Author : Georges Riat
Publisher : Parkstone Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN :
Child of materialism and positivism, Courbet was without a doubt one of the most complex painters of the nineteenth century. Symbolising the rejection of traditions, Courbet did not hesitate to confront the public with the truth by liberating painting of conventional rules. He became from then on the leader of pictorial realism.
Author : Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 2000-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226034379
In contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and death, yet at the same time a corporeal representation of Christ and the Church, eternity and salvation. Using an array of evidence from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, Agostino Paravicini- Bagliani addresses this paradox. He studies the rituals, metaphors, and images of the pope's body as they developed over time and shows how they resulted in the expectation that the pope's body be simultaneously physical and metaphorical. Also included is a particular emphasis on the thirteenth century when, during the pontificate of Boniface VIII (1294-1303), the papal court became the focus of medicine and the natural sciences as physicians devised ways to protect the pope's health and prolong his life. Masterfully translated from the Italian, this engaging history of the pope's body provides a new perspective for readers to understand the papacy, both historically and in our own time.
Author : Philip Mansel
Publisher : Orion Publishing Company
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 22,47 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780753818558
The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he met. He stayed with Madame du Barry, dined with Frederick the Great and travelled to the Crimea with Catherine the Great. But Ligne was more than a frivolous charmer. He participated in and recorded some of the most important events and movements of his day: the Enlightenment; the struggle for mastery in Germany; the decline of the Ottoman Empire; the birth of German nationalism; and the wars to liberate Europe from Napoleon. He had surprisingly radical views, believing for example in property rights for women, legal rights for Jews and the redistribution of wealth. He was also a highly respected writer and his books on gardens, his letters from the Crimea and his epigrams are considered minor classics of French literature.
Author : Agnieszka Dobrowolska
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9774165233
The small sabil-kuttab (a charitable foundation particular to Cairo that combines a public water dispensary with a Quranic school) built in 1760 opposite the venerated Sayyida Zeinab Mosque is almost unique in Cairo: it is one of only two dedicated by a reigning Ottoman sultan, and--astonishingly--it is decorated inside with blue-and-white tiles from Amsterdam depicting happy scenes from the Dutch countryside. Why did the sultan, Mustafa III, cloistered in his Istanbul palace, decide to build a sabil in Cairo? Why did he choose this site for it? How did it come to be adorned with Dutch tiles? What were the connections between Cairo, Istanbul, and Amsterdam in the middle of the eighteenth century? The authors answer these questions and many more in this entertaining and beautifully illustrated history of an extraordinary building, describing also the recent conservation efforts to preserve it for posterity.
Author : S. Ireland
Publisher : British Institute at Ankara
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1912090619
Seemingly contradictory ideas of privacy and community dominate Ottoman cities. While houses are internally divided to guard female modesty behind a frontage studded with peep-holes, streets in cities like Amasya are often bridged by first-floor passageways between different houses. This book contains 17 papers by architects and archaeologists looking at how the Ottoman house was structured, how it has varied over time and space, and how surviving examples are faring in a world of breeze-block construction. Although the examples discussed are all Near Eastern, and mostly from Turkey, the revelations this book contains about structuring principles will make it a valuable companion to understanding architectural relics from all over the Ottoman Empire.
Author : Philostratus (the Athenian)
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 1912
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Linda Schatkowski Schilcher
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : John Bowring
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 19,74 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Syria
ISBN :
Author : Géza Fehér
Publisher :
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892368259
"Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--BOOK JACKET.
