History & Criticism
mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-05-31 | Author:Flusser, Vilém [Flusser, Vilém]
The Gesture of Planting Contrary to superficial first impressions, we are dealing here with an unnatural gesture, “perverse” in a radical sense: for in it, being turns into its opposite. ...
( Category:
Phenomenology
September 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:John Wyndham [Wyndham, John]
Pawley's Peepholes #7 The Best Of John Wyndham John Wyndham PAWLEY'S PEEPHOLES (1951) WhenI called round at Sally's I showed her the paragraph in theWestwich Evening News. "What do you ...
( Category:
Adventure
September 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-05 | Author:Shone, Richard & Stonard, John-Paul [Shone, Richard]
Interior spread showing drawings by Pisanello and after Leonardo da Vinci. From Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style, ...
( Category:
Criticism
September 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 1930-08-23 | Author:Koch, Rudolf [Koch, Rudolf]
In many Byzantine monograms we find the genitive form OV. The documents of that period concluded with names in the genitive case, and the monogram then constituted the end of ...
( Category:
Graphic Design
August 31,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-04-06 | Author:Charles Nicholl [Nicholl, Charles]
Pacioli’s description is interesting because of his close connection with Leonardo at this time: it contains, perhaps, a refraction of Leonardo’s own statements – on the quality of ‘attentiveness’ and ...
( Category:
History
August 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Strathern, Paul [Strathern, Paul]
15 The Voices of Florence DESPITE THE EVIDENT popularity of Savonarola’s sermons, along with widespread satisfaction that Medici rule had been replaced by a more republican government, Florence was now ...
( Category:
Italy
August 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-24 | Author:David Young Kim
LORENZO LOTTO: ABOLITIO MEMORIAE Sebastiano is tarred and feathered for his mobility and ensuing masquerade of disegno. By contrast, an itinerant artist such as Lorenzo Lotto largely meets indifference, though ...
( Category:
History
August 25,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:Leonardo da Vinci
Force arises from dearth or abundance; it is the child of physical motion, and the grandchild of spiritual motion, and the mother and origin of gravity. IX. Physical Sciences and ...
( Category:
Criticism
August 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-26 | Author:Brotton, Jerry [Brotton, Jerry]
In the 1440s the bishop of Tournai, Jean Chevrot, was so concerned at the poor attendance and observation of the sacraments that he commissioned Roger van der Weyden to paint ...
( Category:
Criticism
August 25,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Deborah Solomon
Christmas Homecoming, the defining image of holiday togetherness, appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on December 25, 1948. Grandma Moses had her heartbreaks, too. In February, just ...
( Category:
Criticism
August 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-05 | Author:Derek Webb
8 Big is Beautiful In we all went, through the large glass doors of the entrance hall. Mr Phillips went up to someone dressed in a uniform, who kept looking ...
( Category:
Human Figure
August 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-03 | Author:VINCENT VAN GOGH [VAN GOGH, VINCENT]
( Category:
Artists, Architects & Photographers
August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-18 | Author:Kaja Silverman [Silverman, Kaja]
Colorplate 1/Figure 20. Abelardo Morell, Camera Obscura: The Philadelphia Museum of Art East Entrance in Gallery #171 with a de Chirico Painting, 2005. Inkjet print. Image © Abelardo Morell, courtesy ...
( Category:
History
August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Anthony Bailey [Anthony Bailey]
Turner’s colleague, the sculptor Francis Chantrey, was often at Sandycombe. Chantrey, who had married his cousin, a wealthy Twickenham girl, had also had a humble start, working as a grocer’s ...
( Category:
History & Criticism
August 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 1998-08-31 | Author:Peter Robb [Robb, Peter]
ADOLESCENT JOHN WAS the ascetic and solitary precursor of Christ. He was the boy who spoke with the voice of one crying in the wilderness. The figure of John as ...
( Category:
Artists, Architects & Photographers
July 19,2015 )
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