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A Highland holiday historical romance filled with fun, intrigue and love from a USA Today bestselling author. Snow is in the air at Glen Strae and Yuletide is approaching, a time of celebrations. But Abby has her own private sorrow and any hope of overcoming it before the holiday season is dashed when Iain tells her that he must leave to collect his brother from St Andrews. Abby knows it's a lie because to leave Glen Strae puts Iain at risk for his...
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"You should be grateful, my girl. You have no dowry, and I am doing everything I can to get you settled. You are hardly any man's dream." Alina's brother, Milos, pulled his face into a perfect copy of Aunt Marci's sour expression, primly pursing his mouth. He had got her querulous tone just right. I pinched my lips together, trying not to laugh. But it was true; Aunt Marci had already introduced me to several suitors. So far I had managed to decline...
483) Blood Moon
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Beware the Blood Moon.
Exiled, Thaddeus only wants to return to his beloved Venice.
His body rebels against him, food and sleep linger just out of reach.
The mountains outside Trieste is no place for a sane man to travel, especially in winter.
Strange creatures haunt these lonesome vales and crags, ready to snuff out a man's flame.
What strange powers are being summoned to do evil?
Can the inquisitor keep from strangling his traveling companion...
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The most important northern Italian artist of the early Renaissance, Andrea Mantegna was a student of Roman archaeology and the son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. A pioneering master of perspective, Mantegna used pictorial devices such as extreme foreshortening, lowering the horizon to create greater monumentality and rendering his figures as more rounded and modelled, with Donatellian naturalism. His masterpieces are renowned for their minute attention...
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En 1436, dans le prologue de son livre De pictura, qui présente de façon théorique les nouveaux principes de ce que nous appelons aujourd'hui la Renaissance, Alberti évoque le décalage entre les créations fécondes de « la valeureuse époque des Anciens » face aux arts et sciences...
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Fred Klineis a well-known art historian, dealer, connoisseur, and explorer who has made a career of scouring antique stores, estate sales, and auctions looking for unusual-and often misidentified-works of art. Many of the gems he has found are now in major museum collections like the Frick, the Getty, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But this book is about the discovery of one piece in particular. . . About ten years ago, when Kline was routinely...
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Décryptez l'art de Tintoret en moins d'une heure!
Depuis Le Miracle de saint Marc, toile qui marque sa reconnaissance officielle, jusqu'à sa fameuse Dernière Cène, les œuvres de Tintoret témoignent toutes de la fureur de peindre qui anime l'artiste vénitien. Influencé par Titien, Michel-Ange et Véronèse, il sera à son tour une source d'inspiration majeure pour d'autres grands noms de la peinture tels que le Greco ou Rubens.
Ce livre...
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Partez à la découverte du néo-classicisme avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
La définition que les dictionnaires usuels donnent du terme néo-classicisme est assez évasive. « Tendance artistique et littéraire inspirée de l'Antiquité classique ou du classicisme du XVIIe siècle. // Tendance qui retourne à un certain classicisme, par réaction contre les audaces d'une période antérieure », voilà ce qu'affirme...
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489) La República Real
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Nápoles 1647: La ambiciosa hija de una familia patricia, Mirella Scandore, está prometida con un sobrino del virrey español, cuando el pueblo de Nápoles se levanta contra su dominación.Nápoles elige al duque de Lorena, Henri de Guisa, como su nuevo dux. Mirella aprende a apreciarlo y se enamora de uno de sus oficiales, Alexandre de Montmorency.Su hermano Dario, al contrario, toma parte en una conspiración contra la joven república.Aunque Mirella...
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Partez à la découverte de Pétrarque avec ce Grand Article Universalis!
Père de la poésie moderne et de la culture humaniste, auteur en langue vulgaire de cet immortel Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta), qui a suscité des foules d'imitateurs en Italie et dans toute l'Europe et qui a marqué la poésie amoureuse en Occident jusqu'au romantisme et ...
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A quick internet search will yield results of Leonardo da Vinci's legendary paintings, the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, and you might even catch a glimpse of his well-known sketches of machines, human bodies, and animals. However, there's so much more to da Vinci than his paintings and drawings.
This 16th-century Italian man embodied the Renaissance spirit - he was intensely interested in everyone and everything. His curiosity spanned every discipline,...
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"Winner of the 2015 James Holly Hanford Award, The Milton Society of America" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014" "Shortlisted for the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society" David Quint is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. His books include Epic and Empire, Cervantes's Novel of Modern Times, and Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy (all Princeton).
Inside "Paradise Lost" opens up new readings...
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Originally published in 1987, two years before the Tiananmen Square protests, Zhang Wei's award-winning novel is the story of three generations of the Sui, Zhao, and Li families living in the fictional northern town of Wali during China's troubled postliberation years.
Spanning four decades following the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, The Ancient Ship is a bold examination of a society in turmoil, the struggle of oppressed people to control...
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♥ A disinherited earl♥ An animal-loving heiress♥ A scandalous love triangle♥ An unsolved murder♥ Steamy romance!Another heartwarming romance featuring New York Times bestselling author Lauren Royal's "outrageously funny, loyal, compassionate, and unconventional" Chase family!Rescuing animals is an unusual passion for an earl's daughter-but compared to the rest of her family, Lady Lily Ashcroft is downright conventional. Though she fell...
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For the first time in her life, Karen Williams is out from under her parents' watchful eyes. Now a goal-driven pre-med freshman who tends to put her own desires ahead of the feelings of those who love her, she is pursued by two men. Well-bred and wealthy, Martin aligns with her upward ambitions. Peter, her virtuous but poor blue-collar study partner, is loyal and kind but socially inept. After a series of relationship stumbles, an accidental pregnancy...
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"An Apollo Book of the Year" David Young Kim is associate professor of art history at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting lecturer at the University of Zurich. He is the author of The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance: Geography, Mobility, and Style and the editor of Matters of Weight: Force, Gravity, and Aesthetics in the Early Modern Period.
An illuminating look at a fundamental yet understudied aspect of Italian Renaissance...
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Our journey begins under the gaze of The Faery Godmother by cover artist Ashley Rose Goentoro. We step into a ghost story 'Man with Golden Helmet' by feature author Renée Sarojini Saklikar. Dawn Lo in 'Little Snowflake Girls' and Weiwei Xu in 'Chimera' introduce us to young people exploring meaningful questions of identity and belonging. Like trailside inukshuks, memories pile up and tumble away in 'Moons of Saturn' by James Dorr, 'Practising the...
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Giordano Bruno challenged everything in his pursuit of an all-embracing system of thought. This not only brought him patronage from powerful figures of the day but also put him in direct conflict with the Catholic Church. Arrested by the Inquisition and tried as a heretic, Bruno was imprisoned, tortured, and, after eight years, burned at the stake in 1600. The Vatican "regrets" the burning yet refuses to clear him of heresy.
But Bruno's philosophy...
499) Pedro Pablo Rubens
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El arte ecléctico con el que soñaba la familia Carracci quedó finalmente plasmado en la obra de Rubens, con toda la facilidad del genio. Sin embargo, el problema era mucho más complicado para un hombre del norte, que deseaba añadir una fusión de los espíritus flamenco y latino, algo cuya dificultad se había reflejado en los intentos más bien pedantes del romanismo. Lo logró sin perder nada de su desbordante personalidad, su inquieta imaginación...
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Secret adventures from the world of Infinity Ring. Only in e-book! Only 99 cents!
Mario is a beggar on the streets of Florence whose life is changed forever the day he is painted by a great artist. Suddenly Mario is swept up in a world of intrigue, wealth . . . and murder. Will he survive the firestorm that is coming for Florence's great works of art?INFINITY RING SECRETS is a series of stand-alone short stories blending real history with the action...
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