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Case studies of private art collections recorded during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in Mantua. This work seeks to show how the collectors' taste changed during this period and how these changes are reflected in the collections' display, and also seeks to contribute to the understanding of the original context of works of art in sixteenth and early seventeenth century private houses in a courtly city.
Myanmar en un Estado del sudeste asiático que en 2015 celebró, bajo la atenta mirada de la comunidad internacional, unas elecciones consideradas libres pese a la imposibilidad de votar de ciertas minorías, con lo que culminó un proceso de transición hacia una “democracia vigilada”.En ese Estado pluriétnico, con más de 100 etnias reconocidas oficialmente agrupadas en ocho grandes grupos, muchas de ellas alzadas en armas en distintos momentos desde el acceso a la independencia, un colectivo inicialmente de cerca de 2 millones de personas radicadas en el estado de Rakáin, mayoritariamente de religión musulmana en un país oficialmente budista, ha ido perdiendo a lo largo de las dé...
Organized chonologically, this fascinating source of information on the history of the arts from prehistoric times to the present provides a wealth of knowledge in every field of cultural endeavor: literature--including fiction, poetry, biography, and belles lettres; film and broadcasting; theater and variety; music and dance; and the visual arts.
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Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Screening Hospitality puts gender at the centre of cinematic representations of contemporary transnational Italian identities. It offers an intersectional feminist analysis of the ways in which transnational migration has been represented, understood, and constructed in the contemporary cinema of Italy. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s notion of hospitality and in dialogue with postcolonial and decolonial theory, queer studies, and feminist critiques, the six chapters of the book focus on a series of exemplary fiction films from the last twenty years, which both reflect and shape the nation’s responses to the growing presence of transnation...