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Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Two volumes, including works by the three foremost seventeenth-century Flemish artists{u2014}Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens{u2014}as well as works by their contemporaries. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Bilder der Liebe
Der Liebesdiskurs der Frühen Neuzeit nimmt eine wichtige Position in zahlreichen literarischen und künstlerischen Werken ein. Dabei werden zentrale Fragestellungen der Gesellschaft verhandelt: das Verhältnis zwischen den Geschlechtern, zwischen Privatem und Öffentlichem und zwischen den gesellschaftlichen Institutionen. Für die vielfältigen Liebesmodelle - wie zum Beispiel Ehe, Konkubinat und homoerotische Beziehungen - lassen sich differenzierte künstlerische Repräsentationsformen finden. Die Beiträge in diesem Band zeigen: Illegitimes Begehren wird mitunter in ambivalenten Ikonographien verborgen und kann zwischen mehreren Bedeutungshorizonten oszillieren.
The Sword and the Stylus
The all-too-frequent disregard of historical and social contexts by many wisdom scholars often leads to the distortion of this literature and transforms its teachings into abstract ideas lacking any incarnation in the social and historical world of human living. Leo Perdue here argues from a sociohistorical approach that the proper understanding of ancient wisdom literature requires one to move out of the realm of philosophical idealism into the flesh and blood of human history. Arguing that wisdom was international in practice and outlook, Perdue traces the interaction between both ruling and subject nations and their sages who produced their respective cultures and their foundational worldviews. While not always easy to reconstruct, he acknowledges, the historical and social settings of texts provide necessary contexts for interpretation and engagement by later readers and hearers. Wisdom texts did not transcend their life settings to espouse values regardless of time and circumstance. Rather, they are located in a variety of historical events in an evolving nation, reflecting a vast array of different and changing moral systems, epistemologies, and religious understandings.
Art of the Royal Court
"In the royal and princely courts of Europe, artworks made of multicolored semiprecious stones were passionately coveted objects. Known as pietre dure, or hardstones, this type of artistic expression includes?paintings in stone,? which were composed of intricately cut separate pieces that were made into magnificent tabetops, cabinets, and wall decorations. Other works included vessels and ornaments carved with virtuosic skill from a single piece of rare and brilliant lapis lazuli, chalcedony, jasper, or similarly prized substance; exquisite objects such as boxes, clocks, and jewelry; and portraits of nobles sculpted in variously colored stones. Derived from ancient Roman decorative stonework...
Friedrich der Grosse
Biografie König Friedrichs II. von Preussen und Darstellung der Zeit des Ancien Regime.
Morgen-Post Wien
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