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L’art de l’Asie Centrale – Un patrimoine culturel avec ses mosquées, mausolées, madrasahs et minarets
Les cités abandonnées de Merv, Urgench et Khiva sont présentées grâce à des photographies en couleur de qualité, qui emmènent le lecteur sur la « Route dorée de Samarcande », la mythique cité bleue.
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Central Asian Art – A cultural heritage with its mosques, mausoleums, madrasahs, and minarets
There are magnificent, full-colour photographs of the abandoned cities of Mervand Urgench, Khiva, the capital of the Kharezm, with its mausoleum of Sheikh Seid Allahuddin,and, the Golden Road to Samarkand, the Blue City, a center of civilisation for 2,500 years.
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Le sens et la spiritualité poétiques de l’architecture gothique anglaise
Cet ouvrage est l’occasion d’expliquer et de célébrer la richesse de ces églises et cathédrales qui occupant une place majeure au sein de l’architecture médiévale occidentale. Le style gothique anglais s’est développé un peu plus tardivement qu’en France et a rapidement élaboré des codes architecturaux et ornementaux différents.
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The poetic senses and spirit of English Gothic Architecture
This book explains and celebrates the richness of Englishchurches and cathedrals, which have a major place inmedieval architecture. The English Gothic style developedsomewhat later than in France, but rapidly developed itsown architectural and ornamental codes.
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Leonardo Da Vinci – Artist, Thinker, and Man of Science
The archetypal Renaissance man is here explored by the engaging prose of Eugène Müntz who narrates how Leonardo da Vinci mastered a diverse range of fields, from painting to engineering, making him one of the most brilliant minds in human history and one of the most recognised artists in modern times.
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Le Baroque: le goût du mouvement, de la dramatisation, de l’exubérance décorative
La période baroque s’étend du début du XVIIe siècle au milieu du XVIIIe siècle. Réponse des artistes à l’exigence de grandeur solennelle prônée par l’Église catholique de l’après concile de Trente, l’art baroque, par sa monumentalité et son emphase, séduisit les grandes cours européennes.
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Baroque: A taste for movement, dramatisation and decorative exuberance
The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists’ response to the Catholic Church’s demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence it seduced the great European courts.
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William Morris – Une Force Révolutonnaire dans la Grande-Bretagne Victorienne
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William Morris – A Revolutionary Force in Victorian Britain
For some years Morris was mainly occupied with his different arts and his business, and still tried to live like an artist unconcerned with other matters. In 1871 he took with Rossetti a beautiful old house on the Upper Thames called Kelmscott Manor House, which he has described in News from Nowhere.
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Marco Polo and the Silk Road
The original manuscripts were accompanied with illustrations realised from the few descriptions made by the traveller. Following in the footsteps of Marco Polo, the various illustrations found here will send the reader on the path to discovering the distant lands as we know them today.
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