I'm in Love with the Villainess Tome 7
Extraits
Livres 3 ans et +
Théo n'aime pas la télé
Théo est un petit lapin plein de vie. Il prend plaisir à jouer en compagnie de ses frères et soeurs ou de ses amis. Tout se passe pour le mieux jusqu'à ce que la télévision arrive dans sa maison et accapare l'attention des habitants de la forêt. Mais Théo ne va pas en rester là./ Theo is a lively little rabbit. He loves to play with his brothers and sisters, or his friends. Life is good... until the television arrives at his house and hogs the attention of the forest animals. But Theo won't let it rest.
06/2020
Seinen/Homme
The Eminence in Shadow Tome 7
Il est prêt à tout pour devenir une Eminence de l'ombre... mais ses plus gros mensonges vont le rattraper ! Après avoir été propulsé dans un monde parallèle à la suite d'un accident, Cid prend un malin plaisir à interpréter son rôle d'Eminence de l'Ombre, un personnage mystérieux qui influence le cours des événements depuis les coulisses et qui possède d'incroyables pouvoirs. Sous l'identité d'emprunt de Michael Conk, Cid dispute les épreuves éliminatoires du tournoi de Bushin, une grande compétition durant laquelle s'affrontent les plus grands escrimeurs du monde, et où le meilleur d'entre eux est sacré champion. Son objectif ultime est de passer pour un tocard méprisable tout en faisant deviner à une poignée d'individus sa véritable puissance avant de la laisser exploser au moment crucial ! Et comme on peut s'y attendre, le tournoi n'est que la partie visible d'un complot ourdi dans l'ombre...
01/2023
Shonen/garçon
Diamond in the rough Tome 7
Le pouvoir des pierres... ! De grands enjeux ! Kai saura-t-il prouver sa valeur ?
12/2023
Shonen/garçon
Darling in the Franxx Tome 7
Dans un futur lointain, l'humanité s'est retranchée dans des villes fortifiées mobiles, les Plantations. Elles sont régulièrement menacées par les Kyôryû. De jeunes pilotes affrontent ces ennemis à bord des Franxx, des robots géants. Hiro ne s'accorde pas avec sa partenaire et échoue à devenir pilote, jusqu'à l'arrivée de Zero Two, une étrange jeune fille avec laquelle il est capable de piloter.
04/2023
Littérature érotique
Stay with me Tome 2 : Even when I'm gone
Ollie. Oubliez tout ce que vous pensiez savoir. Je ne me connais même plus moi-même. Absent pendant sept mois, je ne cesse d'être mis à l'épreuve depuis mon retour. On dit qu'il faut garder ses ennemis près de soi, n'est-ce pas ? Eh bien, croyez-moi, mes démons m'ont accueilli à bras ouverts. Ma chute est un mal nécessaire. Mais Mia est mon ultime motivation. Mia. Il y a sept mois, Ollie a cédé aux ténèbres, m'abandonnant derrière lui après m'avoir dépouillée de mes barrières, me laissant sans défense. Maintenant qu'il est de retour, de nouvelles personnes et de nouveaux obstacles se dressent sur notre chemin. Il me dit de ne faire confiance à personne. Même pas à lui. Comment suis-je censée être forte pour nous deux alors que je suis en train de perdre la maîtrise de la situation ? "Reste avec moi, Mia". "Même quand tu n'es pas là ? " "Surtout quand je ne suis pas là" Note de l'éditeur : Even when I'm gone contient des scènes perturbantes et pouvant heurter certains lecteurs. Merci de bien lire les avertissements, et vous renseigner sur les TW présents dans ce roman. Pour public averti.
03/2024
Littérature étrangère
In Love
New York. Les années 1950. Des amants s’enlacent, se tiennent par la main et déambulent parmi ses rues, ses restaurants, ses bars. Le couple : un homme et une femme désenchantés. Lui est écrivain, mais il n’écrit plus. À force d’introspection, il a perdu foi en sa création et s’enferme dans une forme de complaisance qui fait de lui un être égoïste, qui a besoin de souffrir pour se sentir exister. Elle est l’archétype de la jeune femme moderne ; dépourvue de nom, elle est endettée, mère célibataire, elle a déjà aimé et a été déçue. Dans un grand restaurant, elle est courtisée par un riche homme d’affaires qui lui fait une proposition des plus indécentes. Elle refuse d’abord, puis finit par abandonner son jeune amant pauvre qui ne la retient pas. Elle, de choisir une vie facile, oisive, et lui, de souffrir en silence et de jouer la comédie d’un amour trahi. Alfred Hayes nous offre avec In Love la peinture de l’amour pris au piège de la modernité. Dans une ville grouillante qui ouvre le champ de tous les possibles, peut-on aimer vraiment ? Comme Henry Miller avant lui, il interroge la sincérité du sentiment amoureux aux prémisses de changements qui fragilisent ce phénix universel.
06/2011
Guides pratiques
Tajikistan
With its bounty of wildflower meadows, bubbling hot springs and mountains that beg to be climbed, Tajikistan is an outdoor lover's wonderland. Its high plateaus and unforgiving peaks harbour a bewildering array of flora and fauna, including the famed Marco Polo sheep and even rarer snow leopard. But its history and culture are just as rich as its landscape, home to Silk Road forts, a Sleeping Buddha and the last speakers of the Sogdian language, not to mention ancient Panjakent - cited by many as "the Pompeii of central Asia". Comprehensively updated for this third edition and now in ful colour, Bradt's Tajikistan is packed with practical advice and local detail, making it an essential handbook for any visitor.
02/2021
Histoire internationale
Bomb N : ressources, mysteries and opportunities of the Congo basin. Advocacy of Denis Sassou N'Guesso for the protection of the planet
This book of Michel Innocent Peya is devoted to the Congo Basin, the second largest reserve in the world : its natural ressources, its mysteries, legal and institutional frameworks, national, subregional and international levels that protect it. The basin of Congo is an African opportunity for the whole world. Its preservation and its protection over time are an action of conscience, will, commitment, determination and sacrifices for the benefit of humanity. Nature cannot be defending alone ; the Congo Basin finds among his children in love with nature a spokesperson or a soulmate in the person of the President of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou N'Guesso. He is one with nature. This is why, time and time again, he cries out against the abusive and irrational exploitation of the Earth, which is the source of delayed natural disasters, irreversible, and mass destruction : the Bomb "N". This saving son of the world demonstrates his involvement by his career and his advocacy at several international, subregional and national summits on protection of the global environment. This book puts in the world place the intrinsic qualities of its international environmental policy, an arduous fight for thirty years for the preservation of nature, the balance of global climate. It plays the role of a climatoecological pivot in the Congo Basin subregion. His climate leadership is the result of coordinated sectoral planned policies, implemented, objectives clearly defined and adapted, credible and effective diplomacy. His sacrifices for humanity, its dedication to the cause of our planet and its management for the future of humanity and future generations give it the status of patrimonium of mankind. Protector as well as defender of the Congo Basin, he receives the blows and the backlash from mafia networks who wish to illegally exploit the huge ressources of this part of the Earth. It reveals to the donor community climatic conditions and to all human civilization the opportunities offered by the Congo (ecotourism, development of the pharmaceutical industry and the market Common Forest of Central African Countries). Peat bogs constitute for the Congo Basin the largest terrestrial reserve of organic carbon. They store twice as much carbon as other forests in the world. He calls on the conscience of climate hinders, because the peat bog is an essential source of ecological stability, a precious reserve of carbon and the cradle of unique flora and fauna to the world and its survival also requires the integration of local communities' indigenous peoples through sustainable projects. This book is a reference tool for understanding and analyzing the basin of Congo, its natural wealth, its legal and institutional framework, in the dynamics of climate-political leadership and its myriad opportunities for the planet. As a result, the author believes that the achievement of these objectives is dependent on climate-political leadership that the Congo Basin space exerts in the concert nations. As it is said in Africa, one finger cannot wash the whole face.
08/2018
Histoire de la philosophie
Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism
The twelve lessons forming this volume were originally issued in the shape of monthly lessons, known as "The Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism" during a period of twelve months beginning with October 1904, and ending September 1905. We have been told, so often, that we must take certain things "on faith, " and that it was "no use bothering our minds concerning them, " but this is only a partial statement of truth, for the Intellect does give us a reliable report concerning the real nature of things. . ". New Thought proponents at the turn of the twentieth century sought to use mysticism to unleash the forces of the universe in themselves. One of the most influential thinkers of this early "New Age" philosophy promises here, in this 1904 book, to show the reader "to see with the clear vision of the Spirit" and how to "achieve the peace of the awakened and conscious soul". As the yogi reminds us, "No occult teaching is ever wasted-all bears fruit in its own good time". With this significant document of the New Thought movement back in print, now may be the time. Content : Lesson I. Light On The Path Lesson II. Some More Light On The Path Lesson III. Spiritual Consciousness Lesson IV. The Voice Of Silence Lesson V. Karma Yoga Lesson VI. Gnani Yoga Lesson VII. Bhakti Yoga Lesson VIII. Dharma Lesson IX. More About Dharma Lesson X. Riddle Of The Universe Lesson XI. Matter And Force Lesson XII. Mind And Spirit American writer WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON (1862-1932)-aka Yogi Ramacharaka-was born in Baltimore and had built up a successful law practice in Pennsylvania before professional burnout led him to the religious New Thought movement. He served as editor of the popular magazine New Thought from 1901 to 1905, and as editor of the journal Advanced Thought from 1916 to 1919. He authored dozens of New Thought books-including The Philosophies and Religions of India, Arcane Formula or Mental Alchemy and Vril, or Vital Magnetism-under numerous pseudonyms, some of which are likely still unknown today.
10/2022
Sociologie
Marital Separation in Contemporary Ireland
This book is based on detailed interviews with a group of Irish women who have experienced marital separation. It links the women's accounts with literature on the values and beliefs about marriage, women and family which were prevalent when they were growing up in Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s. The book chronicles their young adult years, the early stages of their marriages and the events and processes which led to their separations. It explores the women's emotional reactions at the time of separating, the types of support which they found beneficial and the personal, social and financial consequences of having separated. Although the book is written from a sociological perspective, the combination of theory and practical insights make it accessible to a wide variety of readers. It aims to generate discussion and deepen understanding of an area into which there has been minimal research in Ireland and which poses a range of important questions for future researchers, practitioners and policy-makers.
12/2015
Manga
SOS love Tome 7
Tout vient à point... à qui sait attendre ? Voilà maintenant trois mois que Kayo et Shinnosuke sortent ensemble, et nos deux tourtereaux semblent filer le parfait amour. La jeune femme se sent même prête à franchir une étape plus intime de leur relation. Mais son petit ami n'a pas l'air d'être sur la même longueur d'onde et ne réagit pas à ses avances... Kayo est assaillie par le doute : pourquoi l'homme qu'elle aime reste-t-il indifférent à ses charmes ?
11/2019
Manga
Love Mission Tome 7
Mami avoue son amour à Shigure. Ce dernier n'ayant jamais envisagé leur relation sous cet angle se sent très mal à l'aise et ne sait plus comment réagir avec elle... S'il décide de sortir avec Mami, Yukina comprend qu'elle ne pourra plus compter sur lui pour ses missions. Elle prend les choses en main et se pose officiellement en rivale amoureuse de Mami. La lutte entre les deux jeunes filles s'engage... Quel rôle jouera Akira dans ce quatuor de l'amour ?
04/2014
Manga
Love Hina Tome 7
Mizuki a toujours été hantée par sa phobie de l'eau. Pour surmonter sa peur, elle décide d'aller à la piscine avec ses amies. Quelques jours plus tard, alors qu'elle joue près d'une rivière, elle est attirée par un esprit marin qui l'entraîne dans l'eau... De son côté, Shizuru tente de se réconcilier avec son amie Momose qui se doute de son pouvoir de voir le monde spirituel...
01/2015
Manga
Love & Lies Tome 7
Le choix de Ririna, la décision de Yukari, le secret de Yûsuke et les véritables intentions de Misaki. Sans l'avis gouvernemental, ces jeunes gens auraient sans doute pu vivre et célébrer leur jeunesse comme n'importe quel autre couple. Mais dans le monde de Love and Lies, les désirs et les passions s'emmêlent et se déroulent, rendant impossible tout retour en arrière. Au cours du premier rendez-vous auquel Yukari convie Misaki en tant que petit copain, cette dernière affirme devoir lui "mentir"...
10/2018
Josei/femme
Love Fragrance Tome 7
Asako Yaeshima, une employée qui a des complexes parce qu'elle transpire beaucoup, vit une relation amoureuse avec Kôtarô Natori, un homme à l'odorat très développé qui travaille dans la même compagnie qu'elle. Après s'être installés ensemble et avoir traversé une période quelque peu difficile, Asako et Kôtarô profitent de leur nouvelle vie à deux pour se relaxer pendant les vacances. Leur quotidien ressemble à présent à un rêve. Mais très vite, la plus grosse mise à l'épreuve de toute la vie d'Asako se profile. En effet, elle va devoir aller faire connaissance avec la famille de Kôtarô...
06/2022
Manga
Love & Retry Tome 7
Après l'avoir retrouvé à l'université, Mitsu s'est remise en couple avec Kaede, son ex qui avait été son premier amour au collège. Ils vivent heureux ensemble désormais, mais pour réaliser son rêve de devenir médecin, Kaede décide de partir étudier cinq ans à l'étranger. Ne voulant pas que leurs sentiments s'effacent pendant ce temps-là, il décide alors de demander Mitsu en mariage ! L'une au Japon, l'autre à New-York. Alors que les époux vivent loin l'un de l'autre, Kazuha propose à Mitsu de voyager seule avec lui ? ! Voici le dénouement de cette histoire d'amour !! Dans ce dernier volume, on n'acceptera rien d'autre qu'un happy end !
07/2020
Manga
Cheeky Love Tome 7
Façon comédie romantique, suivez le quotidien d'un petit club de basket, ponctué d'accrochages entre un jeune joueur carrément effronté et sa manager au sérieux olympien. Le début d'une cheeky love story ! Yuki est devenue la manager du club de basket de son lycée dans le but ultime (mais secret) de rester auprès du capitaine de l'équipe. Un jour, Naruse, nouveau membre du club, finit par apprendre le secret de Yuki. Le jeune homme tombe alors amoureux de sa manager et passe son temps à embêter l'héroïne, ce qui a le don de la rendre furieuse...
06/2018
Non classé
Sir Charles Sedley’s «The Mulberry-Garden» (1668) and «Bellamira: or, The Mistress» (1687)
In his own time, the court wit Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701) was praised for his poetic skill rather than for his dramatic talent. Yet, as this old-spelling critical edition of his two comedies shows, Sedley was also a satirist whose plays are worth reading along with the ones of his more celebrated fellow-artists Etherege, Wycherley, and Shadwell. After a biographical introduction, a detailed analysis of the plays and characters concentrates on Sedley's satiric strategies which lambaste the marriage of convenience as well as the conduct of a hypocritical and materialistic society.
03/2001
12 ans et +
The Priest : The priest loves King
N'ayant maintenant plus qu'à attendre son mariage avec le roi Ragô, Sasha ne parvient cependant à chasser ses inquiétudes. Le noble roi Ragô pourra-t-il se satisfaire de quelqu'un comme lui ? Bien qu'il soit un homme, il ne peut protéger le roi. Et il ne pourra non plus jamais lui donner d'enfant... Afin de pouvoir contenter Ragô, qui ne cesse de lui répéter qu'il ignore tout de l'amour, Sasha décide qu'il devrait au moins essayer d'en apprendre plus sur les relations intimes. Mais profitant de l'euphorie du royaume entier à l'approche du mariage de Sasha et de Ragô, les pays voisins en profitent pour entamer leur machination. Leur cérémonie à tous les deux se déroulera-t-elle sans encombre ! ? Voici la suite d'une série de romans d'amour fantastiques.
10/2014
Albums 3 ans et +
The Little Mouse in London
In London, a Royal baby has just lost his baby tooth, but the Tooth Fairy is not able to come. The Little Mouse is asked to help out. With her companion, she will need to have a lot of imagination to be able to respect a very strict protocol !
09/2021
Non classé
A Mirrour of Mutabilitie
Written in 1579 as an imitation of the Mirror for Magistrates, Munday's Mirrour of Mutabilitie is a collection of complaints by biblical characters whose unfortunate downfalls illustrate the vanity and mutability of human affairs. This work echoes the profound scepticism of its age, a legacy of the medieval contemptus mundi tradition. It underpins the view that Time is a destroyer, that human actions cannot be calculated positively, because life is temporal and full of accidents.This edition, the first one after the editio princeps of 1579, offers a text with the original spelling based on critical study of the 1579-edition, together with an introduction, textual notes, commentary and bibliography, designed to give scholars and students as much editorial assistance as they are likely to require.
01/1991
Informatique
TCL/TK. CD-ROM included
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and programming in Tcl/Tk. Using a straightforward, step-bystep approach, each lesson builds upon the previous one, enabling you to learn the essentials of Tcl/Tk from the ground up.
Find your answers to...
* Exploring Tcl/Tk for GUI developrrient
* Understanding events, callbacks, and resources
* Building Tcl expressions, control structures, lists, and arrays
* Using WISH
* Interacting with the operating system
* Creating Widgets
* Building your own user interfaces
* Using Tcl/Tk to interface to legacy programs and systems
* Creating Web applications with Tcl/Tk
* Using Tk with Perl and C
12/1999
Architecture
The Turkish Boudoir of Marie Antoinette and Joséphine at Fontainebleau
Ten years apart, Marie Antoinette gives to Fontainebleau two jewels made by the greatest artists of her time : the Turkish boudoir (1777) and the silver boudoir (1786). In these homes of retirement, the queen escapes the label of the Court and combines a fancy Orient with the expression of the most extravagant novelties. The craze for turqueries did not fade in the early nineteenth century and the Empress Joséphine moved a few years later in this women's shelter offering a new sparkle to this universe of the Thousand and One Nights. She had a sumptuous and atypical furniture, which combines mahogany and gilded bronzes with lamé fabrics, embroidered and fringed with gold. After a painstaking restoration, the graceful carved, painted and gilded paneling of Marie Antoinette's boudoir is once again the setting for Joséphine's luxurious furniture. Nestled in a corner of the ancestral castle of Fontainebleau, the Turkish boudoir is the only decoration of its kind preserved in France and one of the most exceptional sets of furniture created for Joséphine.
03/2023
Manga
Flying Witch Tome 7
Partie en Chine à la recherche d'un élixir capable de soigner son amie Inukai, Akane se retrouve dans une situation pour le moins périlleuse. Heureusement qu'elle peut compter sur son sens de la débrouillardise ! De son côté, Makoto s'essaie également à la concoction d'un remède qui l'amène à découvrir d'étranges créatures. Mais elle devra rester discrète, car une journaliste particulièrement curieuse semble s'intéresser de près aux étranges événements récemment survenus en ville...
03/2019
Non classé
Brides on Sale
Beginning in the 1990s large numbers of women from Mainland China and Southeast Asia married men in Taiwan. They now number over 400,000, warranting some to call them "Taiwan's Fifth Ethnic Group". This book argues that the rise of these marriages is a gendered and relational phenomenon, linked to the forces of globalization. Traditional ideas of marriage, such as the belief that a woman "marries out" of her natal family to be dependent upon her husband and his family, and the idea that a man should "marry down" to a woman of a lesser social and economic status, have not kept pace with changes in women's educational and career opportunities. How these relationships are formed, how they impact gendered understandings of women and men, how families are constituted and relationships developed, and how they affect the children of these families and their education, are the issues explored in this book. It breaks new ground in our understanding of transnational and cross-border marriages by looking at the long-term effects of such marriages on communities, families, and individuals.
04/2015
Shojo/fille
We Must Never Fall in Love! Tome 7
Sakura et Kaede réalisent enfin que leurs sentiments sont réciproques, mais la jeune fille a du mal à ne pas se trahir devant leurs parents. Les deux amoureux se promettent de respecter certaines limites, seulement voilà, lors d'un voyage avec quelques copains du lycée, ils se retrouvent à dormir dans la même chambre...
04/2023
Mexique
Secret Mexico City
An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew the city well or who would like to discover its many other facets. The forgotten café where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara used to meet, a tribute to the city's ghosts, a mammoth in the metro, a cave transformed into a shrine, an underground parking lot with mosaics dating from 1930, a Baroque altarpiece made from papier mâché, a village based on the principles of Thomas More's Utopia, secret masterpieces of colonial art in rooms only open around two hours a week, the largest roof garden in Latin America, the photo on which the Oscar statuette is modelled, the first building in the world faced with a material that can trap urban smog, a road surface designed for praying as you walk ...
02/2024
Sculpture
The McCarthy collection. Sculpture
This substantial catalogue explores a remarkable collection of medieval European sculpture. Richly detailed with plentiful illustrations and original research, it is a notable contribution to medieval scholarship. The McCarthy collection comprises more than 150 specimens of medieval European sculpture, produced over a period of nearly 600 years. A testimony to the comprehensiveness of Robert McCarthy's interest in the art and culture of the Middle Ages, its geographical, chronological and typological breadth place it among the most important of its kind in private hands. Including a few early examples from Merovingian France, Anglo-Saxon England and Visigothic Spain, its holdings have a strong focus on Romanesque art, with over fifty capitals and other architectural carvings from Iberia, France and the Italian Peninsula. Some of these pieces are associable with such notable workshops as those of Gislebertus, the Master of Agüero and Compostela's Master Mateo, while a great number can be closely compared to anonymous works in major and provincial sites. Notable monuments like the monastic powerhouse of Cluny or the abbatial churches of Autun and Savigny are represented through important sculptural fragments - most published here for the first time. The transition to the Gothic style and the period of its splendour, particularly in France, are witnessed by an ample selection of statuary and architectural fragments - some traceable to such important buildings as Noyon cathedral and Paris' Notre Dame, and others, more loosely, to the artistic circles that gravitated around the great projects of the age. Freestanding sculpture in stone or wood, including a small but precious nucleus of Virgin and Child statuary and some Spanish polychrome figures, constitutes an interesting subset of the collection's late medieval holdings, as do some especially fine examples of Italian trecento sculpture. Enriched with outstanding photography by Barney Hindle and Mark French, entries aim to provide detailed stylistic, iconographic and contextual analyses, with special attention paid to comparanda in public and other private collections. This approach, complemented in some cases by petrographic analysis, has allowed the. authors to connect much of the material presented in these pages with specific buildings, workshops or regional schools, contributing to a better understanding of the pieces themselves, their original settings and their cultural and artistic milieux. This catalogue follows the publication of three volumes dedicated to Robert McCarthy's vast collection of Western miniatures and manuscript leaves (2018-2021), and is part of an ambitious project to document the entirety of his holdings - which also include notable selections of medieval ivories, stained glass and East Christian Art.
04/2024
Droit
Activation Policies for the Unemployed, the Right to Work and the Duty to Work
Since the 1990s and the 2000s, Western social protection systems have experienced a turn towards activation. This turn consists of the multiplication of measures aimed at bringing those who are unemployed closer to participation in the labour market. These measures often induce a strengthening of the conditions that must be met in order to receive social benefits. It is in this well known context that the authors gathered in this book decided to take a closer look at the relationship between activation policies for the unemployed and the right and the duty to work. If activation measures are likely to increase transitions towards the labour market, we can also make the assumption that they may, particularly when they are marked with the seal of coercion, hinder or dramatically reduce the right to freely chosen work. In such circumstances, the realisation of the "right to work", which is often stated to be the aim of those who promote activation, tends in practice to be reduced to an increasing pressure being exerted on the unemployed. In this case, isn't it actually the duty to work that is particularly reinforced ? After an historical and philosophical perspective on the issue, this assumption is confronted with the developments observed in the United States and in France, and then with the guidelines laid down in international human rights instruments. What follows is a discussion of two alternatives to the dominant activation model : the basic income guarantee and the employment guarantee.
06/1987
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
