Storia dell’arte

How are love and emotion embodied in material form? Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing how objects can function as fetishes, symbols and representations, active …

Since the publication of Edward Said”s groundbreaking work Orientalism 35 years ago, numerous studies have explored the West”s fraught and enduring fascination with the so-called Orient. Focusing …

In history, this grand arterial 1500-mile waterway was always seen as the natural frontier between the northern provinces of the Iranian empires and the outer Turanian lands. It was for centuries …

"Holland" is a historical novel written by Thomas Colley Grattan. The novel, set against the backdrop of the 16th-century Dutch War of Independence, provides a vivid and dramatic picture of …

The main themes of this volume are the identification of ”visions”, ”messages”, and ”meanings” in various facets of Byzantine culture and the possible differences in the perception of these …

This book examines the development of national emblems, photographic portraiture, oil painting, world expositions, modern spaces for art exhibitions, university programs of visual arts, and other age …

"The Old Merchant Marine, " by Ralph D. Paine, is a fascinating and in-depth look at the crucial role that American merchant ships and seafarers played in establishing the country’s early …

First published in 1994. The term ”Canopic”, as applied to the containers employed by the Egyptians to contain the embalmed internal organs of the deceased, derives from a case of mistaken …

A John Heskett Reader brings together a selection of the celebrated design historian John Heskett”s key works, introduced and edited by Clive Dilnot of Parsons, the New School, USA. Heskett, who …

Maris Boyd Gillette”s groundbreaking study tells the story of Jingdezhen, China”s porcelain capital, from its origins in 1004 in Song dynasty China to the present day. Gillette explores how …