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  • A Transcultural History of Art

    On Images and Their Doubles

    de Jun Li ...
    Traducido por Rong Ou, Jun Chen, Wei Lin, Xiao Yang ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book unfolds the artistic and cultural exchanges between China, Persia, and Italy, picturing “a Transcultural Renaissance on the Silk Road” with fascinating reading of rich images. The author has been intensely engaged in the transcultural art history for more than a decade, spanning east and west, crossing different fields of painting, architecture, philosophy, cartography and literature. ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

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  • Adriatic

    A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age

    de Robert D. Kaplan ...
    **“[An] elegantly layered exploration of Europe’s past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece.”—The Wall Street Journal“A lovely, personal journey around the Adriatic, in which Robert Kaplan revisits places and peoples he first encountered decades ago.”—Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads**ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New YorkerIn this insightful travelogue, Robert D. Kaplan, ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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  • Matteo Ricci

    A Jesuit in the Ming Court

    de Michela Fontana ...
    Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), the first of the early Jesuit missionaries of the China mission, is widely considered the most outstanding cultural mediator of all time between China and the West. This engrossing and fluid book offers a thorough, knowledgeable biography of this fascinating and influential man, telling a deeply human and captivating story that still resonates today.Michela Fontana traces ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • A Jesuit in the Forbidden City

    Matteo Ricci 1552-1610

    de R. Po-chia Hsia ...
    A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he crossed the cultural divides between China and the West by immersing himself in the language and culture of his hosts. Even 400 years later, he ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The Study

    The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries

    de Andrew Hui ...
    A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo—a “little studio”—and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a remedy ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • On Friendship

    One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince

    de Matteo Ricci ...
    Traducido por Timothy Billings ...
    "On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."-Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also published a landmark text on friendship-the first book to be written in Chinese by a European-that instantly became a late Ming best seller ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500–1800

    de D. E. Mungello ...
    For the Chinese, the drive toward growing political and economic power is part of an ongoing effort to restore China's past greatness and remove the lingering memories of history's humiliations. This widely praised book explores the 1500–1800 period before China's decline, when the country was viewed as a leading world culture and power. Europe, by contrast, was in the early stages of emerging ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning

    de Pamela Sachant, Peggy Blood, Jeffery LeMieux, Rita Tekippe ...
    Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism, and Iconography Connecting Art to Our Lives Form in Architecture Art and Identity Art and Power ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Virgin Mary and Catholic Identities in Chinese History

    de Hong Kong University Press ...
    The Chinese Catholic Church traces its living roots back to the late sixteenth century and its historical roots back even further, to the Yuan dynasty. This book explores paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and the communities that produced them over several centuries. It argues for the emergence of distinctly Chinese Catholic identities as artistic representations of the Virgin Mary, at ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West

    de Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Amilcare Iannucci ...
    Few figures from history evoke such vivid Orientalist associations as Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer whose accounts of the "Far East" sparked literary and cultural imaginations. The essays in Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West challenge what many scholars perceived to be an opposition of "East" and "West" in Polo's writings. These writers argue that Marco Polo's ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange

    de Eiren L. Shea ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    The Mongol period (1206-1368) marked a major turning point of exchange – culturally, politically, and artistically – across Eurasia.The wide-ranging international exchange that occurred during the Mongol period is most apparent visually through the inclusion of Mongol motifs in textile, paintings, ceramics, and metalwork, among other media. Eiren Shea investigates how a group of newly-confederated ... Leer más

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  • Reading Chinese Painting

    Beyond Forms and Colors, A Comparative Approach to Art Appreciation

    de Sophia Suk Law ...
    With fascinating commentary and beautiful artwork this Chinese art history book allows Westerners to better understand traditional Chinese painting. Applying a comparative approach to Chinese and Western art, this art book examines the characteristics of traditional Chinese art and analyses the distinction between figure painting and portraiture. It examines the scenery in Chinese landscape ... Leer más

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