‎Luxury and Power : Persia to Greece‎

‎, British Museum Press, 2023 Hardcover, 240 pages, ENG, 255 x 195 x 25 mm, NEW, illustrated in colour / b/w, very, very interesting!. ISBN 9780714111964.‎

‎Luxurious objects are celebrated for their exoticism, rarity and style, but also disparaged as indulgent, extravagant and corrupt. The ancient origins of these attitudes emerged at the boundary between the imperial Persian and democratic Athenian Greek worlds. Luxury was at the center of the royal Persian court and behaviors of ostentatious display rippled through the imperial provinces, whose elite classes emulated luxury objects in lesser materials. But luxury is contrastingly depicted through Athenian eyes - within the philosophical context of early democratic codes and the historical context of the Greco-Persian Wars, which suddenly and spectacularly brought eastern luxuries into the imagination of the Athenian populace for the first time. While Greek writers rejected luxury as eastern, despotic and corrupt, the Athenian elite adopted Persian luxuries in imaginative ways to signal status, distinction and prestige. Under the Macedonian empire of Alexander the Great and its subsequent kingdoms, royal Achaemenid luxury culture would later be adopted and displayed by the Macedonian and local elite across the Greek and Middle Eastern worlds: behaviors of ostentatious display were a means to seek advantage in the new Hellenistic world order. Ultimately, this publication demonstrates how competing political spins woven around 2,500 years ago still continue to shape modern perceptions of luxury today.‎

‎Giardini Italiani: Un Pellegrinaggio Fotografico‎

‎Rome: Palazzo Braschi, 1985. Catalogue for an exhibition in Rome at the Palazzo Braschi Piazza San Pantaleao, May 28 - June 16, 1985. Twelve black and white photos of Itralian gardens. Text in Italian. ‎

‎Really good condition. Minor wear overall. Near fine.‎

‎Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe : Institutions, Texts, Images‎

‎, Cambridge University Press 1993, 1993 Paperback, 345 pages, English, 230 x 150 mm, text and some illustrations in b/w, book in fine order,. ISBN 9780521446051.‎

‎This exploration of sexuality and gender in Renaissance art and literature starts from an assumption that would have seemed unthinkable a generation ago: that the 'natural' phenomena of sex, gender and subjectivity are constructed rather than essentially biological or fixed. The essays rise to the challenge of producing a new post-Foucaultian history of gender and sexuality. All of them have been influenced by feminism, and several deal with women not just as objects of representation, but as subjects and authors in their own right. Among the historical issues examined are the production and suppression of women's voices, the relation between illicit sexuality and social order, the ambiguity of beauty, lesbian erotics, birth-imagery and the birthing ritual, the class status of women, the 'femininity' of masculine dress, and the sexual politics of courtesy.‎

‎Office of the Holy Trinity at Saint Martial de Limoges during the Eleventh Century‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, lxxiv + 131 pages, Size:210 x 297 mm, Illustrations:16 tables b/w., 68 musical examples, Languages: English, Latin. ISBN 9782503574561.‎

‎Summary The Holy Trinity forms a cornerstone of Christian belief, and references to it abound in the liturgy. Every Psalm ends with the invocation of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost in the Doxology supplied as the final verse. But around the turn of the tenth century, clerics decided to devote the first Sunday after Pentecost to the veneration of the Trinity. They created a new liturgy for the day, and evidence suggests that Stephen, Bishop of Li ge (? 920) revised an earlier form of the Office into the version that saw wide dissemination in the Latin West from the end of the tenth century. The abbey of Saint Martial in Limoges exhibited considerable enthusiasm for the feast and its Office beginning in the early eleventh century. Its scriptorium prepared no fewer than five copies of the Office, including four fully neumed versions between ca. 1010 and 1050, including the earliest extant transcribable copy with music in the hand of Ad mar de Chabannes, musician, scribe, homilist and historian. This edition presents a critical text of the Office as it was practised at Saint Martial during the first half of the eleventh century, beginning with Ad mar's version, but also considering the other witnesses from the abbey. It includes full critical and explanatory commentary with an Introduction that discusses the role of Stephen of Li ge in the authorship of the Office, the witnesses from Saint Martial and their relationship to other early witnesses of the Office, and its musical and literary style. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction with discussion of the contribution of Bishop Stephen of Li ge to the authorship of the Office, the witnesses, liturgical considerations, editorial principles and the musical styles of the melodies as transmitted at Saint Martial. The edition itself, with comprehensive commentary. Appendix with liturgical lections from Matins. Indices.‎

‎Vigilemus et Oremus'. The Theological Significance of 'Keeping Vigil' in Rome from the Fourth to the Eighth Centuries‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 411 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:94 tables b/w., Language(s):English, Latin. ISBN 9782503590882.‎

‎Summary Christians have observed vigils in both East and West from earliest times. In the broad liturgical tradition of Christianity, the idea of keeping vigil appears to manifest the Church's eschatological nature. Documentary evidence from the earliest centuries reveals that some Christians kept a night watch at the graves of martyrs and other heroes of the faith as to anticipate that dawn when the rising Sun of Justice would return in fulfilment of his promise. Eventually, vigils appear not just for Easter, Pentecost and saints' days, but also for Christmas, the dedication of a church building, and on Saturday evening of the uniquely Roman quarterly Ember Weeks. Liturgical sources of the sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries reveal that such practices became relatively standardized with the assignment of specific Mass texts and scriptural readings, yet we know very little about the precise elements which comprised a vigil liturgy and of their theological significance. At the same time these vigils were so important that they attracted to themselves the celebration of major sacramental liturgies during them. Hence, the Paschal Vigil, which existed for centuries as a vigil liturgy of scriptural readings and prayers gradually became the setting for the annual baptismal celebration. This book examines the nature of Roman vigil liturgies in the early centuries of Christianity to unravel the most primitive structure of keeping vigil and to provide a better understanding of the Paschal Vigil, which Augustine of Hippo affirms as the 'mother of all vigils.'‎

‎THE CLOISTERS, THE BULDING AND THE COLLECTION OF MEDIAEVAL ART, IN FORT TRYON PARK‎

‎NEW YORK METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. 1951. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos frotté, Intérieur frais. 158 pages. Premier plat illustré en noir et blanc. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc dans et hors texte. Texte en anglais.. . . . Classification Dewey : 720-Architecture‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 720-Architecture‎

‎Freiburger Kulturgüter. Patrimoine Fribourgeois N° 15.‎

‎Villars-sur-Glâne, Service des biens culturels, 2003, in-4to, 72 p. richement ill., brochure originale ill.‎

‎Isabelle Chassot: Enquêtes dans le passé. Ermittlungen in der Vergangenheit / François Guex: Vom Gestrüpp bei Lussen zum Herrensitz Sonnenberg auf Ginggenrain / Ivan Andrey: La chapelle de Montban à Farvagny / Marc-Henri Jordan: Le salon rococo de l’ancienne maison Reyff de Cugy à Fribourg / Cahterine Waeber: Bois Murat, un jardin d’Achille Duchêne / Anne Schaller: Les vitraux 1900 du café „A la Viennoise“ à Bulle / Alain Robiolio / François Guex: Das Stellwerk im Bahnhof Kerzers / Marie-Thérèse Torche-Julmy / Marino Maggetti / Julian James: L’église d’Orsonnens, son décor et sa restauration / Claude Castella: Transformation d’une grange à Granvillard. ‎

‎Suffolk and Norfolk. A perambulation of the two counties with notices of their history and their ancient buildings.‎

‎London, J.M. Dent, 1950, in-4°, XVII + 240 p., ill with 100 drawings + 24 photographs on half- and full-pages, original cloth with ill. jacket.‎

‎La Pierre dans le Monde médiéval.‎

‎Presses De L Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris 2010 In-8 ( 240 X 160 mm ) de 316 pages, broché sous jaquette illustrée. Illustrations dans et hors-texte. Très bel exemplaire.‎

‎Dictionnaire universel de m decine pr c d d'un Discours Historique sur l'origine & les progr s de la M decine - 6 volumes.‎

‎Paris,, Briasson, David l'a n , Durand., 1746-1747 6 vol. in-folio. Dos 6 nerfs orn s de fleurons dor s, 66 planches d pliantes.‎

‎Vol.I:10 pp. , CXXXVI pp. 700 pages, (1400 colonnes) 4 pp. 12 planches d pliantes / Vol.II: (2 ff.: fx-t., titre), 1672 colonnes, 13 planches d pliantes. / Vol.III: 4 ff.: fx-t., titre, 1688 colonnes, 12 planches - Vol.IV: (3 ff.: bl., fx-t., titre), 1688 colonnes, 13 planches / Vol.V: (3 ff.: bl., fx-t., titre), 1710 colonnes, 6 planches. / Vol.VI: (3 ff.: bl., titre, 1128 colonnes + table des mati res, 10 planches.‎

‎THE CLOISTERS, THE BUILDING AND THE COLLECTION OF MEDIAEVAL ART, IN FORT TRYON PARK‎

‎METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. 1938. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 118 pages. Ex libris illustré en noir et blan 'the american library'. Nombreuses photos noir et blanc dans et hors texte. Texte en anglais. Parties du papier des plats légèrement arrachées en surface. Ouvrage de bibliothèque.. . . . Classification Dewey : 720-Architecture‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 720-Architecture‎

‎PALLADIO‎

‎1967 / 194 pages. Broché. Editions Penguin.‎

‎Good Condition / Bon état.‎

‎villa, de la Rome antique Le Corbusier.‎

‎, Hazan, 1997 softcover 398 pages, illustr avec 213 illustrations. ISBN 9782850255571.‎

‎Fontainebleau.‎

‎Ou notice historique et descriptive sur cette résidence royale.Fontainebleau, Huré et Paris, Delaunay et Paulin 1834.Reliure demi-basane de l'époque. Dos lisse à faux nerfs dorés avec pièce de titre noire. Rousseurs. Plan dépliant détaché et déchiré sans manque. Dos frotté. Format in-8° (21x13).‎

‎Fontainebleau. ou notice historique et descriptive sur cette résidence royale‎

‎Fontainebleau, Chez Petit, Paris, Chez Delaunay, Paulin, 1834 in-8, XVI-200 pp., carte dépliante, broché. Manques de papier sur les plats. Etiquette au dos. Rousseurs.‎

‎Première édition.Complète de la carte dépliante de la forêt de Fontainebleau. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT‎

‎ Inventaire général du vieux Lyon,maisons, sculptures, inscriptions Avec 80 photogravures, plusieurs dessins et 2 plans dépliants ‎

‎ 1906 Lyon A. Rey & cie 1906 in 8 broché, 132 p. illustrations en noir dans le texte, 2 plans dépliants "in fine", notes bibliographiques bon exemplaire ‎

‎ C. Jamot, architecte, membre de la Commission municipale du Vieux Lyon ‎

‎Notre-Dame du Raincy.‎

‎Paris, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1923 in-4, 12 pp., ill. in-t., planche, broché. Rousseurs et petites déchirures sur la couverture.‎

‎Oeuvre des frères Auguste et Gustave Perret, l'église fut construite à partir de 1922 et consacrée le 17 juin 1923. Surnommée la "Sainte-Chapelle du béton armée", elle est en effet la première église construite en béton armé en France. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT‎

‎Beyond the Wall / Jenseits Der Mauer: Art and Artifacts from the GDR / Kunst und Alltagsgegenstande aus der DDR‎

‎, Taschen, 2014 Hardcover 903 pages, Illustrated. 33x23cm. ENG/DE text. ISBN 9783836548854.‎

‎For 40 years, the Cold War dominated the world stage. East and West Germany stood at the frontlines of the global confrontation, symbolized by the infamous Berlin Wall, which separated lovers, friends, and families, coworkers, and compatriots. The Wende Museum in Los Angeles, California, is named after the period of change following the wall?s destruction. It was established in 2002 to study the visual and material culture of the former Eastern Bloc, and, with physical and psychic distance, to foster multiple perspectives on this multilayered history that continues to shape our world. This encyclopedic volume features over 2,500 items from its extraordinary collections. Never before has a book included this full a spectrum of art, archives, and artifacts from socialist East Germany: official symbols and dissident expressions, the spectacular and the routine, the mass-produced and the handmade, the funny and the tragic. Packaged in a slick, portable box, the book also comes with a facsimile of a GDR family scrapbook, documenting real and imagined travels both within East Germany, and across the border.‎