A Merchant of Ivory in 16th-century Paris

A Merchant of Ivory in 16th-century Paris

Author: Katherine Baker

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9004539832

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A first of its kind, A Merchant of Ivory invites readers to enter an object-filled world of the past through a transcription and annotated translation of a Parisian inventory belonging to a remarkable artisan of the 16th century.


Picturing Death 1200–1600

Picturing Death 1200–1600

Author: Stephen Perkinson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-11-16

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9004441115

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Picturing Death: 1200–1600 brings together essays considering four key centuries of imagery related to human mortality, from tomb sculpture to painted altarpieces, from manuscripts to printed books, and from minute carved objects to large-scale architecture.


The Ivory Mirror

The Ivory Mirror

Author: Stephen Perkinson

Publisher: Bowdoin

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780300225952

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The Ivory Mirror / Stephen Perkinson -- The Light at the End of the Tunnel : Manuscript Illumination and the Concept of Death / Elizabeth Morrison -- Chicart Bailly and the Specter of Death : Memento Mori in a Sixteenth-Century Estate Inventory / Katherine Baker -- Plates -- List of Plates -- Memento mori Beads : Collecting Histories and Contexts / Naomi Speakman -- The Poetry of Death / Emma Maggie Solberg


Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation

Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation

Author: William T. Hornaday

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-20

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13:

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"Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation" by William T. Hornaday. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.


Conchophilia

Conchophilia

Author: Marisa Anne Bass

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-08-17

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0691215766

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"A history of shells in early modern Europe, and their rich cultural and artistic significance"--


Renaissance Rhetoric

Renaissance Rhetoric

Author: Peter Mack

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1993-12-15

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1349231444

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This book provides examples of the best modern scholarship on rhetoric in the renaissance. Lawrence Green, Lisa Jardine, Kees Meerhoff, Dilwyn Knox, Brian Vickers, George Hunter, Peter Mack, David Norbrook and Pat Rubin look at the reception of Aristotle's Rhetoric in the renaissance; the place of rhetoric in Erasmus's career, Melanchthon's teaching, and sixteenth century protestant schools; the rhetoric textbook; the use of rhetoric in Raphael, renaissance drama, Elizabethan romance, and seventeenth century political writing. It will become essential reading for advanced studies in English, rhetoric, art history, history, history of education, history of ideas, political theory, and reformation history.


European Art and the Wider World 1350–1550

European Art and the Wider World 1350–1550

Author: Kathleen Christian

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-07-01

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 152612291X

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Focuses on issues of assimilation, translation and misunderstanding as art objects moved between cultures, either literally or imaginatively, and considers how visual culture expresses the increasing contact between Europe and the rest of the world in this era.