This book traces the political evolution of the Iberian peninsula from a group of late Roman imperial provinces to the Spanish and Portuguese monarchies of the Trastamara and Braganza dynasties of the mid-fifteenth century. The book is planned as a series of essays on the main chronological periods of medieval Spain, and sketches the major ...
The only publication English to treat the period from A.D. 500 to 1200, The Art of Medieval Spain covers all artistic mediums in 11 essays by leading experts in the field. The text discusses the immense influence of topography on Iberian history and the ongoing impact of Christianity and Islam, while the photographs present works of art and ...
This book draws upon the latest research findings to chart 130 years of Spanish history, from the fall of the caliphate to the rise and decline of the Hispanic Empire. It is the first account of the period to integrate Christian and Muslim Spain. The author depicts and analyses the various societies, cultures and governments of Muslim and ...
This is a series of powerful drawings by Iran's greatest satirist. Drawn in exile during the Islamic Revolution of 1979, they remain, 15 years later (after the replacement of the Shah by the Ayatollah and the Ayatollah by the President and the Spiritual Guide) as meaningful and sharp-sighted as ever.
Fifty graphic masterpieces representing the American artistic tradition from 1880 to the present day are showcased in "Eye Contact". Reproduced as full-page color images, they range from portraits of Theodore Roosevelt by Charles Dana Gibson and W. C. Fields by Thomas Hart Benton, to Robert F. Kennedy by Roy Lichtenstein, and self-portraits by ...
A catalogue of a major exhibition that opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in November 1993, which focuses on the world of medieval Spain, presenting themes that proved important throughout the centuries from AD 500 to 1200.
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