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Civic virtues were central to early modern Nürnberg’s visual culture. These essays explore Nürnberg as a location from which to study the intersection of art and power. The imperial city was awash in emblems, and they informed most aspects of everyday life. The intent of this volume is to focus new attention on the town hall emblems, while simultaneously expanding the purview of emblem studies, moving from strict iconological approaches to collaborations across methodologies and disciplines.
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This book redresses popular interpretations of concealed objects, enigmatically discovered within the fabric of post-medieval buildings. A wide variety of objects have been found up chimneybreasts, bricked up in walls, and concealed within recesses: old shoes, mummified cats, horse skulls, pierced hearts, to name only some. The most common approach to these finds is to apply a one-size-fits-all analysis and label them survivals and apotropaic (evil-averting) devices. This book reconsiders such interpretations, exploring the invention and reinvention of traditions regarding building magic. The title Building Magic therefore refers to more than practices that alter the fabric of buildings, but also to processes of building magic into our interpretations of the enigmatic material evidence and into our engagements with the buildings we inhabit and frequent.
The art of the emblem is a pan-European phenomenon which developed in Western and Central Europe in the early modern period. It adopted meanings and motifs from Antiquity and the Middle Ages as part of a general humanistic impulse. Technological developments in printing that permitted the combination of letterpress with woodblock, and later copperplate, images, ensured that the emblem spread rapidly by way of printed collections. With time, emblematic ideas moved beyond Europe, conveying their insights and wisdom in the compact form of the book. These same books came to influence artists and designers working in the decoration of buildings, furniture, and household items, so that emblems ent...
Annually published since 1930, the International Bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The IBOHS is thus currently the only continuous bibliography of its kind covering such a broad period of time, spectrum of subjects and geographical range. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and alphabetically according to authors names or, in the case of anonymous works, by the characteristic main title word. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
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L'histoire métallique de Louis XIV, ce sont des médailles et c'est un livre publié en 1702 par la dizaine de membres de la Petite Académie, dont les deux historiographes royaux Racine et Boileau. Des savants français, anglo-saxons, italiens et allemands étudient ici cette double histoire royale, ses principes de composition, depuis les premières créations jusqu’à la poétique de l’histoire, en passant par les modèles antiques; ses thématiques, que ce soient les interventions militaires, les ports maritimes ou la mort du roi; sa diffusion, vers les pays proches (Italie, Genève, Lorraine) ou lointains (Siam, Perse, Afrique, Canada); ses imitations, parodies et parallèles, dans la Rome papale comme dans l’Europe du nord. L’analyse a été portée jusqu’aux médailles de Louis XVIII.
DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide Prague will lead you straight to the very best of this historic city. Whether you're looking for a peaceful place to stay, the best events or the tastiest restaurants; this guide is your perfect travel companion. Rely on dozens of Top 10 lists - from the Top 10 beer halls to the Top 10 most haunted buildings, Top 10 shops and Top 10 hotels, there's even a list of the Top 10 things to avoid! The guide is divided by area; Prague Castle & Hradcany; Mala Strana; Josefov; Old Town and New Town. You'll find restaurant reviews for every area, as well as recommendations for luxury hotels, bars and places to shop. You'll also find the insider knowledge every visitor needs to explore every corner of Prague effortlessly in the DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide Prague . DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide Prague - showing you what others only tell you. Now available in epub format.