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Author: William F. Bynum
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-02-26
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521361149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom ancient Greece to the CAT scanner, these essays examine the 'education of the senses' in medical diagnosis and treatment.
Author: Wayne E. Franits
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0300102372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe appealing genre paintings of great seventeenth-century Dutch artists - Vermeer, Steen, de Hooch, Dou and others - have long enjoyed tremendous popularity. This comprehensive book explores the evolution of genre painting throughout the Dutch Golden Age, beginning in the early 1600s and continuing through the opening years of the next century. Wayne Franits, a well-known scholar of Dutch genre painting, offers a wealth of information about these works as well as about seventeenth-century Dutch culture, its predilections and its prejudices. The author approaches genre paintings from a variety of perspectives, examining their reception among contemporary audiences and setting the works in their political, cultural and economic contexts. The works emerge as distinctly conventional images, Franits shows, as genre artists continually replicated specific styles, motifs and a surprisingly restricted number of themes over the course of several generations. Luxuriously illustrated and with a full representation of the major artists and the cities where genre painting flourished, this book will delight students, scholars and general readers alike.
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0870993569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo volumes, including works by the three foremost seventeenth-century Flemish artists{u2014}Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens{u2014}as well as works by their contemporaries. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author: Jeroen Giltaij
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work presents the diverse themes and meanings of the school of painting that is so inadequately described as 'genre'. With reference to featured major works of such masters as Adriaen Brouwer, Adriaen Van Ostade and Johannes Vermeer, an attempt is made to develop a new definition of the style.
Author: Stephen Lock
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9789042003965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreliminary Material --Contributors /S. Lock, L. A. Reynolds and E. M. Tansey --Introduction /Stephen Lock --Webs of Drug Dependence: Towards a Political History of Tobacco /Jordan Goodman --'A Microbe of the Devil's Own Make': Religion and Science in the British Anti-Tobacco Movement, 1853-1908 /Matthew Hilton and Simon Nightingale --The Moral Symbolism of Tobacco in Dutch Genre Painting /David Harley --Tobacco and Victorian Literature /Hugh Cockerell --Pushing the Weed: The Editorializing and Advertising of Tobacco in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, 1880-1958 /Peter Bartrip --The First Reports on Smoking and Lung Cancer /Richard Doll --Science and Policy: The Case of Postwar British Smoking Policy /Virginia Berridge --Blow Some My Way: Passive Smoking, Risk and American Culture /Allan M. Brandt --Smoking and the Royal College of Physicians /Christopher C. Booth --Ashes to Ashes: Witness on Smoking /Francis Avery Jones --The Story of the Reports on Smoking and Health by the Royal College of Physicians /Charles Fletcher --ASH: Witness on Smoking /David Simpson --Austin Bradford Hill and the Nobel Prize /John Crofton --Horace Joules' Role in the Control of Cigarette Smoking /Keith Ball --The History of the Norwegian Ban on Tobacco Advertising /Kjell Bjartveit --Concluding Remarks /Roy Porter --Index /S. Lock, L. A. Reynolds and E. M. Tansey.
Author: Pamela H. Smith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-01-16
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0226764265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the two became linked through a "new" philosophy known as science. In The Body of the Artisan, Pamela H. Smith demonstrates how much early modern science owed to an unlikely source-artists and artisans. From goldsmiths to locksmiths and from carpenters to painters, artists and artisans were much sought after by the new scientists for their intimate, hands-on knowledge of natural materials and the ability to manipulate them. Drawing on a fascinating array of new evidence from northern Europe including artisans' objects and their writings, Smith shows how artisans saw all knowledge as rooted in matter and nature. With nearly two hundred images, The Body of the Artisan provides astonishingly vivid examples of this Renaissance synergy among art, craft, and science, and recovers a forgotten episode of the Scientific Revolution-an episode that forever altered the way we see the natural world.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-01-29
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9004418555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFuture historians will wonder why, despite the risks, society persisted in its warm relationship with the cigarette; by the end of the century global consumption was still rising. The 1995 symposium at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine not only examined tobacco's connection with health, but the varied attitudes towards smoking, which have included regarding it as ‘manly', relaxing, fashionable - and decadent. A particular feature was a witness seminar attended not only by those who had made the initial discovery but by those with a crucial role in promoting public awareness of the dangers. And, as shown in this book, we still cannot escape the paradox that, while a considerable proportion of a country's population is hooked on the cigarette, the tobacco industry and the government are equally addicted to the profits and tax revenues it generates.
Author: Hannah Newton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 019877902X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMisery to Mirth aims to change our thinking about health in early modern England. Drawing on sources such as diaries and medical texts, it shows that recovery did exist as a concept, and that it was a widely-reported event. The study examines how patients, and their loved ones, dealt with overcoming a seemingly fatal illness.--
Author: Arthur K. Wheelock
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The National Gallery of Art's collection of seventeenth-century Flemish paintings is relatively small, numbering less than sixty, but exceptional in quality. At the core of the collection are twelve paintings by Sir Peter Paul Rubens and his school and seventeen paintings by Sir Anthony van Dyck, including some of their finest masterpieces. Also represented are excellent works by other important Flemish masters, among them Osias Beert the Elder, Adriaen Brouwer, Jan Brueghel the Elder, and David Teniers the Younger." "This catalogue of the Gallery's remarkable collection of Flemish paintings offers new information about each of the individual works. Stylistic characteristics of the paintings have been analyzed; historical circumstances related to their creation have been assessed; and their provenances have been reexamined. A number of the paintings have undergone conservation treatment, while the technical characteristics of other works have been thoroughly studied. This exhaustive research has indicated that the titles, dates, and even attributions of a number of works needed to be changed, and the catalogue includes a concordance of these revisions."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Wilhelm von Bode
Publisher:
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13:
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