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Gwent/Monmouthshire
Gwent/Monmouthshire provides an authoritative and enlightening survey of the area from prehistoric times to the present day. Major buildings include the magnificent medieval castles of Chepstow and Raglan, the evocative ruins...
Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585–1700
This beautifully illustrated book provides a complete overview of the art of the Southern Netherlands from 1585 to 1700. The author examines the development of Flemish and specifically Antwerp painting, the work of Rubens and...
Ars Sacra, 800-1200
The magnificent bronze doors of Hildesheim Cathedral, the ivory, gold, enameled, and bejeweled book covers made to contain superbly illuminated manuscripts, the startling reliquary caskets made in the shape of the part of the...
Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585–1700
This beautifully illustrated book provides a complete overview of the art of the Southern Netherlands from 1585 to 1700, the years between the separation of the Southern from Northern provinces and the end of Spanish...
Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 16
Rasselas and Other Tales
This volume brings together three of Johnson’s longest fictional pieces, showing the unusual similarities in some of their main themes and emphases. Rasselas, a philosophical tale that embodies the full range of...
Art, Design, and Architecture in Central Europe 1890-1920
In this unprecedentedly wide-ranging account of art, design, and architecture in the complex Central Europe of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during its momentous last decades, Elizabeth Clegg achieves a forceful integration of...
A Genius for Money
Business, Art and the Morrisons
How the son of an innkeeper with a flair for making money became the richest commoner in nineteenth-century England, and what he did with his extraordinary success This is the spectacular rags-to-riches...
Michelangelo
An attractive introduction to the drawings by master draftsman Michelangelo Michelangelo (1475–1564) is a giant in the history of art. The versatility of his artistic skill was extraordinarily wide: apart...
The Moscow Yiddish Theater
Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution
A vivid portrait of the Moscow Yiddish Theater and its innovations and contributions to the art of the theater in the modern ageThe Moscow Yiddish Theater (later called GOSET) was born in 1919 and almost...
Russia's Islamic Threat
Why contemporary Russia is a dangerous seedbed for radicalized Islam and what we should be doing about it The notion that the Chechen-led jihad in the North Caucasus is an indigenous affair, far...