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Academia Gallery (Official Guides to Florentine Museums)These official guide books to Florence's finest museums and art collections are sumptuously illustrated and filled with fascinating detail. This lavishly illustrated series provides readers with the official guides to some of the world's finest galleries and art collections. Packed with fascinating detail, historical insight, and fully up-to-date information, these guides are a must-have for planning their visit to Florence.... |
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Academies, Museums and Canons of Art (Art and Its Histories Series)This volume examines the ways in which works of art have achieved a position in the canon of Western art. Focusing on art and institutions in Britain and France from the 17th to the 19th century, the contributors explore the construction and evolution of canonical values.... |
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Academy of Fine Arts, ViennaSeveral important museums in Europe began their life attached to academies of art. One of the very few that survives encased within an art school is the picture gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. It became the first public museum in Vienna, thanks to a bequest of 740 Old Master paintings, including Bosch, Rubens and Dutch Italianate landscapes, from Count Anton Lamberg in 1822, making it the greatest collection of paintings in Austria after the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Count Lamb... |
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Accademia Galleries in Venice: A Guide... |
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The Accademia Galleries of Venice... |
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Accademia Gallery (Rapid Guides to Florentine Museums)Created in co-operation with Florence's Fine Arts and Historic Works Commission and museum directors, this illustrated guide provides readers with an introduction to some of the city's finest museums and art collections.... |
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Accardi, Consagra: La Svolta Degli Anni Sessanta (English and Italian Edition)... |
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Accelerated Aging: Photochemical and Thermal Aspects (Research in Conservation Technical Report)Written by a renowned expert in the field, this book presents an overview of the results of research using accelerated aging tests. The emphasis is on the chemical aspects of photochemical stability, but thermally initiated deterioration is also discussed. Although not a "how-to" book, it does introduce the reasoning, limitations, and principles underlying the concept of accelerated aging. An extensive bibliography provides conservators and conservation scientists with an invaluable source fo... |
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The Accelerated Sublime: Landscape, Tourism, and IdentityOver the past two hundred years, transportation technology has enabled tourists to visit nearly any place on the entire globe. Nations compete for tourists by holding out promises of previously unattainable excitement. As a result, locations and landscapes once considered sublime are becoming increasingly commodified into both "products" and elements of national identity constructs. This study combines historical narrative with an examination of this consumption of landscape and the technologies... |
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