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Eastern Turkey Vol. III
An Architectural and Archaeological Survey, Volume III
Av T A Sinclair
Inbunden, 1989
4216 kr
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In this third volume the regions covered are to the south and east of the Taurus range, beginning with the Upper and Lower Euphrates, which includes the Byzantine and Turkish buildings of Harput, Malatya and the Keban region, where there are also a number of churches and monastic sites. The …
Eastern Turkey Vol. IV
An Architectural and Archaeological Survey, Volume IV
Av T A Sinclair
Inbunden, 1990
4216 kr
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The initial section here covers the monuments of the important Hellenistic kingdom of Commagene, and includes Edessa (Urfa), the capital of a Crusader state, where there are also significant Islamic buildings. The final section, on the Hatay, focuses on the city of Antioch, with Seleucid, Roman and …
Jan van Eyck and Portugal 's "Illustrious Generation"
Inbunden, 2013
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Barbara von Barghahn is Professor of Art History at George Washington University and a specialist in the art history of Portugal, Spain, and their colonial dominions, as well as Flanders (1400-1800). In 1993, she was conferred O Grão Comendador in the Portuguese Order of Prince Henry the Navigator. …
Jan van Eyck and Portugal's "Illustrious Generation"
Inbunden, 2015
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Barbara von Barghahn is Professor of Art History at George Washington University and a specialist in the art history of Portugal, Spain, and their colonial dominions, as well as Flanders (1400-1800). In 1993, she was conferred O Grão Comendador in the Portuguese Order of Prince Henry the Navigator. …
Shaping Sacred Space and Institutional Identity in Romanesque Mural Painting
Essays in Honour of Otto Demus
Häftad, 2004
563 kr
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Romanesque mural painting was arguably the most visible field for religious images in Western churches between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Beyond its traditional justification as Bible of the illiterate mural painting demarcated the principal functional spaces within the church and …
Decorative Arts of Europe & The Islamic East
Selected Studies Vol. I
Av Otto Kurz
Inbunden, 1977
2816 kr
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This selection of twenty-one essays by Professor Kurz is a unique introduction to the art and culture of Europe and the Near East from the Renaissance onwards. His examination of the flow of artistic ideas and artefacts from Europe to the Islamic world is an important contribution to the study of …
Eglises de Constantinople
Av Jean Ebersolt, Adolphe Thiers
Inbunden, 1979
1789 kr
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Since its first appearance over seventy years ago, this work has been recognised as one of the most important contributions to the study of the Byzantine churches of Istanbul, and a strikingly successful synthesis of scholarly research and scrupulous attention to architectural detail, with …
Old English Farming Books Vol. III: 1793-1839
Inbunden, 1983
949 kr
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The two previous volumes in Dr. Fussell’s study of The Old English Farming Books have become the standard works of reference on the agricultural literature of England from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and their value for the study of the development of farming over this period is well …
Agricultural History in Great Britain and Western Europe before 1914
A Discursive Bibliography
Inbunden, 1983
949 kr
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Dr. Fussell’s theme is the evolution of the study of farming history, which as a branch of historiography is no more than two centuries old. He charts the development of interest in the history of rural life in England and Western Europe in the course of the nineteenth century, which has led to the …
Studies in Renaissance Art
Av John White
Inbunden, 1983
1385 kr
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Professor White's work on late medieval and Renaissance Italian art needs no introduction. His early articles on Renaissance perspective led on to a book, The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space, which remains the standard work on the subject. His subsequent work on the reconstruction of such …
Selected Studies Volume II
The Decorative Arts of Europe & the Islamic East
Av Otto Kurz
Inbunden, 1982
1789 kr
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This second volume of Professor Kurz's studies completes the comprehensive selection in Vol. I with a further thirty articles, published over forty years, and showing the extraordinary breadth of the author's interests. It begins with eight studies on Classical, Byzantine and Islamie art, continues …
Churches and Monasteries of Tur'Abdin
Inbunden, 1982
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The Tur 'Abdin is a mountainous region in the south-east of modern Turkey, and is architecturally one of the most interesting areas for the study of early Christian architecture. In two journeys into the Tur 'Abdin early in this century, Gertrude Bell examined the more important monastic sites. Her …
Early Italian Painting Vol. I
Selected Studies. Volume I - Panels and Frescoes
Inbunden, 1984
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Edward Garrison's work on early Italian panels resulted in the publication in 1949 of the first comprehensive index of Romanesque Italian panel painting, which remains the standard work of reference on the subject. Subsequently, his four-volume Studies in the History of Medieval Italian Painting, …
Early Italian Painting Vol. II
Selected Studies. Volume II - Manuscripts
Inbunden, 1984
2816 kr
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Edward Garrison's work on early Italian panels resulted in the publication in 1949 of the first comprehensive index of Romanesque Italian panel painting, which remains the standard work of reference on the subject. Subsequently, his four-volume Studies in the History of Medieval Italian Painting, …
Studies in Late Medieval Italian Art
Av John White
Inbunden, 1984
1415 kr
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In this second volume of Professor White's studies, the emphasis shifts to Italian art in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the major figures who were responsible for the decisive changes in painting and sculpture that were to lead on to the Renaissance. Here again, however, there is the …
Studies in Early Christian and Medieval Irish Art, Volume I
Enamel and Metalwork
Inbunden, 1983
1135 kr
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Over the past fifty years, Françoise Henry has been the leading authority on the history of early Irish art. A pupil of Henri Focillon, she united two traditions of scholarship, one French and one Irish, and her understanding of the European context within which the art of early Christian Ireland …
Landscape Painting and the Agricultural Revolution
Inbunden, 1984
1415 kr
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The development of landscape painting in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has attracted considerable attention. The art of Gainsborough, Stubbs, Constable, Turner and the Norwich School is accepted as part of the British heritage, and the countryside as depicted by these …
Studies in English Farming and Topography
Inbunden, 1985
978 kr
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This selection of sixteen studies by Dr Fussell covers English topography and farming over a period of three hundred years, from the Tudor era to the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The first study reprinted here is a 56-page bibliographical guide to works on English travel and topography from …
Old English Farming Books Vol. IV
1840-1860
Inbunden, 1984
1037 kr
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This fourth volume of Dr. Fussell’s bibliography covers the period from the foundation of the Royal Agricultural Society of England to the agricultural repercussions of the abolition of the Corn Laws. The twenty years featured in this volume saw the publication of an enormous number of farming …
Studies in Chinese and Islamic Art, Volume II
Chinese Ceramics and Islamic Art
Av Basil Gray
Inbunden, 1987
949 kr
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This second volume of Basil Gray's studies covers his work on Chinese ceramics and on Islamic art. Appropriately, Chinese ceramics proved the most potent medium in introducing Islamic artists to the motifs of Chinese painting, in view of their wide popularity in the Middle East. The articles on …
Studies in Chinese and Islamic Art, Volume I
Chinese Art
Av Basil Gray
Inbunden, 1985
949 kr
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Basil Gray's publications on Chinese and Islamic art have done much to introduce these subjects to a European public. This first volume deals with Chinese painting and luxury art. An introductory section on Chinese art attempts to chart the aesthetic and philosophical ideas that lie at the roots of …
Studies in Early Christian and Medieval Irish Art, Volume II
Manuscript Illumination
Inbunden, 1984
931 kr
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Over the past fifty years, Françoise Henry has been the leading authority on the history of early Irish art. A pupil of Henri Focillon, she united two traditions of scholarship, one French and one Irish, and her understanding of the European context within which the art of early Christian Ireland …
Old English Farming Books Vol. V: 1861-1900
Inbunden, 1991
949 kr
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This last volume of The Old English Farming Books brings the series up to 1900, and was completed shortly before the author’s death this year. It covers the period of intensive farming in the late nineteenth century, and the spread of agricultural education and textbooks. Science and technology are …
Studies in the Alexander Romance
Av D J A Ross
Inbunden, 1985
1547 kr
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The Alexander Romance, a fabulous pseudo-history of the life of Alexander the Great compiled in late Antiquity, was one of the most popular secular texts in Europe during the Middle Ages. Its subsequent influence on the development of French and German literature has been significant. Professor …
Studies in English Bible Illustration, Volume I
Inbunden, 1985
949 kr
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George Henderson's work on English biblical illumination has thrown new light on the sources of some of the most celebrated Anglo-Saxon and Norman illustrated manuscripts and helped to place the astonishing creativity and skill of the artists who worked on these manuscripts within the developing …
Studies in English Bible Illustration, Volume II
Inbunden, 1985
949 kr
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George Henderson's work on English biblical illumination has thrown new light on the sources of some of the most celebrated Anglo-Saxon and Norman illustrated manuscripts and helped to place the astonishing creativity and skill of the artists who worked on these manuscripts within the developing …
Miniature Paintings in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
Inbunden, 1986
1789 kr
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The publication of Professor Buchthal's work on Crusader miniature painting represented a landmark in medieval studies, and for nearly thirty years this book has remained the standard work of reference on the subject. For the first time the illuminated manuscripts produced in the Latin Kingdom of …
Constaninople Byzantine et les Voyageurs de Levant
Inbunden, 1986
1415 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive survey of descriptions of Constantinople written by visitors, from the pilgrims of the Middle Ages to the European travellers and diplomats of the 18th and 19th centuries. The author examines the evidence these accounts provide for the history of the city, and for …
Eastern Turkey
An Architectural & Archaeological Survey, Volume I
Inbunden, 1987
4216 kr
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Civilizations of great diversity have succeeded each other or co-existed in Eastern Turkey, and most of them have left monuments of high quality. Hittite, Urartian, Hellenistic, Roman, Syrian, Byzantine, Armenian, Arab, Seljuk and Ottoman, their remains are all represented in the region. These …
Eastern Turkey Vol. II
An Architectural and Archaeological Survey, Volume II
Av T A Sinclair
Inbunden, 1989
4216 kr
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This second volume continues with a description of the fine Georgian monuments of the Tao region, including Ihan, Ök Vank, and Haho. The Pontus region comes next, the centre of the medieval Greek empire of Trebizond. The many Byzantine churches of Trabzon itself are covered, including Aya Sofya and …
