The Heraldic Imagination
Author : Rodney Dennys
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Heraldry
ISBN :
Author : Rodney Dennys
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Heraldry
ISBN :
Author : Fiona Robertson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,92 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Heraldry in art
ISBN : 9780904858044
"This beautifully illustrated first supplementary volume of the Heraldry Society’s journal, The Coat of Arms, has its origins in the interdisciplinary conference Emblems and Enigma: the Heraldic Imagination, organized by Fiona Robertson and Peter N. Lindfield and held at the Society of Antiquaries of London on 26 April 2014. Emblems and Enigma addressed heraldry’s artistic and social manifestations in Europe from the medieval period on, analysing its role as an artistic form that speaks—through continually reinvented tradition, visual and verbal allusion—of identity, social and cultural membership, inclusion and dif- ferentiation, aspiration and historical irony" -- Heraldry Society website.
Author : Dorothy Yamamoto
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Animals in literature
ISBN : 9780198186748
This study analyzes the fear of beastly transformation that recurs throughout Medieval literature. Yamamoto explores how humans envisioned animals with human characteristics in bestiaries and literatures that involve aspects of the hunt and heraldry. Minor texts, as well as major works likeChaucer's "Knight's Tale," are investigated. Additionally, she explores both examples of humans changing into animal form and those that hover enigmatically between species as wild men and women. Investigating this topic, she looks to Alexander romances, the poetry of Gower, and othersources.
Author : Outlet
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 1988-12
Category :
ISBN : 9780517526293
Author : David Bindman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art and race
ISBN : 9780674052581
"A pioneering work in the field of art history, The Image of the Black in Western Art is a comprehensive series of ten books which offers a lavishly illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent from antiquity to the present. Each book includes a series of essays by some of the most distinguished names in art history. Ranging from images of Pharaohs created by unknown hands almost 3,500 years ago to the works of the great masters of European and American art such as Bosch, Dürer, Mantegna, Rembrandt, Rubens, Watteau, Hogarth, Copley, and Goya to stunning new media creations by contemporary black artists, these books are generously illustrated with beautiful, moving, and often little-known images of black people. Black figures-queens and slaves, saints and soldiers, priests and prisoners, dancers and athletes, children and gods-are central to the visual imagination of Western civilization. Written in accessible language, the extensive and insightful commentaries on the illustrations by distinguished art historians make this series invaluable for the general reader and the specialist alike."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author : Stephen Friar
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780393034639
This is an authoritative introduction to a fascinating subject which explains and fully illustrates everything a layman wishes to know about heraldry. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : William Leaf
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Joe Nigg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 022619549X
Arising triumphantly from the ashes of its predecessor, the phoenix has been an enduring symbol of resilience and renewal for thousands of years. But how did this mythical bird become so famous that it has played a part in cultures around the world and throughout human history? How much of its story do we actually know? Here to offer a comprehensive biography and engaging (un)natural history of the phoenix is Joseph Nigg, esteemed expert on otherworldly creatures from dragons to gryphons to sea monsters. Beginning in ancient Egypt and traveling around the globe and through the centuries, Nigg's vast and sweeping narrative takes readers on a brilliant tour of the cross-cultural lore of this famous, yet little-known, immortal bird. This entertaining and informative look at the life and transformation of the phoenix will be the authoritative source for anyone fascinated by folklore and mythology, re-igniting our curiosity about one of myth's greatest beasts.
Author : Kevin Greaves
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1459710819
Heraldry is now. Heraldry is fun. And most of all, heraldry is Canadian! A Canadian Heraldic Primer dispels, once and for all, the myth that coats of arms are boring, snobbish, mediaeval holdovers that have no relevance today. Using cartoons, humour, and not a little irreverence (in which is concealed a surprising amount of information), Kevin Greaves explains the history behind heraldry's unique conventions and language, and explores its creative possibilities. He shows heraldry as part of the fabric of Canada's past, present, and future, and illustrates how this lively art has become livelier since Canada became master of its own heraldic system in 1988.
Author : A. Riehl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230106749
The Face of Queenship investigates the aesthetic, political, and gender-related meanings in representations of Elizabeth I by her contemporaries. By attending to eyewitness reports, poetry, portraiture, and discourses on beauty and cosmetics, this book shows how the portrayals of the queen s face register her contemporaries hopes, fears, hatreds, mockeries, rivalries, and awe. In its application of theories of the meaning of the face and its exploration of the early modern representation and interpretation of faces, this study argues that the face was seen as a rhetorical tool and that Elizabeth was a master of using her face to persuade, threaten, or comfort her subjects.