Lost Treasures of the Mediterranean World
Author : Robert Payne
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Art
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Author : Robert Payne
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Art
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Page : 756 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 1923
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Page : 530 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Architecture
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Page : 916 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 1918
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Page : 740 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Environmental protection
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Author : Briton Hadden
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Page : 436 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Current events
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Author : Henri Stierlin
Publisher : White Star Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,54 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788854400870
Hundreds of photographs illustrate the beautiful Islamic monuments and artwork that advanced early Mediterranean civilization to new heights in the 7th and 8th centuries-a true renaissance that took place long before northern Europe's. Madrasa, palace, fort, garden, public bath, and mausoleum designs are explored and placed into a historic and cultural context. Steirlin explicates the Islamic aesthetics of abstract decoration, formed by the interweaving of geometric mosaics, colors, and arabesques that expresses a feverish creativity on the part of Islamic artists of the period. The result is an engaging guide to a body of work fascinating for its very complexity.
Author : Alfred Emanuel Smith
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Page : 782 pages
File Size : 49,25 MB
Release : 1923
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Page : 2012 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Architecture, Domestic
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Author : Lynne Vallone
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300231717
A groundbreaking work that explores human size as a distinctive cultural marker in Western thought Author, scholar, and editor Lynne Vallone has an international reputation in the field of child studies. In this analytical tour-de-force, she explores bodily size difference—particularly unusual bodies, big and small—as an overlooked yet crucial marker that informs human identity and culture. Exploring miniaturism, giganticism, obesity, and the lived experiences of actual big and small people, Vallone boldly addresses the uncomfortable implications of using physical measures to judge normalcy, goodness, gender identity, and beauty. This wide-ranging work surveys the lives and contexts of both real and imagined persons with extraordinary bodies from the seventeenth century to the present day through close examinations of art, literature, folklore, and cultural practices, as well as scientific and pseudo-scientific discourses. Generously illustrated and written in a lively and accessible style, Vallone’s provocative study encourages readers to look with care at extraordinary bodies and the cultures that created, depicted, loved, and dominated them.