History & Criticism
epub |eng | 2005-12-07 | Author:Francine Prose [Francine Prose]

By this time the double life that Caravaggio had been leading—as a member of Del Monte’s exquisitely refined milieu and as a street gangster drinking in the taverns and dueling ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 7,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:Matt Sewell

Smew Smew Mergellus albellus Want to know why the Smew is my favorite seabird, even though it’s not actually that much of a seabird, as seabirds go? It has the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology December 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jacob Burckhardt [Burckhardt, Jacob]

PART FOUR. THE DISCOVERY OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN Journeys of the Italians Freed from the countless bonds which elsewhere in Europe checked progress, having reached a high degree ...
( Category: Europe December 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-04 | Author:Christina Riggs

The beautiful and the dead The vogue for paintings inspired by ancient Egypt, like those of Alma-Tadema, Poynter and Long, was not limited to Britain by any means. It was ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 4,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Appignanesi

The collapse of so-called “really existing” Socialism in Eastern Europe gave final proof that postmodern scepticism was preferable to modernist hyper-rationalism. It justified Kristeva’s claim in 1981… ANY RATIONALIST ATTEMPT ...
( Category: Philosophy December 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Kostas Dervenis [Kostas Dervenis & Nektarios Lykiardopoulos]

Figure 3.62. Pankration. Hellenistic bronze statue, British Museum, London. Figure 3.63. Pankration. Hellenistic bronze statue, Antikensammlungen Museum, Munich. (Drawing based on a photograph from the museum.) ANALYSIS In figure 3.62 ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 3,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Frank Harris

CHAPTER VI Looking back over my life, I realize with dismay that there are many people and places of which I have not had the opportunity to speak. In this ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 3,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Frank Harris

Chapter IX. Student Life and Love Thatrailway journey to Lawrence, Kansas, is as vivid to me now as if it had taken place yesterday; yet it all happened more than ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Kathleen Krull [Krull, Kathleen]

CHAPTER EIGHT The Fabulous Notebooks AT THE TIME Leonardo’s mules were schlepping the notebooks around Italy, the pages were valuable only to their author. Today they are among the most ...
( Category: Biographies December 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-07 | Author:Roberta Edwards [Edwards, Roberta]

Even so, Leonardo was very fond of Salai. He enjoyed spoiling him with presents. No matter how badly Salai behaved, Leonardo never asked him to leave. Salai stayed with him ...
( Category: Biographies December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:G. Eric Kuskey

When I was invited, my role at these seminars was to give a presentation about the licensing aspect of the gallery business. I told people about the licensed products available ...
( Category: Business of Art December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-05-26 | Author:Don Thompson

I thought I should make something—I felt it would be so easy—it would take form under my hands like magic. Then people would see! . . . People would understand ...
( Category: Business of Art December 2,2017 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Raymond E. Feist & Stephen Abrams

THE LAST MAP drawn from James’s recounting, of the journey south from Armengar to Sethanon. Battle was joined. The military conflict in the city was fierce. Baron Humphry of Sethanon, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Philip Gefter [Gefter, Philip]

TWELVE APPLAUSE It’s not that Velasquez is better than Rembrandt, but that Velasquez makes Rembrandt better. —SAM WAGSTAFF1 PRESIDING AT A CANDLELIT TABLE, DASHING IN A PROPER TUXEDO, and basking ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Ernest Thompson Seton [Seton, Ernest Thompson]

The average length of three Lions, measured in skeleton, was 5 feet inches from the nose to the ischium. The average height at shoulder of nine Lions was inches. A ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 29,2017 )