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Titian’s Icons: Tradition, Charisma, and Devotion in Renaissance Italy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A reexamination of the career of Titian, the only Renaissance artist credited by contemporaries with painting a miracle-working image. Argues that a major part of the artist's legacy is to be found in his charismatic entrance into the tradition of Christian icon painting.
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Sacred Shock: Framing Visual Experience in Byzantium (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Art did not exist in Byzantium. Devotional objects - pectoral crosses, church mosaics, icons, and illuminated manuscripts - were regarded as infused... Læs mere
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The Political Responsibilities of Everyday Bystanders (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A discussion of how everyday bystanders can learn to recognize and meet their shared and institutional political responsibilities for hunger, poverty, famine, civil war, wars of conquest and invasion, epidemics and pandemics, and genocide.
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Beginning Biblical Hebrew (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Includes exercises that are drawn from the "Hebrew Bible".
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Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the life of Catherine of Aragon, focusing on her personal possessions and the items she bequeathed to those she left behind, to better... Læs mere
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What It Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Investigates contemporary and historical rhetorics of rape culture within institutional, legal, cultural, and medical discourses.... Læs mere
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An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
An art-historical analysis of the Shroud of Turin as a sacred image in the artistic culture of early modern Italy.
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Playful Pictures: Art, Leisure, and Entertainment in the Venetian Renaissance Home (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the intersection of private art collecting, domestic social life, and recreational practices in Renaissance Venice.
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From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word hormone and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women’s health.
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Gifford Pinchot: Selected Writings (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Collection of essays by Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania. The social, political, and scientific... Læs mere
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Looking Close and Seeing Far: Samuel Seymour, Titian Ramsay Peale, and the Art of the Long Expedition, 1818–1823 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Unites the core body of paintings and drawings, providing an account of the expedition through close visual readings that reveal Samuel Seymour's and Titian Ramsay Peale's complex responses to the contradictory goals of their assignment.
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The Art of Enigma: The de Chirico Brothers and the Politics of Modernism (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In this interdisciplinary book, Keala Jewell reunites Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) with his brother, Alberto Savinio... Læs mere
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