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Bauten im Kopf

Irene Daum , Christian Heuchel

Dieses, zusammen mit dem Architekten Christian Heuchel, verfasste Buch mit dem Titel "Bauten im Kopf - Architektur und Neurowissenschaften" erörtert die Bedeutung aktueller Erkenntnisse der Neurowissenschaften und der Psychologie für Perspektiven der...

Modelling Cultural and Art Institutions

Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski

Modelling Cultural and Art Institutions

Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski

Art History in a Global Context

Ann Albritton , Gwen Farrelly

Presents a clear and comprehensive introduction to the evolving discipline of global art studies This volume examines how art historians, critics, and artists revisit art from ancient times through to the early modern period as well as the ways in which contemporary...

The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600

L. Bosman , I. P. Haynes , P. Liverani

The Archbasilica of St John Lateran is the world's earliest cathedral. A Constantinian foundation pre-dating St Peter's in the Vatican, it remains the seat of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope, to this day. This volume brings together scholars of topography, archaeology,...

Techno-Esoterik in der säkularisierten Moderne

Nils Menzler

Esoterik ist ubiquitär – sie bestimmt vielfach die praktische Ausgestaltung individueller Lebensführung und ist fester Bestandteil einer kollektiven Wissenskultur. Oft als „quacksalberische Betrugsmasche“ verfemt, liefert Nils Menzler einen innovativen...

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance

Gordon Campbell

The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include? Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century Italy, views of the Renaissance...

This is Not Just a Painting

Bernard Lahire

In 2008, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon acquired a painting called The Flight into Egypt which was attributed to the French artist Nicolas Poussin. Thought to have been painted in 1657, the painting had gone missing for more than three centuries. Several versions were...

A Companion to Contemporary Design since 1945

Anne Massey

A critical overview of contemporary design and its place within the broader context of art history A Companion to Contemporary Design since 1945 introduces readers to a collection of specially commissioned essays exploring the complex areas of design that emerged...

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance

Gordon Campbell

The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include? Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century Italy, views of the Renaissance...

After Modern Art

David Hopkins

Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between...

After Modern Art

David Hopkins

Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between...

The Art of the Roman Empire

Jas Elsner

The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the...

The Art of the Roman Empire

Jas Elsner

The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the...

Byzantine Art

Robin Cormack

The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and wallpaintings...

Byzantine Art

Robin Cormack

The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and wallpaintings...

The Myth of the Orient

Francine Giese , Ariane Varela Braga

This volume commemorates the 160th anniversary of the Selamlik of Oberhofen Castle near Thun – one of the most significant Swiss Orientalist interiors, designed by the Bernese architect Theodor Zeerleder (1820–1868) – by presenting the latest research on the spectacular...

Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture

Zahra Newby

Images of episodes from Greek mythology are widespread in Roman art, appearing in sculptural groups, mosaics, paintings and reliefs. They attest to Rome's enduring fascination with Greek culture, and its desire to absorb and reframe that culture for new ends. This book...

St. Georg mit Tiersymbolen

Gerlinde Bretzigheimer

Für den Deckenschmuck der Abtsstube schlägt die Studie erstmalig eine Deutung vor. Sie versteht die sieben Medaillons als Bildprogramm zur Verherrlichung des Klosterpatrons und bezieht die sechs Tiersujets, die den Drachentöter St. Georg umgeben, typologisch auf die...

A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art

Linda Walsh

A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the social, economic, philosophical, and political debates that helped shape them.  Covers both artistic...