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Short catalogue to a small exhibition of historical books on fencing and dueling from the library of the Arms and Armor Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and swords and other objects relating to them in the department's... more
Holguera Cabrera, Antonio, Prieto Ustio, Ester y Uriondo Lozano, María (Coordinadores)
SAV, Universidad de Sevilla, 2018 ISBN 978-84-17337-24-7
SAV, Universidad de Sevilla, 2018 ISBN 978-84-17337-24-7
Medico personale di Urbano VIII e assiduo frequentatore di numerosi artisti, il medico senese Giulio Mancini (Siena 1560 – Roma 1630), fu anche un astuto e spregiudicato collezionista di dipinti. Il rinvenimento del suo inventario dei... more
in: J. van Campen en Titus Eliens (red.), Chinese and Japanese Porcelain for the Dutch Golden Age, Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2014, pp. 213-229, 265-268.
The famous "Seal of Nero, a Roman intaglio depicting Apollo, Marsyas and Olympus, was once in the collection of Lorenzo il Magnifico and is now in the National Museum of Naples. Two gems related to that "Seal of Nero" are published here... more
En este trabajo se analiza el proceso de revalorización conceptual y económica de la fotografía, y cómo ha pasado de ser un mero experimento científico totalmente apartado del mundo del arte, a ser una técnica artística independiente y... more
This article considers the collections of painters and the invention of the genre of the gallery picture in Antwerp. It zooms in on gallery paintings from the Francken workshop with details of so-called 'iconoclastic donkeys'. These... more
A landmark study of posters as art, design, advertising and an object of collecting in the nineteenth century. This is a cultural history that situates the poster at the crossroads of art, design, advertising, and collecting. Ruth E.... more
MUGHAL AND SAFAVID ALBUMS 17 September 2014 - 21 February 2015 Museum of Islamic Art, Doha http://www.mia.org.qa/en/boc/boc-catalogue This exhibition displays a selection of MIA’s miniature paintings and calligraphic compositions... more
The fourth known pre-Columbian Maya codex—the only one discovered in the 20th century—was found by looters in the mid-1960s. First exhibited in New York in 1971, what has come to be known as the Grolier Codex is half of a hybrid-style... more
[By Christopher Lotis and Michel D. Lee; Foreword by P.M. Taylor. This full book is uploaded here while the Smithsonian website, where it was published online, is being revised.] An important theme of this volume is the relationship... more
This document provides the full text, there are only very few image changes to the printed version. Contributions by KONSTANTINOS CHATZIANTONIOU JOACHIM GIERLICHS FRANAK HILLOOWALA KATHRYN KALEMKERIAN SABA AL KUWARI LISA... more
Greek and Roman mythology tell us how the patron deity of the newly founded city of Athens was chosen in a competition between Athena and Poseidon. The gods raced to the Acropolis, where they offered gifts to Athens . Athena caused an... more
A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, Blackwell Companions in Art History, 2nd ed. (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2019) (a collection of thirty-nine original essays from leading and upcoming scholars in the... more
Coordinadores: Antonio Holguera Cabrera, Ester Prieto Ustio y María Uriondo Lozano
SAV, Universidad de Sevilla, 2019
ISBN: 978-84-17337-71-1
SAV, Universidad de Sevilla, 2019
ISBN: 978-84-17337-71-1
In Helen Ann Curry, Nicholas Jardine, James A. Secord, and E.C. Spary, eds., Worlds of Natural History (Cambridge University Press, 2018). A closer look at the involvement of Italian apothecaries in sixteenth-century natural history and... more
La dinastía Habsburgo estuvo reinando en España durante casi dos siglos, desde 1516 hasta 1700. Estos monarcas nos han dejado un legado imborrable a nivel histórico, político y social, pero también artístico. Todos ellos, en mayor o menor... more
In 1525 Catherine of Austria came to Portugal armed with Flemish tapestries, illuminated manuscripts,family jewels, and a lavish wardrobe, the requisite dowry of a Castilian princess destined to be queen. These personal goods that formed... more
The thesis is a multi-sited ethnographic study of the practices through which a sense of identity and belonging is produced and experienced in the crate digging scene, a hip hop related translocal record collecting collectivity. Affective... more
La monarquia de Felipe II a debate, ed. Luis Ribot. Sociedad Estatal para la Conmemoraciön de los Centenarios de Felipe II y Carlos V, Madrid, 2000 This essay explores the patronage and collections of Juana and Maria of Austria, not only... more
Francesco I de’ Medici (r. 1564-87), the second Grand Duke of Tuscany, commissioned a private studiolo in the Palazzo Vecchio that united his personal passion for collecting objects of natural wonder with the Medici tradition of utilizing... more