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The Matter of Piety = Zoutleeuw's Church of Saint Leonard and Religious Mater…
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Ruben Suykerbuyk

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 …
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Marjolijn BolE. C. Spary

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
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ROSE, Sam

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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9781800081772, 9781800081789
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Spotlights
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730 ROS i
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Asian Literary Voices: From Marginal to Mainstream
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Williams, Philip F.

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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9789089640925
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176
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ICAS Publications Series
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700 ASI a
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Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam
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MONTIAS, John Michael

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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