Brill, 2013. — 342 p. — (Medieval Encounters 18.4-5). This special issue of Medieval Encounters examines the means by which portable and monumental art and architectural forms, techniques, and ideas were transmitted, as well as the individuals involved in such exchanges, in the medieval Mediterrean world ca. 1000-1500. Samanid Silver and Trade along the Fur Route - Melanie...
Gomidas Institute, 2010. — 168 p. The tenth century Armenian Church of the Holy Cross or Surp Khach on the island of Aghtamar is one of the most important architectural sites in Turkey. With its unique sculptural carvings depicting a complex of biblical and secular themes, this church is a jewel of medieval Armenian and early Christian art and architecture. Based on a variety...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 255 p. — (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture). Monsters, grotesque creatures, and giants were frequently depicted in Italian Renaissance landscape design, yet they have rarely been studied. Their ubiquity indicates that gardens of the period conveyed darker, more disturbing themes than has been acknowledged. In The Monster in the...
Princeton University Press, 1985. — 304 p. — (Bollingen series 35.34). In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le...
Princeton University Press, 1985. — 306 p. — (Bollingen series 35.34). In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le...
Skira, 2009. — 294 p. This remarkable catalogue represents one of the richest-known repertoires of Indian painting, as it documents almost all the schools of painting in India, and in particular those of the Rajput courts. The most significant miniatures come from the courts of the three main dynasties of Rajasthan, those of the Sisodia, Rathore, and Kachwaha clans. The...
Jaca Book, 2006. — 312 p. Il volto pittorico della Roma tardo antica e medievale, raramente è giunto a noi intatto; più spesso si mostra frammentato o nascosto o perduto. E tuttavia di questo patrimonio, moltissime sono ancora le tracce visibili sulle pareti di chiese e monumenti della città o i brani di dipinti e mosaici staccati che si conservano nei musei e nei loro...
Afa Yayınları, 1995. — 262 s. Leonardo Benevolo olağanüstü bir iş başarmış. Ortaçağın başlarından bu yana kent tarihinin zengin bir sentezini yapmakla kalmamış, yüzeysellikten ve asılsız genellemelerden kaçınarak Avrupa kent tarihi literatürüne seçkin ve bilimsel bir katkıda bulunmuş.
Baltos lankos, 1998. — 299 p. Europos miesto istorija neatskiriamai susijusi su pačios Europos istorija, todėl autorius skrupulingai tiria fizinę miesto formą, jos kaitą, atskleidžia sąsajas su Europos kultūros nuostatomis. Žmogų visą laiką supa istorijos persmelkta aplinka. Miestas - dabarties ir praeities bendravimo būdas, sykiu nubrėžiantis ir ateities kryptį.
Jaca Book, 2011. — 240 p. Cristo lasciò personalmente e direttamente i tratti del proprio volto impressi su un panno. È questo l'affascinante e misterioso inizio che accomuna le icone Acheropite di Cristo. Immagini «non fatte da mano d'uomo», pressoché sconosciute al mondo occidentale, rappresentano invece il fondamento della ritrattistica dell'Oriente cristiano per quanto...
C.H. Beck, 1999. — 324 S. Rom, Paris, London, Madrid, Berlin - Europa ist ein Kontinent der Städte, und seine Geschichte ist Stadtgeschichte. So sieht es der international renommierte Stadthistoriker Leonardo Bene volo. Er schreibt hier eine Geschichte der europäischen Stadt von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Sein reich illustriertes Buch ist zugleich ein kleiner Führer durch...
Hazan, 2013. — 420 p. Nous est offert, pour la première fois en France, un panorama de la création artistique allemande sur une durée relativement longue — plus d’un siècle. Les courants artistiques, du classicisme weimarien, des Nazaréens à Otto Dix, en passant par Hans von Marées, Adolf von Hildebrand ou Franz von Stuck, mais aussi du romantisme d’un Caspar David Friedrich à...
Ancora, 2023. — 310 p. La chiesa di Chora a Istambul è un trionfo di mosaici, ori, affreschi luminosi, figure danzanti. Nelle cupole, nelle volte, sulle pareti e nei pennacchi, sfilano molteplici racconti che omaggiano la vita di personaggi straordinari. I mosaici dell’Infanzia della Madre di Dio, dell’Infanzia e del Ministero di Cristo, i ricchi ed articolati affreschi della...
Jaca Book, 2019. — 211 p. La Risurrezione di Cristo è l'affermazione centrale della fede cristiana. «Se Cristo non è risorto ― non temeva di affermare san Paolo ― la nostra predicazione è vana e vana è anche la nostra fede» (1 Corinzi 15,14). Sebbene questo misterioso evento non abbia avuto testimoni oculari, esso fu evocato e celebrato nell'arte di ispirazione cristiana dai...
Jaca Book, 2016. — 315 p. Quelle etiopiche sono una terra e una cultura di confine, collocato com'è il Paese sugli altopiani dell'Africa nordorientale e lungo il Mar Rosso, tra l'Africa e la parte meridionale della penisola arabica. Il regno di Axum, nel 329 d.C., quando comparve sulle sue monete la croce, era uno dei maggiori dell'epoca e la città era un grande centro...
Hazan, 2005. — 315 p. Isolée sur les hauts plateaux de l'Afrique orientale, à l'écart du monde, l'Ethiopie, bien qu'incluse dans l'Eglise orthodoxe d'Orient, a conservé intacte une religion caractéristique des premiers siècles de la chrétienté. La tradition de la peinture sacrée apparaît avec l'introduction du culte au IVe siècle sous l'empire d'Axoum (Ie-Xe siècles). Elle...
Skira, 2011. — 283 p. Lucas Cranach occupe une place prépondérante dans l'histoire de l'art européen. Peintre officiel de la cour de Saxe et portraitiste de talent, il fut aussi l'ami de Luther et des réformateurs dont il contribua, par ses peintures et ses gravures, à diffuser les idées en Allemagne. C'est à la richesse de son oeuvre et à son parcours jalonné de rencontres...
Grosset & Dunlap, 1975. — 184 p. — (Living Architecture). Missing page 13 to page 16, page 53 to page 56, page 103 to page 106. Living Architecture is a series remarkable for the quality of the black and white photographs which are specially taken for each volume and printed with great craftsmanship to bring out their detail, clarity and depth. Iberian-American Baroque evokes...
Electa/Rizzoli, 1985. — 219 p. — (History of World Architecture). Explores the development and distinctive achievements of the sequential eighteenth-century architectural styles, most fully expressed in Central European monarchical, ecclesiastical, and monumental buildings.
Silvana, 2016. — 211 p. Nell'ultimo quarto del XIII secolo appare in Umbria, per diffondersi rapidamente ovunque approdino i francescani, un nuovo motivo iconografico nella croce dipinta: quello della figura del santo fondatore dell'ordine, genuflessa in adorazione delle ferite del Cristo. Di questa invenzione, sorta al tempo del generalato di san Bonaventura, si è provato a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 357 p. This book offers a new, salutogenic, perspective on the development of early modern cities by exploring profound and complex ways in which architecture and landscape design served to promote public health on an urban scale. Focusing on fifteenth- through nineteenth-century Europe, it addresses the histories of spaces and institutions that...
Pindar Press, 2012. — 591 p. Trained as an archaeologist and art historian and being a practising painter, Professor Galavaris has been able to relate diverse disciplines in his work, as shown by the wide range of his numerous publications. He moves from the early history of the eucharistic bread in the Orthodox Church, the dramatic impact of the Liturgy on illuminated...
Pindar Press, 2008. — 813 p. This volume bring together twenty-six of Professor Sandler’s studies, focusing on illustrated manuscripts produced in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, particularly on the illuminated psalters. The marginal illustrations in these psalters are a topic of particular interest, and there are a number of iconographic studies derived...
Pindar Press, 2007. — 413 p. The Russian artist Kazimir Malevich was one of the great figures of twentieth-century art, and a pioneer of abstraction, whose painting The Black Square of 1915 has become an icon of modernism. Yet he is a creative figure about whom much still remains to be elucidated. Soviet scholarship ignored him for decades, and Western scholars were inevitably...
Pindar Press, 2005. — 352 p. Since turning to the field of Jewish art over twenty years ago, Vivian Mann has concentrated on investigating Jewish ceremonial art within the dual contexts of Jewish law, and the history of decorative arts in general, including the ceremonial art made for the Church and the Mosque. The introduction to this volume considers classic rabbinic...
Pindar Press, 2012. — 506 p. This book is a reconsideration of the practice of whitewashing church interiors during the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is the first detailed study of its kind which challenges the view thatwhitewash was always only a ‘cheap coat of paint’. Victoria George pulls together several histories: of the colour white...
Pindar Press, 2019. — 531 p. Islamic artists channelled their energies not into easel painting and large-scale sculpture, but rather into what Western scholars, obeying a very different hierarchy of art forms, rather disparagingly term the “decorative arts” or even “the minor arts”. In point of fact, some of the greatest masterpieces of Islamic art are in the media of ceramics,...
Skira, 1986. — 154 S. Dieses Buch macht deutlich, wie durch Umwelteinflüsse in 25 Jahren etwas zerstört werden kann, was über 20000 Jahre bewahrt werden konnte. 1940 gelangten spielende Kinder durch einen Spalt direkt in die Höhle von Lascaux und ent deckten eines der bedeutendsten Zeugnisse der Eiszeit. 1965 mußte der Zutritt zu den Höhlen gesperrt werden, weil sich zunächst...
Skira, 2020. — 120 p. Classis Ravenna Museo della città e del territorio è un museo diverso e completamente nuovo ove si racconta sinteticamente ma in modo unitario e complessivo la storia della città e del suo territorio. Questa guida segue l'ossatura dell'esposizione, costituita da una linea del tempo e cioè il lungo racconto delle principali fasi della storia della città: a...
Skira, 2006. — 398 p. Il volume, dedicato al ciclo pittorico dei Santi Quattro Coronati a Roma, illustra un capolavoro del XIII secolo, inedito al pubblico e mostrato ora per la prima volta. La possibilità di ammirare oggi gli splendidi affreschi, ritrovati nell'Aula gotica della basilica, è dovuta infatti a una lunga e impegnativa campagna di restauri, curata dalla storica...
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), 2004. — 648 p. — (Asian and African Lexicon 44). Runyankore (or Orunyankore with the augment o) is a Bantu language spoken in the southwestern part of the Republic of Uganda, which is located just to the north of Rwanda and to the east of Congo. This language is said to have more than one million...
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2024. — 144 p. — (ILCAA Intensive Language Course 2023 “Bemba” Textbook 1). This small volume is an outcome of ILCAA’s Intensive Language Course (ILC) which was held for three weeks from the 21st of August to the 8th of September 2023. The aim of the course was to provide participants with practical occasions to...
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2021. — 444 p. The paper presents a comprehensive exploration of morphosyntactic microvariation among Southern Bantu languages, highlighting the limited existing linguistic research in South Africa. It addresses gaps in descriptive materials, emphasizing the involvement of local students in collaborative...
C.H. Beck, 2025. — 128 S. Dieser Band bietet eine anregende und kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der Architektur der letzten 50 Jahre. Im Mittelpunkt der Darstellung stehen bedeutende Architektinnen und Architekten wie Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano oder Rem Kohlhaas. Anders als die Architektur der Moderne, die sich auf eine Theorie des Fortschritts und auf die...
Dietrich Reimer, 2009. — 170 S. Diese Einführung zeigt wie Bauformen und Bautypen von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit entstehen und vermittelt die entsprechende Fachterminologie. So kann der Leser ein Grundverständnis für tektonische Problemstellungen quer durch die Jahrhunderte entwickeln – vom Modell eines griechischen Tempels um 700 v. Chr. bis zum Hochhaus des...
Skira, 2001. — 340 S. Eine Ausstellung des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien und des Iranischen Nationalmuseums Teheran; Kunsthistorisches Museum, 22. November 2000 bis 25. März 2001; Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 10. August 2001 bis 6. Januar 2002.
Thames and Hudson, 1998. — 165 p. The Aga Kahn Award for Architecture was established in 1977 to encourage and bring to international attention the work of architects and designers building in Islamic societies. Previous winners of the award, which is given every three years, include such architects as Balkrishna Doshi, Ken Yeang, Jean Nouvel, Charles Correa, and Hassan Fathy,...
Academy Editions, 1995. — 177 p. This volume features the projects entered for the 1995 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. An introductory chapter discusses the award and explores spirituality in buildings and contemporary society. The book includes descriptions of the winning designs in Yemen, Tunisia, Pakistan, Senegal and India. Contributors include Charles Jencks, Peter...
Marsilio, 2007. — 244 p. — (Collana del Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz XI). Studiosi da ogni parte del mondo si mettono sulle tracce del Mandylion, l'icona raffigurante il Sacro Volto del Salvatore, ripercorrendo gli itinerari tortuosi delle sue diverse rappresentazioni e della loro fortuna nell'ambito complesso e variegato del Mediterraneo del basso Medioevo. Bisanzio,...
Aga Khan Award for Architecture/Butterworth Architecture, 1986. — 306 p. A beautifully photographed chronicle of the first decade and achievements of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, initiated in 1977, with emphasis on the activities between 1984 and 1986. Photos of presentations and award winners are followed by a sample of intellectual papers and reports by architects.
Aperture, 1985. — 218 p. Examines fifteen architectural projects which have won awards for developing a modern style that derives from traditional Moslem design.
Skira, 2004. — 374 p. Secondo la leggenda il Mandylion è un'impronta del viso di Cristo, donata da Lui stesso al re Abgar di Edessa, dove venne venerata per secoli, per essere trasferita a Costantinopoli nell'anno 945 ed esser poi donata, nel tardo Trecento, al doge genovese Leonardo Montaldo. Ripercorrendo il viaggio del Mandylion da Gerusalemme a Edessa, a Costantinopoli e...
Skira, 2000. — 210 p. Narga Sellase's monastery sits on a tiny islet in the middle of Lake Tana, the great body of water in the centre of the Ethiopian plateau near to the imperial city of Gondar. Founded in 1748, Narga Sellase is one of the constellation of monasteries on the lake. They are the expression of a civilization which since the 4th century has known the Christianity...
Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2024. — 509 S. Im Zentrum von Caspar David Friedrichs Werk steht ein neuer Blick auf Natur. Die Landschaftsgemälde und Zeichnungen des bedeutendsten Künstlers der deutschen Romantik brechen dabei mit tradierten Darstellungsmustern. Stattdessen verbindet sich in ihnen ein ungewöhnlich präzises Naturstudium mit einem durchgreifenden Willen zur Bildkomposition....
Prestel, 1987. — 198 p. Ina Conzen-Meairs - Revolution and Tradition, The Metamorphosis of the Conception of Realism in the Late Works of Fernand Leger Judi Freeman - L'Evenement d'Objectivite Plastique: Leger' s Shift from the Mechanical to the Figurative 1926-1933 Karin von Maur - Rhythm and the Cult ofthe Body, Leger and the ideal of a 'New Man' Simon Willmoth - Leger and...
Skira, 2022. — 199 p. I legami tra la Normandia e il movimento impressionista Attraverso un corpus di settantacinque opere provenienti dalla Collezione Peindre en Normandie (una delle collezioni più rappresentative del periodo impressionista), dal Musée de Vernon, dal Musée Marmottan Monet di Parigi e dalla Fondazione Bemberg di Tolosa, il volume ripercorre le tappe salienti...
Ashgate, 2005. — 354 p. Early Islamic Art, 650-1100 is the first in a set of four volumes of studies by Oleg Grabar. Between them they bring together more than eighty articles, studies and essays, work spanning half a century. Each volume takes a particular section of the topic, the three subsequent volumes being entitled: Islamic Visual Culture, 1100-1800; Islamic Art and...
Ashgate, 2006. — 487 p. Islamic Visual Culture, 1100-1800 is the second in a set of four volumes of studies on Islamic art by Oleg Grabar. Between them they bring together more than eighty articles, studies and essays, work spanning half a century by a master of the field. Each volume takes a particular section of the topic, the three other volumes being entitled: Early Islamic...
Ashgate, 2006. — 388 p. Islamic Art and Beyond is the third in a set of four volumes of studies on Islamic art by Oleg Grabar. Between them they bring together more than eighty articles, studies and essays, work spanning half a century by a master of the field. Each volume takes a particular section of the topic, the three other volumes being entitled: Early Islamic Art,...
Princeton University Press, 1992. — 336 p. — (Bollingen Series 35.38). How ornamentation enables a direct and immediate encounter between viewers and art objects Based on universal motifs, ornamentation occurs in many artistic traditions, though it reaches its most expressive, tangible, and unique form in the art of the Islamic world. The Mediation of Ornament shares a veteran...