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Leonardo, The Last Supper

Barcilon Pinin Brambilla, Marani Pietro C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226504278, University of Chicago Press, April 2001
458 pp., 12x10 cm, 382 colour plates, 64 halftones

Leonardo's Last Supper, one of the most important works of the Renaissance if not all of Western art, was painted between 1494 and 1498 in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. From the moment that the prior at the monastery complained...

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History of Art

Legends in Limestone Lazarus, Gislebertus, and the Cathedral of Autun

Seidel Linda

ISBN: HB: 9780226745152, University of Chicago Press, October 1999
200 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 78 halftones, 9 line drawings, 2 maps, 2 tables

Whereas twelfth-century pilgrims flocked to the church of St-Lazare in Autun to visit the relics of its patron saint, present-day pilgrims journey there to admire its superb sculpture, said to have been created by the artist Gislebertus whose name is...

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Philosophy

Love and Saint Augustine

Arendt Hannah

ISBN: PB: 9780226025971, University of Chicago Press, April 1998
254 pp., 23x15 cm

Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt...

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Philosophy

Logic and Sin in the Writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein

Shields Philip R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226753027, ISBN: HB: 9780226753010, University of Chicago Press, February 1998
153 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Philip R. Shields shows that ethical and religious concerns inform even the most technical writings on logic and language, and that, for Wittgenstein, the need to establish clear limitations is both a logical and an ethical demand. Rather than merely...

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Philosophy

Leo Strauss and Nietzsche

Lampert Laurence

ISBN: PB: 9780226468266, ISBN: HB: 9780226468259, University of Chicago Press, December 1997
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The influential political philosopher Leo Strauss has been credited by conservatives with the recovery of the great tradition of political philosophy stretching back to Plato. Among Strauss's most enduring legacies is a strongly negative assessment o...

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Philosophy

Leading a Human Life Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism

Eldridge Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226203133, ISBN: HB: 9780226203126, University of Chicago Press, October 1997
307 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this provocative new study, Richard Eldridge presents a highly original and compelling account of Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations", one of the most enduring yet enigmatic works of the twentieth century. He does so by reading the text...

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History of Art

Largesse

Starobinski Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226771366, ISBN: HB: 9780226771359, University of Chicago Press, June 1997
220 pp., 30x21.1 cm, 30 colour plates, 50 halftones

In 1990 the Department of Graphic Arts at the Louvre made their holdings available to guest curators for a program called Parti Pris, or "Taking Sides". In this program, major cultural figures outside of the discipline of art history organized exhibi...

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History of Art

Likeness and Presence A History of the Image before the Era of Art

Belting Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780226042152, University of Chicago Press, January 1997
676 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 12 colour plates, 294 halftones

Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and its c...

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Philosophy

Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy

Arendt Hannah

ISBN: PB: 9780226025957, University of Chicago Press, September 1989
182 pp., 23x15 cm

Hannah Arendt's last philosophical work was an intended three-part project entitled "The Life of the Mind". Unfortunately, Arendt lived to complete only the first two parts, "Thinking and Willing". Of the third, "Judging", only the title page, with e...

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History of Art

Learning to Look A Handbook for the Visual Arts

Taylor Joshua C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226791548, University of Chicago Press, June 1981
186 pp., 23.5x14.9 cm, 2 colour plates, 42 halftones

Sometimes seeing is more difficult for the student of art than believing. Taylor, in a book that has sold more than 300,000 copies since its original publication in 1957, has helped two generations of art students "learn to look". This handy guide...

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