From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing in Part I on the Olmec heads of early Mesoamerica, the colossal statues of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, and the nudes of classical Greece, Beard explores the power, hierarchy, and gender politics of the art of the ancient world, and explains how it came to define the so-called civilized world. In Part II, Beard chronicles some of the most breathtaking religious imagery ever made?whether at Angkor Wat, Ravenna, Venice, or in the art of Jewish and Islamic calligraphers? to show how all religions, ancient and modern, have faced irreconcilable problems in trying to picture the divine. With this classic volume, Beard redefines the Western-and male-centric legacies of Ernst Gombrich and Kenneth Clark
The Roman Triumph
Mary Beard
audiobookPompeji : Livet i en romersk by
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audiobookbookThe Colosseum
Mary Beard, Keith Hopkins
audiobookSPQR
Mary Beard
bookSPQR
Mary Beard
audiobookLaughter in Ancient Rome : on Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
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audiobookRoms kejsare
Mary Beard
bookKejser af Rom : Oldtidens romerske herskere
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bookThe Invention of Jane Harrison
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audiobookDe tolv cæsarer : Magtens billeder fra antikken til den moderne verden
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bookClassics
Mary Beard, John Henderson
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Hitmen
Scott M. Deitche
audiobookThe Plague Cycle : The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
Charles Kenny
audiobookbookThe Lodger Shakespeare
Charles Nicholl
audiobookThe Real Queen Charlotte
Catherine Curzon
audiobookA Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe
audiobookbookThe Road to Station X
Sarah Baring
audiobookAll Blood Runs Red : The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy
Tom Clavin, Phil Keith
audiobookA Forgotten Hero
Shelley Emling
audiobookThe Princess Spy : The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones
Larry Loftis
audiobookbookBehind Enemy Lines
Marthe Cohn, Wendy Holden
audiobookFrenemies : The Epic Disruption of the Advertising Industry (and Everything Else)
Ken Auletta
audiobookPirate Women
Laura Sook Duncombe
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