The Life of Sir David Wilkie. With his Journals, Tours, and Critical Remarks on Works of Art
Во второй книге материалов к биографии Великого Князя Сергея Александровича собраны воспоминания и архивные документы, относящиеся к 1877-1880 гг. Этот непродолжительный период был богат событиями и испытаниями, среди...
In the beginning was the word, and in the Middle Ages was the zenith of the Bible. It was a time when bibles were commissioned by kings, princes, and high-ranking members of the Curia, whose wealth and influence begat...
This volume retraces the development and magnificent flowering of Mayan architecture in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize over the period 300 B.C.-A.D. 1500. Tikal, the earliest Mayan religious centre, Palenque,...
The New York Taxi Back Seat Book
David Bradford is a photographer and New York City taxi driver, who epitomizes the concept of carrying a camera during regular day-to-day activities. Bradford mainly shoots while he`s working, capturing the essence of...
The New East: Design and Style in Asia
The influence of traditional Asian design is far-reaching, and today, contemporary Asian interior designers and architects have developed a new kind of modernism that references the appropriate elements of their own...
The Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri Rendered Into Spenserian English
В сборнике публикуются материалы Всероссийской научно-практической конференции "Единство фронта и тыла в разгроме фашизма, в завоевании Победы в Великой Отечественной войне (1941-1945)",состоявшейся в Москве 21-22...
The refined and revered tradition of botanical illustration, produced under aristocratic patronage, stretches back to the Renaissance. It emerged out of the desire to catalogue nature in all its wild splendour, and it...
"You have entered the rooms of the Russian Museum Outside, beyond the walls of the palace, there has remained the noisy city. In the palace you find yourselves in the realm of calm and silence - a calm of museum...
The Secret Code: The Mysterious Formula That Rules Art, Nature, and Science
The Golden Section, also known as the Divine Proportion or ф, can be observed in plant seed patterns as well as in the pyramids, in Gothic cathedrals and in the human body, to mention just a few phenomena from an...
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Passed in the . 1807-69., Volume 92
"Если я владею языками людей и даже ангелов, но любви у меня нет - я только меди звон и литавр грохот. Если у меня есть дар пророчества, или мне доступны всякие тайны и всякое знание, или у меня такая вера, что я могу...
Настоящее издание представляет собой уникальное соединение добротного исторического исследования, научно-методического пособия и просветительской хорошо иллюстрированной книги. В первой части - "Призрение детей:...
Culled and assembled by Romeyn Beck Hough between 1888 and 1913 in what still remains a stunning and unparalleled achievement, American Woods -originally published in 14 volumes, with actual specimens mounted on card...
Tiffany Lamps and Metalware: An Illustrated Reference to Over 2000 Models
This beautiful and comprehensive work illustrates a seemingly inexhaustible selection of the oil and electric light fixtures issued by the Tiffany studios: table and floor lamps, chandeliers and sconces. Also included...
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