The Empire of Death

Автор: Jones, Michael (Author), McFadden, Susanna (Author
Название: Art of Empire: The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple
ISBN: 0300169124 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300169126
Издательство: Wiley yUP
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Описание: The Luxor Temple of Amun-Re, built to commemorate the divine power of the pharaohs, is one of the iconic monuments of New Kingdom Egypt. In the 4th century C.E., the Roman Imperial government, capitalizing on the site's earlier significance, converted the temple into a military camp and constructed a lavishly painted cult chamber dedicated to the four emperors of the Tetrarchy. These frescoes provide fascinating insight into the political landscape of the late Roman Empire and, as the only surviving wall paintings from the tetrarchic period, into the history of Roman art. The culmination of a groundbreaking conservation project, this volume brings together scholars across disciplines for a comprehensive look at the frescoes and their architectural, archaeological, and historical contexts. More than 150 stunning illustrations present the paintings for the first time in their newly conserved state, along with a selection of 19th-century documentary watercolors. This remarkable publication illustrates how physical context, iconography, and style were used to convey ideology throughout Rome's provinces.

Название: Architecture of the roman empire vol 1
ISBN: 0300028199 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300028195
Издательство: Wiley yUP
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Описание: Examines Roman architecture as a party of overall urban design and looks at arches, public buildings, tombs, columns, stairs, plazas, and streets.

Автор: Leben, Ulrich
Название: Empire Style
ISBN: 2080202723 ISBN-13(EAN): 9782080202727
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
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Описание: This monograph dedicated to the most spectacular example of Parisian First Empire interior architecture retraces the history of the building and the lives of its residents. The Hotel de Beauharnais, constructed in 1713, gained renown during the Consulate period. In 1803, Josephine Bonaparte acquired the property for her son, Eugene de Beauharnais, and had the building renovated and decorated at great expense. At the fall of the Napoleonic Empire, it was sold to the King of Prussia and became an embassy during the nineteenth century. With its unique Consulate and Empire decor, the palace is an invaluable specimen of Parisian interior architecture.The result of more than ten years of research and restoration work, this book recounts three centuries of European political history through the lives of the Hotel s successive owners."

Автор: Barber Paul
Название: Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality; With a New Preface
ISBN: 0300164815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300164817
Издательство: Wiley yUP
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Описание: Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires. This book offers an explanation for the origins of the vampire legends, from the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires.

Название: Life & Death in Tattoo Flash
ISBN: 0764342053 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780764342059
Издательство: Schiffer
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Описание: Created over the last three winters at the tattoo shop California Tattoo in Savannah, Georgia, this tattoo art story represents a period during the off-season that artist Christopher Norrell uses to hone skills and learn new ways of seeing. In this introspective mood, Norrell has engaged in an ongoing challenge with his craft in which he hates his own work enough to do it over and over until it is right. Thematically this is manifested in a struggle between life and death, good and evil, using images of the Angel of Death, predatory animals, skulls, phoenixes, birds, and flowers. Progress in Norrells struggle is evident throughout the more than 230 pieces of tattoo flash art and looking closely there are distinct changes in style, color theory, and composition, showing things he learned and things he abandoned. All of this exploration is in the name of Norrells ultimate goal to create tattoos that are sturdy, long lasting, easy to understand, and visually appealing. This is an ideal collection of flash for tattooers, the tattooed, and artists.

Автор: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
Название: Nostalgia: The Russian Empire of Czar Nicholas II
ISBN: 3899554396 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783899554397
Издательство: Gestalten
Цена: 55830.00 T
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Описание: In 1909, Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863–1944) set out on a journey to capture all of Russia in color on behalf of Czar Nicholas II. One of the early pioneers of color photography, Prokudin-Gorskii systematically documented the vast empire with the unprecedented technique he had developed—a method in which he used color-sensitive glass plates—decades before the widespread availability of color film. His color images were not only meant to document the diverse citizens, ethnicities, settlements, folklore, and landscapes of a vast empire, but to create nothing less than a common identity for its populace. Prokudin-Gorskii’s know-how and his skilled eye make his images especially vibrant and timeless. A century later, they have not lost any of their original beauty and intensity. Over 250 of these early masterpieces of color photography, which have recently been laboriously restored by the Library of Congress, will be also showcased in the exhibition “Nostalgia”, and shown in Europe for the first time at Gestalten Space. The exhibition is part of the official selection of Berlin displays during the 5th European Month of Photography Festival from October 19th to November 25th, 2012.

Автор: Roberts, Paul
Название: Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum
ISBN: 0714122823 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780714122823
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
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Описание: This captivating book explores the lives of the ordinary people of Pompeii and Herculaneum the two cities on the Bay of Naples that were buried by the catastrophic volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The plaster-cast bodies of the victims are the most vivid shocking reminders of the horrific event that made Pompeii famous, but who were these men, women and children so cruelly frozen in time? Exploring striking new discoveries and over 200 sensational artefacts, the author brings the inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum back to life from the ashes and ruins of their own homes.

Автор: Barreto, Cristina
Название: Napoleon and the Empire of Fashion
ISBN: 8857206505 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788857206509
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
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Описание: Provides a surprising answer to the origins of America`s most durable myth. For the first time, this book links the stories and lives of Abner Graves, a mining engineer, and Adam Ford, a medical doctor, two residents of Denver, Colorado. While the actual origins of the game of baseball are the subject of ongoing debate and study, new light is shed on the source of baseball`s durable creation myth.

Автор: Judah Ben
Название: Fragile Empire
ISBN: 0300181213 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300181210
Издательство: Wiley yUP
Цена: 22000.00 T
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Название: Death: A Picture Album
ISBN: 0957028539 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780957028531
Издательство: Gestalten
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Описание: This book contains 38 carefully selected treasures from a unique collection devoted to our complex and contradictory attitudes towards death. Assembled by Richard Harris, a former antique print dealer from Chicago, the collection (now approaching 2000 objects) is spectacularly diverse, and includes art, historical artefacts, scientific specimens and ephemera from across the world. Rare artists prints are displayed together with anatomical illustrations and sentimental postcards, images of human remains join Renaissance vanitas paintings, and a range of contemporary artworks show that death remains a source of powerful inspiration for many artists working today. A modern-day cabinet of curiosities, this book functions partly as the visual autobiography of one remarkable individual, at the same time providing us with an opportunity to examine our own feelings about mortality. Sometimes disturbing, occasionally macabre and often moving, these images provide a singular insight into the history of our eternal desire to make peace with death.

Автор: Judah Ben
Название: Fragile Empire
ISBN: 0300205228 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300205220
Издательство: Wiley yUP
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Описание: Despite a propaganda programme intent on maintaining the cliche of stability, Putin`s regime was suddenly confronted in December 2011 by a public protest movement that told a different side of the story. The author argues that Putinism has brought economic growth to Russia but also weaker institutions, and this contradiction leads to instability.

Название: Andy Warhol: Celebration of Life & Death Pb
ISBN: 1903278996 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781903278994
Издательство: ACC-distribution titles
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