When dusting out corners, we often find things once thought useful, but perhaps not useful enough to keep on display or ready to hand. If we dust in a time and place distant from that in which they were once used, we may be surprised by their vitalit...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jan-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487549824)
La Celestina, a Spanish literary masterpiece second only in importance to Don Quixote in Spanish literature, has been shaped by the inclusion of images from its very first edition in 1499. The subsequent five centuries were punctuated by many illustr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jan-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487549800)
La Celestina, a Spanish literary masterpiece second only in importance to Don Quixote in Spanish literature, has been shaped by the inclusion of images from its very first edition in 1499. The subsequent five centuries were punctuated by many illustr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Apr-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487546090)
The fin de siecle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in po...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Apr-2023, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487546106)
The fin de siecle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in po...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Mar-2022, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487509316)
Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early modern Spain, but they were also a point of contention between Christian and Muslim cultures. Writers of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Mar-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487509323)
Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early modern Spain, but they were also a point of contention between Christian and Muslim cultures. Writers of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Feb-2022, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192646217)
The Living Death of Antiquity examines the idealization of an antiquity that exhibits, in the words of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, a noble simplicity and quiet grandeur. Fitzgerald discusses the aesthetics of this strain of neoclassicism as manifes...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Feb-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192646224)
The Living Death of Antiquity examines the idealization of an antiquity that exhibits, in the words of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, a noble simplicity and quiet grandeur. Fitzgerald discusses the aesthetics of this strain of neoclassicism as manifes...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Dec-2021, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487527761)
In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the Bank of England from its obligations to convert paper notes into coin. Paper quickly became associated w...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Dec-2021, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487527754)
In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the Bank of England from its obligations to convert paper notes into coin. Paper quickly became associated w...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Dec-2020, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781442600447)
In this beautifully illustrated overview, Renee Worringer provides a clear and comprehensive account of the longevity, pragmatism, and flexibility of the Ottoman Empire in governing over vast territories and diverse peoples. A Short History of the Ot...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Dec-2020, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781442600430)
In this beautifully illustrated overview, Renee Worringer provides a clear and comprehensive account of the longevity, pragmatism, and flexibility of the Ottoman Empire in governing over vast territories and diverse peoples. A Short History of the Ot...Lasīt vairāk
Inspired by newly discovered antiquities of the ancient world exhibited in the museums of Europe and celebrated in the illustrated press of the day, the leading British history painters Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sir Edward Poynter and Edwin Long crea...Lasīt vairāk
Inspired by newly discovered antiquities of the ancient world exhibited in the museums of Europe and celebrated in the illustrated press of the day, the leading British history painters Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sir Edward Poynter and Edwin Long crea...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Nov-2019, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487530693)
Propaganda in Revolutionary Ukraine is a survey of domestic government and party printed propaganda in revolutionary Ukraine. It is the first account in English to study these materials using an illustrative sample of printed texts and to assess thei...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Nov-2019, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487530709)
Propaganda in Revolutionary Ukraine is a survey of domestic government and party printed propaganda in revolutionary Ukraine. It is the first account in English to study these materials using an illustrative sample of printed texts and to assess thei...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Apr-2019, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487530150)
Crowning Glories integrates Louis XIVs propaganda campaigns, the transmission of Northern art into France, and the rise of empiricism in the eighteenth century - three historical touchstones - to examine what it would have meant for Frances elite t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Apr-2019, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487530143)
Crowning Glories integrates Louis XIVs propaganda campaigns, the transmission of Northern art into France, and the rise of empiricism in the eighteenth century - three historical touchstones - to examine what it would have meant for Frances elite t...Lasīt vairāk
Domesticating Empire is the first contextually-oriented monograph on Egyptian imagery in Roman households. Caitln Barrett draws on case studies from Flavian Pompeii to investigate the close association between representations of Egypt and a particula...Lasīt vairāk
