Author : Sandra Heath
Publisher : Belgrave House
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1610840127
When Ariadne’s Diadem disappears, Bacchus blames Gervase, Duke of Wroxford, and a hapless faun called Sylvanus. The two must find the diadem, but Gervase turns into a marble statue by day. To break this spell he must win Anne Willowby, but only after dark. She rebuffs him, and there’s little help from lusty Sylvanus, who yearns for nymphs. . . . Regency Paranormal Romance by Sandra Heath; originally published as The Faun’s Folly by Signet
Author : A. McClanan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 37,3 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1137044691
This book reconsiders a wide array of images of Byzantine empresses on media as diverse as bronze coins and gold mosaic from the fifth through to the seventh centuries A.D. The representations have often been viewed in terms of individual personas, but strong typological currents frame their medieval context. Empress Theodora, the target of political pornography, has consumed the bulk of past interest, but even her representations fit these patterns. Methodological tools from fields as disparate as numismatics as well as cultural and gender studies help clarify the broader cultural significance of female imperial representation and patronage at this time.
Author : Robert Echols
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300230400
"Considered one of the three greatest painters of sixteenth-century Venice, along with Titian and Veronese, Tintoretto was a bold innovator. His free, expressive brushwork made his work look unfinished to contemporaries but is now recognized as a key step in the development of oil-on-canvas painting. Even today's audiences are astonished by the superhuman scale, painterly dynamism, and visionary qualities of his work. On the 500th anniversary of Tintoretto's birth, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of his career and achievement, with fifteen essays and reproductions of more than 140 paintings--many newly conserved--as well as a selection of his finest drawings. One special contribution is a focus on the artist's portraiture" -- Library of Congress.
Author : Mary E. Barnard
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442645121
These essays examine a variety of cultural objects described or alluded to in books from the Golden Age of Spanish literature, including clothing, paintings, tapestries, playing cards, monuments, materials of war, and even enchanted bronze heads.
Author : Sandra Heath
Publisher : Belgrave House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 1981-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1947812653
Eighteen-year-old Janine Oldfield learns that her mother, a famous actress on the London stage, has left her penniless but that she is also the heir to a vast fortune. Before her mother dies, she urges Janine to see her grandfather at his estate. After much effort, the family believes Janine and reluctantly accepts her. It’s not long before she finds herself torn between two men, Lord Mark Talbot and Richard Stuart, the arrogant Scottish stepson of her father’s sister. Sparks fly, but those jealous of her spread lies about Janine thwarting her chance at happiness. When she leaves the estate and returns to London, will the one she truly loves follow her?
Author : Ovid
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156001267
Through Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature-classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid-is revealed anew. " An] extraordinary translation...brilliant" (Booklist). With an Introduction by the Translator.
Author : Kel Carpenter and Aurelia Jane
Publisher : Raging Hippo LLC
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1957953365
My Ex. My Liar. My Demon. My type is bad boys that will screw me over and leave me walking funny. No matter how much they tempt me or my ruined heart—I know better than to trust my own taste in men. My ex taught me that love isn’t sweet, patient, or kind. It’s cruel and it hurts. He’ll do anything for a second chance, but I can’t forget the flames that burned me from the inside out three years ago. My liar is forbidden, but I’m haunted by his slate blue eyes and wicked mouth. He’s gotten under my skin, and I don’t know how to remove him without tearing my heart apart in the process. My devil may be bad, but he makes promises that sound so good. I wish I could say he tricked me with honeyed words, but really, I did it to myself. Bonding to him was a mistake, but bargaining with him? It might be my undoing. I’m torn between three men that I swore I wouldn’t get involved with. I know it’s wrong, but part of me loves it. Craves it. Everyone thinks I’m the good girl, but what they don’t see is that my carefully crafted persona is crumbling around me. My mask is cracked. I’m hanging on by a thread. We all have weaknesses. Mine just make me a glutton for punishment. Note: Bonded by Death is book 2 of 3 in the Her Immortal Monsters trilogy.
Author : Garrett Putman Serviss
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Astronomy
ISBN :
Author : Ovid
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0375712313
Ovid’s famous mock epic—a treasury of myth and magic that is one of the greatest literary works of classical antiquity—is rendered into fluidly poetic English by world-renowned translator Allen Mandelbaum. Roman poet Ovid’s dazzling cycle of tales begins with the creation of the world and ends with the deification of Caesar Augustus. In between is a glorious panoply of the most famous myths and legends of the ancient Greek and Roman world—from Echo’s passion for Narcissus to Pygmalion’s living statue, from Perseus’s defeat of Medusa to the fall of Troy. Retold with Ovid’s irreverent flair, these tales are united by the theme of metamorphosis, as men and women are rendered alien to themselves, turned variously to flowers, trees, animals, and stones. The closest thing to a central character is love itself—a confounding, transforming, irrational force that makes fools of gods and mortals alike. The poem’s playful verses, both sensually earthy and wittily sophisticated, have reverberated through the centuries, inspiring countless artists and writers from Shakespeare to the present. Frequently translated, imitated, and adapted, The Metamorphoses has lost none of its power to provoke and entertain.
Author : Edward J. Olszewski
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,35 MB
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1527512843
This study employs cognitive theory as a heuristic framework to interrogate the agency of female types in select Italian Renaissance paintings, with emphasis on Venus, Medusa, the Amazon, Boccaccio's Lady Fiammetta/Cleopatra, Susanna, the Magdalene, and the Madonna. The study disrupts assumptions about the identity of sitters and readings of paintings as it challenges paradigms of female representation. It interrogates why certain paintings were crafted, by whom and for whom. Works are placed in the context of meta-painting, with stress on the cognitive decisions negotiated between patron and artist. The ludic aspects of several paintings are examined with a fine grain semiotic approach to expand their iconographies. Psychoanalytic readings are unpacked, based on the flawed mythological metaphors and incomplete clinical studies of Sigmund Freud's theorizing. The rubric of female agency is deliberately selected to unify popular but enigmatic master paintings of disparate subjects.
