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The life and works of a profoundly influential painter of Revolutionary-era France, brought out of the shadow of his outsize contemporary, Jacques-Louis David

A trio of splendid Regency romances from national bestselling author Elizabeth Mansfield A VERY DUTIFUL DAUGHTER Miss Letitia Glendenning has done the unthinkable, turning down a proposal from the most eligible bachelor in England. Why did she do it? The lady has her reasons, and it's up to the dashing lord to find out exactly what they are. THE COUNTERFEIT HUSBAND In order to escape the matchmaking efforts of her late husband's sister, the Co...

A collection of essays which is written by contemporary scholars on the practice and theory of art history as it responds to institutions as diverse as art galleries and museums, publishing houses and universities, school boards and professional organizations, political parties and multinational corporations.

Few tales of artistic triumph can rival the story of Zeuxis. As first reported by Cicero and Pliny, the painter Zeuxis set out to portray Helen of Troy, but when he realized that a single model could not match Helen's beauty, he combined the best features of five different models. A primer on mimesis in art making, the Zeuxis myth also illustrates ambivalence about the ability to rely on nature as a model for ideal form. In Too Beautiful to Pi...

The life and works of a profoundly influential painter of Revolutionary-era France, brought out of the shadow of his outsize contemporary, Jacques-Louis David

Will Barnaby set aside his bachelor ways for a second chance with the girl who broke his heart?

Enjoy two holiday classics from Elizabeth Mansfield, A Sneeze on Tuesday and The Girl with Airs.

Evalyn accepts a holiday invitation from James, but finds herself drawn to his father instead...

This book explains and develops new applications of continuous symmetry groups (Lie groups), in particular, the symbolic manipulation of invariants of group actions. The language used is primarily that of undergraduate calculus. More sophisticated ideas from differential topology and Lie theory are explained from scratch using worked examples and exercises.

Enjoy two holiday classics from Elizabeth Mansfield, A Sneeze on Tuesday and The Girl with Airs.

Will Barnaby set aside his bachelor ways for a second chance with the girl who broke his heart?

Evalyn accepts a holiday invitation from James, but finds herself drawn to his father instead...

Keine Beschreibung.

Few tales of artistic triumph can rival the story of Zeuxis. As first reported by Cicero and Pliny, the painter Zeuxis set out to portray Helen of Troy, but when he realized that a single model could not match Helen's beauty, he combined the best features of five different models. A primer on mimesis in art making, the Zeuxis myth also illustrates ambivalence about the ability to rely on nature as a model for ideal form. In Too Beautiful to Pi...

Art History and Its Institutions focuses on the institutional discourses that shaped and continue to shape the field from its foundations in the nineteenth century. From museums and universities to law courts, labour organizations and photography studios, contributors examine a range of institutions, considering their impact on movements such as modernism, their role in conveying or denying legitimacy, and their impact on defining the paramete...