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Free Download Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination by Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld
English | November 1, 2019 | ISBN: 0812251571 | 256 pages | MOBI | 7.76 Mb
Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphic inscriptions were one of the most prominent and distinctive features of ancient Egyptian visual culture. For both the literate minority of Egyptians and the vast illiterate majority of the population, hieroglyphs possessed a potent symbolic value that went beyond their capacity to render language visible. For nearly three thousand years, the hieroglyphic script remained closely bound to indigenous notions of religious and cultural identity.

Free Download Claudia La Malfa, "Raphael and the Antique "
English | ISBN: 1789141508 | 2020 | 288 pages | PDF | 13 MB
The Renaissance artist Raphael is known for his extraordinary frescoes, his sublime Madonnas, devotional altarpieces, architectural designs, and his inventive designs for prints and tapestries. It was his use of ancient Roman art-the sculptures, the marble reliefs, the wall-paintings, and the stuccoes-and architecture-the temples, the palaces, and the theaters-as well as the churches and mosaics of early-Christian Rome, that formed his much-admired classical style.

Free Download Kyle Husfloen, "Antique Trader Furniture Price Guide, 3rd Edition"
English | 2008 | pages: 382 | ISBN: 0896896706 | EPUB | 31,2 mb
Examines all major styles of American and European furniture from the seventeenth century through the mid-twentieth century via a review of beds, benches, cradles, sofas, armoires, and more, complete with a furniture dating chart, price guide, and more than one thousand color photos.

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English | 52 pages | True PDF | 23.3 MB

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English | 64 pages | True PDF | 36.8 MB

Free Download Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411-533 By Andrew Gillett
2003 | 364 Pages | ISBN: 0521813492 | PDF | 3 MB
Warfare and dislocation are obvious features of the break-up of the late Roman West, but this crucial period of change was characterized also by communication and diplomacy. The great events of the late antique West were determined by the quieter labours of countless envoys, who travelled between emperors, kings, generals, high officials, bishops, provincial councils, and cities. This book examines the role of envoys in the period from the establishment of the first ‘barbarian kingdoms’ in the West, to the eve of Justinian’s wars of re-conquest. It shows how ongoing practices of Roman imperial administration shaped new patterns of political interaction in the novel context of the earliest medieval states. Close analysis of sources with special interest in embassies offers insight into a variety of genres: chronicles, panegyrics, hagiographies, letters and epitaph. This study makes a significant contribution to the developing field of ancient and medieval communications.