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ISBN10: 0195219236, ISBN13: 9780195219234, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: First ] Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Pub Date: 2/21/2005 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 496 First edition.
[Towson, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

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New York Oxford University Press 2005 Hardcover 465 pgs. A hardcover book in fine condition with like dust jacket. Filled with many black and white images, with two sections of color plates.

ISBN10: 0195219236, ISBN13: 9780195219234, [publisher: Oxford University Press, New York] Hardcover 465 pgs. A hardcover book in fine condition with like dust jacket. Filled with many black and white images, with two sections of color plates.
[Dayton, OH, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]
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Oxford University Press, Oxford (...), 2005. XI,465p. Richly ills.(B&W and some full-colour pictures). Hard bound. ?This book is most valuable for its overview of a vast field - the reception of classical mythology throughout European art and literature from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. It surveys the literary sources that spurred the revival of interest in the pagan gods and categories the types of artistic objects - domestic furnishings, painting, sculpture, prints, tapestries, manuscripts, and majolica - where their images appeared. Bull conclues that Hercules, Jupiter, Venus, Bacchus, Diana, and Apollo were the most frequently depicted, and accordingly devotes a chapter to each. The final chapter analyses the selection pattern attributing it to individual choices of patrons interested in astrology, and hence planetary deities, and in subject matter involving amorous encounters or exotic animals. The epilogue explains the thematic distribution in terms os mythology supplying what Christianity eschewed, an imagery of sexuality, fertility and secular power. (?) His large scope allows Bill to make a number of interesting general observations. He frames his remarks about mythological art in the Renaissance and Baroque periods by contrast with its Greco-roman origins to underscore the very different circumstances in the later epoch, where no one believed in the pagan gods and very little precise information survived about their imagery?s ritual use ...

Oxford, Etc.: Oxford University Press, Date: 2005. [xi] 464 [1]p., 141 b/w illus., 16 colored plates, dj. 2005. Oxford University Press ISBN 0195219236 9780195219234 [US]

ISBN10: 0195219236, ISBN13: 9780195219234, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA] Hardcover
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

Oxford University Press (Date: 2005). Hardcover with DJ. xi + 465 pp. Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index. Beautufully illustrated in color (plates) and B&W. New book. Ships immediately. 2005. Oxford University Press ISBN 0195219236 9780195219234 [US]