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Copyright in the Renaissance
This richly documented study of copyright in sixteenth-century Venice and Rome provides valuable new information about the "privilegio" and the printers, engravers, painters, mapmakers, and others who used it to protect their commercial interests in various types of printed images.
Earth Mysteries: The Toots
Presents information about the Toots, an ancient long barrow located in Gloucestershire, England. Notes that the Toots is a large mound, measuring 210 feet long, 90 feet wide, and 11 feet high. Includes information about the composition of the Toots. Links to sites related to megalithic sites and mounds and the home page of Earth Mysteries.
Print Publishing in Sixteenth-century Rome
This volume brings formal coherence to the overwhelming mass of prints published in 16th century Rome. The aim is to provide an overview of who was publishing what prints and when over the course of the period.
Eye and Art in Ancient Greece
Eye and Art in Ancient Greece examines the art of ancient Greece through reconstructions of how the Greeks saw and understood the products of their own visual culture. The material is approached using a newly developed methodology of archaeoaesthetics by which past modes of vision and perception are examined in conjunction with prevailing notions of pleasure and judgement with the purpose of identifying the visual and psychological contexts within which the aesthetics of a culture emerge. Through a wide-ranging examination of ideas found in early written sources, the book examines various key aspects of Greek visual culture, such as continuity and change, nudity, identity, lifelikeness, mime...
Christopher Plantin's Books of Hours: Illustration and Production
An in-depth examination of Plantin's large-scale production of books of hours, comprising a survey of their illustration as well as accounts of the general process by which they were printed. A pioneer study of great interest both from the art-historical and from the bibliographical point of view. Contains inter alia many additions and corrections's to Voet's The Plantin Press.
Earth Mysteries: West Kennet Long Barrow
Presents information about the West Kennet Long Barrow, an ancient mound located near Avebury, in Wiltshire, England. Offers access to photographic images. Notes that the Barrow originally consisted of a trapezoid mound 330 feet long. Explains that human remains were discovered during excavation at the site. Links to the home page of Earth Mysteries.
Earth Mysteries: Stonehenge
Features information on Stonehenge, a megalithic ruin in southern England. Notes that Stonehenge is not a single structure but consists of a series of earth, timber, and stone structures that were revised and remodeled over a period of more than 2,000 years. Includes photographs and drawings of the site and discusses its construction. Examines attempts to reconstruct Stonehenge, the links between Stonehenge and the Druids, and archaeoastronomy at Stonehenge. Offers access to other Web sites related to Stonehenge.
Copyright in the Renaissance: Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome
This richly documented study of copyright in sixteenth-century Venice and Rome provides valuable new information about the privilegio and the printers, engravers, painters, mapmakers, and others who used it to protect their commercial interests in various types of printed images.
Mary Magdalene in Medieval Culture
This innovative and multidisciplinary collection visits representations and interpretations of Mary Magdalene in the medieval and early modern periods, questioning major scholarly assumptions behind the examination of female saints and their depictions in medieval artworks, literature, and music. Mary Magdalene’s many and various characterizations from reformed prostitute to conversion-figure to devotee of Christ to "apostle to the apostles" to spiritual advisor to the Prince of Marseilles to hermit in the desert, to list just a few examples, mean that the many conflicted representations of Mary Magdalene apply to a staggering variety of cultural material, including art, liturgy, music, li...
