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The Imperial Image

2012 Art
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Release : 2012
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis The Imperial Image by : Milo Cleveland Beach

Download or read book The Imperial Image written by Milo Cleveland Beach. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books have been treasured for centuries in the Islamic world, as precious objects worthy of royal admiration. This was especially true in Muslim India, where generations of Mughal emperors commissioned and collected volumes of richly illuminated manuscripts and lavishly illustrated folios. They assembled workshops of the leading artists and calligraphers to produce the books that filled their extensive libraries. Today, those works remain a vibrant part of India's cultural and artistic history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In this revised and expanded edition of his popular 1981 book, Dr Milo Beach presents the superb collection of Mughal painting in the Freer Gallery of Art. He adds many of the outstanding works that entered the collection with the opening of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in 1987. Together, the Freer and Sackler Galleries, the Smithsonian's museums of Asian art, have the distinction of being one of the world's leading repositories of Mughal art. An introductory essay examines the Mughal art of the book and traces the contributions of a succession of rulers in Muslim India. Brief artist biographies and an extensive bibliography complete this updated volume.

The Social Dynamics of Roman Imperial Imagery

2020-11-12 Art
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Release : 2020-11-12
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Book Synopsis The Social Dynamics of Roman Imperial Imagery by : Amy Russell

Download or read book The Social Dynamics of Roman Imperial Imagery written by Amy Russell. This book was released on 2020-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how artists and patrons at all social levels helped form and evolve the visual language of the Roman Empire.

Image and Reality of Roman Imperial Power in the Third Century AD

2018-09-03 History
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Release : 2018-09-03
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Image and Reality of Roman Imperial Power in the Third Century AD by : Lukas de Blois

Download or read book Image and Reality of Roman Imperial Power in the Third Century AD written by Lukas de Blois. This book was released on 2018-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Image and Reality of Roman Imperial Power in the Third Century AD focuses on the wide range of available sources of Roman imperial power in the period AD 193-284, ranging from literary and economic texts, to coins and other artefacts. This volume examines the impact of war on the foundations of the economic, political, military, and ideological power of third-century Roman emperors, and the lasting effects of this. This detailed study offers insight into this complex and transformative period in Roman history and will be a valuable resource to any student of Roman imperial power.

Imperial Illusions

2015-01-01 Art
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Release : 2015-01-01
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Book Synopsis Imperial Illusions by : Kristina Kleutghen

Download or read book Imperial Illusions written by Kristina Kleutghen. This book was released on 2015-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used Western perspectival illusionism to transform walls and ceilings with visually striking images that were also deeply meaningful to Qianlong. These unprecedented works not only offer new insights into late imperial China’s most influential emperor, but also reflect one way in which Chinese art integrated and domesticated foreign ideas. In Imperial Illusions, Kristina Kleutghen examines all known surviving examples of the Qing court phenomenon of “scenic illusion paintings” (tongjinghua), which today remain inaccessible inside the Forbidden City. Produced at the height of early modern cultural exchange between China and Europe, these works have received little scholarly attention. Richly illustrated, Imperial Illusions offers the first comprehensive investigation of the aesthetic, cultural, perceptual, and political importance of these illusionistic paintings essential to Qianlong’s world. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/imperial-illusions

Picturing Paul in Empire

2013-10-24 Religion
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Release : 2013-10-24
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Picturing Paul in Empire by : Harry O. Maier

Download or read book Picturing Paul in Empire written by Harry O. Maier. This book was released on 2013-10-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauline Christianity sprang to life in a world of imperial imagery. In the streets and at the thoroughfares, in the market places and on its public buildings and monuments, and especially on its coins the Roman Empire's imperial iconographers displayed imagery that aimed to persuade the Empire's diverse and mostly illiterate inhabitants that Rome had a divinely appointed right to rule the world and to be honoured and celebrated for its dominion. Harry O. Maier places the later, often contested, letters and theology associated with Paul in the social and political context of the Roman Empire's visual culture of politics and persuasion to show how followers of the apostle visualized the reign of Christ in ways consistent with central themes of imperial iconography. They drew on the Empire's picture language to celebrate the dominion and victory of the divine Son, Jesus, to persuade their audiences to honour his dominion with praise and thanksgiving. Key to this imperial embrace were Colossians, Ephesians, and the Pastoral Epistles. Yet these letters remain neglected territory in consideration of engagement with and reflection of imperial political ideals and goals amongst Paul and his followers. This book fills a gap in scholarly work on Paul and Empire by taking up each contested letter in turn to investigate how several of its main themes reflect motifs found in imperial images.

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