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Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece: Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens
As religious rituals, rites of passage, and celebrations of the body, athletics were deeply woven into the fabric of ancient Greek life. Modeled after physical exercises and competitions that existed in earlier Near Eastern cultures, hundreds of…
Painters of Faith: The Spiritual Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America
Explores the faith and the crucial role it played in the artistic creations of some of the participants in America's first major artistic movement.
The Urizen Books
In Lambeth in the 1790's, against a background of war and revolution in the American colonies and in Europe, and at home the denial of civil liberties and emergent radicalism, William Blake composed three uncompromising books in illuminated printing…
Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning, with a Complete Survey of Key Monuments
Looks at the architecture of Islamic mosques, schools, gardens, caravanserais, bridges, markets, cities, homes, and fortresses, and discusses Islamic design and materials.
Milton a poem, and the final illuminated works: the ghost of Abel, On Homers poetry, [and] On Virgil Laocoön
William Blake's Milton, one of his two great illuminated epics, is featured in this fifth volume of the Blake Trust collected edition of Blake's illuminated books. This is the first-ever reproduction of the magnificent copy of Milton in the New York…
The Continental Prophecies
If the Urizen books contain Blake's account of Genesis, written and depicted from the 'devilish' perspective of a 'Bible of Hell', then the continental prophecies present his critical reckoning with the history of his own times, a fascinatingly…
