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Object of Virtue

2004-04-15 Fiction
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Release : 2004-04-15
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Book Synopsis Object of Virtue by : Nicholas B.A. Nicholson

Download or read book Object of Virtue written by Nicholas B.A. Nicholson. This book was released on 2004-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling debut about the power of family and the pain of betrayal set within Manhattan's Fifth Avenue apartments, the opulent mansions of the new Moscow, and the pre-revolutionary palaces of Saint Petersburg. Sasha Ozerovsky is a young expert in Russian art at Leighton's, an exclusive Manhattan auction house. When a dealer arrives from Moscow with an exquisite 1913 Fabergé figurine, Sasha immediately recognizes a rare masterpiece. But in the high stakes art world, the price of an object is tied to its history. If Sasha can determine for whom the bejeweled piece was made and where it has been hiding for the past century, its value -- and Sasha's career -- will soar. But as Sasha moves between New York's high society and Russia's new rich, he discovers that the piece once belonged to his family, and he must face questions about their past that he never dared to ask. Superbly plotted and evoking the elegance of Russia's gilded age, Object of Virtue is an enthralling tale that explores what happens to a family torn between vanity and virtue.

Objects of Virtue

2001 Art
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Release : 2001
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Objects of Virtue by : Luke Syson

Download or read book Objects of Virtue written by Luke Syson. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are what you own. So believed many of the elite men and women of Renaissance Italy. The notion that a person's belongings transmit something about their personal history, status, and "character" was renewed in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Objects of Virtue explores the multiple meanings and values of the objects with which families like the Medici, Este, and Gonzaga surrounded themselves. This lavishly illustrated volume examines the complicated relationships between the so-called "fine arts"--painting and sculpture--and artifacts of other kinds for which artistry might be as important as utility-furniture, jewelry, and vessels made of gold, silver, and bronze, precious and semi-precious stone, glass, and ceramic. The works discussed were designed and made by artists as famous as Andrea Mantegna, Raphael, and Michelangelo, as well as by lesser-known specialists--goldsmiths, gem-engravers, glassmakers, and maiolica painters.

Aquinas on Virtue

2017-09-18 Philosophy
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Release : 2017-09-18
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Aquinas on Virtue by : Nicholas Austin, SJ

Download or read book Aquinas on Virtue written by Nicholas Austin, SJ. This book was released on 2017-09-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aquinas on Virtue: A Causal Reading is an original interpretation of one of the most compelling accounts of virtue in the Western tradition, that of the great theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas (1224–1274). Taking as its starting point Aquinas's neglected definition of virtue in terms of its "causes," this book offers a systematic analysis of Aquinas on the nature, genesis, and role of virtue in human life. Drawing on connections and contrasts between Aquinas and contemporary treatments of virtue, Austin argues that Aquinas’s causal virtue theory retains its normative power today. As well as providing a synoptic account of Aquinas on virtue, the book includes an extended treatment of the cardinal virtue of temperance, an argument for the superiority of Aquinas's concept of "habit" over modern psychological accounts, and a rethinking of the relation between grace and virtue. With an approach that is distinctively theological yet strongly conversant with philosophy, this study will offer specialists a bold new interpretation of Aquinas’s virtue theory while giving students a systematic introduction with suggested readings from his Summa Theologiae and On the Virtues.

Objects of Virtue

1983-01-01
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Release : 1983-01-01
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Book Synopsis Objects of Virtue by : Howard Ricketts

Download or read book Objects of Virtue written by Howard Ricketts. This book was released on 1983-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Intellectual Virtue

2003 Philosophy
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Release : 2003
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Intellectual Virtue by : Michael Raymond DePaul

Download or read book Intellectual Virtue written by Michael Raymond DePaul. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention and there has been considerable interest in virtue epistemology as an alternative to traditional approaches in that field. This book fills a gap in the literature for a text that brings virtue epistemologists and virtue ethicists together."-- Back cover.

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