Rubens’s Spirit: Art and Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe 9781789143997, 1789143993

Peter Paul Rubens was the most inventive and prolific northern European artist of his age. This book discusses his life

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Rubens’s Spirit: Art and Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe
9781789143997, 1789143993

Peter Paul Rubens was the most inventive and prolific northern European artist of his age. This book discusses his life

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Before Romantic genius, there was ingenuity. Early modern ingenuity defined every person—not just exceptional individual

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A captivating historical look at the cultural and artistic significance of shells in early modern Europe Among nature’s

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Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the

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The new edition of this important, wide-ranging and extremely useful textbook has been extensively re-written and expand

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Sodomy in Early Modern Europe is a collection of essays that reflect closely the main areas of debate within gay histori

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This volume provides, for the first time, a pan-European view of the development of written languages at a key time in t

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Occult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches—their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals—was a

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Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/VG

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In state formation research, princely houses have been a blind spot. The development of states has been discussed from m

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