The Meeting of Two Worlds(1st Edition) Europe and the Americans, 1492-1650 (Proceedings of the British Academy) by WarwickBray Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 1993 by British Academy ISBN-13: 978-0-19-726134-7, ISBN: 0-19-726134-5
"Heroic endeavour or disaster of hemispheric proportions? What is certain is that Columbus's discovery of the New World resulted in biological and cultural exchanges unprecedented in the history of human populations. This volume brings together eleven scholars--from both sides of the Atantic and from the disciplines of history, archaeology, anthropology, geography, and biology--to discuss the nature of the European conquest and its conse ..."
"Briefly traces the history of the Aztecs, reconstructs Mexican life on the eve of the conquest by Cortes in 1519, and describes the city of Tenochtitlan before its destruction"
""Founded in 1811, Dulwich Picture Gallery was England's first public museum. The gallery is home to one of the most important collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art in the world, including works by Rembrandt, Rubens, and Van Dyck; Poussin and Watteau; Tiepolo and Canaletto; Murillo and Velazquez; and Hogarth and Gainsborough, among many others. Ninety masterpieces of the Baroque and Rococo periods are illustrated and dis ..."
"A catalog of a traveling art exhibition, presenting new interpretive perspectives on the prehispanic art of Colombia and introducing important new archaeological cultures recently uncovered in southwest and northern Colombia. Offers an in-depth look at richly symbolic ceramics and goldworks, and examines their significance and multiple meanings in indigenous religion, myth, sociology, and cosmology. Lavishly illustrated with high-qualit ..."
"This unique guide, with its more than sixteen hundred entries, covers the whole field of archaeology from human evolution and the prehistoric period to the civilizations of prehistoric period to the civilizations of Egypt, the Near East, Europe, and the Americas. There are sections dealing with important sites, cultures, and ancient propels. And with the technique of modern archaeological research. Other entries describe field monuments ..."
"From the Abbevillean handaxe and the god Baal of the Canaanites to the Wisconsin and Wurm glaciations of America and Europe, the Yang Shao culture of neolithic China and Zinjanthropus, the "nutcracker man" of Africa, this dictionary describes, in more than 1,600 entries with cross-references, the sites, cultures, periods, techniques, terms and personalities of archaeology."
"From the Abbevillean handaxe and the god Baal of the Canaanites to the Wisconsin and Wurm glaciations of America and Europe, the Yang Shao culture of neolithic China and Zinjanthropus, the "nutcracker man" of Africa, this dictionary describes, in more than 1,600 entries with cross-references, the sites, cultures, periods, techniques, terms and personalities of archaeology."
Ancient Mesoamerica precolumbian Mexican and Maya art; an exhibition of material from private collections in Great Britain, 4th June to 31st July, 1970. by WarwickBray, Art Gallery. Paperback, 35 Pages, Published 1970 by Birmingham City Museum ISBN-13: 978-0-903504-06-5, ISBN: 0-903504-06-5
"Symposia presented at the Denver Art Museum in 2002 and 2007 focused, respectively, on pre-Columbian art in the museum collection and the art and archaeology of ancient Costa Rica. Edited by Denver Art Museum curator Margaret Young-Sanchez, this lavishly illustrated volume brings together newly revised and expanded symposium papers from pre-Columbian scholars, while paying tribute to the legacy of Denver philanthropist Frederick R. Maye ..."
"Twenty objects illustrate artistic traditions and achievements from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas around (circa) the year 1492, when European explorers created new links among continents. The Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration loan packet includes: a 53-page booklet 15 color study prints a slideset with 20 works of art."
Sweat of the sun gold of Peru : catalogue of an exhibition of Peruvian treasures, City of Edinburgh Art Centre 1 August - 30 September 1990 by WarwickBray, W. Iain Mackay, Herbert Coutts, S. Anita Schrader 1 Pages, Published 1990 by City Of Edinburgh Museums And Art Galleries ISBN-13: 978-0-905072-39-5, ISBN: 0-905072-39-1
""This book is considered a classic reference work for museum staff, dealers and collectors in Costa Rican pre-Columbian artifacts." This is a very handsome book that appears unread: Glossy, pictorial wraps; 240 pages, index inclusive; tight binding - no reader's crease or page separation; corners are square and sharp; no external or internal marks; no chips, tears or creases; text block is bright and clean; stunning color and black and ..."
"Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 240 pages; Description: 240 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 28 cm. Subjects: Indian art--Costa Rica--Exhibitions. Indians of Central America--Costa Rica--Antiquities--Exhibitions. Museum studies."