History
epub |eng | 2019-02-27 | Author:Peter Schjeldahl

THE GREEKS I never got Ancient Greek art in the way that the cradle-of-civilization pieties imply you’re supposed to. At the Acropolis in 1965, during my only Greek sojourn, the ...
( Category: History February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-01 | Author:Edmond de Goncourt [Goncourt, Edmond de]

“Picture-Riddle” (Ōgiya Hanaōgi), c. 1795. Ōban, nishiki-e, 36.4 x 25.2 cm. The New York Public Library, New York. The Washerwomen, from the series “The Six Tanagawa Rivers, Settsu”, 1804. Ōban, ...
( Category: History February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-11 | Author:Michael Camille [Camille, Michael]

MISERICORDS AND POSTERIORS For centuries the choir of even the smallest parish church had been the site of one of the most fertile of the marginal genres that Bakhtin has ...
( Category: Commercial February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-29 | Author:David McFetrich;

Northern Spire Bridge, Castletown, Sunderland An earlier project for a new cable stay bridge crossing the River Wear between Castletown and Pallion, with two curving steel pylons reaching to a ...
( Category: History February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Hollingsworth, Mary [Hollingsworth, Mary]

The Della Rovere in Urbino and Pesaro Federigo da Montefeltro, created Duke of Urbino by Sixtus IV (1474), amassed a fortune as a soldier and went on to transform his ...
( Category: Europe February 27,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-01-05 | Author:Susan Stewart

Fantasies One project of the period, however, brought an unusual experience of ruins indoors into a three-dimensional, room-sized illusion. This was Clérisseau’s 1766 commission from two learned Franciscans, members of ...
( Category: Movements & Periods February 27,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Andrew Brink [Неизв.]

Desire and Avoidance in the Paintings of Balthus I’m for beauty at a time when beauty is unappreciated. Dostoyevsky said, “Beauty will save the world”. —Balthus, Balthus in His Own ...
( Category: Themes February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-31 | Author:Celia Rabinovitch

You forget I’m from the tropics (…)4 André Breton was fascinated by the indigenous Brazilian myth and culture Martins bound into her art, which inspired him to delve into archaic ...
( Category: Chess February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Heinrich Wolfflin

Canaletto Now comes, too, that decoration of the Empire which replaces with absolute flatness the recessional interest of rococo decoration. Whether and how far it was antique forms which the ...
( Category: Photography & Video February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-29 | Author:Bartlett, Kenneth;

{203} Illus. 13.1 Domenico Tintoretto (Domenico Robusti, known as Tintoretto, 1560–1635), The Capture of Constantinople During the Fourth Crusade, 1598–1605. Palazzo Ducale, Venice. The Byzantine Empire, with its capital of ...
( Category: Italy February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-24 | Author:Donald M. Johnstone

When Torger Petersen viewed the Ohop Valley in 1887, he found a slow-draining wetland that stretched from Clay City to the Nisqually River. There was not a single channel, but ...
( Category: History February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-14 | Author:William Blake [Blake, William]

Plate 31 When wolves and tygers howl for prey, They pitying stand and weep; Seeking to drive their thirst away. And keep them from the sheep. But if they rush ...
( Category: European February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-22 | Author:David Pepin

The awe-inspiring grandeur of the fortress-like central tower of Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral dominates Merseyside. At 331 feet it is one of the tallest of church towers. The nave and choir ...
( Category: History February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-09 | Author:Louise Allen [Allen, Louise]

( Category: General Great Britain Travel Guides February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

Now let's get to specifics so you will be sure to know exactly where your sell—stop should initially be placed, and when and to what level it should later be ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction February 23,2020 )