Art & design styles: Classicism books

63 books were found.

Classicism of the Twenties: Art, Music, and Literature

Classicism of the Twenties: Art, Music, and Literature...

Author: Theodore Ziolkowski
ISBN: 9780226183985
Format: Hardback
$79.95

The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of...  Read More >>

The Legacy of Antiquity: New Perspectives in the Reception of the Classical World

The Legacy of Antiquity: New Perspectives in the Reception...

Author: Lenia Kouneni
ISBN: 9781443852494
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Recent years have seen an increase of interest in classicism and the reception and survival of antiquity.  Read More >>

Why Did God Create Man?

Why Did God Create Man?

Author: Ulung Awng Ja
ISBN: 9781632692467
Format: Paperback
$39.57

HOW WONDERFULLY PRIVILEGED YOU ARE. YOU HAVE BEEN CREATED BY GOD, AND ONLY GOD. Contrary to popular belief, all...  Read More >>

Buen Gusto and Classicism in the Visual Cultures of Latin America, 1780-1910

Buen Gusto and Classicism in the Visual Cultures of...

Author: Paul B. Niell ,  Stacie G. Widdifield
ISBN: 9780826353764
Format: Hardback
$171.60

The promotion of classicism in the visual arts in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Latin America and the need...  Read More >>

Andreas Cellarius. Harmonia Macrocosmica

Andreas Cellarius. Harmonia Macrocosmica

Author: Robert Van Gent
ISBN: 9783836535977
Format: Hardback
$79.95

A collection of celestial maps by Dutch-German mathematician and cosmographer Andreas Cellarius (c 1596 - 1665)...  Read More >>

Winckelmann's  Philosophy of Art: A Prelude to German Classicism

Winckelmann's Philosophy of Art: A Prelude to German...

Author: John Harry North
ISBN: 9781443840040
Format: Hardback
$116.41

It is the aim of this work to examine the pivotal role of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) as a judge of classical...  Read More >>

Atlas Maior of 1665

Atlas Maior of 1665

Author: Joan Blaeu ,  Peter C. J. van der Krogt
ISBN: 9783836524117
Format: Hardback
$184.77

The finest and most comprehensive baroque atlas was Joan Blaeu's exceptional Atlas Maior , completed in 1665. This...  Read More >>

The Classical Ideal: English Silver, 1760-1840

The Classical Ideal: English Silver, 1760-1840

Author: Christopher Hartop
ISBN: 9780952432296
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Accompanying the first-ever exhibition devoted to English neo-classical silver and held in 2010, this book brings...  Read More >>

Reconstructing the Body: Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War

Reconstructing the Body: Classicism, Modernism, and...

Author: Ana Carden-Coyne (Co-Director, Centre for the Cultural History of War, University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9780199546466
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Carden-Coyne investigates the cultural response to the horrors of the First World War in America, Britain, and Australia....  Read More >>

Nicolas Poussin Basic Art

Nicolas Poussin Basic Art

Author: Henry Keazor
ISBN: 9783822853221
Format: Paperback
$26.37

French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) spent his life in Rome turning out works that fused the features of Renaissance...  Read More >>

David after David: Essays on the Later Work

David after David: Essays on the Later Work

Author: Mark Ledbury ,  Valerie Bajou
ISBN: 9780300121513
Format: Hardback
$82.95

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Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britiain Fascicule 23, Reading Museum Service (Reading Borough Council)

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britiain Fascicule...

Author: Amy C. Smith (Senior Lecturer, Department of Classics, University of Reading)
ISBN: 9780197263891
Format: Hardback
$155.25

This catalogue completes the publication of the ancient Greek and Etruscan vases in the collection of the Reading...  Read More >>

Visualizing the Revolution: Politics and Pictorial Arts in Late Eighteenth-century France

Visualizing the Revolution: Politics and Pictorial Arts...

Author: Hubertus Kohle ,  Hubertus Kohle
ISBN: 9781861893123
Format: Hardback
$118.80

The French Revolution was marked by a wealth of imagery and visual symbolism that inspired the masses to fight for...  Read More >>

Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830

Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution...

Author: Sebastien Allard ,  Robert Rosenblum
ISBN: 9781903973233
Format: Hardback
$224.40

An illustrated catalogue that includes an incisive series of essays that explore portraiture in Europe and North...  Read More >>

Ingres Basic Art

Ingres Basic Art

Author: Karin H. Grimme
ISBN: 9783822853146
Format: Paperback
$26.37

French Neoclassical painter, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was one of the 19th century's major portrait and historical...  Read More >>

Fabricating the Antique: Neoclassicism in Britain, 1760-1800

Fabricating the Antique: Neoclassicism in Britain, 1760-1800...

Author: Viccy Coltman
ISBN: 9780226113968
Format: Hardback
$122.95

Between 1760 and 1800, British aristocrats became preoccupied with the acquisition of ancient Greek and Roman artifacts...  Read More >>

Haspels Addenda: Additional References to C. H. E. Haspels, Attic Black-figured Lekythoi

Haspels Addenda: Additional References to C. H. E. Haspels,...

Author: T. Mannack (, Faculty Research Associate, Beazley Archive, Ashmolean Museum)
ISBN: 9780197263150
Format: Hardback
$70.95

Records references to illustrations in books and periodicals received by the Sackler Library of the more than 1,500...  Read More >>

Anatomy of the Horse

Anatomy of the Horse

Author: George Stubbs
ISBN: 9781843680031
Format: Paperback
$38.79

George Stubbs (1724-1806) was one of the most original artists Britain has produced. He produced the drawings for...  Read More >>

A Memoir of George Stubbs

A Memoir of George Stubbs

Author: Ozias Humphry ,  Joseph Mayer
ISBN: 9781843680024
Format: Paperback
$25.85

This title is an essential introduction to Stubbs by a friend and fellow painter, reprinted for the first time....  Read More >>

Greek Mythography in the Roman World

Greek Mythography in the Roman World

Author: Alan Cameron (Charles Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, Charles Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780195171211
Format: Hardback
$271.00

This title illustrates the importance of semi-learned mythographic handbooks in the social, literary, and artistic...  Read More >>

Vasemania: Neoclassical Form and Ornament in Europe: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vasemania: Neoclassical Form and Ornament in Europe:...

Author: Stefanie Walker ,  Stefanie Walker (Special Exhibitions Curator, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in Decorative Arts, Design and Culture)
ISBN: 9780300099348
Format: Hardback
$118.80

When the ancient sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii were excavated in the eighteenth century, the objects found there...  Read More >>

Empire

Empire

Author: Fritz Von der Schulenburg ,  "Madelaine Deschamps (Teacher of Art History, Louvre, Paris, France and Editor at ""Editions Flammarion"")"
ISBN: 9781558590328
Format: Hardback
$150.00

This volume provides a significant general presentation of the French Empire style and its profound impact on Europe...  Read More >>

Critical Perspectives on Classicism in Japanese Painting, 1600-1700

Critical Perspectives on Classicism in Japanese Painting,...

Author: Elizabeth Lillehoj
ISBN: 9780824826994
Format: Hardback
$97.68

"In considering questions such as ""how did 17th-century artists and patrons imagine the past?"" and ""why did they...  Read More >>

Allan Ramsay and the Search for Horace's Villa

Allan Ramsay and the Search for Horace's Villa

Author: Bernard D. Frischer ,  Iain Gordon Brown
ISBN: 9780754600046
Format: Hardback
$369.60

"This volume contains Allan Ramsay's ""Enquiry into the Situation and Circumstances of Horace's Sabine Villa""....  Read More >>

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