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Visions of Savage Paradise
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Rebecca Parker Brienen
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

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Visions of Savage Paradise is the first major book-length study of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Albert Eckhout to be published in nearly seventy years. Eckh
The Power of Form
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Ana Fernandes
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-27 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Although positivism dismissed myths as childish fancy, bound to be superseded by reason, there has been a continuous reappraisal of the power of myths since the
Discovering Brazil with Albert Eckhout (1610-1666)
Language: en
Pages: 170
Authors: Albert van der Eeckhout
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Spotlight Poets

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Inventing Exoticism
Language: en
Pages: 449
Authors: Benjamin Schmidt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-21 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world
Art and Dis-illusion in the Long Sixteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Larry Silver
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023 - Publisher: BRILL

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Dramatic changes during the Reformation era in Northern Europe, such as witchcraft and new global discoveries, are examined through visual culture, both prints