The Athenaeum


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The Athenaeum


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German Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350-1600


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Paintings by Renaissance masters Lucas Cranach the Elder, Albrecht Durer, and Hans Holbein the Younger are among the works featured in this lavish volume, the first to comprehensively study the largest collection of early German paintings in America. These works, created in the 14th through 16th centuries in the region that comprises present-day Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, include religious images - such as "Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" by Durer and the double-sided altarpiece "The Dormition of the Virgin" by Hans Schaufelein - as well as remarkable portraits by Holbein and the iconic "Judgment of Paris" by Cranach. In all, more than 70 works are thoroughly discussed and analyzed, making this volume an incomparable resource for the study of this rich artistic period.







The Dog in British Poetry


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This charming book collects more than 200 poems celebrating our faithful canine companions as they hunt, romp, chew, and wait patiently for their master's voice. Including work by great (Byron, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Browning) and lesser-known British poets through the end of the 19th century, this heartfelt anthology includes scholarly notes on the poems as well as indexes of the poems by dog breed.







The county families of the United Kingdom


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The county families of the United Kingdom or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. Containing a brief notice of the descent, birth, marriage, education, and appointments of each person, his heir apparent or presumptive, as also a record of the offices which he has hitherto held, together with his town adress and country residences.




The Comic History of Rome


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Annals of the Seymours


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