Living Histories (Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives in Education)
Living Histories is a collection of new scholarship that explores histories of art education through a series of international contexts. The first truly international text highlighting histories of art education, with contributions from over 30 scholars based in 18 countries. Art education holds an important role in promoting historical awareness of the multiple relations that connect pedagogic inquiry with culture, heritage, place and identity, locally and globally. To keep pace with the movem...
Bonington (Chaucer Library of Art S.)
by Aubrey Noakes and Christopher Wright
The Singing Bird Room of Robert Lostutter
by Wis ) Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Madison
Die Zyprischen Terrakotten Aus Milet (Milesische Forschungen, #7)
by Jan-Marc Henke
Kaiserin Elisabeth gehoert zu den aussergewoehnlichsten Persoenlichkeiten der Weltgeschichte. In der ehemaligen Reichshaupt- und Residenzstadt Wien befindet sich eine erstaunliche Fulle von Erinnerungsstatten an die Monarchin. Das typologische Spektrum reicht von Verkehrsflachenbezeichnungen und Benennung von oeffentlichen Gebauden nach der Kaiserin bis zu stimmungstrachtigen Monumenten in Gartenanlagen und Sakralbauten. In dieser Publikation wurden erstmals sowohl die bestehenden und die nicht...
Jewelry was worn by ancient Egyptians at every level of society and, like their modern descendants, they prized it for its aesthetic value, as a way to adorn and beautify the body. It was also a conspicuous signifier of wealth, status, and power. But jewelry in ancient Egypt served another fundamental purpose: its wearers saw it as a means to absorb positive magical and divine powers-to protect the living, and the dead, from the malignant forces of the unseen. The types of metals or stones used...
The so-called Peleus and Thetis Sarcophagus in the Villa Albani (Iconological Studies in Roman Art, #1)
Turner 6 Pack (Library of Great Painters. Portfolio Ed)
by J. M. W. Turner
Romisch Historische Mitteilungen 52 (Romische Historische Mitteilungen, #52)
When Louis XVI was guillotined on January 21, 1793, vast networks of production that had provided splendor and sophistication to the royal court were severed. Although the king's royal possessions-from drapery and tableware to clocks and furniture suites-were scattered and destroyed, many of the artists who made them found ways to survive. This book explores the fabrication, circulation, and survival of French luxury after the death of the king. Spanning the final years of the ancien regime fro...
Horos Dios draws on a wide variety of literary and archaeological evidence to argue that an Archaic horos inscription and other rock cuttings on the northeast slope of the Hill of the Nymphs in Athens are remnants of a shrine of Zeus Meilichios, a popular god of purification worshipped widely in Athens, Attica, and the greater Greek world.
Ueber Den Amazonen-Mythus in Der Antiken Plastik
by Maximilian Steiner
