Choice Collection of Books on Painting and Graphic Arts Including a Number of Works on Illuminated Manuscripts and Portrait Miniatures [PDF ebook] 
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Identifying the stage as a primary site for erotic display, these essays take eroticism in Renaissance culture as a paradigm for issues of sexuality and identity in early modern culture. Contributors …

This book is intended to be the primary textbook to support any college who would like to run a Photography 101 course for students. The course is designed to offer tutors an independent learning too …

With the recent advent of technologies that make detecting art forgeries easier, the art world has become increasingly obsessed with verifying and ensuring artistic authenticity. In this unique histo …

Today”s many popular aesthetic pleasures have a very long history. Paul Duncum considers the historical critical discourses, and socio-political issues raised by aesthetic pleasures in fifteen thema …

Raymond Durgnat”s classic study of British films from the 1940s to the 1960s, first published in 1970, remains one of the most important books ever written on British cinema. In his introduction, Ke …

The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe marks the arrival of early modern material culture studies as a vibrant, fully-established field of multi-disciplinary research. The …

Hrotsvitha’s prayers are interrupted by a vision of a woman, Christopher Marie St. John, who is translating her dramas a thousand years into the future. In the vision, Hrotsvitha becomes aware that S …

1980 was an important year for Top of the Pops: it was the year it began to transform from a light entertainment show into essential viewing for pop music aficionados. The transition didn’t happen ov …

Prelude BWV 936 for Easy/Simplified Piano Tadpole Edition A Silver Tonalities Arrangement!Easy Note Style Sheet Music Letter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead! …

The needle arts are traditionally associated with the decorative, domestic, and feminine. Stitching the Self sets out to expand this narrow view, demonstrating how needlework has emerged as an art fo …