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2000 rok - 2014 rok

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25,00 zł - 130,00 zł

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2 dni - 2 dni

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Bronze Head from Ife

Autor: Editha Platte
Musa Hambolu
Data wydania: 2010
The bronze head from Ife is one of the most prized objects in the British Museum’s African collections. This book tells its fascinating story, from its discovery to its reception and exhibition in Britain, where it influenced and inspired several major artists.
26,00 zł

Byzantium

Autor: Rowena Loverance
Data wydania: 2004
46,20 zł

Hoa Hakananai'a

Autor: Jo Anne Van Tilberg
Data wydania: 2004
This book tells the story of Hoa Hakananai’a: an imposing, intriguing figure of superb workmanship, it was the focal point of initiation rites, and is layered with late relief carvings that relate it to exotic birdman rites.
26,00 zł

Make Your Own Viking Ship

Autor: British Museum Press
Data wydania: 2014
Press out and make your own Viking ship model, based on one of the most famous Viking ships ever to be found. Use the punch out pieces to build your ship and place your crew at the helm, ready for an adventure on the sea.
30,00 zł

Master Prints

Autor: Paul Goldman
Data wydania: 2012
Offers an introduction to masterpieces of printmaking and reveals why prints can be considered to be every bit as original as any other visual art form. This details the differences in texture, shading, line, tone and colour that an artist can achieve in engravings, etchings, lithography and screen printing.
79,00 zł

Michelangelo

Autor: Hugo Chapman
Data wydania: 2006
This lovely gift book introduces one of the greatest Renaissance masters through his drawings. A short illustrated essay opens the book, describing Michelangelo's life and the background behind some of his greatest works, including the Sistine chapel ceiling and the Last Judgement. The book then illustrates a selection of his most important drawings with short captions, from sketches jotting down preliminary ideas to highly finished studies - all proving how integral drawing was to the artist in the process of perfecting his ideas. In all the illustrated works, from portraits to architectural studies, from complex studies for the Sistine chapel to his moving Crucifixion scenes, the genius and inventiveness of the artist is apparent, making this the perfect introduction
54,00 zł

Out of Australia

Autor: Stephen Coppel
Wally Caruana
Data wydania: 2011
This ground-breaking book follows the rise of a distinctive school of Australian art that first emerged in the 1940s. It features 127 works by 61 artists, and includes concise artists’ biographies and individual commentaries on the works.
129,15 zł

Revolution on Paper

Autor: Alison McClean
Dawn Ades
Data wydania: 2009
Between 1910 and 1920, Mexico was convulsed by socialist revolution, from which emerged a strong left-wing government that laid great stress on art as a vehicle for promoting revolutionary values. This book features approximately 130 prints by over 40 artists, including the three great men of Mexican art of the period.
124,95 zł

Shakespeare's Britain

Autor: Dora Thornton
Jonathan Bate
Jonathon Bate
Data wydania: 2012
From the common playgoers to the royal patrons, this book explores Britain from the perspective of Shakespeare’s audience – revealing how the significant issues of the day were explored at the playhouse through objects and quotations from Shakespeare’s plays.
53,00 zł

Sutton Hoo

Autor: Martin Carver
Data wydania: 2000
The Sutton Hoo site is one of the most important archaeological discoveries ever made in Britain, and arguably the world. Since the initial discovery of the ship burial in 1938, when newspaper reports with banner headlines kept the British public informed about the event, the mound burials and surrounding cemetery have yielded a wealth of archaeological evidence as well as glittering treasures. Martin Carver draws on the full range of research undertaken at the site, which was still being excavated in 1993, to present a story of the archaeological discovery. Beginning with the excavations, he goes on to tell the story of the site itself.
65,00 zł

The Mildenhall Treasure

Autor: Richard Hobbs
Data wydania: 2012
In 1942, while ploughing a field near Mildenhall in Suffolk, eastern England, Gordon Butcher stumbled upon a hoard of 34 silver objects that he turned over to his boss and owner of the land, Sydney Ford. Dating back to Roman Britain, fourth century AD, and of outstanding artistic and technical quality, the hoard was declared a Treasure Trove in 1946.
26,00 zł

The Portland Vase

Autor: Susan Walker
Data wydania: 2004
This book offers an exciting new reading of the Portland vase, setting it in the context of the dramatic relationships between Octavia, Anthony and Cleopatra. It also explores the lively history of the vase, from the earliest records in Italy to its purchase by Sir William Hamilton and the Dukes of Portland, and its abiding influence on British craftsmen such as Josiah Wedgwood.
26,00 zł

The Rosetta Stone

Autor: R. B. Parkinson
Richard Parkinson
Data wydania: 2005
This book tells the fascinating story of one of archaeology's icons, from its creation in the second century BC, to its discovery in 1799 during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, to the subsequent race to decipher its hieroglyphic text.
26,00 zł

The Swimming Reindeer

Autor: Jill Cook
Data wydania: 2010
Discovered in 1866 as two separate pieces and acquired by the British Museum in 1887, the sculpture known as the 'swimming reindeer' depicts a male and a female reindeer with their heads up and legs extended, and was created at least 13,000 years ago.
26,00 zł

The Terracotta Warriors

Autor: Jane Portal
John Williams
Data wydania: 2007
The Terracotta Army of Qin Shihuangdi, the First Emperor of China, is one of the most spectacular and best-known finds in world archaeology. It was discovered by surprise in 1974 by peasants digging a well an 8,000-man garrison in battle-ready formation, spread across four pits. Here were life-size warriors made over two thousand years ago from fired clay (originally brightly painted), carrying real weapons: cavalry, archers and infantry; lowly foot soldiers and high-ranking officers; horses and war chariots. But who was this powerful Emperor of the Qin Dynasty who needed an army to guard him in the afterlife? How were the figures made? How could they have been manufactured on such a vast scale? The astonishing facts behind the figures are revealed in this little books
51,45 zł