I was awarded my first degree by the University of Oxford where I combined the study of German and Ancient Greek. I later continued on to complete a PhD in German philosophy, specifically, the aesthetic thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, at the University of St. Andrews. I have been at Birmingham since April 2010. Before coming here I worked at the University of Teesside, having p...(展开全部)

I was awarded my first degree by the University of Oxford where I combined the study of German and Ancient Greek. I later continued on to complete a PhD in German philosophy, specifically, the aesthetic thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, at the University of St. Andrews. I have been at Birmingham since April 2010. Before coming here I worked at the University of Teesside, having p...(展开全部)

Since its original publication, Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts has been standard reading for students of art history. It is both an introduction to the study of art and, for those with more specialized interests, a profound discussion of art and life in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Panofsky's historical technique reveals an abundance of detail, detail he skillf...(展开全部)

Since its original publication, Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts has been standard reading for students of art history. It is both an introduction to the study of art and, for those with more specialized interests, a profound discussion of art and life in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Panofsky's historical technique reveals an abundance of detail, detail he skillf...(展开全部)

编者拉努姆（Orest Ranum)，霍普金斯大学史学教授，研究领域主要为近代欧洲的政治史学，出版学术专著多部。 作者均为史学家，例如丘齐（William Farr Church），曾任布朗大学史学教授；波考克（John Pocock）曾为华盛顿大学史密斯史学讲座教授及政治学教授；吉尔伯特（Felix Gilbert），美国新泽西州普林斯顿高等研究院史学教授。 译者 王晨光，北京大学外国语学院英语系翻译硕士，主要从事翻译研究与实践；译者 刘岑，北京大学外国语学院英语系学士、硕士，目前攻读戏剧博士学位。

Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the "holy writ of beauty." Published to great acclaim in 1837, it examines the work of Renaissance artists such as Winckelmann and the then neglected Botticelli, and includes a celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da Vinci. The book strongly influenced art students and aesthetes of the day and is still valuable for...(展开全部)

Ranging widely across countries and centuries, National Thought in Europe critically analyzes the growth of nationalism from its beginnings in medieval ethnic prejudice to the romantic era’s belief in a national soul. A fertile pan-European exchange of ideas, often rooted in literature, led to a notion of a nation’s cultural individuality that transformed the map of Europe. By ...(展开全部)

These essays by one of America's foremost historians of art and architecture range over theory and criticism, the search for connections between art and science in the Renaissance, and specific works of Renaissance architecture.The largest group of essays, dealing with the character of Renaissance architecture, are models of art historical scholarship in their direct approach t...(展开全部)