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Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Opuscula Romana
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Roman Art
Author: Donald Emrys Strong
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300052930
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
First published in 1976, this standard work on the subject traces the development of Roman art from its beginings to the end of the fourth century AD, embracing the monuments of the Republic and then of the later Roman empire, demonstrating how all the arts of a given period combine to mirror its social, cultural, and idealogical character. This new edition includes an emended text with full notes and references, and an updated bibliography.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300052930
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
First published in 1976, this standard work on the subject traces the development of Roman art from its beginings to the end of the fourth century AD, embracing the monuments of the Republic and then of the later Roman empire, demonstrating how all the arts of a given period combine to mirror its social, cultural, and idealogical character. This new edition includes an emended text with full notes and references, and an updated bibliography.
Zone A
Author: Maja-Brita Lundgren
Publisher: Coronet Books
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher: Coronet Books
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Continuity and Change in Etruscan Domestic Architecture
Author: Paul M. Miller
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784915815
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Etruscan architecture underwent various changes between the later Iron Age and the Archaic period. This book reconsiders these changes by focusing on the building materials and techniques used in the construction of domestic structures.
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784915815
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Etruscan architecture underwent various changes between the later Iron Age and the Archaic period. This book reconsiders these changes by focusing on the building materials and techniques used in the construction of domestic structures.
Fortification Towers and Masonry Techniques in the Hegemony of Syracuse, 405-211 B.C.
Author: Lars Karlsson
Publisher: Svenska Institutet I ROM
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: Svenska Institutet I ROM
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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The Emperor Constantine
Author: Michael Grant
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780222807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A study of one of the ancient world's most fascinating figures. Fascinating and readable biography by a great populariser of classical civilisation. Directly responsible for momentous transformations of the Imperial scene, Constantine will always be famous as the 1st Christian Emperor of Rome, and for refounding ancient Byzantium as Constantinople - events which rank amongst the most significant in history. In art, politics, economics and particularly in religion, the life of Constantine acts as a bridge between past and present. Was he the last notable Roman Emperor, or the first medieval monarch ? Was the Great convert a saint and hero, or should we regard him as a murderer who killed his wife, his eldest son , and many of his friends to further his own ambitions? These are just some of the issues that are raised in this stimulating biography.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780222807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A study of one of the ancient world's most fascinating figures. Fascinating and readable biography by a great populariser of classical civilisation. Directly responsible for momentous transformations of the Imperial scene, Constantine will always be famous as the 1st Christian Emperor of Rome, and for refounding ancient Byzantium as Constantinople - events which rank amongst the most significant in history. In art, politics, economics and particularly in religion, the life of Constantine acts as a bridge between past and present. Was he the last notable Roman Emperor, or the first medieval monarch ? Was the Great convert a saint and hero, or should we regard him as a murderer who killed his wife, his eldest son , and many of his friends to further his own ambitions? These are just some of the issues that are raised in this stimulating biography.
Aretino's Satyr
Author: Raymond B. Waddington
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802088147
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Pietro Aretino's literary influence was felt throughout most of Europe during the sixteenth-century, yet English-language criticism of this writer's work and persona has hitherto been sparse. Raymond B. Waddington's study redresses this oversight, drawing together literary and visual arts criticism in its examination of Aretino's carefully cultivated scandalous persona - a persona created through his writings, his behaviour and through a wide variety of visual arts and crafts. In the Renaissance, it was believed that satire originated from satyrs. The satirist Aretino promoted himself as a satyr, the natural being whose sexuality guarantees its truthfulness. Waddington shows how Aretino's own construction of his public identity came to eclipse the value of his writings, causing him to be denigrated as a pornographer and blackmailer. Arguing that Aretino's deployment of an artistic network for self-promotional ends was so successful that for a period his face was possibly the most famous in Western Europe, Waddington also defends Aretino, describing his involvement in the larger sphere of the production and promotion of the visual arts of the period. Aretino's Satyr is richly illustrated with examples of the visual media used by the writer to create his persona. These include portraits by major artists, and arti minori: engravings, portrait medals and woodcuts.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802088147
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Pietro Aretino's literary influence was felt throughout most of Europe during the sixteenth-century, yet English-language criticism of this writer's work and persona has hitherto been sparse. Raymond B. Waddington's study redresses this oversight, drawing together literary and visual arts criticism in its examination of Aretino's carefully cultivated scandalous persona - a persona created through his writings, his behaviour and through a wide variety of visual arts and crafts. In the Renaissance, it was believed that satire originated from satyrs. The satirist Aretino promoted himself as a satyr, the natural being whose sexuality guarantees its truthfulness. Waddington shows how Aretino's own construction of his public identity came to eclipse the value of his writings, causing him to be denigrated as a pornographer and blackmailer. Arguing that Aretino's deployment of an artistic network for self-promotional ends was so successful that for a period his face was possibly the most famous in Western Europe, Waddington also defends Aretino, describing his involvement in the larger sphere of the production and promotion of the visual arts of the period. Aretino's Satyr is richly illustrated with examples of the visual media used by the writer to create his persona. These include portraits by major artists, and arti minori: engravings, portrait medals and woodcuts.
Cleopatra
Author: Michael Grant
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780221142
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, was also a scholar, murderer, lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony and one of the most remarkable women in history. The distinguished historian and classicist Michael Grant confirms that her reputation as a temptress was well-founded. However, by unravelling the sources behind the tangle of myth, gossip and invention he shows that the popular image of a wayward woman opting for a life of sensuous luxury and neglecting her affairs of state is far from the truth. A brilliant linguist and the first of her Greek-speaking dynasty who learned Egyptian, she was reputed to be the author of treatises on agriculture, make-up and alchemy. Her love affairs were carefully calculated to further her plans to restore her empire to its former greatness and she was a ruthless foe to all who stood in her way. But dead on her golden couch in the palace at Alexandria her life seemed to have ended in failure; her dreams of empire shattered; her lover Mark Antony a suicide himself and she a prisoner of her conqueror Octavian. An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary queen and her stormy life.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780221142
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, was also a scholar, murderer, lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony and one of the most remarkable women in history. The distinguished historian and classicist Michael Grant confirms that her reputation as a temptress was well-founded. However, by unravelling the sources behind the tangle of myth, gossip and invention he shows that the popular image of a wayward woman opting for a life of sensuous luxury and neglecting her affairs of state is far from the truth. A brilliant linguist and the first of her Greek-speaking dynasty who learned Egyptian, she was reputed to be the author of treatises on agriculture, make-up and alchemy. Her love affairs were carefully calculated to further her plans to restore her empire to its former greatness and she was a ruthless foe to all who stood in her way. But dead on her golden couch in the palace at Alexandria her life seemed to have ended in failure; her dreams of empire shattered; her lover Mark Antony a suicide himself and she a prisoner of her conqueror Octavian. An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary queen and her stormy life.
Acquarossa
Author: Margareta Strandberg Olofsson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789170420979
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789170420979
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Acquarossa: The painted architectural terracottas. pt. 1. Catalogue and architectural context
Author: Charlotte Wikander
Publisher:
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Category : Acquarossa (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acquarossa (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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