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A revisionist account of central Italian painting in the period from 1260 to 1370, this work discusses Vasari's account of the "first age" of the Renaissance and the character of the historiographical tradition that arose from that account. The origins of many modern views are considered.

This volume, which grew out of a series of lectures presented at the Smithsonian Institution in 1991, aims to provide a coherent introduction to Byzantine culture with a focus on the interconnected realms of art and religion.

This is an analysis of the form and structure of the 13th-century tomb of St Dominic and an exploration of its meaning to Pisano's contemporaries, as well as its influence on the development of Italian sepulchral art. There is also a brief discussion of the history of the Dominican order.

Exploring the life and times of an oft-overlooked figure in early American art, this title begins with four essays that examine Eichholtz's life and work and concludes with a visual essay that brings together more than 100 colour reproductions of his work.

Coffin traces the unfolding of Ligorio's life from his early years in Naples to his work in Rome and his residency in Ferrara as court antiquarian. In addition to illuminating Ligorio's relationship to his patrons, Coffin sheds light on Ligorio's masterpiece - his famed map of ancient Rome.

This text offers a method for analyzing humanitarian intervention that seeks to resolve conflicts among legal norms by identifying ethical principles embedded in the UN Charter and international law and relating them to a pivotal principle of "unity in diversity".

This book presents the major teachings of Mahayana Buddhism in a precise, dramatic, and even humorous form. For two millennia this Sutra, called the "jewel of the Mahayana Sutras," has enjoyed immense popularity among Mahayana Buddhists in India, central and southeast Asia, Japan, and especially China, where its incidents were the basis for a style in art and literature prevalent during several centuries. Robert Thurman's translation makes available in relatively nontechnical English the Tibetan version of this key Buddhist scripture, previously known to the English-speaking world only through translations from Chinese texts. The Tibetan version is generally conceded to be more faithful to the original Sanskrit than are the Chinese texts. The Tibetan version also is clearer, richer, and more precise in its philosophical and psychological expression. The twelve books of the Sutra are accompanied by an introduction and an epilogue by Dr. Thurman and by three glossaries: Sanskrit terms, numerical categories, and technical terms.

A collection of essays in philosophical thinking about music. Topics covered include musical representation, the expression of feeling in music, and musical understanding and composition. The approaches used are philosophical, historical, social, political, feminist and ethnomusicological.

A biography of Bernini, that offers important insights into contemporary perceptions of the artist, the motivations of its author, and the nature of literary biography in seventeenth-century Italy.

While a reporter at Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, James Redpath developed a strong curiosity about slavery and decided that he would travel south ""to see slavery with my own eyes."" Redpath interviewed slaves, recorded their opinions, and collected these letters into book form, publishing them in 1859 as The Roving Editor. While some historians over the years have utilized Redpath's book, many have treated it as merely another travel account of the antebellum South, dismissing the interviews as the fabrication of a radical abolitionist. John R. McKivigan has uncovered important historical records that certify for the first time the authenticity of Redpath's interviews; he presents here the original newspaper articles that supply the places and times of many of the slave encounters, which Redpath had edited out of the book. Furthermore, using Redpath's unpublished correspondence, McKivigan verifies his residence in southern communities at the times these interviews were reported to have taken place, making The Roving Editor one of the most valuable and compelling sources of the slaves' own testimony regarding their treatment in the late antebellum period.

This is a collection of documents covering all aspects of slavery in Brazil, from its beginnings in Portugal and Africa in the 15th century to its abolition in 1888.

A painter, sculptor and printmaker, Honore Daumier (1808-1879) was one of the most prolific and important artists of 19th-century France. This text, which accompanied an exhibition of prints from the collection of Egon and Belle Gartenberg, focuses on Daumier's records of the musical life of Paris.

The essays in this anthology explore the full spectrum of Plato's philosopy and represent a variety of perspectives in feminist criticism. The essays include discussions of Plato's social and political theory, the place of women in the state and feminism within Plato's metaphysics and epistemology.

Red Grooms is a cross between Marcel Duchamp and P.T. Barnum. Working in a brash, freewheeling style, he has explored the raucous spectacle of life around him since his career began in the 1950s. This catalogue brings together 40 of his works to demonstrate that even his most whimsical creations.

This translation shows that "The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry" contains much that is original to the author. As a military manual it provides details about the strategy, tactics and technology of mediaeval warfare and is an important source for early gunpowder weapon technology.

The Nazis' use and misuse of Nietzsche is well known. Communists also used and misused Nietzsche, labelling Nietzsche the "philosopher of fascism," while appropriating his ideas. Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal excavates the trail of long-obscured Nietzschean ideas that became a vital ingredient of Bolshevism and Stalinism.