Author: Hope B. Werness
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826419132
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Animals and their symbolism in diverse world cultures and different eras of human history are chronicled in this lovely volume.
Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art
Author: Hope B. Werness
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826419132
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Animals and their symbolism in diverse world cultures and different eras of human history are chronicled in this lovely volume.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826419132
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Animals and their symbolism in diverse world cultures and different eras of human history are chronicled in this lovely volume.
Peacock
Author: Christine E. Jackson
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861892935
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"In Peacock, Christine E. Jackson provides a comprehensive survey of the influence of the peacock in the visual arts of many cultures, and of its role in religion and mythology. She also explores its natural history, and reveals how this sedentary bird, native to India and Sri Lanka and reluctant to fly great distances, has come to live in semi-domesticated conditions in so many Western countries."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861892935
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"In Peacock, Christine E. Jackson provides a comprehensive survey of the influence of the peacock in the visual arts of many cultures, and of its role in religion and mythology. She also explores its natural history, and reveals how this sedentary bird, native to India and Sri Lanka and reluctant to fly great distances, has come to live in semi-domesticated conditions in so many Western countries."--BOOK JACKET.
The Peacock and the Pearl
Author: Jennifer Lang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780747204947
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The author's first novel. Historical romance set in medieval London and the Cotswolds.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780747204947
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The author's first novel. Historical romance set in medieval London and the Cotswolds.
A Dictionary of Symbols
Author: Juan Eduardo Cirlot
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486425238
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
A valuable reference, this informative and entertaining volume presents a key to elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas. Alphabetical entries clarify essential meanings of each symbol, as drawn from religion, astrology, alchemy, numerology, other sources. 32 black-and-white illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486425238
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
A valuable reference, this informative and entertaining volume presents a key to elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas. Alphabetical entries clarify essential meanings of each symbol, as drawn from religion, astrology, alchemy, numerology, other sources. 32 black-and-white illustrations.
Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible
Author: William Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
The Natural History of the Bible: or, a description of all the beasts, ... trees, ... metals, precious stones, etc. mentioned in the sacred Scriptures. Collected from the best authorities, and alphabetically arranged
Author: Thaddeus Mason HARRIS
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
Author: John Craig (F.G.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Author: Henry Mills Alden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.
A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
Author: Leslie Nathan Broughton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description