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Europe Views the World, 1500-1700 by Larry Silver
Category: Art and Design | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Europe Views the World examines the wide diversity of images that Europeans produced to represent the wide variety of peoples and places around the globe during and after the so-called 'Age of Exploration.' Beginning with the medieval imagery of Europe's imagined alien races, and with an emphasis on the ...Show more
Fools & Folly: In Flemish Art by LARRY SILVER
Category: Art Books
According to medieval theologians, faith is a deadly serious business. Humour and virtue are irreconcilable, because laughter is uncontrollable and escapes the control of reason. A modest smile is permitted. But laughing loudly, grinning and grimacing: these are the playing field of the devil just as pe ...Show more
Rembrandt's Holland by Larry Silver
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Rembrandt van Rijn and the Netherlands grew up together. The artist, born in Leiden in 1606, lived during the tumultuous period of the Dutch Revolt and the establishment of the independent Dutch Republic. He later moved to Amsterdam, a cosmopolitan center of world trade, and became the city's most fashi ...Show more
Rembrandt's Holland by Larry Silver
Category: Art Instructional | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Now in paperback, a beautifully illustrated introduction to the life and work of the exceptional Dutch painter. Rembrandt van Rijn and the Netherlands grew up together. The artist, born in Leiden in 1606, lived during the tumultuous period of the Dutch Revolt and the establishment of the independent Du ...Show more
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