Author: Vilhelm Slomann
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Category : Animals, Mythical, in art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Bicorporates: Plates
Author: Vilhelm Slomann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals, Mythical, in art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Publisher:
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Category : Animals, Mythical, in art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Masks, Transformation, and Paradox
Author: A. David Napier
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520045330
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Masks are found world-wide in connection with seasonal festivals, rites of passage, and curative ceremonies. They provide a means of investigating the paradoxical problems that appearances pose in the experience of transitional states. In this far-reaching work, A. David Napier studies mask iconography and the role played by masks in the realization of change. The masks of preclassical Greece¯in particular those of the Satyr and the Gorgon¯provide his starting point. A comparison of Greek to Eastern and especially Indian models follows, and the book concludes with an examination of the interpretation of Hindu ideas in Bali that demonstrates the importance of ambivalence in mask iconography.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520045330
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Masks are found world-wide in connection with seasonal festivals, rites of passage, and curative ceremonies. They provide a means of investigating the paradoxical problems that appearances pose in the experience of transitional states. In this far-reaching work, A. David Napier studies mask iconography and the role played by masks in the realization of change. The masks of preclassical Greece¯in particular those of the Satyr and the Gorgon¯provide his starting point. A comparison of Greek to Eastern and especially Indian models follows, and the book concludes with an examination of the interpretation of Hindu ideas in Bali that demonstrates the importance of ambivalence in mask iconography.
Bicorporates: Text
Author: Vilhelm Slomann
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Category : Animals, Mythical, in art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Category : Animals, Mythical, in art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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A Complete Guide to Heraldry - Illustrated by Nine Plates and Nearly 800 other Designs
Author: Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1446549038
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 741
Book Description
This antiquarian book contains a detailed treatise on English heraldry, with information on its history, development, and popularity. Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of creating, granting, and blazoning arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of the army; and also comprises the practice of designing, displaying, describing, and recording coats of arms and heraldic badges. Illustrated by nine plates and nearly three hundred designs, this volume is a comprehensive treatment of the subject that will greatly appeal to those with an interest in heraldry. The chapters of this volume include: 'The Origin of Armory', 'The Status and the Meaning of a Coat of Arms in Great Britain', 'The Heralds and Officers of Arms', 'Heraldic Brasses', 'The Component Parts of an Achievement', 'The Shield', 'The Field of a Shield and the Heraldic Tinctures', 'The Rules of Blazon', et cetera. We are republishing this vintage text now complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1446549038
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 741
Book Description
This antiquarian book contains a detailed treatise on English heraldry, with information on its history, development, and popularity. Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of creating, granting, and blazoning arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of the army; and also comprises the practice of designing, displaying, describing, and recording coats of arms and heraldic badges. Illustrated by nine plates and nearly three hundred designs, this volume is a comprehensive treatment of the subject that will greatly appeal to those with an interest in heraldry. The chapters of this volume include: 'The Origin of Armory', 'The Status and the Meaning of a Coat of Arms in Great Britain', 'The Heralds and Officers of Arms', 'Heraldic Brasses', 'The Component Parts of an Achievement', 'The Shield', 'The Field of a Shield and the Heraldic Tinctures', 'The Rules of Blazon', et cetera. We are republishing this vintage text now complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.
Routledge Revivals: Medieval Scandinavia (1993)
Author: Phillip Pulsiano
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351665014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 791
Book Description
First published in 1993, Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia covers every aspect of the region during the Middle Ages, including rulers and saints, overviews of the countries, religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art. Written by a team of expert contributors, the encyclopedia offers those who lack command of the various Scandinavian languages a basic tool for the study of Medieval Scandinavia from roughly the Migration Period to the Reformation. With full-page maps, useful supplementary photos, cross-references and a comprehensive index, this work will be a valuable and absorbing volume for students of the Norse sagas, the Viking age, and Old English history and literature, and for anyone interested in the cultural and historical heritage of Scandinavia.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351665014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 791
Book Description
First published in 1993, Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia covers every aspect of the region during the Middle Ages, including rulers and saints, overviews of the countries, religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art. Written by a team of expert contributors, the encyclopedia offers those who lack command of the various Scandinavian languages a basic tool for the study of Medieval Scandinavia from roughly the Migration Period to the Reformation. With full-page maps, useful supplementary photos, cross-references and a comprehensive index, this work will be a valuable and absorbing volume for students of the Norse sagas, the Viking age, and Old English history and literature, and for anyone interested in the cultural and historical heritage of Scandinavia.
What Painting is
Author: James Elkins
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415921138
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Here, Elkins argues that alchemists and painters have similar relationships to the substances they work with. Both try to transform the substance, while seeking to transform their own experience.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415921138
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Here, Elkins argues that alchemists and painters have similar relationships to the substances they work with. Both try to transform the substance, while seeking to transform their own experience.
Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum
Author: Harvard University. Fine Arts Library
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Encyclopædia Heraldica: Explanatory plates to the Dictionary of heraldry, orders of knighthood, and the arms of subscribers
Author: William Berry
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Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Publisher:
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Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Catalogues of Sales
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Heraldry Simplified
Author: Frederick Curtis
Publisher:
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Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Publisher:
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Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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