Literatura obcojęzyczna The University of Chicago Press

This text explores three of Bernini's baroque chapels to show how Bernini achieved his effects. Careri examines the ways in which the artist...

"Bejeweled creatures--squid, comb jellies, octopuses, and tube worms--leap off the black pages in such a luminescent rainbow that you can't...

Ask anyone to picture a bird or a fish and a series of clear images will immediately come to mind. Ask the same person to picture plankton...

The livre d' artiste, or "artist's book," is among the most prized in rare book collections. Henri Matisse was one of the greatest artists...

Distant relatives of modern lobsters, horseshoe crabs, and spiders, trilobites swam the planet's prehistoric seas for 300 million years,...

Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries There's nothing quite like a relationship with an aged pet--a dog or cat who has been...

This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influednce upon Jewish...

Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the great universal artistic...

One of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) virtually stopped writing music during the last thirty years...

Did you know that European royalty once used cheetahs to hunt deer, or that caracals can capture birds by leaping six and a half feet straight...

Though largely out of the public eye for more than a century, Gustave Caillebotte (1848 - 94) has come to be recognized as one of the most...

At once feared and revered, sharks have captivated people since our earliest human encounters. Children and adults alike stand awed before...

What is the place of materiality-the expression or condition of physical substance-in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media?...

How well do we really know dogs$956 People may enjoy thinking about them as "man's best friend," but what actually drives the things they...

The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created...