Verlag: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, London/ Boston/ Henley, 1975
ISBN 10: 0710081359 ISBN 13: 9780710081353
Anbieter: Gil's Book Loft, Binghamton, NY, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 22600 shelf. Gold-stamped red bds. No names, clean text. Unblemished dust jacket. Index. Solid 189 p. Book.
Verlag: London, Henley, Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1978
ISBN 10: 071008840X ISBN 13: 9780710088406
Anbieter: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Deutschland
Cloth with dustjacket. Zustand: Gut. XI, 179 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag berieben, sonst gut und innen sauber / dust jacket rubbed, otherwise good and clean inside. - English culture is unique, but it is not home-grown. It has many roots, and the deepest and most sustaining of these has been in the civilizations of the Mediterranean. There seems to have been no time when England has not been in touch with the civilizations of Greece and Italy; even Stonehenge, the most dramatic survivor from our remotest past, has a carved dagger of Mycenean pattern among its ornaments. England first enters recorded history as part of the Roman Empire, and after two centuries of Gothic obscurity re-emerges under the Europeanizing cloak of the Roman Church. If the Italian re-birth of classical art and architecture in the fifteenth century took at least three centuries to infuse English life, the pace-setters among creative Englishmen - Shakespeare, polymaths like Sidney, even Milton - had clearly looked to Italy in their own time. In the generation after Milton, and throughout the eighteenth century, English 'grand tourists' found southern Europe irresistible, coming home with paintings and sculptures in their baggage, and their heads filled with plans for remodelling their houses and gardens in accordance with Italian taste. Their children and grandchildren - the patrons of Turner and Constable - looked beyond Italy, but still to the Mediterranean, and especially to Greece, for models of their self-confident public buildings. Byron, Shelley, Keats and other Romantics, all fell under the spell of the south, and passed on their attachment in some of the most passionate poetry in our language. For the Victorians, also, Greece and Italy evinced a strong attraction, even though nineteenth-century Italy must have represented everything they found most repugnant. Mediterranean Heritage is a wide-ranging and always perceptive book tracing these often concealed but always fruitful links with the common heritage of the Western world. Appearing at a time when England is more obviously a part of Europe than she has been for sixteen hundred years, it provides valuable insights into the makings of the greatest achievements of our civilization - our poetry and painting, our country houses, landscape and public buildings - and also, just as subtly and pervasively, into the making of us all. / CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION 1 MEDITERRANEAN APPROACHES 2 THE RENAISSANCE 3 THE AGE OF THE GRAND TOUR 4 ARCHITECTURE 5 PAINTING 6 ART INTO LANDSCAPE 7 ROMANTIC YEARNINGS 8 VICTORIANA 9 IN THE PRESENT DECLENSION BIBLIOGRAPHY NAME INDEX GENERAL INDEX. ISBN 9780710088406 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 383.
Verlag: Routledge & Kegan Paul Education Books, London, Boston & Henley, 1978
ISBN 10: 0710088957 ISBN 13: 9780710088956
Anbieter: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, Vereinigtes Königreich
Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good.
Verlag: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, London, Boston, Henley, 1979
ISBN 10: 0710001037 ISBN 13: 9780710001030
Anbieter: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. DJ has light scratching to the rear, a touch of slight wear to the front bottom edge, and a sun-toned spine. ; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches.
Verlag: Boston, London & Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1981
ISBN 10: 0710006284 ISBN 13: 9780710006288
Anbieter: Antiquariat Kretzer, Kirchhain-Emsdorf, Deutschland
Zustand: Sehr gut. XII, 274 Seiten. Dust jacket slightly browned and a bit rubbed. With a few pencil marks and notes. - Still very good copy. ISBN: 9780710006288 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 750 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Orig.-Leinenband mit Orig.-Schutzumschlag. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
Verlag: London, Henley & Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1975
ISBN 10: 0710083106 ISBN 13: 9780710083104
Anbieter: Antiquariat Kretzer, Kirchhain-Emsdorf, Deutschland
Zustand: Gut. XII, 202 Seiten. Als Typoskript gedruckt. Ex-library copy with usual marks (signature marks on spine, stamps / inventory marks on a few pages). - Cover with light edge. - Good copy. ISBN: 9780710083104 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Orig.-Broschur. [Softcover / Paperback].