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Velázquez, Painter & Curator
This book is the first to address the curatorial career of Diego Velázquez, painter to King Philip IV of Spain and chamberlain of his royal palace. It investigates the role that Velázquez played in overseeing the display of the Habsburg art collection, then the richest in the western world, and the role, in turn, that this practice played in his creative trajectory between his arrival at the …
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- '9789004690073
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- 304 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, Volume: 80
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The Matter of Piety = Zoutleeuw's Church of Saint Leonard and Religious Mater…
The Matter of Piety provides the first in-depth study of Zoutleeuw’s exceptionally well-preserved pilgrimage church in a comparative perspective, and revaluates religious art and material culture in Netherlandish piety from the late Middle Ages through the crisis of iconoclasm and the Reformation to Catholic restoration. Analyzing the changing functions, outlooks, and meanings of devotional o…
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- 9789004433106
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- 452 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, Volume: 16
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The Matter of Mimesis = Studies of Mimesis and Materials in Nature, Art, and …
Mimesis or imitation comes in many forms, from animal and plant mimicry to artistic copies ‘from life’. This book offers eighteen essays addressing mimesis from diverse perspectives. From the recreation of galaxies to Iron Age torcs, from counterfeit dragons to modern waxworks, each chapter explores facets of material mimesis from prehistory to the present day. The Matter of Mimesis invites…
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- 9789004515413
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- 596 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Art & Materiality
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Interpreting Art
How do people make sense of works of art? And how do they write to make others see the same way? There are many guides to looking at art, histories of art history and art criticism, and accounts of various ‘theories’ and ‘methods’, but this book offers something very unlike the normal search for difference and division: it examines the general and largely unspoken norms shared by interp…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781800081772, 9781800081789
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- Spotlights
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- 730 ROS i
Asian Literary Voices: From Marginal to Mainstream
Brings together some of the most exciting recent scholarship on Asian literature and culture, emphasising East Asia yet extending to South Asia Combines original findings of interest to specialists with a clear style of writing and argumentation that makes the volume accessible and appealing to the general reader Brings to life a wide range of Asian literary and scholarly figures important in t…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789089640925
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- 176
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- ICAS Publications Series
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- 700 ASI a
Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam
This book exploits a trove of original documents that have survived on the auctions organized by the Orphan Chamber of Amsterdam in the first half of the 17th century. For the first time, the names of some 2000 buyers of works of art at auction in the 29 extant notebooks of the Chamber have been systematically analyzed. On the basis of archival research, data have been assembled on the occupati…
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- 9789053565919
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Chinese and Japanese Music-Dramas
Chinese and Japanese Music-Dramas is the result of a conference on the relations between Chinese and Japanese music-drama held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on October 1–4, 1971. In addition to the Association for Asian Studies, four U-M departments participated in the conference: the Center for Japanese Studies, the Center for Chinese Studies, the School of Music, and the Speech …
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