Author: Sarah J. Horton
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: modern, japan, medieval, statues, buddhist, living
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2007-09-15
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 1403964203
ISBN-13: 9781403964205

Large numbers of Buddhist believers regarded Buddhist statues in surprising ways in late- tenth and early eleventh century Japan. Examination of such questions of functionality contributes to a broader view of Buddhist practice at a time when Buddhism was rapidly spreading among many levels of Japanese society. This book focuses particularly on the function of the following types of images: "secret Buddhas" (hibutsu), which are rarely if ever displayed; Buddhas who exchange bodies with sufferers (migawari butsu); and masks of bodhisattvas used in a ritual called mukaeko. Primary sources for th

Author: Achille Ardigo
Publisher: Giunti
Keywords: masterpieces, restored, florence, signoria, loggia, della, statues
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2002-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8809026209
ISBN-13: 9788809026209

Authors:Julie Abrams, Julia Harvey,
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: study, egyptological, memoirs, typological, kingdom, statues, old, wooden
Number of Pages: 666
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $322.00
ISBN-10: 9004123571
ISBN-13: 9789004123571

About 240 wooden statues survive from the Old Kingdom (c. 2575 - 2134 BC). The statues that can be dated by external criteria have been gathered together into a chronological catalogue and their features studied to establish dating criteria which is then applied to the remaining statues.

Author: Margaret Baker
Publisher: Shire
Keywords: discovering, shire, monuments, statues, london
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0747804958
ISBN-13: 9780747804956

This book explains some of the reasons for London’s sculpted gallery and describes the subjects, the donors the sculptors and the results. This completely revised edition, now extended to include memorials throughout Greater London, has over six hundred entries. From the sixteenth-century statue of Queen Elizabeth I in Fleet Street to Montgomery, with his back to the Ministry of Defence, this book will provie a rich sources of fact and anecdote, a who’s who in bronze and stone in the capital city.

Authors:Carl Circo, Christopher Little,
Publisher: American Bar Associatio
Keywords: state, statues, practices, current, design, guide, construction, law
Number of Pages: 1169
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $179.95
ISBN-10: 1604425547
ISBN-13: 9781604425543

This is THE book you need if you’re involved in multi-state construction and design projects. It outlines essential information about design and construction law and contracting in all 50 states plus DC and Puerto Rico. Information follows a standard format, offering quick comparisons of how different jurisdictions treat the same issue. Topics include licensing and regulation; mechanic’s liens; financing; consumer protection; ADR; environmental matters; and statutory and case law governing contracting practices.

Author: Peter Stewart
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: representation, ancient, culture, amp, studies, response, roman, society, statues, oxford
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-04-15
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0199240949
ISBN-13: 9780199240944

Statues were everywhere in the Roman world. They served as objects of cult, honors to emperors and noblemen, and memorials to the dead. Combining close attention to individual Roman texts and images with an unprecedented broad perspective on this remarkable phenomenon, Statues in Roman Society explains the impact that all kinds of statuary had on the ancient population.

Author: Lesley Lababidi
Publisher: American University in Cairo Pre
Keywords: bridges, garden, sidewalk, cafes, squares, statues, street, stories, exploring, city, cairo
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-06-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 977416153X
ISBN-13: 9789774161537

In 1872, Ismail Pasha, the khedive of Egypt, was the first to adopt the European custom of positioning heroic statues on public display as a symbolic message of the continuing authority of the ruling Muhammad Ali dynasty to which he belonged, but it was not until the early twentieth century and the determination of sculptor Mahmoud Mukhtar that such public art gained general acceptance, and today statues stand, ride, or sit in the streets, squares, and gardens of Cairo. Each sculpture adds a piece to the jigsaw of history spanning personalities and events that shaped the city and wider Egypt f