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 | | The abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Lee Krasner, Clyfford Still, Helen Frankenthaler and others revolutionized the art world in the 1940s and 1950s and continue to inspire passionate arguments to this day. What were these artists trying to achieve? Who were ... More » Edition year: 2008 Price: 170.00 zł |
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 | | The kings of Aksum formally became Christian during the second quarter of the 4th century, making Ethiopia the second country in the world (after Armenia) officially to adopt the new faith. This landmark book is the first to integrate historical, archaeological, and art-historical evidence to provide ... More » Edition year: 2009 Price: 210.00 zł |
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 | | This important volume describes the extraordinary art created in the second millennium B.C. for royal palaces, temples, and tombs from Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia to Cyprus, Egypt, and the Aegean. Objects of the highest artistry reflect the development of a sophisticated trade network throughout ... More » Edition year: 2008 Price: 240.00 zł |
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Constantine the Great (285?337) played a crucial role in mediating between the pagan, imperial past of the city of Rome, which he conquered in 312, and its future as a Christian capital. In this learned and highly readable book, R. Ross Holloway examines Constantine?s remarkable building program ... More » Edition year: 2004 Price: 129.00 zł |
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 | | By now a classic, it presents in a single volume a coherent overall view of the history and the changing character of Early Christian and Byzantine architecture, from Rome and Milan to North Africa, from Constantinople to Greece and the Balkans, and from Egypt and Jerusalem to the villages and monasteries ... More » Edition year: 1992 Price: 118.00 zł |
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 NEW | | Maya art and hieroglyphs constitute one of the world's most fascinating, visually striking, and complex systems of expression. Most scholarly interpretations of Maya art and culture have emphasized that this ancient civilization was oriented toward inland centres and preoccupied with the blood of royal ... More » Edition year: 2010 Price: 195.00 zł |
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 Bargain | | Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746?1828) spent the last four years of his life living in Bordeaux with other political émigrés from Spain and South America. In those years he created small-scale, intimate pieces, including uncommissioned portraits of friends and family, miniature ... More » Edition year: 2006 Price: 162.00 zł 146.00 zł |
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 | | Jan Lievens (1607-1674) was one of the most fascinating and enigmatic Dutch artists of the seventeenth century. Daring and innovative as a painter, printmaker, and draftsman, he created powerful character studies, genre scenes, landscapes, formal portraits, and religious and allegorical images that ... More » Edition year: 2008 Price: 209.00 zł |
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Focusing not on nature but on landscape?land shaped by human presence?Jackson invites us to see the everyday places of the American countryside and city. This appealing anthology, illustrated with Jackson?s sketches and photographs, brings together his most famous essays, significant but less well ... More » Edition year: 2000 Price: 76.00 zł 66.00 zł |
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 | | Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is renowned as a painter, designer, draftsman, architect, engineer, scientist, and theorist. His work as a sculptor is not commonly acknowledged, and many have argued that Leonardo believed that sculpture was an inferior art form (“of lesser genius than painting”). ... More » Edition year: 2009 Price: 165.00 zł |
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