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  • The Beating Heart

    The Art and Science of Our Most Vital Organ

    de Robin Choudhury ...
    An investigation into the human heart by a distinguished cardiologist, exploring representations of the heart and how our understanding of its function has developed over 2,500 years.In The Beating Heart, Robin Choudhury explores how the heart has been represented over time and across cultures. He investigates the interplay between the heart depictions of successive eras and the prevailing ... Leer más

    $25.89 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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    The Beating Heart

    The Art and Science of Our Most Vital Organ

    de Robin Choudhury ...
    Narrado por John Telfer ...

    Completo

    6 hora 41 minutos

    Bloomsbury presents The Beating Heart: The Art and Science of Our Most Vital Organ by Robin Choudhury, read by John Telfer.In The Beating Heart, Robin Choudhury explores how the heart has been represented over time and across cultures. He investigates the interplay between the heart depictions of successive eras and the prevailing cultural discourse – religious, social, philosophical – of each. In ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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  • Passions and Tempers

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  • A Short History of Medicine

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    In this lively, learned, and wholly engrossing volume, F. González-Crussi presents a brief yet authoritative five-hundred-year history of the science, the philosophy, and the controversies of modern medicine. While this illuminating work mainly explores Western medicine over the past five centuries, González-Crussi also describes how modern medicine’s roots extend to both Greco-Roman antiquity and ... Leer más

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  • Disclosing Horizons

    Architecture, Perspective and Redemptive Space

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    This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the way architects design.Since its earliest developments, perspective was conceived as an exemplary form of representation that served as an ideal model of how everyday existence could be measured and ultimately judged. ... Leer más

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  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Edición de Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, Zuzanna Sarnecka ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... Leer más

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  • Art in History, 600 BC - 2000 AD: Ideas in Profile

    de Martin Kemp ...
    Series series Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
    Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsArt has always been part of history. But we often think of it as outside history. When we look at a painting by Raphael, Rembrandt or Rubens it speaks to us directly, but it's also an historical document, part of a living world. Renowned art historian Martin Kemp takes the reader on an extraordinary trip through art, from devotional works to the ... Leer más

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  • Anatomies

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  • Art in History, 600 BC - 2000 AD: Ideas in Profile

    de Martin Kemp ...
    Series series Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
    Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsArt has always been part of history. But we often think of it as outside history. When we look at a painting by Raphael, Rembrandt or Rubens it speaks to us directly, but it's also an historical document, part of a living world. Renowned art historian Martin Kemp takes the reader on an extraordinary trip through art, from devotional works to the ... Leer más

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  • On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art

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  • The Study

    The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries

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    A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo—a “little studio”—and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a remedy ... Leer más

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