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Viaggio di Policleto a Roma
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Year: 1824 Publisher: Milano Fratelli Sonzogno

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Polykleitos


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Policleto
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Year: 1938 Publisher: Firenze Sansoni

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Sculpture --- History --- Polykleitos --- Antiquity


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Bildwerke nach Polyklet : Kopienkritische Untersuchungen zu den männlichen statuarischen Typen nach polykletischen Vorbildern; Diskophoros, Hermes, Doryphoros, Herakles, Diadumenos.
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ISBN: 3786116237 Year: 1990 Publisher: Berlin Mann

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Like life : sculpture, color, and the body
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ISBN: 9781588396440 1588396444 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York : New Haven ; London : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Distributed by Yale University Press

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Since the earliest myths of the sculptor Pygmalion bringing a statue to life through desire, artists have explored the boundaries between sculpture and the physical materiality of the body. This groundbreaking volume examines key sculptural works from 13th-century Europe to the global present, revealing new insights into the strategies artists deploy to blur the distinction between art and life. Sculpture, which has historically taken the human figure as its subject, is presented here in myriad manifestations created by artists ranging from Donatello and Degas to Picasso, Kiki Smith, and Jeff Koons. Featuring works created in traditional media such as wood and marble as well as the unexpected such as wax, metal, and blood, Like Life presents sculpture both conventional and shocking, including effigies, dolls, mannequins, automata, waxworks, and anatomical models. Containing texts by art and cultural historians as well as interviews with contemporary artists, this is a provocative exploration of three-dimensional representations of the human body.


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Visuality and virtuality : images and pictures from prehistory to perspective
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ISBN: 0691245908 Year: 2017 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of imagesThis book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis’s acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture, in which he shows how certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. Here, Davis uses revealing archaeological and historical case studies to further develop his theory, presenting an exacting new account of the interaction that occurs when a viewer looks at a picture.Davis argues that pictoriality—the depiction intended by its maker to be seen—emerges at a particular standpoint in space and time. Reconstruction of this standpoint is the first step of the art historian’s craft. Because standpoints are inherently mutable and mobile, pictoriality constantly shifts in form and possible meaning. To capture this complexity, Davis develops new concepts of radical pictorial ambiguity, including “bivisibility” (the fact that pictures can always be seen in ways other than intended), pictorial naturalism, and the behavior of pictures under changing angles of view. He then applies these concepts to four cases—Paleolithic cave painting; ancient Egyptian tomb decoration; classical Greek architectural sculpture, with a focus on the Parthenon frieze; and Renaissance perspective as invented by Brunelleschi.A profound new theory of the work of both makers and viewers by one of the discipline’s most esteemed and engaged thinkers, Visuality and Virtuality is essential reading for art historians, architects, archaeologists, and philosophers of art and visual theory.

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Visual perception. --- 3D modeling. --- A Book Of. --- Abraham Cahan. --- Abstract art. --- Accessibility. --- Aesthetics. --- Allegation. --- Ambiguity. --- Analytic geometry. --- Art history. --- Athens. --- Autobiography. --- Autodidacticism. --- Awareness. --- Axial line (dermatomes). --- Baptistery. --- Bibliography. --- Classical Greece. --- Coincidence. --- Consciousness. --- Copyright. --- Critique. --- Cupola. --- David Marr (neuroscientist). --- Depiction. --- Designer. --- Diadumenos. --- Diagram. --- Direct evidence. --- Disability. --- Donald Judd. --- Doryphoros. --- Ecology. --- Edith Hamilton. --- Egyptology. --- Explication. --- Forgiveness. --- Grapheme. --- Group dynamics. --- Harry Burleigh. --- Henry David Thoreau. --- Horizontal plane. --- Ida B. Wells. --- Illustration. --- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. --- Kilt. --- Lecture. --- Life Story (TV series). --- Literary criticism. --- Medical diagnosis. --- Melville J. Herskovits. --- Microscopy. --- Misconduct. --- Modernity. --- Musician. --- Nationality. --- Neurocognitive. --- Ontology. --- Optical resolution. --- Orthographic projection. --- Paleoanthropology. --- Perception. --- Pericles. --- Perspective (graphical). --- Pictorialism. --- Piero della Francesca. --- Plaquette. --- Poetry. --- Polykleitos. --- Prehistory. --- Proportion (architecture). --- Rectangle. --- Relief. --- Retina. --- Rhetoric. --- Scapula. --- Scrovegni Chapel. --- Scrutiny (journal). --- Serdab. --- Sightline. --- Social environment. --- Soffit. --- Software. --- Spatial distribution. --- Spatial relation. --- Stanley Kubrick. --- Stephen Crane. --- Stylobate. --- Subject (philosophy). --- Subtitle (captioning). --- The Ass in the Lion's Skin. --- The Textbooks. --- Thunderstorm. --- Trompe-l'œil. --- Visual culture. --- Visual field. --- Visual space. --- Vitruvian Man. --- World Archaeology. --- Zoology.


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Rules : a short history of what we live by
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ISBN: 9780691156989 9780691239187 0691156980 0691239185 0691254087 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton: Oxford: Princeton University Press,

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A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don't, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, historian Lorraine Daston traces their development in the Western tradition and shows how rules have evolved from ancient to modern times. Drawing on a rich trove of examples, including legal treatises, cookbooks, military manuals, traffic regulations, and game handbooks, Daston demonstrates that while the content of rules is dazzlingly diverse, the forms that they take are surprisingly few and long-lived.Daston uncovers three enduring kinds of rules: the algorithms that calculate and measure, the laws that govern, and the models that teach. She vividly illustrates how rules can change-how supple rules stiffen, or vice versa, and how once bothersome regulations become everyday norms. Rules have been devised for almost every imaginable activity and range from meticulous regulations to the laws of nature. Daston probes beneath this variety to investigate when rules work and when they don't, and why some philosophical problems about rules are as ancient as philosophy itself while others are as modern as calculating machines.Rules offers a wide-angle view on the history of the constraints that guide us-whether we know it or not.

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Authority. --- Order (Philosophy) --- Algorithms. --- Law. --- Natural law. --- Order (Philosophy). --- General ethics --- World history --- Authority --- Algorithms --- Law --- Natural law --- Computer algorithms. --- Ethics. --- Actin. --- Algorithm. --- Analogy. --- Aphorism. --- Augustine of Hippo. --- Biotope. --- Braid. --- Brain. --- Brightness. --- Calculation. --- Casuistry. --- Cataclysm (Dragonlance). --- Catechism. --- Chapter 33 (G.I. Bill of Rights). --- Charles Babbage. --- Codification (law). --- Computer program. --- Consonant. --- Culprit. --- Cydnidae. --- Cytoplasmic incompatibility. --- Depiction. --- Designer. --- Dictionary. --- Discretion. --- Drosophila. --- Early Modern literature. --- Electricity. --- Electronics. --- Epithelium. --- Fertilisation. --- Fishing. --- Francis Bacon. --- Gamma ray. --- Genre. --- Good and evil. --- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. --- Government debt. --- Gut flora. --- Hannah Glasse. --- Herder. --- His Family. --- Horntail. --- Household. --- Human intelligence (intelligence gathering). --- Human intelligence. --- Imitation. --- Indication (medicine). --- Insect. --- John Herschel. --- Kinase. --- Lactobacillus. --- Lipid. --- Lookup table. --- Mathematician. --- Mathematics. --- Measurement. --- Metabolism. --- Metabolite. --- Metaphysics. --- Microbiota. --- Microorganism. --- Miguel de Cervantes. --- Monochord. --- Nationalism. --- Natural philosophy. --- Obedience (human behavior). --- Organism. --- Parallel Lives. --- Parchment. --- Pathogen. --- Philosophy. --- Phonetics. --- Polykleitos. --- Precept. --- Prerogative. --- Public utility. --- Publishing. --- Reason. --- Result. --- Rule of Saint Benedict. --- Sect. --- Shavian alphabet. --- Shawl. --- Simon Stevin. --- Spelling rule. --- State of nature. --- Statute. --- Straightedge. --- Subtitle (captioning). --- Subtraction. --- Supplication. --- The Nautical Almanac. --- The Opposite Direction. --- Titer. --- Treatise. --- Tropical rainforest. --- Usage. --- Warfare.


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Greek art and aesthetics in the fourth century B.C.
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ISBN: 1400890519 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. analyzes the broad character of art produced during this period, providing in-depth analysis of and commentary on many of its most notable examples of sculpture and painting. Taking into consideration developments in style and subject matter, and elucidating political, religious, and intellectual context, William A. P. Childs argues that Greek art in this era was a natural outgrowth of the high classical period and focused on developing the rudiments of individual expression that became the hallmark of the classical in the fifth century.As Childs shows, in many respects the art of this period corresponds with the philosophical inquiry by Plato and his contemporaries into the nature of art and speaks to the contemporaneous sense of insecurity and renewed religious devotion. Delving into formal and iconographic developments in sculpture and painting, Childs examines how the sensitive, expressive quality of these works seamlessly links the classical and Hellenistic periods, with no appreciable rupture in the continuous exploration of the human condition. Another overarching theme concerns the nature of "style as a concept of expression," an issue that becomes more important given the increasingly multiple styles and functions of fourth-century Greek art. Childs also shows how the color and form of works suggested the unseen and revealed the profound character of individuals and the physical world.

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Aesthetics, Ancient. --- Art and philosophy --- Art, Greek --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- History. --- History. --- Acropolis Museum. --- Acropolis of Athens. --- Aegean civilizations. --- Alexander Mosaic. --- Alexander of Macedon. --- Ancient Agora of Athens. --- Ancient Greece. --- Ancient Greek art. --- Ancient Greek sculpture. --- Ancient Greek temple. --- Ancient Roman architecture. --- Ancient art. --- Apoxyomenos. --- Archaic Greece. --- Aristotle. --- Athena Alea. --- Athena Parthenos. --- Between Scylla and Charybdis. --- Caryatid. --- Charites. --- Chlamys. --- Classical Athens. --- Classical Greece. --- Classical antiquity. --- Classical architecture. --- Classical sculpture. --- Corinthian War. --- Corinthian order. --- Culture of Greece. --- Delphi. --- Demosthenes. --- Discobolus. --- Doryphoros. --- Drapery. --- Eleusinian Mysteries. --- Eleusis. --- Epidaurus. --- Epigram. --- Erechtheion. --- Euphranor. --- Euripides. --- Fifth-century Athens. --- Greek Anthology. --- Greek Architecture. --- Greek World. --- Greek art. --- Greek democracy. --- Greek literature. --- Greek mythology. --- Greek tragedy. --- Greeks. --- Hellenistic art. --- Hellenistic period. --- Herodas. --- Herodes Atticus. --- Hippocampus (mythology). --- Hippomenes. --- Hydria. --- Iconography. --- Ionic order. --- Isocrates. --- Kantharos. --- Kerameikos. --- Lekythos. --- Lysippos. --- Metope. --- Neo-Attic. --- Nicias (Indo-Greek king). --- Nikephoros (Caesar). --- Niobids. --- Parian marble. --- Parthenos (mythology). --- Patroklos (Attica). --- Pediment. --- Peloponnese. --- Peloponnesian War. --- Phidias. --- Polykleitos. --- Pottery. --- Praxiteles. --- Resting Satyr. --- Roman Empire. --- Roman Greece. --- Roman sculpture. --- Sculpture. --- Sisyphus. --- Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. --- Sophocles. --- Statue. --- Stele. --- Stoa of Zeus. --- Temple of Apollo Sosianus. --- Temple of Artemis. --- Terracotta. --- The Persians. --- The Philosopher. --- Thebes, Greece. --- Third Sacred War. --- Tomb of Lyson and Kallikles. --- Women in Classical Athens.

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