The Bally Shoe Company was founded in 1851 by Carl Franz Bally (1821--1899) and his brother Fritz in the basement of their family home in Switzerland. By 1854 the shoe company was operating under the corporate name C. F. Bally. After more than 150 years, Bally has come to represent quality and design. This book illustrates the history of Bally up ...
This book offers a fresh insight into the methods adopted by Roman playwrights in utilizing and recasting their Greek models. The author investigates the techniques adopted by such authors as Livius Andronicus and Pacuvius and arrives at results which throw a new light on the influence which Hellenistic literature exerted upon early Roman writers.
Moreno Gentili, born 1960, is a contemporary artist who uses photography to express a line of thought that is both visionary and political. This publication is the result of a study carried out between 1998 and the beginning of 2001 among the people and architecture of NYC; from the vertiginous heights to the depths of the suburban spaces.
A great museum is often the focal point of an artistic metropolis. While Paris is home to the Louvre, London the National Gallery and New York the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the paintings in Venice - some of the most important and magnificent found anywhere on the globe - are not housed under a single roof. Instead, the city as a whole is known ...
600 colour illustrations and essays by three art historians celebrate the exceptional collection of paintings found in the National Gallery, London. Includes works by Titan, Rubens, Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Botticelli, Constable, Degas, van Gogh, Monet, Goya, and others.
Success in the fabrication of structures at the nanometer length scale has opened up a new horizon to condensed matter physics: the study of quantum phenomena in confined boxes, wires, rings, etc. A new class of electronic devices based on this physics has been proposed, with the promise of a new functionality for ultrafast and/or ultradense ...
In this volume, the authors analyse ancient theories concerning the nature and the aims of historiography as well as biography. Such theories are investigated in their historical development, with special regard to the problem of oral communication in antiquity.
This volume is an attempt to analyse the causes of violent conflict in Africa, to review the various approaches to conflict prevention and conflict resolution and to discuss some of the practical difficulties in ending violence. It brings together a wide range of scholars and practitioners, with specialist knowledge of a large number of African ...
This study covers selected topics in geometry, algebra, calculus and probability theory. It contains the basic mathematical notations required by a first course in system theory for engineering and applied mathematics.
This book of photos by Orio, the versatile artist and assistant to Robert Wilson, originates with the spirit of a record. Think David Lynch playing John Lee Hooker. Think Muddy Waters. Think 40 pictures suspended in the contemporary void, between Tokyo, Seattle, Hong Kong, and Timisoara.
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Paintings in the Louvre
by
Sir Lawrence Gowing, Sir Lawrence Gowing, Michel Laclotte (Designer)
