Florence & Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science (Belting Hans)(Pevná vazba)

Florence & Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science (Belting Hans)(Pevná vazba)

The use of perspective in Renaissance painting caused a revolution in the history of seeing, allowing artists to depict the world from a spectator's point of view. But the theory of perspective that changed the course of Western art originated elsewhere-it was formulated in Baghdad by the

New History of Italian Renaissance Art (Campbell Stephen J.)(Pevná vazba)

A new edition of Campbell and Cole's acclaimed survey of Italian Renaissance art, updated to reflect the very latest scholarship and contemporary

The Black Art Renaissance: African Sculpture and Modernism Across Continents (Cohen Joshua I.)(Pevná vazba)

Reading African art's impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, The 'Black Art' Renaissance tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements with canonical African sculpture by European, African American, and sub-Saharan African artists and theorists. Notwithstanding its occurrence during

Art of the Middle East (Eigner Saeb)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive guide to modern and contemporary art of the Middle East and Arab world since 1945. Includes more than 500 colour illustrations, a guide to Arabic script and biographies of the 200-plus featured

Science and Art: The Painted Surface (Sgamellotti Antonio)(Pevná vazba)

Science and art are increasingly interconnected in the activities of the study and conservation of works of art. Science plays a key role in cultural heritage, from developing new analytical techniques for studying the art, to investigating new ways of preserving the materials for the future. For

Renaissance Realm: The Art of Olga Suvorova (Fishel Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Sapira's Art & Science of Bedside Diagnosis (Orient Jane)(Pevná vazba)

Essential reading for beginning and experienced clinicians alike, Sapira's Art & Science of Bedside Diagnosis, Fifth Edition, discusses the patient interview and the physical examination in an engaging, storytelling style. Tried and true methods are described in step-by-step detail, and include

Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence (Butterfield Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

A comprehensive survey of the work of this most influential Florentine artist and teacher Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435-1488) was one of the most versatile and inventive artists of the Italian Renaissance. He created art across media, from his spectacular sculptures and paintings to his work in

Botticelli (Zollner Frank)(Pevná vazba)

Now available in a new edition, this celebration of the life and art of the Renaissance genius presents Sandro Botticelli's complete paintings and offers a comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date study of his work. Botticelli is one of the most admired artists of the Renaissance period and his

Advances in Life Sciences(Pevná vazba)

Provides state-of-the-art information and highlights the current developments in life sciences. This text encompasses topics on viruses to crop plants, comprising seventeen reviews and six original articles. For the benefit of graduate and postgraduate students and researchers, a chapter on the use

Polaroid Project - At the Intersection of Art and Technology (Ewing William A.)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive illustrated publication on the art and science of

Cityscape: Where Science and Art Meet (Sayre April Pulley)(Pevná vazba)

Triangles and towers. Bricks and blocks. Engineering and art. A city has all those--and more Acclaimed author and photographer April Pulley Sayre explores the basic STEAM concepts that are always just around the corner with striking photographs and a lyrical, layered text. Cityscape celebrates

Donatello and the Dawn of Renaissance Art (Coonin A. Victor)(Pevná vazba)

The Italian sculptor known as Donatello helped to forge a new kind of art--one that came to define the Renaissance. His work was progressive, challenging, and even controversial. Using a variety of novel sculptural techniques and innovative interpretations, Donatello uniquely depicted themes

Italian Renaissance Courts: Art, Pleasure and Power (Cole Alison)(Pevná vazba)

In this fascinating study, Alison Cole explores the distinctive uses of art at the five great secular courts of Naples, Urbino, Ferrara, Mantua, and Milan. The princes who ruled these city-states, vying with each other and with the great European courts, relied on artistic patronage to promote

Hans Holbein: The Artist in a Changing World (Nuechterlein Jeanne)(Pevná vazba)

Immensely skillful and inventive, Hans Holbein molded his approach to art-making during a period of dramatic transformation in European society and culture: the emergence of humanism, the impact of the Reformation on religious life, and the effects of new scientific discoveries. Most people have

From Commodification to the Common Good: Reconstructing Science, Technology, and Society (Radder Hans)(Pevná vazba)

The commodification of science--often identified with commercialization, or the selling of expertise and research results and the 'capitalization of knowledge' in academia and beyond--has been investigated as a threat to the autonomy of science and academic culture and criticized for undermining

Renaissance and Baroque Art: Selected Essays (Steinberg Leo)(Pevná vazba)

Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures ranging from old masters to contemporary art, he combined scholarly erudition with an

Modernist Bread (Myhrvold Nathan)(Pevná vazba)

Modernist Bread: The Art and Science is a revolutionary new understanding of one of the most important staples of the human diet. Created by the team that published the award-winning Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, this massive treasury of practical knowledge and groundbreaking

True Enough (Elgin Catherine Z.)(Pevná vazba)

The development of an epistemology that explains how science and art embody and convey understanding.Philosophy valorizes truth, holding that there can never be epistemically good reasons to accept a known falsehood, or to accept modes of justification that are not truth conducive. How can this

Wit's Treasury: Renaissance England and the Classics (Orgel Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

As England entered the Renaissance and as humanism, with its focus on classical literature and philosophy, informed the educational system, English intellectuals engaged in a concerted effort to remake the culture, language, manners--indeed, the whole national style--through adapting the classics

Arab Political Thought: Past and Present (Corm Georges)(Pevná vazba)

This book demonstrates the vitality of Arab political thought and its major controversies. It shows that the key players involved, far from being constrained by a theological-political straitjacket, have often demonstrated strong critical thinking when tackling religion and philosophy, anthropology

Reviving Arab Reform: Development Challenges and Opportunities (Abdelbary Islam)(Pevná vazba)

Reviving Arab Reform offers a unique consideration of the links between economic, political and social development in the Arab region and offers tangible hope for the future. Islam Abdelbary evaluates the reform programmes in the last three decades in the Middle East North Africa region, and

A Rothschild Renaissance: The Waddesdon Bequest (Thornton Dora)(Pevná vazba)

A beautiful and sumptuously illustrated book presenting the highlights of Renaissance court treasuresThis book presents and explores the Waddesdon Bequest, the name given to the Kunstkammer or cabinet collection of Renaissance treasures which was bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand

Dinosaur Art: The World's Greatest Paleoart (White Steve)(Pevná vazba)

A paleoartist is an illustrator who specialises in the science and art of reconstructing ancient animals and their world. In 'Dinosaur Art,' ten of the top contemporary paleoartists reveal a selection of their work and exclusively discuss their working methods and distinct styles. Filled with