Ci sono opere d’arte, anche celebri, che devono molto alle figure femminili che vi compaiono. Eppure, sorprendentemente, molte di quelle donne, ragazze, a volte bambine, non hanno identità, a volte neanche un nome. Figure nascoste dall’ombra ingombrante dell’uomo-artista. Lauretta Colonnelli – con un lungo lavoro di indagine – è andata alla ricerca di quelle donne, di epoche di...(展开全部)

Ci sono opere d’arte, anche celebri, che devono molto alle figure femminili che vi compaiono. Eppure, sorprendentemente, molte di quelle donne, ragazze, a volte bambine, non hanno identità, a volte neanche un nome. Figure nascoste dall’ombra ingombrante dell’uomo-artista. Lauretta Colonnelli – con un lungo lavoro di indagine – è andata alla ricerca di quelle donne, di epoche di...(展开全部)

Over the course of his career, Jock Sturges' long-term engagement with his subjects has been a cornerstone of his work. Misty Dawn, one of his primary and most popular muses, is one such subject; he has photographed her for 25 of her 28 years. Lithe, beautiful, classically proportioned, she is the personification of Sturges' philosophy of being at home in one's body. This volu...(展开全部)

Over the course of his career, Jock Sturges' long-term engagement with his subjects has been a cornerstone of his work. Misty Dawn, one of his primary and most popular muses, is one such subject; he has photographed her for 25 of her 28 years. Lithe, beautiful, classically proportioned, she is the personification of Sturges' philosophy of being at home in one's body. This volu...(展开全部)

How the modern world understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today. The study of ancient Greece has been central to Western conceptions of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which successive generations have reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary wor...(展开全部)

The study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. Oswyn Murray traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which each generation has reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary world. His book also raises for all students of history, not just historians of the an...(展开全部)