Drawing extensively from various disciplines including ethnology, geography, geology, and environmental studies, this groundbreaking book addresses shifting concepts of time, history, and landscape in relation to the work of pioneering American artists during the first half of the 20th century

The Light of New York, a stunning photographic essay by Jean-Michel Berts, features black-and-white photographs taken before sunrise and after sundown. 128 pages, 70 images

The book is dedicated to the history of the Tajik people

Album “Terra Mariana. 1186-1888 ”is a unique cultural monument that tells the story of the spread of the Christian faith on the territory of the“ Land of the Virgin Mary ”(Terra Mariana), as the lands of medieval Livonia - modern Latvia and Estonia - were once officially called. The original edition, printed in Riga in 1888 in a single copy and presented to Pope Leo XIII as a gift in honor of the 50th anniversary of his dignity as priest, is a genuine work of book art. The folio, consisting of large-sized parchments (61 x 45 cm) and collected under the cover of fine goat leather with the Papal coat of arms with gold and silver letters, contains rich visual and textual material about castles, temples, historical personalities and the arms of old Livonia families

Album “Terra Mariana. 1186-1888 ”is a unique cultural monument that tells the story of the spread of the Christian faith on the territory of the“ Land of the Virgin Mary ”(Terra Mariana), as the lands of medieval Livonia - modern Latvia and Estonia - were once officially called. The original edition, printed in Riga in 1888 in a single copy and presented to Pope Leo XIII as a gift in honor of the 50th anniversary of his dignity as priest, is a genuine work of book art. The folio, consisting of large-sized parchments (61 x 45 cm) and collected under the cover of fine goat leather with the Papal coat of arms with gold and silver letters, contains rich visual and textual material about castles, temples, historical personalities and the arms of old Livonia families

This catalog contains information on collections of artistic illustrations, which are presented in the Ambrosian library, which contains 12 manuscripts by Leonardo da Vinci, 12 thousand drawings of European artists of the 14th-19th centuries, the illuminated edition of the Iliad, Virgil with illustrations by Simone Martini and the marginals of Petrarch, many other values ​​of Italian culture

Is the accompanying catalog for an exhibition at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. This superb volume features essays by leading archaeologists as well as breathtaking color photographs cataloguing the objects, some illustrated here for the first time