Product Description: Around 1515, Raphael (1483-1520) designed a set of tapestries for Leo X, the first Medici pope. Each was sumptuously woven in gold, silver, and silk, and depicted scenes from classical mythology with inventive grotesques. Now lost, these spectacular, grand-scale textiles are reconstructed in Raphael’s Tapestries and set among a series of unprecedented decorative projects that Pope Leo commissioned from the artist...read more

Product Description: This book retraces the development of classical imagery in the visual arts of the Italian Renaissance. Luba Freedman examines poems, letters, and treatises on art, which testify to the contemporary desire to depict classical myths in the style and spirit of Ovid's Metamorphoses, and to re-create the artistic patronage of the ancient Romans...read more

Product Description: Written in the spirit of Ovid (43 B.C–A.D. 17/18), this lively and erudite book traces the art derived from Ovid’s Metamorphoses from the Renaissance up to the present day. The Metamorphoses has been more widely illustrated than any other book except the Bible; for centuries, great artists have drawn, painted, and sculpted its stories, the artists often responding not only to Ovid’s work but to one another’s in their depictions...read more

Product Description: In this beautifully illustrated study of intellectual and art history, Dorothy Johnson explores the representation of classical myths by renowned French artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, demonstrating the extraordinary influence of the natural sciences and psychology on artistic depiction of myth...read more

Product Description: Following the structure of the Classical Tradition volumes of "Brill s New Pauly" this Supplement volume "The Reception of Myth and Mythology" highlights the routes and works through which the myths of Greece and Rome have passed into the cultural memory of Europe over the centuries, into its literature, music and art and its reflections on aesthetics and philosophy...read more

Product Description: Painters have always drawn on the classics to find myths and symbols which will answer to contemporary problems. In Black Light, Francis Gooding examines four modern paintings in the light of ancient themes, and illuminates the permanence and power of the mythic imagination...read more

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Traces the life and career of the Italian Renaissance painter and analyzes important works and themes, focusing on his 'Spring.'

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Product Description: During the past 20 years, the field of mechanical engineering has undergone enormous changes. These changes have been driven by many factors, including:the development of computer technologyworldwide competition in industryimprovements in the flow of informationsatellite communicationreal time monitoringincreased energy efficiencyroboticsautomatic controlincreased sensitivity to environmental impacts of human activitiesadvances in design and manufacturing methodsThese developments have put more stress on mechanical engineering education, making it increasingly difficult to cover all the topics that a professional engineer will need in his or her career...read more

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Product Description: Exceptionally practical in approach, this book prepares learners for the constantly changing demands of using information systems as managers in today's fast-paced organizations—first by relating MIS to management, the organization and technology, focusing on the importance of integrating these elements; second by tracking emerging technologies and organizational trends; and third by consistently using examples taken from real businesses, both domestic and foreign...read more