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Peter C. Sutton

Vassos Karageorghis

Book DescriptionThe Cesnola Collection of antiquities was assembled on Cyprus in the 1860s and 1870s by Luigi Palma de Cesnola, who sold it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1872 and subsequently served as the institution's first director. Numbering about 6000 objects today, the Collection documents the artistic traditions and creativity of the island from prehistoric through Roman times. This CD-ROM, the first of a projected ?#-part CD-ROM on the Cesnola Collection, focuses on its terracottas: 424 pieces that date from about 2000 B.C. to the 2nd century A.D. Each object is accompanied by a catalogue entry with description, bibliography, and illustration. There are also fifteen commentaries and a glossary, chronology, and maps. Lightweight, inexpensive, and user-friendly, this CD-ROM is a useful tool for students and archaeologists.

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Luba Freedman

Book DescriptionThis book deals specifically with sixteenth-century depictions of the Olympian deities, the twelve supreme deities of ancient Greece and Rome. As the Renaissance revived several aspects of antiquity, some great works of art represented the Olympians in imitation of the classical style. These deities were rendered as autonomous figures, in the form of representation adapted for depicting saints and Christian rulers. This form of depicting the Olympians, or the pagan gods, was not unanimously accepted by sixteenth-century viewers. The book highlights the problematic framework surrounding the creation, display and acceptance of such thought-provoking works of art.

Steffi Roettgen

Certain Italian fresco cycles, notably the Brancacci Chapel in Florence by Masaccio, Masolino, and Filippino Lippi, are well known. Others, such as Piero della Francesca's work in Arezzo and Benozzo Gozzoli's Chapel of the Magi in Florence, have been reproduced countless times. Yet no publisher — until now — has attempted to gather together and document in extensive photographs the essential fresco cycles of the early Italian Renaissance. The list of works covers the regions of Italy, from the Alpine mountain areas to Puglia, with an emphasis on Tuscany and Florence, the artistic center that gave life to the Renaissance. Italian Frescoes: The Early Renaissance opens with a concise introductory text discussing various aspects of fifteenth-century fresco painting: artists, patronage, cultural and historical conditions, technical methods, and questions of local tradition. The central section of the book examines twenty-one fresco cycles, each...

Jonathan D. Katz, David C. Ward

An entirely new interpretation of modern American portraiture based on the history of sexual difference.Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, companion volume to an exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, traces the defining presence of same-sex desire in American portraiture through a seductive selection of more than 140 full-color illustrations, drawings, and portraits from leading American artists. Arcing from the turn of the twentieth century, through the emergence of the modern gay liberation movement in 1969, the tragedies of the AIDS epidemic, and to the present, Hide/Seek openly considers what has long been suppressed or tacitly ignored, even by the most progressive sectors of our society: the influence of gay and lesbian artists in creating American modernism.Hide/Seek shows how questions of gender and sexual identity dramatically shaped the artistic practices of influential American artists such as Thomas...

Alan Marshall

Book DescriptionThe Civil War in general, and Oliver Cromwell in particular, is enjoying a significant revival in academic and general study; television docu-dramas, films, battlefield tours and the appearance of Cromwell in the 'Great Britons' and 'Men of the Millennium' polls demonstrate this. Here, Alan Marshall concentrates on the man's military life, for it is certainly true that it was Cromwell's battlefield skills, tactical astuteness and command capabilities that helped him attain his political goals. His efforts were not without controversy and this wide-ranging assessment will cover his strategic failings as well as his attributes. The book will surely come to feature in the personal and academic study resources of anyone seeking to gain a deeper knowledge of Cromwell as a military man. Contents: Origins; The Road to War; The Face of War, 162; The Local War, 1643; From Marston Moor to Newbury, 1644; New Modelling, 1645-6; The Road to Preston, 1646-8; Ireland, 1649;...

Lisbeth Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Jack Soultanian

This important volume offers a complete overview of the Metropolitan Museum's collection of sculpture in varied media from all parts of Italy, ranging in date from the 9th to the 16th century. In 60 entries, the authors provide thorough descriptions, as well as in-depth art-historical and technical analyses of each sculpture, including later works in the medieval style. The catalogue gives a history of the collection and a full bibliography; it also features more than - 175 colour and 100 black-and-white photographs, as well as 22 watercolour renderings.

Max Wigram

Book DescriptionHow do you find out about contemporary art? Which are the important galleries of the moment? This innovative book, created to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, London, provides an invaluable resource for anyone interested in breaking into the mysterious world of cutting-edge art and art galleries in London. More than 30 important galleries, ranging from small artist-run spaces to internationally renowned venues, are featured, with maps showing their whereabouts. Each gallery has provided details of its own history and philosophy, the kind of artists it represents--with reproductions of their newest works in all mediums--and useful contact information. This book, which will be regularly updated, is designed to becomethe indispensable constant companion of all hip urban art lovers when in London.