Elisabetta Valtz (7 results)

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Paperback. Joan Aruz, Yale University Press. During its early history, Afghanistan was a crossroads of commerce from diverse cultures along its bustling trade routes, known as the "Silk Road", which stretched from China to Egypt. This compelling volume examines objects from Afghanistan's antiquity - stone and terracotta architecture and sculpture, coins, ivories, and encrusted gold jewellery - as it leads us through the rich background of this fascinating country. Expert perspectives on archaeology, art history, and material culture can be found in ten essays, originally presented at a symposium at the Metropolitan Museum, of superb finds from Ai Khanum, Begram, and Tillya Tepe. Illustrated with over 100 reproductions, these essays explore such issues as the Hellenic presence in Bactria; relations between nomadic and sedentary populations; contacts with Rome, Iran, China, and India; and, the creation of unique Bactrian styles of expression. Paperback. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2012, Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;Distributed by Yale University Press. viii 134pp, numerous colour and black & white illustrations in text. Pictorial card cover. 'The essays in this volume concentrate on periods of great artistic development: the Bactrian Bronze Age and the eras following the conquests of Alexander the Great with special focus on the sites of Ai Khanum, Begram and Tillya Tepe.' Condition: spotting to very edges of pages. Shelf wear particularly to edges. Otherwise a very good clean and tight copy.…

160 pages, 138 colour illustrations. Wrappers ISBN: 9780300179545. A meeting point of the Silk Road trading routes, Afghanistan became a bustling artistic centre for coins, ivories, gold jewellery and new stone and terracotta architecture. This illustrated publication collates essays presented at a recent symposium at the Metropolitan Museum looking at these pieces, as well as links with China, Rome, Iran and India and relations between nomadic and sedentary populations. Text in English.…

Paperback. Condition: New. During its early history, Afghanistan was a crossroads of commerce from diverse cultures along its bustling trade routes, known as the "Silk Road", which stretched from China to Egypt. This compelling volume examines objects from Afghanistan's antiquity - stone and terracotta architecture and sculpture, coins, ivories, and encrusted gold jewellery - as it leads us through the rich background of this fascinating country. Expert perspectives on archaeology, art history, and material culture can be found in ten essays, originally presented at a symposium at the Metropolitan Museum, of superb finds from Ai Khanum, Begram, and Tillya Tepe. Illustrated with over 100 reproductions, these essays explore such issues as the Hellenic presence in Bactria; relations between nomadic and sedentary populations; contacts with Rome, Iran, China, and India; and, the creation of unique Bactrian styles of expression.…

Paperback. Condition: New. The twenty essays in this book originated from a Metropolitan Museum symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition ?The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian Steppesâ (2000?2001). Texts by prominent scholars include: ?The Prehistory of Scythian Cavalry: The Evolution of Fighting on Horsebackâ by David W. Anthony; ?Steppe Nomadic Culture and Political Organizationâ by Thomas J. Barfield; ?Mobility, Art, and Identity in Early Iron Age Europe and Asiaâ by Peter S. Wells; ?The Gold of the Griffins: Recent Excavation of a Frozen Tomb in Kazakhstanâ by Henri-Paul Francfort, Giancarlo Ligabue, and Zainullah Samashev; and ?Discovery of a Royal Burial of the Scythian Period in Tuvaâ by Konstantin V. Chugunov, Anatolii Nagler, and Hermann Parzinger.…

Condition: 1830-1850. à S. A. R. Elisabetta Principessa di Sassonia Duchessa di Genova Elisabetta Valtz per Piano-Forte Composto e Dedicato da P. Marini XIXe siècle ca1850 9 pages 32.8 x 25.3 cm Très bon état 057303 Piano solo.