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Storia

The Etruscans

Autore: Bloch Raymond

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.

Thames & Hudson

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

Thames & Hudson

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

Thames & Hudson

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

Thames & Hudson

26,60 € 28,00 €

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Simbologia

Magic

Autore: King Francis

Thames & Hudson

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

Thames & Hudson

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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Home

The Condottieri

Autore: Trease Geoffrey

Thames & Hudson

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.

Thames & Hudson

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

Thames & Hudson

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

Thames & Hudson

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

Thames & Hudson

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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