Nude Souls
Author : Benjamin Swift (pseud. [i.e. William Romaine Paterson.])
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 1900
Category : English fiction
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin Swift (pseud. [i.e. William Romaine Paterson.])
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 1900
Category : English fiction
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Author : Thomas Kren
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 160606584X
A gloriously illustrated examination of the origins and development of the nude as an artistic subject in Renaissance Europe Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more than 250 artworks by the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and book illustrations reveal private, sometimes shocking, preoccupations as well as surprising public beliefs—the Age of Humanism from an entirely new perspective. This book presents works by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Martin Schongauer in the north and Donatello, Raphael, and Giorgione in the south; it also introduces names that deserve to be known better. A publication this rich in scholarship could only be produced by a variety of expert scholars; the sixteen contributors are preeminent in their fields and wide-ranging in their knowledge and curiosity. The structure of the volume—essays alternating with shorter texts on individual artworks—permits studies both broad and granular. From the religious to the magical and the poetic to the erotic, encompassing male and female, infancy, youth, and old age, The Renaissance Nude examines in a profound way what it is to be human.
Author : Allen Brown
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1684099242
Do you want to know what modern Hell is like? Would you like to know where your friends will be in Hell? Would you like to know where you would be in Hell now? Would you like to know how you can avoid going there? Then this book, The Elevator, is for you! This book defines modern Hell. This novel is about a high school boy, Jason, winning a writing contest about the evils in modern life. With a guide, Joan, he is awarded a trip on the Elevator to des
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Page : 678 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Book collecting
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Author : Maxwell Gray
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 1899
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Author : Mr. Skin
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312331443
Cult hero, radio personality, and internet maven, Mr. Skin has penned the essential guide to celebrity nudity in a combination of hard, reliable data and hilarious, captivating entertainment.
Author : Manuele Gragnolati
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 36,9 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192552597
The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of Anglo-American, Italian, and continental scholarship and spanning several disciplines: philology, material culture, history, religion, art history, visual studies, theory from the classical to the contemporary, queer, post- and de-colonial, and feminist studies. The volume combines a rigorous reassessment of Dante's formation, themes, and sources, with a theoretically up-to-date focus on textuality, thereby offering a new critical Dante. The volume is divided into seven sections: 'Texts and Textuality'; 'Dialogues'; 'Transforming Knowledge'; Space(s) and Places'; 'A Passionate Selfhood'; 'A Non-linear Dante'; and 'Nachleben'. It seeks to challenge the Commedia-centric approach (the conviction that notwithstanding its many contradictions, Dante's works move towards the great reservoir of poetry and ideas that is the Commedia), in order to bring to light a non-teleological way in which these works relate amongst themselves. Plurality and the openness of interpretation appear as Dante's very mark, coexisting with the attempt to create an all-encompassing mastership. The Handbook suggests what is exciting about Dante now and indicate where Dante scholarship is going, or can go, in a global context.
Author : John Rylands Library
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Rufus Byam Richardson
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Sculpture, Greek
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Heavily illustrated with small b/w photos of ancient Greek sculpture, including works by, & extensive information about, Myron, Pheidias, Polykleitos, Skopas, Lysippos & Praxiteles. Includes explanation of the Parthenon frieze.
Author : Maria Picchio Simonelli
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1512806994
The third volume in the series Lectura Dantis Americana is Maria Picchio Simonelli's study of Inferno III. Primarily philological in its focus, the book examines in detail a number of the cruces found in this canto, which initiates the voyage to the underworld in Dante's poem.