Revolution Principles
Revolution Principles

Author: J. P. Kenyon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-07-27

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780521386562

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The period from 1680 to about 1720 was one of the most complex and difficult in the history of British politics, to contemporaries as well as to posterity. The parameters of political obligation were decisively shifted by the Revolution of 1688; statesmen and politicians had now to accustom themselves to the novelty of a parliament in session every year; Britain was almost continuously engaged in the most ambitious and expensive wars in her history to date; political parties were slow to form, and of doubtful repute when they did. Professor Kenyon's Ford Lectures, delivered in Oxford in 1976 and now published as a paperback for the first time, remain a standard account of the period. For this reissue, Professor Kenyon has written a new preface which discusses the book in the light of recent historiography.

Painting in Britain
Painting in Britain

Author: Ellis K. Waterhouse

Publisher:

Published: 1992-05

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780300053197

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The field covered by this volume includes the work and influence of foreign-born painters such as Holbein and Van Dyck as well as native masters from Gower and Hilliard to Gainsborough, Stubbs, and Sandby. We can follow step by step the development and flowering of British painting, and can compare, for example, the work of the English Sir Joshua Reynolds with the Scottish Allan Ramsay. Portrait and landscape, history piece, miniature, water colour, there is a record of them all. The text is both scholarly and eminently readable and the illustrations comprise well known examples of British painting and others seldom or never before reproduced between the covers of a book. This new edition includes an introductory essay by Michael Kitson bringing readers up-to-date with the latest approaches to the period, as well as colour plates and a revised bibliography.

Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper for Painters and Architects
Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper for Painters and Architects

Author: Andrea Pozzo

Publisher: Hansebooks

Published: 2020-12-16

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9783337839789

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Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper for Painters and Architects - in English and Latin: containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1693. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

The Baroque Age in England
The Baroque Age in England

Author: Judith Hook

Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson

Published: 1976-01-01

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 9780500232293

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Behandler foruden periodens kunsthistorie også forholdet mellem kultur og samfund