmoetingen in de eenentwintigste eeuw.‎

‎Zeven soorten onvoltooidheid' - 'Seven types of unfinishedness' ‎

‎, Posture pockets 05, 2024 PB, 195 x 130 mm, 152 pages, EN-NL edition, Illustrated.*NEW ISBN 9789491262647.‎

‎When is a work of art finished, done, terminated? In this essay, Christophe Van Gerrewey suggests that the incompleteness of art mirrors the un de-cidability of the world, about which the last word hasn't been said yet either. An artwork can be unfinished in seven ways: it is completed by the audience, it suggests a better world, the artist can't leave it behind, it is a collective process, it reflects modesty, it is too utopian (for the time being), or its value has yet to be discovered. The photographs of ateliers and studios that illustrate this essay, show the places where all these thoughts and con-siderations can originate. Van Gerrewey's philosophical essay is enriched in this issue with a photo section. For this image sec-tion, Katrien Daemers photographed fifteen studios of contemporary artists, leaving the artist absent but allowing the (un)completed work to speak all the more. With studio photographs of Nel Aerts, Kasper Bosmans, Ria Bosman, Michael Borremans, Luc Deleu, Jan De Vylder, Sophie Nys ... Christophe Van Gerrewey (1982) is an author, critic and teacher. He published three novels and a collection of essays between 2012 and 2017. He has been an editorial board member of architec-ture magazine OASE since 2010 and, since 2018, of art magazine De Witte Raaf. From 2015 to 2024, he taught architectural theory at EPFL in Switzer-land. In June 2024, the survey work Something Completely Different. Architecture in Belgium will be published by MIT Press (London/Cambridge).‎