An Obscure Portrait
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An Obscure Portrait
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Author : Mati Meyer
language : en
Publisher: Pindar Press
Release Date : 2007-12-31
An Obscure Portrait written by Mati Meyer and has been published by Pindar Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-31 with Art categories.
Recent discussions on Byzantine art have been dominated by the question of representing realia. Among these, however, the way works of art reflect the daily life of women have not received much space or attention. The present book studies various images representing women's status and her performative tasks, and their significance from the fourth century to the fall of the Empire, through analysis of archaeological evidence and works of art. It addresses a wide range of questions, some pertaining both to pictorial traditions and to their late antique antecedents, others peculiar to changing and evolving Byzantine culture and mentality. The first chapter deals with the imagery of childbearing, starting with conception and concluding with the care given to the new born and the mother. The second chapter investigates motherhood imagery (breastfeeding, child care, and child-mother intimacy) and the portrayal of women as caretakers and managers of the household (preparing food, bringing water, carding and weaving, or working side by side with their husbands). The third chapter is dedicated to representations of women holding positions outside the house: midwives, maidservants, wet nurses, and mourners. Images of women engaged in disreputable occupations-dancers, musicians, prostitutes and courtesans - complete this chapter. The fourth chapter discusses images of women portrayed in the metaphorical margins - looking out from the gynaikon (the women's apartments), or at their private toilette; it also deals with representations of women who stray from the societal mainstream - concubines; adulteresses, women consenting to sexual acts or being coerced into them - considered symbolically as belonging to the margins of society. The book concludes with a discussion of the degree to which the visual material reliably reflects reality and changing attitudes toward women between Late Antiquity and late Byzantium; and further, to what extent it reveals embedded perceptions and conceptions of women, constructed by canonic regulations and imperial law, popular beliefs and accepted customs. The book aims to lift a veil from known and less known works of art and to present the rarely described picture of the daily life of women in Byzantine art over a very wide chronological span of time, in an effort to expand our knowledge of women in Byzantium and their realia.
Great Portraits As Seen And Described By Great Writers
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Author : Esther Singleton
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-02
Great Portraits As Seen And Described By Great Writers written by Esther Singleton and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-02 with Art categories.
Excerpt from Great Portraits as Seen and Described by Great Writers It is hard for us in this day of photographs to realize what portrait-painting meant to the world even as late as a century ago. The only way to record the features and figure was by means of pencil or brush; hence the art of portraiture became a most important and lucrative branch of painting. The greatest masters excelled in it, and some of them are remembered chiefly, if not solely, by their portraits. It is impossible within the limits of a small volume adequately to represent all of the great masters of portraiture; but I have endeavoured to present as many styles of treatment and varieties of subject as possible, besides including certain portraits of renown. The book will, therefore, offer many interesting points of study; for many of the selections describe the canvas briefly and dwell at length upon the artist's method of work and his peculiarities of touch and treatment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Picture Amateur S Handbook And Dictionary Of Painters By Philippe Daryl
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Author : Philippe Daryl
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
The Picture Amateur S Handbook And Dictionary Of Painters By Philippe Daryl written by Philippe Daryl and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with categories.
Catalogue Of An Unusual Collection Of Books And Pamphlets Relating To The Rebellion And Slavery
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Author : Francis Perego Harper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Catalogue Of An Unusual Collection Of Books And Pamphlets Relating To The Rebellion And Slavery written by Francis Perego Harper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Books categories.
The Picture Amateur S Handbook And Dictionary Of Painters
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Author : Paschal Grousset
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
The Picture Amateur S Handbook And Dictionary Of Painters written by Paschal Grousset and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Painters categories.
Physiognomical Portraits One Hundred Distinguished Characters From Undoubted Originals With Memoirs Eng And Fr
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Author : Edward WALMSLEY
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1824
Physiognomical Portraits One Hundred Distinguished Characters From Undoubted Originals With Memoirs Eng And Fr written by Edward WALMSLEY and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1824 with categories.
Loan Exhibition Of Historical Portraits
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Author : Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
Loan Exhibition Of Historical Portraits written by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Portraits categories.
Historical Portraits Dec 1 1887 Jan 15 1888
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Author : Charles Henry Hart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
Historical Portraits Dec 1 1887 Jan 15 1888 written by Charles Henry Hart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with categories.
Narrative Mourning
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Author : Kathleen M. Oliver
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-17
Narrative Mourning written by Kathleen M. Oliver and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Narrative Mourning explores death and its relics as they appear within the confines of the eighteenth-century British novel. It argues that the cultural disappearance of the dead/dying body and the introduction of consciousness as humanity’s newfound soul found expression in fictional representations of the relic (object) or relict (person). In the six novels examined in this monograph—Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison; Sarah Fielding's David Simple and Volume the Last; Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling; and Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho—the appearance of the relic/relict signals narrative mourning and expresses (often obliquely) changing cultural attitudes toward the dead. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
The Strange And Deadly Portraits Of Bryony Gray
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Author : E. Latimer
language : en
Publisher: Tundra Books
Release Date : 2020-04-07
The Strange And Deadly Portraits Of Bryony Gray written by E. Latimer and has been published by Tundra Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-07 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Lemony Snicket meets Oscar Wilde meets Edgar Allan Poe in this exciting and scary middle-grade novel inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray -- a family curse is unleashed! Bryony Gray is becoming famous as a painter in London art circles. But life isn't so grand. Her uncle keeps her locked in the attic, forcing her to paint for his rich clients . . . and now her paintings are taking on a life of their own, and customers are going missing under mysterious circumstances. When her newest painting escapes the canvas and rampages through the streets of London, Bryony digs into her family history, discovering some rather scandalous secrets her uncle has been keeping, including a deadly curse she's inherited from her missing father. Bryony has accidentally unleashed the Gray family curse, and it's spreading fast. With a little help from the strange-but-beautiful girl next door and her paranoid brother, Bryony sets out to break the curse, dodging bloodthirsty paintings, angry mobs and her wicked uncle along the way.