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The artist and the warrior : military history through the eyes of the masters /

How have artists across the millennia responded to warfare? In this uniquely wide-ranging book, Theodore Rabb blends military history and the history of art to search for the answers. He draws our attention to masterpieces from the ancient world to the twentieth century--paintings, sculpture, cerami...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rabb, Theodore K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword: Boundaries
  • Chapter One: The Ancient World: Assyria and Greece
  • Chapter Two: Rome and the Middle Ages
  • Chapter Three: A New Vigor: War and Art in Feudal Japan
  • Chapter Four: The Persistence of Tradition in the Early Renaissance
  • Chapter Five: Traditions Transformed: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
  • Chapter Six: War as Decoration: Suleyman, Palladio, and Akbar
  • Chapter Seven: David Versus Goya
  • Chapter Eight: The Pity of War: Modern Times
  • Afterword: Film
  • Bibliography
  • Index