This dissertation takes Chinese advertisements as the research subjects to see in what way a quantifiable large number of advertisements with its metaphorical nature and instrumental mission can reflect social cultural change, in specifics,...
Plague--History--Europe; Black Death--Social aspects--Europe; Erotica--Europe--History; Idols and images--Europe--History; Superstition--Europe--History
This thesis examines a large corpus of enigmatic pilgrimage badges dating from
roughly 1350-1500 CE. The badges were brought to light during archaeological
excavations of water sites throughout the Schelde Estuary in the Netherlands, the
riverbanks...
Theological seminaries; Religious facilities; Schools; Buildings; Historic buildings
Address: 109 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. This close-up on the entryway of the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary shows its gothic elements. While the building is balanced it is not symmetrical and actually combines a number of...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Schools; Public schools
Carrollton (Kentucky) Public School, a three-story brick building with contrasting colored brick between floors and brushlike bushes at sidewalk. Three young children stand near right corner of building.
Public accommodation facilities; Hotels; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.); Reception rooms
Reception room, The Brown Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky. Small room with white walls and a faded area rug over a carpet with a contrasting pattern. Matching sofa and armchair. Small table with flowers, and a bureau on legs with a white vase. Large...
Buildings; Lodges; Young Men's Hebrew Association (Louisville, Ky.); Canopies;
Address: 729 S. Second Street (Building no longer exists). Although the building materials, mostly brick, are modest, this building was made distinctive through the use of contrasting stone belts to delineate the floor levels, quoins on the window...
Three-quarter length character portrait of unidentified young woman wearing a straw hat and a dress with contrasting bodice and ties, holding an armful of hay. Title supplied by cataloger.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1200-1500
Leaf from a small portable Gothic Bible, copied in France in the thirteenth century. The Latin translation used throughout this period was known as the Vulgate, since Latin was the common or vulgar language read by all literate people of the time....
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1500-1550
A Book of Hours was the primary text for private lay devotion in the late middle ages and Renaissance. Consisting of the cycle of prayers to be recited at the eight canonical hours or established times for prayers throughout the day, the content of...
Bronze and wool; “[Riboud’s] sculptures are studies in opposites—soft vs. hard, black vs. white. Her use of contrasting materials, bronze and silk cording or bronze and wood, is an extension of this exploration.” (caption, p.80)
Paintings; Acrylic paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works
"In Louis's enormous 'veils' of the 1950s the physical operations of pouring paint or tilting a canvas so that the paint floods down it are powerfully implied." (Caption, p.28); "[Clement] Greenberg's conception of 'Modernism' as...
