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Carriage Maker to a King [ the story of carriage makers Ole Sorensen and Christian Klovstad} by BJORN K. HOIE Trots and More Trots (understanding the basic driving gait} by K.M. HANSEN The Man from Lebrija (the story of harness maker Francisco Caro Dorantes} by Ken WHEELING
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
In Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and cultural significance of a crucial image type in the early modern Hispanic world: the sacred portrait. Across early modern Spain and Latin America, people prayed to portraits. They prayed to “true” effigies of saints, to simple portraits that were repainted as devotional objects, and even to images of living sitters depicted as holy figures. Jasienski places these difficult-to-classify image types within their historical context. He shows that rather than being harbingers of secular modernity and autonomous selfhood, portraits were privileged sites for mediating an individual’s relationship to the ...