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  • Architectures of Festival in Early Modern Europe

    Fashioning and Re-fashioning Urban and Courtly Space

    Series series European Festival Studies: 1450-1700
    This fourth volume in the European Festival Studies, 1450–1700 series breaks with precedent in stemming from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) between the Society for European Festivals Research and the PALATIUM project supported by the European Science Foundation. The volume draws on up-to-date research by a Europe-wide group of academic scholars and museum and gallery curators to provide a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Occasions of State

    Early Modern European Festivals and the Negotiation of Power

    Series series European Festival Studies: 1450-1700
    This sixth volume in the European Festival Studies series stems from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) between the Society for European Festivals Research and the European Science Foundation’s PALATIUM project. Drawing on up-to-date scholarship, a Europe-wide group of early-career and experienced academics provides a unique account of spectacular occasions of state which influenced the political, ... Read more

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    Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

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    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
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  • Festival Architecture

    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory.Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods – from Antiquity to the modern era – and divided between analyses of specific festivals, set in relation to ... Read more

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  • Urban Society In Roman Italy

    Edited by Tim J. Cornell, Kathryn Lomas ...
    This collection of original essays focuses upon Roman Italy where, with over 400 cities, urbanization was at the very centre of Italian civilization. Informed by an awareness of the social and anthropological issues of recent research, these contributions explore not only questions of urban origins, interaction with the countryside and economic function, but also the social use of space within the ... Read more

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    The Play of Realism, Second Revised and Expanded Edition

    Jan van Eyck (1395-41) was the foremost artist of the Early Netherlandish School. Although Court painter to Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, van Eyck’s surviving work was not executed for the Duke, but for rising Court bureaucrats, Italian merchants and members of the secular clergy, for whom he created a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. Most ... Read more

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    Series series The Wiles Lectures
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    How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian and classicist Caroline Vout provides an original history of how classical art has been continuously ... Read more

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