534 Ergebnisse für: contemporaries
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A Companion to Julius Caesar - Google Books
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A Companion to Julius Caesar comprises 30 essays from leading scholars examining the life and after life of this great polarizing figure. Explores Caesar from a variety of perspectives: military genius, ruthless tyrant, brilliant politician, first class…
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A Companion to Julius Caesar - Google Books
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A Companion to Julius Caesar comprises 30 essays from leading scholars examining the life and after life of this great polarizing figure. Explores Caesar from a variety of perspectives: military genius, ruthless tyrant, brilliant politician, first class…
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The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The last years, 1857-1864 - Giacomo Meyerbeer - Google Books
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Volume 4 is devoted to the last years (1857-64); while age and declining health saw a waning of the composer's personal optimism, this was hardly the case artistically speaking. This last volume contains a series of glossaries listing his compositions and…
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Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse 1909-1954 - Hilary Spurling - Google Books
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In this astounding book (winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year 2005) Hilary Spurling's fascinating exploration of Matisse's world uncovers the secret life of the artist, whose paintings shocked and infuriated his contemporaries while paving the way for…
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Elizabethan Popular Culture - Leonard R. N. Ashley - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=JEyTAYBBG70C&pg=PA119
Leonard R. N. Ashley delights readers with a collection of facts and folklore of the people of Queen Elizabeth I s era. He describes sports and pastimes, religion and superstition, cooking, life in town and country, and the rising bourgeois class. In…
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George!: A Guide to All Things Washington - Frank E. Grizzard - Google Books
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George! A comprehensive guide devoted exclusively to George Washington. The subject range goes beyond the conventional, and includes much about his personal and family life, correspondence, business dealings and more. The illustrated, A to Z format and…
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Beethoven: Eroica Symphony - Thomas Sipe, Thomas Owen Sipe - Google Books
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Beethoven's Third Symphony, originally entitled "Bonaparte", now bears the title "Eroica" ("Heroic"). Napoleon promised an Enlightened Europe but ultimately Beethoven was disillusioned by him. This handbook treats the politics, aesthetics, reception, and…
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Glasgow Girls: Women in Art and Design, 1880-1920 - Google Books
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At the turn of the 20th century, Glasgow was the centre for an avant-garde movement of art and design innovation in Europe, which we now refer to as The Glasgow Style. While the "Glasgow Boys" group of painters has been widely written about, their female…
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El Greco - Michael Scholz-Hänsel, Greco - Google Books
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Cretan-born painter Domenicos Theotocopoulos, better known by his Spanish nickname, El Greco (c.1545-1614), studied under Titian in Venice before settling down in Toldeo. Commissioned by the church and local nobility, El Greco produced dramatic paintings…