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• Publisher : Penn State Press
• File Size : 21,5 Mb
• Release Date : 29 April 2024

"Examines the work of eighteenth-century sculptor Ignaz Gèunther within the context of Bavarian Rococo art and Counter-Reformation religious visual culture"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 05 July 2017

A groundbreaking approach to Rococo religious d?r and spirituality in Europe and South America, The Spiritual Rococo addresses three basic conundrums that impede our understanding of eighteenth-century aesthetics and

• Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
• File Size : 24,9 Mb
• Release Date : 19 March 2018

Since before the myth of Pygmalion bringing a statue to life through desire, artists have used sculpture to explore the physical materiality of the body. This groundbreaking volume examines key

• Publisher : Penn State Press
• File Size : 40,5 Mb
• Release Date : 23 April 2020

Sound and statuary have had a complicated relationship in Western aesthetic thought since antiquity. Taking as its focus the sounding statue—a type of anthropocentric statue that invites the viewer

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• File Size : 36,9 Mb
• Release Date : 12 July 2018

Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, and other media

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 55,6 Mb
• Release Date : 22 September 2017

These in-depth, historical, and critical essays study the meaning of ornament, the role it played in the formation of modernism, and its theoretical importance between the mid-nineteenth century and the

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 50,7 Mb
• Release Date : 15 June 2008

Pygmalion's sculpture, which the gods endowed with life, marks, according to this book, perhaps the first instance in Western art of an image that exists on its own terms, rather

• Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
• File Size : 40,9 Mb
• Release Date : 05 September 2023

"A series which is a model of its kind" Edmund King This year's volume is made up of articles that were presented at the conference in Bonn, held under the

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 29 April 1885

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 20,6 Mb
• Release Date : 20 March 2014

A 'museum of literary odds and ends', this classic work of 1870 elucidates the etymology of 20,000 words and phrases.