‎Van Dyck, a complete catalogue of the paintings catalogue raisonne Sir Anthony Van Dyck ENG. edition ‎

‎, YALE , 2004 Hardcover, 692 pages, English, 320 x 260 mm, fine. 632 b/w + 202 color illus. catalogue raisonne. FINE!! ISBN 9780300099287.‎

‎Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) is among the greatest portrait painters of all time. The 1990s opened and closed with major exhibitions devoted to his work, and now the long-awaited catalogue raisonne of his painted oeuvre is complete. A native of Antwerp, Van Dyck also lived and worked for long periods in Italy and England, where his brief, productive life ended. He is best known for his work at the court of Charles I. His full-length portraits of aristocrats in the Caroline court and in Genoa, Antwerp, Brussels, and The Hague influenced the history of Western portraiture into the twentieth century in the work of John Singer Sargent. Handsomely designed and illustrated, the volume includes a reproduction of every known authentic painting by the artist as well as the provenance and the significant facts and literature on each. This catalogue raisonne is, fittingly, the collaborative work of an international team devoted to the study of this major international artist. Susan J. Barnes, an independent art historian, co-curated a Van Dyck exhibit in Washington, D.C., 1990. Nora De Poorter is director of the Rubenianum, Antwerp. Oliver Millar, Surveyor Emeritus of The Queen?s Pictures, organized an exhibition of Van Dyck?s English work at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 1982?83. Horst Vey, former director of the Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, is author of the standard work on Van Dyck?s drawings. ‎

‎Van Dyck - A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings. Catalogue raisonne. Sir Anthony Van Dyck‎

‎, Yale University, 2004 Hardcover in dusjacket, 792pp, 632 b/w + 202 color illus. catalogue raissone. ISBN 9780300099287.‎

‎Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) is among the greatest portrait painters of all time. The 1990s opened and closed with major exhibitions devoted to his work, and now the long-awaited catalogue raisonne of his painted oeuvre is complete. A native of Antwerp, Van Dyck also lived and worked for long periods in Italy and England, where his brief, productive life ended. He is best known for his work at the court of Charles I. His full-length portraits of aristocrats in the Caroline court and in Genoa, Antwerp, Brussels, and The Hague influenced the history of Western portraiture into the twentieth century in the work of John Singer Sargent. Handsomely designed and illustrated, the volume includes a reproduction of every known authentic painting by the artist as well as the provenance and the significant facts and literature on each. This catalogue raisonne is, fittingly, the collaborative work of an international team devoted to the study of this major international artist. Susan J. Barnes, an independent art historian, co-curated a Van Dyck exhibit in Washington, D.C., 1990. Nora De Poorter is director of the Rubenianum, Antwerp. Oliver Millar, Surveyor Emeritus of The Queen?s Pictures, organized an exhibition of Van Dyck?s English work at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 1982-83. Horst Vey, former director of the Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, is author of the standard work on Van Dyck's drawings. ‎

‎Charles Joseph Natoire (1700-1777)‎

‎, Arthena, 2012 Couverture reliee sous jaquette hardcover/dusjacket -Relié, 24 × 32 cm, 584 pages,1281 illustrations dont 137 en couleur. Bon etat/neuf/ Texte en Francais. ISBN 9782903239480.‎

‎Membre de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, directeur de l?Académie de France à Rome, Natoire fut pour ses contemporains l'un des plus grands artistes français du XVIIIe siècle. Sa production abondante (plus de 1 200 peintures et dessins) témoigne des commandes qu?il reçut tant de la noblesse que de la cour, peignant pour Versailles, Marly ou Fontainebleau, l?hôtel de Soubise, la manufacture des Gobelins. Préface de J. Patrice Marandel.‎

‎Constructions of Gender in Late Antique Manichaean Cosmological Narrative‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Paperback, 324 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Languages: English, Latin. ISBN 9782503586663.‎

‎Summary Manichaeism emerged from Sasanian Persia in the third century CE and flourished in Persia, the Roman Empire, Central Asia and beyond until succumbing to persecution from rival faiths in the eighth to ninth century. Its founder, Mani, claimed to be the final embodiment of a series of prophets sent over time to expound divine wisdom. This monograph explores the constructions of gender embedded in Mani's colourful dualist cosmological narrative, in which a series of gendered divinities are in conflict with the demonic beings of the Kingdom of Darkness. The Jewish and Gnostic roots of Mani's literary constructions of gender are examined in parallel with Sasanian societal expectations. Reconstructions of gender in subsequent Manichaean literature reflect the changing circumstances of the Manichaean community. As the first major study of gender in Manichaean literature, this monograph draws upon established approaches to the study of gender in late antique religious literature, to present a portrait of a historically maligned and persecuted religious community. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction: This discusses the history of gender studies and its application to religious studies; a summary of previous literature relating to gender in Manichaeism; a brief life of Mani and its relation to his canon of texts. It outlines the contents of the following chapters. 2. The Manichaean Father: exploration and identification of gendered attributes associated with masculinity with reference to Connell's model of hegemonic masculinity. The Manichaean Father is considered as embodiment of desirable masculine traits and the appropriate exercise of masculine rulership and authority. 3. The Chief Archon: This chapter examines the construction of gender implicit in the characterization of the chief archon. Mani's writings characterize the chief archon in polar opposition to the Manichaean Father as exemplum of masculine rulership which embodies lust for power and territory. Mani characterizes the chief archon as a dangerous outsider who seeks to invade. This is expressed through the trope of the cannibal. The chief archon's acts of cannibalism mark him as alien, uncivilized and savage. Manichaean texts written after Mani's death reflect the persecution of the Manichaean community. The characterization of the chief archon develops to reveal a tyrannous ruler who incites fear and terror in his own subjects. 4. The First Man: This chapter considers the apparent paradox of the two competing constructions of masculinity evident in the characterization of the Manichaean First Man, who plays a central role in Manichaean cosmological drama. His characterization as both valiant warrior and suffering victim in defeat is explored in the context of the changing circumstances of the Manichaean community facing persecution. Parallel models of endurance as a worthy expression of masculinity in Jewish, Judaeo-Christian and early Christian literature are discussed. 5. The Mother of Life: This chapter explores the gendered characterization of the Manichaean Mother of Life in Manichaean literature. As mother of the First Man, the Mother of Life embodies positive motherhood, demonstrating nurturing characteristics. Her role in the mythological drama is considered as an expression of the Jewish/Judaeo-Christian literary Wisdom figure (Sophia, Hokmah). The Mother of Life shares and extends imagery attached to Hokmah to encompass wisdom as a weapon. The Mother of Life is also characterized as a model of feminine imprecation to masculine authority through the valorization of her prayer to the Manichaean Father on behalf of the beleaguered First Man. This is discussed in relation to the veneration of Hannah's prayer (1 Sam.) in rabbinic literature. 6. The Manichaean Demoness Az and the yetzer hara: This chapter explores parallels between the feminine-gendered demon Az and the evolving Jewish concept of the "evil inclination" (the yetzer hara) as expressions of the human propensity to sin. As mother of Adam and Eve and mother of the demons, the maternal style of the demoness Az polarizes the motherhood of the Mother of Life. 7. The Maiden of Light: This chapter explores the characterization of the Maiden of Light and her epithets of purity and wisdom in the context of the seductive display of her image to the archons in Manichaean mythology. This act is considered in the context of the model used by feminist biblical scholars of the male as owner of the gaze and the female as object of male gaze. The chapter argues that the characterization of the Maiden of Light should be considered in relation to the biblical characterizations of Susanna, Judith and Esther. These reveal the female as both victim and manipulator of male gaze. These texts reveal that the seeking of male gaze is extolled in cases of communal threat when authorized by masculine authority. It is argued that the seductive display of the Maiden of Light allows doubt concerning the exploitation of females within the Mnichaean community. 8. Conclusions: The conclusion draws together the research findings of the previous chapters. Polarized positions within and across constructions of gender are considered.‎

‎Manichaeism: Encounters with Death. Studies in the Parabolic, Material and Spiritual Body‎

‎, Brepols, 2025 Paperback, 342 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:4 tables b/w., 1 maps b/w, Language: English. *new ISBN 9782503614267.‎

‎Summary Born in Persian Mesopotamia in the year 232 CE, the self-proclaimed prophet Mani promulgated a dualist faith that rapidly spread throughout the Roman Empire, Central Asia and China. This monograph comprises a series of studies of the Manichaean conceptualization of death and the afterlife in the context of Manichaean soteriology, eschatology and anthropology. Material, documentary and liturgical evidence is analysed to enrich knowledge of Manichaean funeral ritual and mourning practice. The book explores the thematic symbolism of the corpse in Manichaean parabolic literature, offering fresh interpretations and exploring the influence of Buddhist teachings on the impermanence of the body, karma and metempsychosis. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: The Journey of the Soul Chapter 2: The Hour of Need Chapter 3: The Care of the Dead Chapter 4: The Death of Mani Chapter 5: The Parable of the Drunk Man and the Corpse Chapter 6: The Parable of the Monk and the Virgin Chapter 7: The Parable of the Corpse and the Treasure Chapter 8: Manichaean Doctrine, Karma and Metempsychosis‎

‎Odyssee in der Spätantike. Bildliche und literarische Rezeption‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, xii + 362 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:53 b/w, 2 tables b/w., Languages: German, Latin, Greek. ISBN 9782503583792.‎

‎Summary Homer's Odyssey is one of the most fascinating and popular texts of all time, inspiring not only artists and poets but also generating a massive amount of research. This book focuses for the first time on the Odyssey's reception in late antiquity, the period that witnesses the transformation of classical culture into the world of the middle ages. The epic's late antique pictorial reception was a selective one. Artists represented but a small canon of topics: Odysseus' encounter with the terrifying one-eyed Cyclops, with the dangerous sorceress Circe, with the bewitching song of the Sirens, and with Scylla the man-eater; a handful of iconographically diverse depictions can be related to the hero's return to Ithaca that never attracted as much attention as Odysseus' adventures in the course of the wandering. In all cases, the book stresses the close relation between viewer, or context of reception, and specific form of artistic rendering. Depending on context and intended viewer, Odysseus e.g. can be characterized as a person with whom the man in the street can identify, as a problematic and ridiculous figure, or as an example of virtue. Almost all late antique depictions of Odysseus' wanderings have been found - and produced - in the Western provinces of the Roman Empire. In the course of Roman antiquity, the Greek hero and his wanderings had become what they are still: a part of Western cultural identity. The Odyssey's late antique literary reception was much more multifaceted than the artistic one, as regards topics and geography. In this book, though, the focus will be on those topics that were dealt with in the visual arts, too. Contrasting the late antique pictorial reception with the literary one, and contrasting both with the Homeric epic, reveals the originality of late antiquity's artists and writers. Both employ the classical heritage with means and ends of their own (or of their patrons), and both are nevertheless deeply embedded in and influenced by late antique discourse, be it on religion, philosophy, slavery, heroism, or gender relations. Homers Odyssee fasziniert die Menschen seit beinahe dreitausend Jahren. Das Epos inspirierte zahlreiche Kunstschaffende aller Epochen und aller Genres und brachte enorme Mengen an Forschungsliteratur hervor. Das vorliegende Buch widmet sich erstmals der Rezeption der Odyssee in der Spätantike, also jener Epoche, in der das kulturelle Erbe der Antike für Mittelalter und Neuzeit sortiert, transformiert und zumindest teilweise bewahrt wurde. Analysiert werden diejenigen Episoden des Epos, die in der Spätantike noch bildlich umgesetzt wurden: die Begegnung des Odysseus mit dem einäugigen Riesen Polyphem, mit der Zauberin Kirke, mit den verführerischen Sirenen und mit der Menschenfresserin Skylla; außerdem verschiedene Momente der Heimkehr nach Ithaka, die allerdings bei weitem nicht so populär war wie die Abenteuer der Irrfahrt. Eine Gegenüberstellung von bildlicher und schriftlicher Rezeption sowie eine Gegenüberstellung beider mit dem Homerischen Text macht die Eigenständigkeit und Originalität der spätantiken Rezeption deutlich. Sowohl bildende Künstler als auch Literaten verfolgten mit je eigenen Mitteln je eigene Zwecke und Aussageintentionen. Beiden gemeinsam ist die Einbettung in die Diskurse der spätantiken Gesellschaft, zu denen sie mit ihren Interpretationen der Odyssee auch selbst einen Beitrag leisteten. Das betrifft nicht nur die Diskurse zum Thema Religion oder Philosophie, sondern auch zu Themen wie Heldentum, Sklaverei oder Geschlechterverhältnis. TABLE OF CONTENTS Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbildungsverzeichnis Vorwort Kapitel I: Einleitung Übersicht über die spätantike literarische Rezeption der Odyssee Zeitrahmen Gegenstand der Untersuchung und ältere Forschung Fragen Methodische Prämissen Aufbau des Buches Kapitel II: Polyphem Der homerische Text Die literarische Rezeption Die bildliche Rezeption Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse zur spätantiken Rezeption des Polyphem-Abenteuers Kapital III: Kirke Der homerische Text Die literarische Rezeption Die bildliche Rezeption Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse zur spätantiken Rezeption des Kirke-Abenteuers Kapital IV: Sirenen Der homerische Text Die literarische Rezeption Die bildliche Rezeption Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse zur spätantiken Rezeption des Sirenen-Abenteuers Kapital V: Skylla Der homerische Text Die literarische Rezeption Die bildliche Rezeption Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse zur spätantiken Rezeption des Skylla-Abenteuers Kapital VI: Heimkehr nach Ithaka Der homerische Text Die literarische Rezeption Die griechischen Zeugnisse Die bildliche Rezeption Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse zur spätantiken Rezeption der Heimkehr nach Ithaka Kapital VII: Fazit Anhänge Bibliographie Register‎

‎Crossing parallels Agostino Carracci - Hendrick Goltzius. ‎

‎, Imhof verlag, 2021 Hardcover, 24 × 30 cm, 304 pages with 289 illustrations. English text. ISBN 9783731909712.‎

‎Crossing Parallels Agostino Carracci, Hendrick Goltzius Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich: 9. Dezember 2020 bis 14. März 2021 Agostino Carracci and Hendrick Goltzius were the leading engravers of the late 16th century ? one north and the other south of the Alps. They have not only achieved revolutionary achievements in technical terms, but have also had a lasting impact on the medium of copperplate engraving with the selection and design of their image content. While there are already numerous publications on Goltzius as well as on Carracci, the obvious comparison of the two great figures of the engraving around 1600 is undertaken here for the first time. In four detailed essays and catalog texts on all exhibited engravings, the amazing parallels in the life and work of the two masters are shown, their artistic development is comparatively analyzed and the readers eyes are sharpened for the sophistication of their virtuoso engraving technique.‎

‎Life with the Gods in Their Yoruba Homeland‎

‎Worgl, Perlinger Verlag, 1983 Hardcover with dustjacket, 235 Pages, 30.5 x 25.5 cm, illustrated in color and B&W, English. ISBN 3853990150.‎

‎A Life with the Gods in Their Yoruba Homeland‎

‎KERRY JAMES MARSHALL : The Graphic Work ‎

‎, Ludion, 2023 HB, 305 x 240 mm, 256 pages, ENG edition, NEW, dustjacket, illustrated in colours / b/w. ISBN 9789493039759.‎

‎Best known as a painter, Kerry James Marshall has also produced a vast graphic oeuvre that has been seldom seen and rarely documented. This catalog raisonné offers the first public account of his graphic work and is also the first in-depth study of the role of printed images and print processes in Marshall's work as a whole. One of the most important American contemporary artists, Kerry James Marshall is known for artworks that address the 'crisis of under-representation' of the black figure in the pictorial traditions of the Western world, from museums to comic books. His work has been widely celebrated in major museum retrospectives such as Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff (Antwerp, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Madrid) in 2014 and Mastry (Chicago, New York, Los Angeles) in 2017, and through numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 1997. An assiduous worker, he spent his youth acquiring time-honored skills of art - drawing and painting, but also wood engraving and printing. By his mid-twenties, he recalls, 'I could paint in egg tempera... I was good at printmaking. I could do woodcuts, etchings, aquatints. I knew all of those techniques.' Most of his prints have been produced not in professional print workshops, but by the artist, working alone in his studio. They range from images the size of postcards to his 50-foot-long, 12 panel woodcut Untitled (1998-99), to iterations of his ongoing magnum opus, Rythm Mastr. And while some have entered prominent museum collections, many exist only in private collections or the artist's archive and are unknown to the public. This catalog raisonné offers the first public account of these important works and the first in-depth study of the role of printed images and print processes in Marshall's work as a whole. ‎

‎Paul Klee - Les plus grands chefs-d’oeuvre‎

‎Flame Tree Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 2014. L'art de Klee fait appel à nos instincts primaires et nous pousse à regarder au-delà de l'ordinaire. Dessinateur naturel, maître de la couleur et artiste extrêmement influent, Klee échappe à toute classification, ayant été associé à diverses reprises à l'expressionnisme, au cubisme, au futurisme, au surréalisme et à l'abstraction. Faisant partie d'une nouvelle série de magnifiques livres d'art à offrir, Paul Klee Masterpieces of Art regorge de la chaleur subtile et de l'humour d'un artiste unique. Avec une introduction fraîche et réfléchie à la vie et à l'art de Klee, le livre présente ensuite ses œuvres clés dans toute leur splendeur.‎

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‎Très bon état général.‎

‎. André Beauneveu. Pas de pareil en nulles terres -Artiste aux cours de France et de Flandre.‎

‎, Paul Holberton Publishing 2008, 2008 Softcover, 216 pages, Texte en Francais, 270 x 225 mm, Tres belle exemplaire. ISBN 9781903470718.‎

‎Andr Beauneveu has long been known as one of the greatest European artists of the late 14th century. This book re-examines the oeuvre of the artist as first and foremost a master sculptor. Nash surveys the whole of his work including sculpture and stained glass originally for Jean, duc de Berry's chapel at Bourges. This is an important revisionary contribution to the study of late medieval art and the practice of its workshops. Susie Nash is a senior lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art.‎

‎LAutriche. Couverture dYves BRAYER. Ouvrage orne de 274 heliogravures.‎

‎Grenoble, Arthaud (« Les Beaux Pays, 157 »), 1960. grand in-8°, 362 pages, carte h.t. depl., index, broche, couv. rempliee.‎

‎Tres bel exemplaire [VU-1] ‎

‎EXAT 51. 1951-1956. Nuove tendenze. / Catalogo della mostra allestita a Siena nel 2003.‎

‎, Protagon, 2003 softcover, 160 pages, color and b/w illustrations, English / Italian edition .‎

‎Catalogo della mostra allestita a Siena nel 2003. Testo di Marijan Susovski. Edizione bilingue italiano/inglese. EXAT 51 (Experimental Atelier) identifica un movimento di pittori, disegnatori, architetti e artisti sorto a Zagabria nel 1951. In questo laboratorio sperimentale confluirono molti sostenitori croati dell'arte astratta, con il risultato che si creò uno stile inconfondibile anche nell'arte applicata, chiamato proprio con il nome del movimento EXAT. Il presente volume fornisce un'ampia documentazione, sia teorica che iconografica, sui risultati raggiunti dagli artisti di questo movimento.‎

‎MONTPELLIER ILLUSTRE ET SECRETE ‎

‎Nimes Editions Alcide 2018 in 4 (30,5x24,5) 1 volume reliure cartonnée illustrée de l'éditeur sous jaquette, 128 pages, avec de nombreuses aquarelles de Camille Penchinat. Très bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request ) ‎

‎Très bon Jaquette en très bon état Reliure ‎

‎PARIS. AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY.‎

‎Yale Univ. Press, 1993, in-4 softcover,, 221 pp, illustrations. In english. Cover Used, inside very good.‎

‎PARIS - AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY.‎

‎Yale Univ. Press, 1993, in-4 hardcover,, 221 pp, illustrations. In english. Signature on 1st page. ‎

‎PARIS - AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY.‎

‎Yale Univ. Press, 1993, in-4 hardcover,, 221 pp, illustrations. In english. Cover in good condition, inside very good.‎

‎Kôji Nenkan 2596 / Annuel de construction 1936‎

‎Tokyo Shimizu-gumi 1936 1 305 x 245 mm, 200 p. dont 191 pages de photographies de constructions, 5 planches hors-texte dont une en couleurs, avec le nom de l'immeuble, du lieu et de l'architecte.Présentation des constructions réalisées au cours de l'année par le cabinet Shimizu, au Japon. Station Météo à Mito par Sutemi Horiguchi ; Mitsui & Co. Ltd. à Nagoya par Toshiro Yamashita ; Grands Magasins Mitsukoshi à Tokyo (7 pages) ; Magasin Kanebo à Tokyo Ginza par Gumpei Matsuda ; Théâtre Takarazuka à Yokohama ; grands chantiers en Mandchourie: routes et barrage. Reliure demi-toile de l'éditeur avec pièce de titre au dos. De nombreuses constructions dans le Japon: écoles et universités, hôpitaux, banques, usines, chemins de fer, tunnels, ponts, villas privées. Shimizu-gumi (Shimizu Kensetsu Kabushiki-gaisha) est un des plus anciens et plus importants cabinets de construction au Japon, réalisant de très nombreux monuments et immeubles; c'est lui qui a réalisé le célèbre stade de Yoyogi conçu par Kenzo Tange pour les jeux olympiques d'été de 1964. A côté de bâtiments plutôt traditionnels ou néoclassique destinés aux édifices publics on voit nettement se dessiner, surtout pour les villas particulières, un courant moderniste influencé par Frank Lloyd Wright et les avant-gardes européennes initiées par Antonin Raymond, les corbuséens Maekawa et Sakakura et les acquis du Bauhaus. (101066) ‎

‎ Bon Couverture rigide ‎

‎Willy Suter.‎

‎Ollon. Édition Cenre d'Art - Les Fontaines. 1984. Qudratische-4°. 99 Seiten, mit zahlreichen farbigen Illustrationen. Illustrierter Pappband.‎

‎Exemplar N°. HC. Gesamtausgabe von 1000 Exemplaren. Text in deutscher und französischer Sprache. - Tadellos erhalten. Mit handschriftlicher Widmung.‎

‎Tours et clochers de tous styles et de tous les pays relevés et dessinés par C. Sutter. Flèches, donjons, beffrois, minarets, tourelles, campanilles, lanternes ‎

‎ Librairiegénérale de l'architecture Paris Librairie Générale de l'Architecture et des Travaux Publics André, Daly fils et Cie, sans date, vers 1880. In-folio en feuillets sous chemise relié demi-cartonnage nouée par lacets, de 80 planches regroupant 255 motifs. Collection Architecture historique. Bon état.‎

‎ Toutes les expéditions sont faites en suivi au-dessus de 25 euros. Expédition quotidienne pour les envois simples, suivis, recommandés ou Colissimo. ‎

‎Architecture Historique - Tours et clochers de tous styles et de tous pays, flèches, donjons, beffrois, minarets, tourelles, campanilles, lanternes.‎

‎ Paris, Librairie Générale d l'Architecte et des Travaux Publics, s.d. [1880] Grand in-folio en ff., farde à lacets, dos en toile bordeaux, plats granités, table des planches. ‎

‎ La farde est fatiguée, frottée, coins inf. manquants, les lacets incomplets, l'intérieur est propre, ex. bien complet de toutes ses planches. - Frais de port : -France 8,45 € -U.E. 13 € -Monde (z B : 23 €) (z C : 43 €) ‎

‎Religious Connectivity in Urban Communities (1400-1550). Reading, Worshipping, and Connecting through the Continuum of Sacred and Secular‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 285 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, 12 col., 5 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503590813.‎

‎Summary The boundaries between sacred and secular in the late Middle Ages, traditionally perceived as separate domains, are nowadays perceived as porous or non-existent. This collection on religious connectivity explores a new approach to religious culture in the late Middle Ages. In assessing the porosity of the domains of sacred and secular, and of religious and lay, the contributors to this collection investigate processes of transfer of religious knowledge, literature, and artefacts, and the people involved. Religious connectivity describes people in networks. This concept emphasises dynamics and processes rather than stability, and focuses on all persons involved in transfer and appropriation, not just the producers. It is therefore a fruitful concept by which to explore medieval society and the continuum of sacred and secular. By using the lens of religious connectivity, the authors of this collection shed new light on religious activities and religious culture in late medieval urban communities. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations, Preface Introduction: Religious Connectivity as a Holistic Approach to Urban Society - Suzan Folkerts Urban Society and Lay-Religious Communities: Notes on Confraternities in Italian Communes and Signories - Marina Gazzini Religion as a Connecting Force in the Late Medieval City of Utrecht: The Religious Life of Alderman and Mayor Dirck Borre van Amerongen (c. 1438?1528) - Cora Zwart Fleshers, Saints, and Bones: Connectivities that Transcend the Sacred-Secular Divide within the Medieval Scottish Burgh of Perth - Megan E. Edwards Alvarez Dit boec heft gegeven: Book Donation as an Indicator of a Shared Culture of Devotion in the Late Medieval Low Countries - Johanneke Uphoff Recycled Piety or a Self-Made Community? The Late Medieval Manuscripts of the Tertiaries of Sint-Catharinadal in Hasselt - An-Katrien Hanselaer The Re-Use of Melodies as an Indication of the Connection of Religious Song to the Urban Environment - Cécile de Morrée Caxton's Press and Pilgrimages: Shaping Groups of Travellers into a New Community of Interpretation? - Delphine Mercuzot How Figures of the Bible Connected Printers, Artists, and Friends (1538?76) - Elsa Kammerer The Coalman and the Devil: Carbonaria Fides and the Limits of Lay Religious Knowledge - María José Vega People, Passion, and Prayer: Religious Connectivity in the Hanseatic City of Deventer - Suzan Folkerts *** Index of Manuscripts, Archival Sources, and Copies of Incunables Index of Names and Places‎

‎Edgar Degas : Defining the Modernist Edge‎

‎, Yale University Press, 2003 Paperback, 72 pages, ENG, 255 x 205 mm, as New, ill. in colour / b/w. ISBN 9780300100044.‎

‎Through his representation of modern subjects such as ballet dancers and race horses, his constant questioning of traditional artistic practices, and his vital engagement with Parisian society, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) helped to define the beginnings of modernism in visual culture at the end of the nineteenth century. This engaging book yields new scholarship on works by Degas in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery and provides in-depth discussion of works of art in every medium explored by this innovative artist. Extended entries by distinguished scholars including Richard Kendall and Edgar Munhall provide a complete review of the artist's working methods. The book also introduces several important pieces by Degas that have rarely been available for view by the public, including a notable wax figure and several unique prints and works on paper‎

‎Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings,‎

‎, Prestel, 2008 softcover, 225 pages Illustrated. fine, ENG text. ISBN 9783791361703.‎

‎In this book, the world s most exciting new museums are shown to be as inspiring as the works they display.The twenty-first century has seen a boom in museum construction, both in new buildings and renovations or additions to existing ones. Nearly thirty museums are given close inspection in this generously illustrated volume. Each entry includes a discussion of the building s cultural and geographic environment, complemented by color photographs, sketches and architectural plans. The book encompasses four continents and highlights the designs of Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Steven Holl, Zaha Hadid, Mario Botta, David Chipperfield, Tadao Ando, Yoshio Taniguchi and Daniel Libeskind. In addition, the authors provide thoughtful commentary on the relationship between architecture and the fine arts and an assessment of museum functionality in modern times.Suzanne Greub is Director of the Art Centre Basel and the editor of several exhibition catalogues. She is a contributor to Museums for a New Millenium (Prestel).Thierry Greub is an art historian and Assistant Director of the Art Centre Basel.‎

‎Spain, Espagne, Spanien: Foreigh Artists Discover Spain 1800-1900 ‎

‎, The Equitable Gallery 1993, 1993 Paperback, 142 pages, English, 305 x 230 mm, in good condition,.‎

‎ Spain -- In art -- Exhibitions. Painting, European -- Spanish influences -- Exhibitions. Painting, American -- Spanish influences -- Exhibitions.‎