Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multim...(展开全部)

Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multim...(展开全部)

Despite China's long tradition of venerating the past as the ultimate source of cultural authority, the discourse of antiquity prior to the Song period (960-1279) demonstrated little concern for ancient objects. With a focus on physical artifacts of the past, Song intellectuals began a new discipline, "the study of bronze and stone" (jinshixue), that generated collections of it...(展开全部)

There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any cl...(展开全部)

托马斯·马太(Thomas F. Matthews)是纽约大学美术研究所的艺术学教授，先后有多篇论文和多本专著论述早期基督教、拜占庭文化和建筑。

From the simple shell beads worn by Palaeolithic hunters to the splendour of Renaissance goldwork and the sumptuousness of Art Nouveau enamels, here is a guide to the evolution of Western jewelry, concluding with the radical and experimental developments of the last three decades. Offering a survey of the entire field, the book is organized into chronological sections starting ...(展开全部)

菲利普·内莫(Philippe Nemo，1949－），法国当代知名哲学、政治学教授，毕业于法国圣克鲁高师(Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud)，先后任教于图尔大学(Universi te de Tours)和奥吉斯特·孔德学院(Institut Auguste Comte)，现为巴黎高等商学院-欧洲管理学院(ESCP-EAP)的教授。

菲利普·内莫(Philippe Nemo，1949－），法国当代知名哲学、政治学教授，毕业于法国圣克鲁高师(Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud)，先后任教于图尔大学(Universi te de Tours)和奥吉斯特·孔德学院(Institut Auguste Comte)，现为巴黎高等商学院-欧洲管理学院(ESCP-EAP)的教授。