My Laocoön
Title | My Laocoön PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Brilliant |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2000-05-31 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520216822 |
Several Laocoons are identified in this study: the alleged lost "Greek original"; the extant marbles sculpted in the first century; the sixteenth-century restoration and its affect; the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century topos of critical judgment; and the twentieth-century re-restored artifact of ancient art.
My Laocoön
Title | My Laocoön PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Brilliant |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2000-05-31 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520216822 |
Several Laocoons are identified in this study: the alleged lost "Greek original"; the extant marbles sculpted in the first century; the sixteenth-century restoration and its affect; the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century topos of critical judgment; and the twentieth-century re-restored artifact of ancient art.
Laocoon
Title | Laocoon PDF eBook |
Author | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
Publisher | |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | Aesthetics |
ISBN |
Laocoon
Title | Laocoon PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Phillimore |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2023-09-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3368835777 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Life of Goethe. From His Autobiographical Papers and the Contributions of His Contemporaries
Title | Life of Goethe. From His Autobiographical Papers and the Contributions of His Contemporaries PDF eBook |
Author | Henry C. BROWNING (pseud. [i.e. Anna Cora Mowatt, afterwards Ritchie.]) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1844 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
Title | Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Beard |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2013-09-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0871407477 |
A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, this is “the perfect introduction to classical studies, and deserves to become something of a standard work” (Observer). Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also the common people—the millions of inhabitants of the Roman Empire, the slaves, soldiers, and women. How did they live? Where did they go if their marriage was in trouble or if they were broke? Or, perhaps just as important, how did they clean their teeth? Effortlessly combining the epic with the quotidian, Beard forces us along the way to reexamine so many of the assumptions we held as gospel—not the least of them the perception that the Emperor Caligula was bonkers or Nero a monster. With capacious wit and verve, Beard demonstrates that, far from being carved in marble, the classical world is still very much alive.
Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image
Title | Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image PDF eBook |
Author | Rose Marie San Juan |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2022-11-28 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0271094141 |
Nothing excited early modern anatomists more than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, Andreas Vesalius boasts that he was able to feel life itself through the membranes of a heart belonging to a man who had just been executed, a comment that appears near the woodcut of a person being dissected while still hanging from the gallows. In this highly original book, Rose Marie San Juan confronts the question of violence in the making of the early modern anatomical image. Engaging the ways in which power operated in early modern anatomical images in Europe and, to a lesser extent, its colonies, San Juan examines literal violence upon bodies in a range of civic, religious, pedagogical, and “exploratory” contexts. She then works through the question of how bodies were thought to be constituted—systemic or piecemeal, singular or collective—and how gender determines this question of constitution. In confronting the issue of violence in the making of the anatomical image, San Juan explores not only how violence transformed the body into a powerful and troubling double but also how this kind of body permeated attempts to produce knowledge about the world at large. Provocative and challenging, this book will be of significant interest to scholars across fields in early modern studies, including art history and visual culture, science, and medicine.