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Alchimia ed Ermetismo

Athanasius Kircher

Autore: Godwin Joscelyne

24,70 € 26,00 €

Athanasius Kircher (1602 - 80) stand out as one of the last all-encompassing minds. For this true Renaissance man, the whole world was a glorious appearance of God waiting to be explored. Kircher was a Jesuit and an archeologist, a phenomenal linguist and an avid collector of scientific instruments. He deciphered archaic languages, experimented with...

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William Blake

Autore: Raine kathleen

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17,10 € 18,00 €

Prophet, poet, painter, engraver – William Blake (1757–1827) was an artist of uniquely powerful imagination and far-reaching creative gifts. His work expresses the spiritual drama of the English national being, integrating poetry and visual art in a sustained work of visionary creativity unparalleled in English art history.

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Archeologia Classica

Romania

Autore: Berciu Dumitru

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22,80 € 24,00 €

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Arte Orientale

Royal Persian Manuscripts

Autore: Cary Welch Stuart

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22,80 € 24,00 €

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India

Inde

Autore: Menen Aubrey

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38,00 € 40,00 €

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Turchia

The World of Ottoman Art

Autore: Levey Michael

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17,10 € 18,00 €

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Islamistica

Islamic Art

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Islamistica

Architecture of the Islamic World

Autore: Tre Iniziati

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28,50 € 30,00 €

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Buddhismo Tibetano

The Dalai Lama's Secret Temple

Autore: Baker Ian A.

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45,60 € 48,00 €

On a willow-covered island in a sacred pond behind Tibets Potala Palace is a pagoda-roofed temple that was built in the eighteenth century. Unknown artists created a series of mysterious paintings on the walls of the temples private chapel, and these masterpieces of Tibetan art are reproduced in this extraordinary publication.The chapel was reserved...

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Islamic Art and Architecture

Autore: Hillenbrand Robert

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20,90 € 22,00 €

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Civiltà Nordiche

The Scythians

Autore: Talbot Rice Tamara

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19,00 € 20,00 €

The Scythians interested Herodotus - so much that he made a special journey to Olbia, on the Black Sea, to study their customs; we still depend largely upon bis descriptions. But in recent years much work has been done in South Russia and the Altai and a very much fuller picture can be obtained of this vigorous nomad people, with their unique animal...

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Eros e Sessualità

The Tantric Way

Autore: Khanna Madhu

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15,20 € 16,00 €

In recent years, the West has shown a wide and enthusiastic interest in tantra and its application to everyday life. Though its roots are in Hinduism, tantra's goals are the universal ones of self-knowledge and liberated joy. Its methods and effects transcend geography and era.Basing its approach on a historical and explanatory survey, this book deals in...

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Storia

The Etruscans

Autore: Bloch Raymond

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22,80 € 24,00 €

The Etruscans have long been one of the mystery peolpe of ancient Europe - their language can still not be understood - and travellers and archaeologists for a hundred a fifty years and more have been attracted by their art and by the remains of their cities and tombs.

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Arte Orientale

Persia

Autore: Lockhart L.

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20,90 € 22,00 €

For centuries the West tended to regard Persia as a land of legend and romance, the land of Omar Khayyam. Only in more recent times have the researches of archaeologists and other scholars, together with progress in communications, made the country and its people, and its extremely eventful history, much better known. Compared with the nations of western...

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Età Moderna

On Neoclassicism

Autore: Praz Mario

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13,30 € 14,00 €

Throughout Europe in the middle of the eighteenth century artists, architects and decorators turned with increasing enthusiasm to Classical subJects, motifs and decorative schemes. The discoveries at Pompeii and Herculaneum, the reaction against rococo extravagance and the influence of rationalism - all combined to inspire a delight in the simplicity and...

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Islamistica

Islamic Patterns

Autore: Critchlow Keith

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26,13 € 27,50 €

For centuries Islamic art has been misunderstood in the West, often being regarded as pure decoration. However, its abstract patterns have meaning: they affirm religion and the essential unity of all things.This fascinating scholarly study explains how the geometrical patterns of Islamic art reveal to believers the cosmological laws affecting all...

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Architettura Sacra

Early Buddhist Rock Temples

Autore: Dehejia Vidya

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26,60 € 28,00 €

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Simbologia

Magic

Autore: King Francis

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20,90 € 22,00 €

Magic goes a long way beyond vague memories of fairy-tales, witch-doctors and conjurors. It is infact Western civilization's own native occult tradition, dating back to the mysteries of Egyptian, Greek and Roman religion: a spiritual discipline, the 'Yoga of the West', which through ritual and meditation gives the magician power to evoke the enormously...

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Massoneria

Freemasonry

Autore: Macnulty W. Kirk

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19,00 € 20,00 €

What age-old meanings lie behind the strange, unchanging rituals and symbols of Freemasonry, and can we relate them to our contemporary lives?Freemasons have their own answers to these questions, but they are not available to the outsider, nor are they couched in language that is relevant today. This book explains Freemasonry's part in a long tradition of...

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The Condottieri

Autore: Trease Geoffrey

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22,80 € 24,00 €

The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt

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The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt

Autore: Wilkinson Richard H.

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26,60 € 28,00 €

The gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt, worshipped for over half of recorded history, are among the most fascinating and complex of any civilization. Here is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the deities that lay at the heart of Egyptian religion and society.The book examines the evolution, worship and eventual decline of the numerous gods and...

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Africa

The Abyssinians

Autore: Buxton David

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26,60 € 28,00 €

Though modern Ethiopia is an amalgam of a great many peoples, David Buxton concentrates on the Amharas and Tigreans, who may be regarded as the Abyssinians proper; it is they who were responsible for the distinctive form of Christian culture that evolved in their kingdom from the fourth century onwards. The Abyssinians can be seen as an 'ancient people'...

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Cina

Tao

Autore: Rawson Philip

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19,00 € 20,00 €

Vast indeed is the Ultimate Tao, Spontaneously itself, apparently without acting, End of all ages and beginning of all ages, Existing before Earth and existing before Heaven, Silently embracing the whole of time, Continuing uninterrupted through all eons, In the East it taught Father Confucius, In the West it converted the 'Golden man'. Taken as pattern...

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Arte Orientale

The Art of Tantra

Autore: Rawson Philip

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15,20 € 16,00 €

Coming from India, yet having links with recent trends in Western art, Tantra combines eroticism, mathematics, magic and metaphysics in a view of life which offers a uniquely successful antidote to the anxieties of our time. In this comprehensive survey of Tantric art, a lively text and a striking collection of illustrations show how Tantra invites us to...

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