Author : Usd
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780894682711
Contains 17 papers on the history of engraved gems (including both intaglios and cameos) from ancient Greece through the nineteenth century. They address the influence of Greek and Roman gems on postclassical painters, sculptors and gem engravers as well as the collecting of gems in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and later periods.
Author : Edwyn Robert Bevan
Publisher : Ares Pub
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 9780890055366
Author : Neda Leipen
Publisher : Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 1971
Category : PHIDIAS,CA. 500 B.C.-CA. 430 B.C. ATHENA PARTHENOS
ISBN :
Author : Peter Bernholz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319061097
This book discusses theories of monetary and financial innovation and applies them to key monetary and financial innovations in history – starting with the use of silver bars in Mesopotamia and ending with the emergence of the Eurodollar market in London. The key monetary innovations are coinage (Asia minor, China, India), the payment of interest on loans, the bill of exchange and deposit banking (Venice, Antwerp, Amsterdam, London). The main financial innovation is the emergence of bond markets (also starting in Venice). Episodes of innovation are contrasted with relatively stagnant environments (the Persian Empire, the Roman Empire, the Spanish Empire). The comparisons suggest that small, open and competing jurisdictions have been more innovative than large empires – as has been suggested by David Hume in 1742.
Author : Palestine Oriental Society
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Palestine
ISBN :
Vol. for include list of members.
Author : Edward Theodore Newell
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Coins, Greek
ISBN :
"The peculiarly splendid portrait coinages of the Hellenistic monarchs are deservedly becoming more and more popular with collectors of ancient coins. These issues possess one outstanding characteristic which no autonomous coinage can hope to rival, and which renders the former of the utmost interest and importance to collectors, archaeologists and historians. They present us with an extraordinary series of living portraits--portraits of a quality such as only a Greek artist could produce. These men and women, be they famous or obscure, or even quite unknown to history, live again before our very eyes. Their several characters, their greatness and their foibles, grow tangible and real to us once more...This little book has not been produced with the advanced student or collector in mind; nor does it make any pretense at completeness. It is primarily intended to call the attention of collectors in general to the fascinating portrait coinages of the ancience kings"--
Author : Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des médailles et antiques
Publisher :
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Art objects
ISBN :
Author : Joseph Grafton Milne
Publisher :
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Coins, Roman
ISBN :
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 2013-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1627933212
Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."
Author : Leon-Jean-Joseph Dubois
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 1809
Category :
ISBN :
