The museum as intitution, and indeed as a "category of the spirit", is innate to the European man. We may safely say that the idea of the museum is a distinctive and fundamental characteristic of modern Western civilization. This European part of the world, which invented the myths of Ulysses and Faust, is also the place that gave shape to the museum. The museum is a testimonial ti what we once were, it certifies our identity, and it safeguards in a sort of sacralized immortality the collective memory of what we know. With the museum, Western man has attempted to exorcize meaninglessness and death. At its origins in the Italy of the Middle Ages and the early renaissance, and later in the Europe of absolutism and the Counter Reformation.

In Greek culture the name referred to tempels dedicated to the Muses, divinities who protected the arts, poetry, music and writing, where the gifts and votive offerings of the faithful were collected and displayed. Clasical sources recall that a pinakotheca wa set up in the building next to the Proylaeum of the Acropolis of Athens to exhibit works by important Greek painters, but the first real museum was the Museion of Alexander the Great, in the Third century B.C. The network of museums in Italy is the result of the Napoleonic laws that closed convents, and the outline given to Italian art history by Vasari and codified in the Eighteenth century by the Abbot Luigi lanzi. This book ends with two fundamental national museums that document the development of painting in Italy from the Thirteenth century ti the beginning of the nineteenth: the brera Gallery and the Accademy Galleries in Venice.

This is a practical book for both trainee and experienced teachers

This book includes the contributions of far too many persons to name all individually or to express appreciation adequately.

This book is exactly what its title says and much more

В этой книге содержатся лексико грамматические упражнения, а также упражнения для усвоения формул речевого этикета, основанные на материале Учебника.

Учебник состоит из шести микроциклов, вклющающих основной учебный текст, дополнительные тексты для чтения с заданиями к ним, ключи-ответы к заданиям и методические рекомендации для преподавателей.

Книга для чтения представляет собой сборник рссказов различных жанров и разной степени трудности. Рассказы сопровождаются предтекстовыми и послетекстовыми заданиями и ключами-ответами к ним.

This book opens with a fascinating overview of the origins and development of traditional Japanese performance, a sampling of four plays, each offering a different interpretation of the thunder god myth, and an explanation of the caraccteristics that mark each of these dramatic genres.

This book have a very long history in Japan and there are already an intimidating number of spesialised monographs and articles on most aspects of bibliography as traditionally conceived, of the sociology of texts, and of the history of the book.