Andrea Gilroy 
Art Therapy Research in Practice [PDF ebook] 

When did drawing become an integral part of architecture? Among several architects and artists who brought about this change during the Renaissance, Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s ideas on drawing re …

Can You Keep Your Readers Riveted by Your Storytelling? Some years ago I heard Miss Shedlock tell stories in England. Her fine sense of literary and dramatic values, her power in sympathetic interpre …

Musica ficta is the practice of sharpening or flattening certain notes to avoid awkward intervals in medieval and Renaissance music. This collection gathers Margaret Bent“s influential writings on t …

Public Value speaks to our time – to the role that museums can play in creating civil societies, to the challenges involved in using limited assets strategically, to the demand for results that make …

Katya Mandoki advances in this book the thesis that it is not only possible but crucial to open up the field of aesthetics (traditionally confined to the study of art and beauty) toward the richness …

Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656), a major figure of the Golden Age of British music, was arguably the greatest of all Welsh-born composers. Living through one of the most revolutionary periods in British h …

The Sister Chapel (1974-78) was an important collaborative installation that materialized at the height of the women‘s art movement. Conceived as a nonhierarchical, secular commemoration of female ro …

The tercentenary of Marc-Antoine Charpentier“s death in 2004 stimulated a surge of activity on the part of performers and scholars, confirming the modern assessment of Charpentier (1643-1704) as one …

Siena is often referred to as the “City of the Virgin“ and the “City of the Palio“. The special devotion of the Sienese to the Virgin began in the thirteenth century and in times of danger the Si …

After the Roman empire fell, medieval Europe continued to be fascinated by Rome itself, the “chief of cities“. Once the hub of empire, in the early medieval period Rome became an important centre f …