Art and History
Images and their Meaning
Published on 29. July 1988
Book
Hardback
316 pages
978-0-521-34018-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book was originally published in 1988. Although they pursue divergent lines of analysis, these essays by historians and art historians reveal their mutual appreciation of art as historic evidence shaped by imagination as well as tradition and purpose.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
684 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-34018-2 (9780521340182)
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Content
1. Introduction Theodore K. Rabb and Jonathan Brown; 2. Representing the family Diane Owen Hughes; 3. Papal policy Christoph L. Frommel; 4. Reinventing heroes in Renaissance Italy Randolph Starn; 5. The soldier in Germanic graphic art of the Renaissance J. R. Hale; 6. Philip II and the art of the cityscape Richard L. Kagan; 7. Enemies of flattery Jonathan Brown; 8. The domestication of Majesty Simon Schama; 9. The King of France as collector in the seventeenth century Antoine Schnapper; 10. Picturing the people Raymond Grew; 11. The German Revolution of 1848 and Rethel's Dance of Death Peter Paret; 12. The farmer in the works of William Sidney Mount Elizabeth Johns; 13. Architects in power Barbara Miller Lane.