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Language: en
Pages: 416
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher:
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Language: en
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-31 - Publisher: Leuven University Press
New insights into the history of Islamic glassmaking The ancient glass industry changed dramatically towards the end of the first millennium. The Roman glassmak
Language: en
Pages: 186
Pages: 186
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Getty Publications
Students and scholars of the Italian Renaissance easily fall under the spell of its achievements: its self-confident humanism, its groundbreaking scientific inn
Language: en
Pages: 388
Pages: 388
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press
From 828, when Venetian merchants carried home from Alexandria the stolen relics of St. Mark, to the fall of the Venetian Republic to Napoleon in 1797, the visu
Language: en
Pages: 343
Pages: 343
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
This catalogue accompanies an exhibition that brings together more than 150 glass objects representing twelve centuries of Islamic glassmaking. Included are the