Summits of my life
Extraits
Histoire internationale
One Artist on Five Continents
Elisabet Delbrück (1876-1967) was one of a number of Germans who came to New Zealand in the late 1930s. Unlike most, she had not intended to emigrate but was touring the country when World War II broke out. She was at first forbidden to leave and then chose to remain in Wellington. Her thirty years in Mahina Bay on Wellington harbour had a profound effect on all who knew her. This study aims to discover why she was so remarkable. It explores her early life, her marriage into a prominent German family and her qualification as an artist. She turned this into a profession, teaching and exhibiting on five continents in the 1920s and 1930s. She always travelled alone, observing the customs and beliefs of the people she met. In Australia and New Zealand in 1938 and 1939 she was wrongly suspected of spreading Nazi propaganda. Her story is also the story of a heroic group of Wellingtonians who helped her in the 1940s and valued her friendship till her death.
12/2011
Non classé
She’s Leaving Home
This collection of essays, written by scholars from all over Europe, explores the cultural meanings of women leaving home. Although all the chapters analyse writings in English, the volume aims to put the narrative element of home-leaving into a European context by investigating travel in various directions : from England to somewhere abroad, from the (former) colonies to the (former) imperial centre or simply within a psychic space. The female figures discussed in the volume leave home for various reasons – to go into exile, to challenge orthodox conceptions of femininity, to travel for pleasure or out of curiosity – but ultimately each of them has to face questions of the definitions of home, belonging and otherness. Consequently, the essays in this collection focus on how the cross-cultural encounters implicated in discourses of race, gender, nation and religion affect female identity. The ‘protagonists' of these narratives range from mythical heroines to early modern Protestant refugees to fictitious and historical figures from the past 200 years. The discussion throughout is informed by contemporary theories of gender, literary and cultural studies.
06/2011
Sociologie
The Fakir's Travels
Advising people to take this attitude or that are a waste of time. Those who see or/and are aware realise also that it is none of their business to goad and advise others. Our job at best can be to answer questions by the light of our knowledge but in no way can anyone be dogmatic about it. Let us all be first aware of - Do we know ? What do we know ? How do we know that we know ? To me it is the part where we first accept that there is room for change for the better in us. Then we observe ourselves. And finally we try to bring in the change in ourselves with our will with sincerity and objectivity.
04/2014
Livres-jeux
It's my life ! Personnel et confidentiel ! Les amis, les cours, le look, mes hobbies, mes rêves, mes envies... Avec fermeture zippée
TU CROULES SOUS LES DEVOIRS A FAIRE. TU ESFACHEE AVEC TA MEILLEURE AMIE ET TU DESESPERES D'ATTIRER UN JOUR L'ATTENTION DE TON PARTENAIRE EN PHYSIQUE-CHIMIE ? La vie au collège n'est vraiment pas de tout repos... Mais grâce à ce carnet, tu vas apprendre à faire face à toutes les situations. Pratique avec sa fermeture zip, il t'accompagnera partout dans la relève de nouveaux défis ! A L'INTERIEUR : DES PAGES CONFESSIONS A REMPLIR SEULE OU ENTRE COPINES, DES TESTS ET PLEIN DE CONSEILS POUR ETUDIER EFFICACEMENT TROUVER TON STYLE ET AVOIR DAVANTAGE CONFIANCE EN TOI !
08/2021
Philosophie
Translation, Reduction and Equivalence
Contemporary epistemology and philosophy of science devote a central place to questions of the following sort : When are two conceptual frameworks equivalent ? Under what conditions is one scientific theory reducible to another ? This essay attempts to reach a clearer grasp of these issues by providing a logical analysis of intertheory translation and reduction. Taking first order logic as a starting point, several classical theorems on definability and interpolation are generalised so as to obtain a model-theoretic characterisation of some basic types of reductive relations between theories. This account is later extended by adopting a very general and powerful semantical framework inspired by abstract logic. In this setting it is shown how a richer class of intertheoretic relations can be defined, and how the structuralist approach to reduction, developed by Sneed and Stegmüller, can be critically evaluated.
12/1985
Non classé
Music, Poetry, Propaganda
Offering new perspectives on the role of broadcasting in the construction of cultural memory, this book analyses selected instances in relation to questions of French identity at the BBC during the Second World War. The influence of policy and ideology on the musical and the poetic is addressed by drawing on theoretical frameworks of the archive, memory, trauma and testimony. Case studies investigate cultural memories constructed through three contrasting soundscapes. The first focuses on the translation of ‘Frenchness' to the BBC's domestic audiences ; the second examines the use of slogans on the margins of propaganda broadcasts. In the third, the implications of the marriage of poetry and music in the BBC's 1945 premier of Francis Poulenc's cantata setting of resistance poems by the surrealist poet Paul Eluard in Figure humaine are assessed. Concentrating on the role of the archive as both narrative source and theoretical frame, this study offers a new approach to the understanding of soundscapes and demonstrates the processes involved in the creation of sonic cultural memory in the context of global conflict.
04/2012
Maurice, Seychelles
Mauritius, Reunion & Seychelles. 11th edition
Lonely Planet's Mauritius, Reunion and Seychelles is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Hike through Cirque de Mafate, relax in the waters of Denis Island, dive to the rock formations off Mauritius ; all with your trusted travel companion. Inside Lonely Planet's Mauritius, Reunion and Seychelles Travel Guide : Lonely Planet's Top Picks - a visually inspiring collection of the destination's best experiences and where to have them Itineraries help you build the ultimate trip based on your personal needs and interests Local insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - whether it's history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, politics Eating and drinking - get the most out of your gastronomic experience as we reveal the regional dishes and drinks you have to try Diving and Hiking in Réunion Toolkit - all of the planning tools for solo travellers, LGBTQIA+ travellers, family travellers and accessible travel Colour maps and images throughout Language - essential phrases and language tips Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Covers ort Louis, Central Plateau, Grand Baie, Flic en Flac, Rodrigues, St-Denis, the Cirques, St-Pierre, Mahe, Praslin, La Digue and more
01/2024
Poésie
Bahareh
The author, like a painter, paints the poetic portrait of his first muse, Bahareh !
07/2022
Non classé
RoferonÎ-A in Chronic Viral Hepatitis
Chronic liver infection due to viral hepatitis B and C is a major public health problem. Worldwide, an estimated 750 million people are carriers of these two viruses. Alpha-interferons, such as RoferonI-A, are currently the therapy of choice in chronic viral hepatitis B and C. They are effective in preventing disease progression and life-threatening sequelae : liver cirrhosis, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, and variceal hemorrhage and/or hepatocellular carcinoma. On the other hand, discussion has been raised on the potentially enormous cost impact of these genetically engineered drugs in the treatment of an already costly disease. This study identifies and evaluates the long-term clinical and economic effects of RoferonI-A treatment in chronic viral hepatitis B and C over a time period of 10 to 20 years. Clinical and epidemiological data, as well as the detailed health care resource use and cost assessment, reflect the clinical and economic reality in Germany in 1993. A Markov model is used to predict the long-term clinical benefits of RoferonI-A therapy in terms of reduced morbidity and mortality. Based on this, direct costs, savings, and cost-effectiveness are analysed, including : RoferonI-A therapy initiation and follow-up, physician services, laboratory services, medicotechnical services, drug therapy, hospitalization as well as surgical interventions (liver transplantations).
06/1994
Sciences de la terre et de la
The Extended Organism. The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures
Can the structures that animals build-from the humble burrows of earthworms to towering termite mounds to the Great Barrier Reef-be said to live ? However counterintuitive the idea might first seem, physiological ecologist Scott Turner demonstrates in this book that many animals construct and use structures to harness and control the flow of energy from their environment to their own advantage. Building on Richard Dawkins's classic book The Extended Phenotype, Turner shows why drawing the boundary of an organism's physiology at the skin of the animal is arbitrary.
01/2000
Non classé
Boethius and the Liberal Arts
This collection of essays by authors in a variety of specialities should demonstrate how, in the Middle Ages, Boethius' texts helped shape the essential concepts of the educated person who underwent a course of the Liberal Arts studies. These essays should be of interest to philosophers, logicians, musicologists, historians of mathematics and ideas and to literary scholars. Not only is each paper written by a known authority in his field, but the collection into one volume shows how closely related these various disciplines were in the principles which Boethius chose as his basis for the Study of the Liberal Arts.
12/1982
Droit
Intra-Group Arrangements under Articles 85 and 86 of the Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community
The theory of enterprise unity is of particular importance to multinational enterprises with many affiliates. The law pertaining to the relationship of the various entities within such a group has to address itself to a whole array of problems. The comparison of the approaches taken by the legal systems surveyed is concerned with the antitrust perspective as discernible from the enforcement practice. The possible application of the Competition Rules to such intra-group arrangements involves an examination of conspiratorial situations in which corporate personnel, agents, unincorporated divisions and incorporated subsidiaries as well as corporations owned by the same person(s) take part.
12/1984
Non classé
Participation and Litigation Rights of Environmental Associations in Europe
This book assembles the revised papers of an international conference and thus offers a comprehensive comparative overview of the participation and litigation rights of environmental associations in Europe. This is supplemented by a compilation of the relevant statutory law in force. Besides the legal background, the focus of interest is above all on practical experience with participation and litigation rights from the point of view of the environmental associations.The contributions show that the effectivity of group actions is extremely high. In none of the analysed countries were there the slightest indications of any undue strain being placed on the judicial system by this instrument. There can be no doubt that the participation and litigation rights of environmental organizations are important instruments in reducing the enforcement deficit in environmental protection. With a view to the fact that Europe is growing more and more into one entity, the need of participation of environmental NGO's on the European level becomes a pressing necessity.
10/1991
Non classé
Fiction, or the language of our discontent
This study concentrates on metafictional novels by Angus Wilson, Lawrence Durrell and Doris Lessing. The various methods and degrees of the built-in novelists' attempts to transform autobiographical experience into fiction are surveyed and followed by a discussion of the validity of mimetic presuppositions about fiction. The alternatives to realism are then discussed against the background of recent narratological theories.
12/1985
Non classé
Friendship and Love in the Middle English Metrical Romances
"Friendship and Love in the Middle English Metrical Romances" groups together a representative cross-section of the genre, according to variants of love relationships, and to ideas of friendship. The horizontal and the vertical structure of the relatonship are tripartite. The horizontal stages are attraction, separation-testing-trial, and reunion, the vertical spheres are the personal, social/political, and religious. All relationships fail into two types, the restorative-concordant and the innovative-discordant. These are defined by the relative position of the partners in the social-political sphere of their relationship. The groups of relationship are defined by the initially more active partner : forward heroine, fairy mistress, forward hero, mutual love, married love ; friendship, lords and retainers. Surveys of the Insular understanding of courtly love, and of Caxton's prose romances, complement the findings.
02/1991
Littérature française
Georges Couderc, his Life, his Work, the Wine
VERSION EN ANGLAIS // Depuis son plus jeune âge, Georges Couderc est un travailleur captivé. Devenu ingénieur agronome, il n'a de cesse d'approfondir ses connaissances, tout en les diversifiant. Quand le phylloxéra ravage les vignobles à la fin des années 1860, ses recherches contribuent à la sauvegarde et à la protection des exploitations. Mondialement connus et reconnus, ses travaux sur les hybrides de vigne, la botanique, les cryptogames, la maladie de l'encre, les aurantiacées et la reforestation ont traversé les décennies, faisant de lui l'un des grands noms de la vigne. Dans cette biographie richement illustrée, Averelle et François Morisson-Couderc retracent le parcours extraordinaire de Georges Couderc, chercheur passionné et passionnant, revenant, à l'aide de documents originaux et de correspondances personnelles, sur ses nombreuses découvertes.
01/2022
Shonen/garçon
Chillin' Life in a Different World Tome 7
Afin de sauver l'ancien Roi Démon Gozaru d'une blessure fatale, Furio décide d'utiliser le même sort de manipulation temporelle qu'il avait lancé sur Lys. Alors que la voix d'une déesse lui parvient pour l'avertir de ne pas employer ce pouvoir dépassant les capacités humaines, Furio ne pense qu'au sourire de ses amis et aux jours paisibles à venir avec eux. Quelque temps plus tard, Furio et Lys ouvrent enfin leur propre boutique. Mais hors de leur petit paradis empli de joie, la guerre entre les démons et les humains gagne en intensité... La boutique, née du voeu sincère de Furio d'unir les humains et les démons, suffira-t-elle face à des années de ressentiment et de conflits entre les deux espèces ?
12/2022
Shonen/garçon
Chillin' Life in a Different World Tome 6
Bien que le fossé séparant humains et démons soit grand, Furio commence à entrapercevoir un espoir dans ses échanges avec le roi démon et ses subalternes. Il reste néanmoins toujours très hésitant quant à ce qu'il devrait faire, lui qui possède des pouvoirs presque trop grands pour être contrôlés. Mais lorsque l'ancien roi de Cryroad s'allie avec deux soeurs renardes et commence à semer le trouble en ville, Furio va à nouveau se retrouver au centre d'un tourbillon de problèmes...
07/2022
Shonen/garçon
Chillin' Life in a Different World Tome 8
Face à la haine que se vouent les humains et les démons, Furio décide de faire étalage de sa force afin de dissuader les deux camps de se battre, et commence à chercher comment les faire cohabiter. C'est alors qu'il apprend que Wyn, la jeune fille wyverne qu'il avait recueilli, a été séparée de sa famille à cause du sort de manipulation temporelle qu'il avait lancé. Plein de remords, il se surmène pour tenter de trouver un moyen de rendre les démonions que Wyn libère inoffensifs pour les humains, ce qui cause beaucoup d'inquiétude à ses proches et à Lys... Sa magie dépassant la sagesse humaine a créé un miracle, mais aussi une tragédie... Il faudra un amour très fort pour apaiser le coeur d'un être au pouvoir aussi phénoménal !!
07/2023
Shonen/garçon
Chillin' Life in a Different World Tome 3
Invoqué puis lâché dans un autre monde depuis quelque temps, Furio est désormais bien habitué à sa nouvelle vie. Son épouse non-officielle, Fenrys, occupe une place de plus en plus grande dans son coeur ; au point qu'il commence à ressentir le devoir de la protéger. Alors que Fenrys se retrouve au bord de la mort suite à l'attaque du génie Hiya, Furio entre dans une rage incontrôlable. Face à ses capacités illimitées, même un génie à la puissance phénoménale ne peut rien ! Mais sans qu'ils s'en aperçoivent, cette explosion de force réveille un adversaire plus redoutable encore...
09/2021
BD jeunesse divers
A new life ! De Tokyo à New-York
La jeune japonaise Lilico Takada a la belle vie : elle a des supers copines, un chat trop chou et elle est capitaine de l'équipe de basket de son école. En un mot, elle est heu-reu-se ! Oui mais voilà, ses parents ont décidé de déménager aux Etats-Unis ! En moins de temps qu'il n'en faut pour le dire, Lilico se retrouve au coeur de Brooklyn, à New York, avec l'obligation de tout recommencer. Son adaptation n'est pas facile : ses amies sont loin et la fille populaire du collège la prend en grippe. Heureusement, Nala et Henry, passionnés d'anime et de culture japonaise, finissent par se lier d'amitié avec elle. Avec leur aide, ainsi que celle de son ange gardien qui ressemble beaucoup à son chat, Lilico pourrait bien finir par s'adapter à sa nouvelle vie...
09/2023
Comics divers
Life is strange Tome 3 : Les cordes sensibles
Depuis les événements survenus à Arcadia Bay, deux réalités s'opposent dans la vie de Max. Une ligne temporelle dans laquelle Chloe et Rachel se sont sacrifiées pour sauver leur petite ville, et une autre dans laquelle ce sacrifice n'a jamais eu lieu . Réfugiée dans la seconde, Max comprend que son habileté à remonter le temps dérègle tout autour d'elle et elle finit par se rendre à l'évidence : elle doit retourner dans la ligne temporelle initiale, même si cela signifie de faire une croix définitive sur ses amies retrouvées...
12/2021
Loisirs
Life is poker. Le poker comme la vie
Et si la vie était comme une partie de poker ? C'est en substance l'idée à laquelle s'est frotté Lionel Rosso dans ce court essai où il confronte le jeu de poker à nos divers modes de fonctionnement dans la vie quotidienne. Dans cette enquête, l'auteur avance l'hypothèse selon laquelle le poker n'est pas seulement un jeu ou même un sport cérébral mais également un moyen sérieux et concret pour mieux se connaître. Car le rapport entre le poker et la vie de tous les jours est partout : séduction, réussite, risque, adrénaline, stress, amélioration personnelle... Sans être une nouvelle méthode de développement personnel, ce livre offre donc un regard intelligent sur ce jeu, loin des clichés qui lui sont généralement associés. Pour mener à bien cette étude, Lionel Rosso a rencontré de nombreuses personnalités de tous horizons comme Julien Dray, Antoine Arnault, Patrick Partouche, Gilbert Gross, Michel Abécassis, Bruno Solo, Raymond Domenech, etc. Qu'il s'agisse de chefs d'entreprise, d'élus, de comédiens ou de sportifs de haut niveau, tous présentent ce jeu comme un " complément ", une " aide ", à leur vie de tous les jours. Etonnant.
10/2009
Cinéma
Crazy life. A l'amour, à la haine
Audacieuse, fantasque, drôle, mais douce aussi, blessée et tendre, Lova Moor n'est pas la personne que certains souhaitent voir. L'ex-danseuse vedette du Crazy Horse révèle dans ces souvenirs tout ce qu'elle a sur le cœur. La plus vamp de nos stars médiatiques raconte son parcours exemplaire qui la conduisit de ses Charentes natales, province un peu pudibonde, jusqu'aux sunlights du cabaret et aux clips sexy. Franche ; directe, elle cite sans faux-semblants ceux qui l'ont aidée et ceux qui l'ont meurtrie. Elle n'omet rien : ni sa rencontre torride avec Alain Delon ni sa vénération pour Alain Bernardin, le patron du Crazy Horse et l'homme de sa vie. Pas plus que ses bagarres contre les mauvaises langues ; son combat pour obtenir son dû dans l'héritage de son mari ou ses amitiés dans le monde du show-biz ou de la politique. Derrière son image " glamour ", c'est une Lova Moor toute différente qui se cache. Une femme pudique et attentionnée qui n'a jamais rien fait comme tout le monde. Une femme qui a toujours travaillé pour l'amour et lutté contre la haine.
05/2003
Thèmes photo
Auctus Animalis. Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains
Auctus Animalis (animal augmenté) Au croisement de la science et de la magie, Auctus animalis raconte l'expérience d'un biotope crée par une société parallèle au XVIIIe siècle sur l'île de Kyramide. Cet étonnant bestiaire associant histoire et anticipation, mémoire et science-fiction révèle une collection de créatures inspirée d'une nature reprogrammée par les biotechnologies et certaines mythologies : panthère au pelage luminescent, papillon créateur de silence, oiseaux sculpteur de nuages... La composition musicale qui joue avec cette galerie de portraits donne à entendre des sons hybrides qui résonnent avec l'univers de ces néo-êtres. Auctus animalis est une fable qui fait l'experience de nouvelles relations possibles avec la nature. Auctus Animalis, un bestiaire surréaliste et futuriste. Entre histoire et anticipation, mémoire et science fiction. La série se situe au croisement entre la biologie et le surréalisme, en nous plongeant dans un monde suspendu entre réel et virtuel qui défie les réalités scientifiques à l'image de l'ère anthropocentrique que nous vivons. Ce bestiaire imaginaire met l'accent sur des animaux potentiellement en voie de disparition : un paon à l'exosquelette en argent serti de diamants, une libellule dotée d'un capteur luminescent qui mesure la qualité de l'air... Vincent Fournier (photographie) et Sébastien Gaxie (musique) sont les lauréats de la 5ème édition du Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains pour leur projet Auctus Animalis. La Fondation Swiss Life a créé son Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains - Photographie & Musique, en 2014 : le prix est destiné à valoriser des talents et récompense un projet de création croisée et originale d'un photographe et d'un compositeur. Pour la 5ème édition, ce sont le photographe Vincent Fournier et le compositeur Sébastien Gaxie à remporter la mise. Le nouveau binôme lauréat sera accompagné durant deux ans par la Fondation Swiss Life et ses conseillers artistiques : Emilia Genuardi pour la photographie, et Olivier Bouley pour la musique.
10/2022
Shonen/garçon
Chillin' Life in a Different World Tome 5
Furio, qui rêve d'un monde où les humains et les démons vivraient en paix, a choisi de rester neutre dans la guerre qui les oppose. Pourtant, il se retrouve à héberger chez lui le roi démon Gowl et sa subalterne, Uliminas, suite au coup d'état du frère du roi qui a pris sa place sur le trône. Alors que toutes ces personnes, assez fortes pour changer le monde, sont réunies au même endroit, elles décident... de partir en vacances dans une auberge avec des sources chaudes ? ! Furio et les autres voulaient juste se relaxer dans les sources chaudes, mais un grand conflit éclate ! Un bon bain chaud suffira-t-il à faire fondre la tension qui existe entre les humains et les démons ? !
03/2022
Littérature française
The Star of snows
Written during the black decade of Algeria, this narrative of apprenticeship is freely inspired by a real fact arisen in Kabylia during the childhood of the author. Its electrical wire is the friendship of a child and an eccentric whom some tolerate and whom others would want to send to the asylum. By his side, the child is going to learn to listen to the music of trees and to look at the world with the eyes of the heart. This tale, at the same time naive and grave, invites us to wonder about the cogs of the mechanics of the scapegoat. It is dedicated to all the children of the world who closely or remotely were next to the rejection and to the intolerance.
08/2016
Littérature érotique et sentim
Indigenization of Language in the African Francophone Novel
Indigenization of Language in the African Francophone Novel : A New Literary Canon discusses the question of indigenization in the African Francophone novel. Analyzing the prose narratives of Nazi Boni, Ahmadou Kourouma, and Patrice Nganang, this book contends that African literature written in European languages is primarily a creative translation process. Recourse to European languages as a medium of expressing African imagination, worldview, and cultures in fictional writing poses problems of intelligibility. Developed to express and reflect Western worldviews and sensibilities, European languages are employed by African writers to convey messages that seem to be at variance with European imagination. These writers find themselves writing in languages they wish to subvert through the technique of literary indigenization. The significance of this study resides in its raising awareness to the hurdles that literary creativity in a polyglossic context may present to readers and translators. This book provides answers to intriguing questions centering on the problematic of translation in contemporary African literature. It is a contribution to current research aimed at unraveling the conundrum surrounding the language question in African Europhone fiction, particularly the cultural functions of translation in literature. Potential translation problems have to be addressed in order to make African literature written in European languages intelligible to global readership. With the advent of globalization, transcultural communication has become an activity of enormous importance to the international community. It is a subject of great interest to translators, linguists, language instructors, and literary theorists.
12/2010
Droit
Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2015
The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2015 provides a dynamic and up-to-date overview of the measures Italy has taken to adapt its legislation and policies to international human rights law and to comply with commitments voluntarily assumed by the Italian Government at the international level. The 2015 Yearbook surveys the activities of the relevant national and local Italian actors, including governmental bodies, civil society organisations and universities. It also presents reports and recommendations that have been addressed to Italy in 2014 by international monitoring bodies within the framework of the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the European Union. Finally, the Yearbook provides a selection of international and national case-law that casts light on Italy's position vis-à-vis internationally recognised human rights. "Italy and Human Rights in 2014 : the Challenge of National/International Constitutional Synergism" is the focus of the introductory section of the Yearbook. The complex network of monitoring actions carried out by the supranational bodies, and the relative reporting requirements Italy must meet, can only be viewed in the context of reciprocal exchange and strengthening between the provisions enshrined in the national Constitution and international human rights law. The Italian Agenda of Human Rights 2015 represents an updated orientation tool intended to support the commitment taken by the Italian Government in the framework of the second Universal Periodic Review (October 2014) before the UN Human Rights Council.
03/1991
Beaux arts
Italian Maiolica and Other Early Modern Ceramics in the Courtauld Gallery
This is the first catalogue of the collection of early modern ceramics in the Courtauld. The pieces in the collection showcase brilliantly the skill of potters and pottery painters working at the time of Raphael and Titian. Maiolica is one of the most revealing expressions of Renaissance art. Its extraordinary range of colours retain the vividness that they had when they left the potter's kiln. Italian potters absorbed techniques and shapes from the Islamic world and incorporated ornament and subject matter from the arts of ancient Rome. This new approach to pottery making, combined with the invention of printing, woodcut and engraving, resulted in an extraordinary type of painted pottery, praised by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists for 'surpassing the ancient with its brilliance of glaze and variety of painting'. The collection boasts a magnificent group of vessels made during the high Renaissance, the golden age of Italian maiolica. It includes precious and delicate Deruta lustreware with imagery deriving from Perugino and Raphael, as well as vessels painted in a narrative style of pottery painting known as istoriato. Highlights include vessels depicting episodes taken from the first printed Bibles of the Renaissance. Istoriato maiolica flourished particularly in the lands of the Dukes of Urbino, who promoted this craft by sending painted pottery to prestigious patrons across Europe. Emblems and devices painted on the pottery help us understand that they were meant to be used and enjoyed by the elites in Renaissance society, such as the Medici and other great Tuscan families. The catalogue will include two recent gifts to the Courtauld, a rare tile of the famous patroness of the arts Marchioness Isabella D'Este, and a refined dish painted with the story of Diana and Actaeon. All major Renaissance pottery centres are represented in the collection, including Siena, Faenza and Venice, as well as splendid examples of the mysterious pharmacy jars made at the foot of the mountain of Gran Sasso in the town of Castelli d'Abruzzo. These achievements of the art of pottery in the early modern period are completed by fine examples of Ottoman pottery, as well as examples of Valencian lustreware. Sani's introductory essay on the Victorian collector Thomas Gambier Parry will shed new light on the development of this fascinating collection, making links between Gambier Parry's artistic practice and his collecting and revealing new insights into his taste as a collector. Each detailed entry uncovers a wealth of new information on the provenance of the pieces.
03/2023
