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Archaeology & Paleontology

Empire Without End Antiquities Collections in Renaissance Rome c.1350-1527

Christian Kathleen Wren

ISBN: HB: 9780300154214, Yale University Press, June 2010
288 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 220 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

In the early fifteenth century, when Romans discovered ancient marble sculptures and inscriptions in the ruins, they often melted them into mortar. A hundred years later, however, antique marbles had assumed their familiar role as works of art displa...

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Ancient World

Empty Bottles of Gentilism Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)

Oakley Francis

ISBN: HB: 9780300155389, Yale University Press, April 2010
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this book – the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thought – Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late...

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Europe

Enlightened Pleasures Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism

Kavanagh Thomas M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140941, Yale University Press, April 2010
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue – a gift to be shared with one's companion, with a reader, or with the public. In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly...

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History of Art

El Greco to Goya Spanish Painting

Carr Dawson W.

ISBN: PB: 9781857094602, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2009
72 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus.

This book presents highlights of the National Gallery's outstanding collection of Spanish painting from the 15th to the 19th century – considered one of the finest outside of Spain. Haunting works by El Greco introduce the Golden Age of the 17th cen...

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Architecture

Elizabethan Architecture Its Rise and Fall, 1540-1640

Girouard Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300093865, Yale University Press, September 2009
288 pp., 30.3x25.5 cm, 300 colour illus.

Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture – not the friendly unassuming architecture of the vernacular but the uniquely strange and exciting buildings put up by the great and powerful, ranging from huge houses to gem-like pavilions and lodges designed fo...

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Fashion

Empire's New Clothes A History of the Russian Fashion Industry (1700-1917)

Ruane Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300141559, Yale University Press, March 2009
256 pp., 27.6x22.6 cm, 50 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.

In 1701, Tsar Peter the Great decreed that all residents of Moscow must abandon their traditional dress and wear European fashion. Those who produced or sold Russian clothing would face "dreadful punishment". Peter's dress decree, part of his drive t...

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History of Art

Endless Forms Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts

Donald Diana, Munro Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780300148268, Yale University Press, February 2009
288 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Charles Darwin has had a profound influence on the fields of biology and natural history. But his ideas also imbued the work of many nineteenth-century artists. The slow process of evolution by "natural selection", the dynamic interplay of life forms...

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Interior Design

Decorative Arts

European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago

Brosens Koenraad, Bertrand Pascal-Francois, Bremer-David Charissa, Cleland Elizabeth, Delmarcel Guy, Forti Grazzini Nello, Mayer Thurman Christa C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300119602, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2008
450 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 200 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

This lavishly illustrated book presents a rich variety of European tapestries from the Art Institute of Chicago. These exquisite tapestries include medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque examples, manufactured at almost all the major centres of productio...

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Photography

Edouard Baldus at the Chateau de la Faloise

Ganz James A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300103526, Yale University Press, March 2008
48 pp., 26x17.7 cm, 30 colour illus.

Edouard Baldus (1813-1889) was the most important French architectural photographer of the mid-nineteenth century. This book offers an in-depth exploration of one of his most intriguing projects – a remarkable series of views of the Chateau de La Fal...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Ecclesiastes

Seow Choon-Leong

ISBN: HB: 9780300139600, Yale University Press, December 2007
448 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Good advice that stands the test of time – those things we all know are true, tips that help us live the good life – we call wisdom. But, one life time is not enough to master the fine art of living. Distilled over centuries, the biblical book of "Ec...

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