1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779237403321

Autore

Kamen Henry

Titolo

The Escorial : art and power in the Renaissance / / Henry Kamen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2010

ISBN

0-300-16825-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 291 pages)

Disciplina

946/.41

Soggetti

Renaissance - Spain - San Lorenzo del Escorial

Monasteries - Spain - San Lorenzo del Escorial - History - 16th century

Palaces - Spain - San Lorenzo del Escorial - History - 16th century

Historic buildings - Spain - San Lorenzo del Escorial

Art and society - Spain - San Lorenzo del Escorial - History - 16th century

Architecture and society - Spain - San Lorenzo del Escorial - History - 16th century

Power (Social sciences) - Spain - San Lorenzo del Escorial - History - 16th century

San Lorenzo del Escorial (Spain) History 16th century

San Lorenzo del Escorial (Spain) Buildings, structures, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- CHRONOLOGY -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: Genesis -- Chapter 2: The Battle -- Chapter 3: Foundation -- Chapter 4: The Magic Temple of Wisdom -- Chapter 5: The Prisoner of the Escorial -- Chapter 6: A Brace of Eagles: Images of Power and Monarchy -- Chapter 7: The Hall of Battles -- Chapter 8: Powerhouse of Faith -- Chapter 9: Inventing the Escorial -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Few buildings have played so central a role in Spain's history as the monastery-palace of San Lorenzo del Escorial. Colossal in size and imposing-even forbidding-in appearance, the Escorial has invited and defied description for four centuries. Part palace, part monastery, part mausoleum, it has also served as a shrine, a school, a repository for thousands of relics, and one of the greatest libraries of its time.



Constructed over the course of more than twenty years, the Escorial challenged and provoked, becoming for some a symbol of superstition and oppression, for others a "wonder of the world." Now a World Heritage Site, it is visited by thousands of travelers every year.In this intriguing study, Henry Kamen looks at the circumstances that brought the young Philip II to commission construction of the Escorial in 1563. He explores Philip's motivation, the influence of his travels, the meaning of the design, and its place in Spanish culture. It represents a highly engaging narrative of the high point of Spanish imperial dominance, in which contemporary preoccupations with art, religion, and power are analyzed in the context of this remarkable building.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779019203321

Titolo

Cultural heritage and prisoners of war : creativity behind barbed wire / / edited by Gilly Carr and Harold Mytum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-280-66140-2

9786613638335

0-203-12062-0

1-136-32237-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in heritage ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

CarrGillian

MytumHarold <1955->

Disciplina

940.5472

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons

Creative ability - Psychological aspects

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) - Psychological aspects

Material culture - History - 20th century

Prisoners of war - Psychology

Nazi concentration camps - Psychological aspects

World War, 1939-1945 - Psychological aspects

Material culture - Psychological aspects

World War, 1914-1918 - Prisoners and prisons

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War Creativity Behind Barbed Wire; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; 1. The Importance of Creativity Behind Barbed Wire: Setting a Research Agenda; Part I: Creativity and Narrativesof Survival; 2. Wonder Bar: Music and Theatre as Strategies for Survival in a Second World War POW Hospital Camp; 3. 'Spiritual Vitamins': Music in Huyton and Central Internment Camps May 1940 to January 1941; 4. Tins, Tubes and Tenacity: Inventive Medicine in Camps in the Far East

5. Creativity and the Body: Civilian Internees in British Asia during the Second World War6. The Arts of Survival: Remaking the Inside Spaces of Japanese American Concentration Camps; Part II: Narratives andCounter-Narrativesof Internment; 7. In the Distorted Mirror: Cartoons and Photography of Polish and British POWs in Wehrmacht Captivity; 8. Souvenirs of Internment: Camp Newspapers as a Tangible Record of a Forgotten Experience; 9. Deciphering Dynamic Networks from Static Images: First World War Photographs at Douglas Camp

10. Beyond Collaboration and Resistance:  'Accommodation' at the Weihsien Internment Camp, China, 1943-194511. 'God Save the King!': Creative Modes of Protest, Defi ance and Identity in Channel Islander Internment Camps in Germany, 1942-1945; 12. 'Astounding and Encouraging': High and Low Art Produced in Internment on the Isle of Man during the Second World War; Part III: Creativity and Internment Identities; 13. Kulturkrieg and Frontgeist from behind the Wire: World War I Newspapers from Douglas Internment Camp; 14. Captivity in Print: The Form and Function of POWCamp Magazines

15. The Women's Embroideries of Internment in the Far East 1942-194516. Madonnas and Prima Donnas: The Representation of Women in an Italian Prisoner of War Camp in South Africa; 17. Necessity, the Mother of Invention: Ingenuity in German Prisoner of War Camps; 18. Camp Domesticity: Shifting Gender Boundaries in WWI Internment Camps; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on the numerous examples of creativity produced by POWs and civilian internees during their captivity, including: paintings, cartoons, craftwork, needlework, acting, musical compositions, magazine and newspaper articles, wood carving, and recycled Red Cross tins turned into plates, mugs and makeshift stoves, all which have previously received little attention. The authors of this volume show the wide potential of such items to inform us about the daily life and struggle for survival behind barbed wire. Previously dismissed as items which could only serve to illustrate POW



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00202455

Titolo

Obra poètica de Salvador Albert / pròleg de Miquel Dolç ; introducció, notes i apèndix amb tria de comentaris d' Octavi Saltor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Barcelona, : Rafael Dalmau, 1980. 257 p. ; 24 cm Publicacions de la Fundació Salvador Vives Casajuana ; 65.

ISBN

84-232-0178-3

Soggetti

ALBERT SALVADOR

Lingua di pubblicazione

Catalano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

4.

Record Nr.

UNISOBE600200064011

Autore

Hauff, Wilhelm

Titolo

Mittheilungen aus der Memoiren des Satan / Wilhelm Hauff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leipzig, : Reclam, [s.d.]

Descrizione fisica

291 p. ; 14 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia