Author: Carlo Carraro
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319399691
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
This is the first English translation of Benedetto Cotrugli's The Book of the Art of Trade, a lively account of the life of a Mediterranean merchant in the Early Renaissance, written in 1458. The book is an impassioned defense of the legitimacy of mercantile practices, and includes the first scholarly mention of double-entry bookkeeping. Its four parts focus respectively on trading techniques, from accounting to insurance, the religion of the merchant, his public life, and family matters. Originally handwritten, the book was printed in 1573 in Venice in an abridged and revised version. This new translation makes reference to the new critical edition, based on an earlier manuscript that has only recently been discovered. With scholarly essays placing Cotrugli's work into historical context and highlighting key themes, this volume is an important contribution to our understanding of the origins of management and trade practices.
Benedetto Cotrugli – The Book of the Art of Trade
Author: Carlo Carraro
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319399691
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
This is the first English translation of Benedetto Cotrugli's The Book of the Art of Trade, a lively account of the life of a Mediterranean merchant in the Early Renaissance, written in 1458. The book is an impassioned defense of the legitimacy of mercantile practices, and includes the first scholarly mention of double-entry bookkeeping. Its four parts focus respectively on trading techniques, from accounting to insurance, the religion of the merchant, his public life, and family matters. Originally handwritten, the book was printed in 1573 in Venice in an abridged and revised version. This new translation makes reference to the new critical edition, based on an earlier manuscript that has only recently been discovered. With scholarly essays placing Cotrugli's work into historical context and highlighting key themes, this volume is an important contribution to our understanding of the origins of management and trade practices.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319399691
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
This is the first English translation of Benedetto Cotrugli's The Book of the Art of Trade, a lively account of the life of a Mediterranean merchant in the Early Renaissance, written in 1458. The book is an impassioned defense of the legitimacy of mercantile practices, and includes the first scholarly mention of double-entry bookkeeping. Its four parts focus respectively on trading techniques, from accounting to insurance, the religion of the merchant, his public life, and family matters. Originally handwritten, the book was printed in 1573 in Venice in an abridged and revised version. This new translation makes reference to the new critical edition, based on an earlier manuscript that has only recently been discovered. With scholarly essays placing Cotrugli's work into historical context and highlighting key themes, this volume is an important contribution to our understanding of the origins of management and trade practices.
Merchants in the City of Art
Author: Anne L. Schiller
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442634634
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This lively and engaging ethnography, written and designed with students in mind, uses the experiences and perspectives of a set of long-time market vendors in San Lorenzo, a neighborhood in the historic center of Florence, Italy, to explore how cultural identities are formed in periods of profound economic and social change.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442634634
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This lively and engaging ethnography, written and designed with students in mind, uses the experiences and perspectives of a set of long-time market vendors in San Lorenzo, a neighborhood in the historic center of Florence, Italy, to explore how cultural identities are formed in periods of profound economic and social change.
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan
Author: Dianne L. Durante
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814719864
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Stop, look, and discover—the streets and parks of Manhattan are filled with beautiful historic monuments that will entertain, stimulate, and inspire you. Among the 54 monuments in this volume are major figures in American history: Washington, Lincoln, Lafayette, Horace Greeley, and Gertrude Stein; more obscure figures: Daniel Butterfield, J. Marion Sims, and King Jagiello; as well as the icons of New York: Atlas, Prometheus, and the Firemen's Memorial. The monuments represent the work of some of America's best sculptors: Augustus Saint Gaudens’ Farragut and Sherman, Daniel Chester French’s Four Continents, and Anna Hyatt Huntington’s José Martí and Joan of Arc. Each monument, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, is located on a map of Manhattan and includes easy-to-follow directions. All the sculptures are considered both as historical mementos and as art. We learn of furious General Sherman court-martialing a civilian journalist, and also of exasperated Saint Gaudens’ proposing a hook-and-spring device for improving his assistants' artistic acuity as they help model Sherman. We discover how Lincoln dealt with a vociferous Confederate politician from Ohio, and why the Lincoln in Union Square doesn't rank as a top-notch Lincoln portrait. Sidebars reveal other aspects of the figure or event commemorated, using personal quotes, poems, excerpts from nineteenth-century periodicals (New York Times, Harper's Weekly), and writers ranging from Aeschylus, Washington Irving, and Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi to Mark Twain and Henryk Sienkiewicz. As a historical account, Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide is a fascinating look at figures and events that changed New York, the United States and the world. As an aesthetic handbook it provides a compact method for studying sculpture, inspired by Ayn Rand’s writings on art. For residents and tourists, and historians and students, who want to spend more time viewing and appreciating sculpture and New York history, this is the start of a unique voyage of discovery.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814719864
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Stop, look, and discover—the streets and parks of Manhattan are filled with beautiful historic monuments that will entertain, stimulate, and inspire you. Among the 54 monuments in this volume are major figures in American history: Washington, Lincoln, Lafayette, Horace Greeley, and Gertrude Stein; more obscure figures: Daniel Butterfield, J. Marion Sims, and King Jagiello; as well as the icons of New York: Atlas, Prometheus, and the Firemen's Memorial. The monuments represent the work of some of America's best sculptors: Augustus Saint Gaudens’ Farragut and Sherman, Daniel Chester French’s Four Continents, and Anna Hyatt Huntington’s José Martí and Joan of Arc. Each monument, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, is located on a map of Manhattan and includes easy-to-follow directions. All the sculptures are considered both as historical mementos and as art. We learn of furious General Sherman court-martialing a civilian journalist, and also of exasperated Saint Gaudens’ proposing a hook-and-spring device for improving his assistants' artistic acuity as they help model Sherman. We discover how Lincoln dealt with a vociferous Confederate politician from Ohio, and why the Lincoln in Union Square doesn't rank as a top-notch Lincoln portrait. Sidebars reveal other aspects of the figure or event commemorated, using personal quotes, poems, excerpts from nineteenth-century periodicals (New York Times, Harper's Weekly), and writers ranging from Aeschylus, Washington Irving, and Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi to Mark Twain and Henryk Sienkiewicz. As a historical account, Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide is a fascinating look at figures and events that changed New York, the United States and the world. As an aesthetic handbook it provides a compact method for studying sculpture, inspired by Ayn Rand’s writings on art. For residents and tourists, and historians and students, who want to spend more time viewing and appreciating sculpture and New York history, this is the start of a unique voyage of discovery.
The Merchant of Venice
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Merchant of Venice
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Flemish Merchant of Venice
Author: Christina Marie Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300209686
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
During the years 1627 and 1628, Charles I of England purchased the cream of the Gonzaga art collection, belonging to the dukes of Mantua, in what would become the greatest art deal of the 17th century. Among the treasures sold were ancient statues and stunning paintings by Titian, Raphael, Correggio, and Rubens. This book examines this fascinating and significant art sale from the perspective of the man who orchestrated it--Daniel Nijs (1572-1647), a Flemish merchant, collector, and dealer living in Venice. Christina M. Anderson brings Nijs to life, asserting that he was more than the avaricious and unscrupulous trader that most modern writers and scholars deem him to be. Anderson's evocative text describes Nijs's unique talent as a dealer, rooted in superior commercial skills, connections to artistic and diplomatic circles, and a deep love of art. The narrative reveals that Nijs was ultimately the pivotal figure involved with the Gonzaga sale, though also--when he later fell into bankruptcy and dishonor due to a deal gone awry--the most tragic.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300209686
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
During the years 1627 and 1628, Charles I of England purchased the cream of the Gonzaga art collection, belonging to the dukes of Mantua, in what would become the greatest art deal of the 17th century. Among the treasures sold were ancient statues and stunning paintings by Titian, Raphael, Correggio, and Rubens. This book examines this fascinating and significant art sale from the perspective of the man who orchestrated it--Daniel Nijs (1572-1647), a Flemish merchant, collector, and dealer living in Venice. Christina M. Anderson brings Nijs to life, asserting that he was more than the avaricious and unscrupulous trader that most modern writers and scholars deem him to be. Anderson's evocative text describes Nijs's unique talent as a dealer, rooted in superior commercial skills, connections to artistic and diplomatic circles, and a deep love of art. The narrative reveals that Nijs was ultimately the pivotal figure involved with the Gonzaga sale, though also--when he later fell into bankruptcy and dishonor due to a deal gone awry--the most tragic.
Mark Bradford
Author: Mark Bradford
Publisher: Gregory R. Miller & Co.
ISBN: 9780980024227
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Text by Malik Gaines, Ernest Hardy, Philippe Vergne, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.
Publisher: Gregory R. Miller & Co.
ISBN: 9780980024227
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Text by Malik Gaines, Ernest Hardy, Philippe Vergne, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.
The Art of The Evil Within
Author: Bethesda Games
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 161655570X
Category : Adventure video games
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
"THE ART OF THE EVIL WITHIN is a comprehensive look at the newest horror video game by the legendary Shinji Mikami--the father of survival horror! Go behind the scenes with never-before-seen concept art and captions by the developers detailing their creative process and revealing what went into making this terrifying psychological thriller."--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 161655570X
Category : Adventure video games
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
"THE ART OF THE EVIL WITHIN is a comprehensive look at the newest horror video game by the legendary Shinji Mikami--the father of survival horror! Go behind the scenes with never-before-seen concept art and captions by the developers detailing their creative process and revealing what went into making this terrifying psychological thriller."--Page 4 of cover.
The Art of the Monogram
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983905370
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This lavishly illustrated book traces the history of the monogram through the centuries, from the time of Charlemagne to the use use of monograms in modern society.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983905370
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This lavishly illustrated book traces the history of the monogram through the centuries, from the time of Charlemagne to the use use of monograms in modern society.
A Market for Merchant Princes
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description