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Roman Art
A complete introduction to the rich cultural legacy of Rome through the study of Roman art ... It includes a discussion of the relevance of Rome to the modern world, a short historical overview, and descriptions of forty-five works of art in the Roman collection organized in three thematic sections: Power and Authority in Roman Portraiture; Myth, Religion, and the Afterlife; and Daily Life in Ancient Rome. This resource also provides lesson plans and classroom activities."--Publisher website.
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Ecos pompeyanos: Recepción e influjo de Pompeya y Herculano en España y América Latina.
Esta edición interinstitucional entre la Universidad Externado de Colombia y el Instituto de Historiografía Julio Caro Baroja de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (España) hace parte del proyecto de investigación internacional RIPOMPHEI. En ella se muestran los resultados de las investigaciones adelantadas por el grupo internacional de académicos integrado por especialistas en Arqueología, Filología clásica, Historia e Historia del Arte, procedentes de universidades españolas y americanas (Brasil, Chile, Colombia y México). Este compendio ofrece al lector un abanico de posibilidades para aproximarse a la recepción, la repercusión, el eco social y académico del descubrimiento de Herculano y Pompeya en España e Iberoamérica entre 1738 y 1936 -desde el comienzo de las excavaciones en el siglo XVIII hasta el estallido de la Guerra civil española-. Por la diversidad de enfoques, los diversos estudios de caso y el amplio uso de fuentes, esta edición pretende ser un aporte interdisciplinar a las Ciencias de la Antigüedad hispanoamericanas.
Handbook of Research on Mobility and Computing: Evolving Technologies and Ubiquitous Impacts
Discusses the main issues, challenges, opportunities, and trends related to this explosive range of new developments and applications, in constant evolution, and impacting every organization and society as a whole. This two volume handbook supports post-graduate students, teachers, and researchers, as well as IT professionals and managers.
Ancient Marbles in Naples in the Eighteenth Century
In Ancient Marbles in Naples in the Eighteenth Century Eloisa Dodero aims at documenting the history of numerous private collections formed in Naples during the 18th century, with particular concern for the “Neapolitan marbles” and the circumstances of their dispersal. Research has thus made it possible to formulate a synthesis of the collecting dynamics of Naples in the 18th century, to define the interest of the great European collectors, especially British, in the antiquities of the city and its territory and to draw up a catalogue which for the first time brings together the nucleus of sculptures reported in the Neapolitan collections or coming from irregular excavations, most of which shared the destiny of dispersal, in some cases here traced in definitive fashion.
Consuming Visions
Consuming Visions explores the relationship between cinema and writing in early twentieth-century Brazil, focusing on how the new and foreign medium of film was consumed by a literary society in the throes of modernization. Maite Conde places this relationship in the specific context of turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro, which underwent a radical transformation to a modern global city, becoming a concrete symbol of the country's broader processes of change and modernization. Analyzing an array of literary texts, from journalistic essays and popular women's novels to anarchist treatises and vaudeville plays, the author shows how the writers' encounters with the cinema were consistent with th...
The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity
A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.
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