Table of Contents: “…Foreword and Acknowledgements ; Chapter 1: 'I had baked bricks glazed in lapis lazuli color' - A Brief History of Glazed Bricks in the Ancient Near East - Anja Fügert and Helen Gries ; Chapter 2: Scientific Research on the Iron Age Glazes from Iran and Iraq: Past and Future - Parviz Holakooei ; Chapter 3: The Reconstruction of the Glazed Brick Facades from Ashur in the Vorderasiatisches ; Museum, Berlin (GlAssur Project) - Anja Fügert and Helen Gries ; Chapter 4: Glazed Bricks by the Dozens: A Khorsabad Jigsaw Reassembled at the Louvre - Ariane Thomas ; Chapter 5: Glazed Tiles from Nimrud and the Visual Narrative of Esarhaddon's Egyptian Campaign - Manuela Lehmann and Nigel Tallis ; Chapter 6: The Glazed Bricks that Ornamented Babylon - A Short Overview - Olof Pedersén.…”
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Table of Contents: “…King Candaules.--v. 9. The Louvre. Leonardo da Vinci. Esteban Bartolome Murillo. …”

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Table of Contents: “…-T.J. Visconti, the new Louvre, and the shape of Paris / David Van Zanten -- Going to extremes over the construction of the juste milieu / Albert Boime…”

Table of Contents: “…Beyond surprise : looking again at the Sleeping hermaphrodite in the Palazzo Massimo / Jennifer Trimble -- Dismembering a sacred cow : the Extispicium relief in the Louvre / Melanie Grunow Sobocinski and Elizabeth Wolfram Thill -- The Salutaris foundation : monumentality through periodic rehearsal / Diana Y. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The noble style of dance in the age of Louis XIV: general background of court and theater -- Dance at the french court, 1650-1715 -- Five theatrical personalities, 1632-1729 -- Dance types and theatrical technique, 1650-1715 -- The dancing masters and their books, 1623-1725 -- An analysis of the French noble style of dance and its notation -- A survey of the components of the dance -- The Beauchamp-Feuillet system of choregraphie -- The theory of the arm motions and their notation -- The notation of meter in choregraphie -- The steps and their general performance in duple- and triple-meter -- The steps in more complex metrical situations -- Step-sequences, tempi, and expression -- Technique of etiquette -- The menuet according to Rameau -- A dance for kings: the seventeenth-century French courante-its solemn character, step-patterns, metric and proprtional foundations -- Fifty-six dances to music by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687): a survey -- Aimable vainqueur or the louvre: Louis Pecour's ballroom danse a deux with the music by Andre Campra from hesione in four-part score.…”

Table of Contents: “…Green-Rioja -- 7 Violeta Parra at the Louvre: The 'Naive' as a Strategy of the Authentic / Serda Yalkin -- 8 Violeta Parra's Contribution to the 1960s Art Scene / Lorna Dillon -- 9 Violeta Parra and the Empty Space of La Carpa de la Reina / Catherine Boyle -- Conclusion: Violeta Parra's Legacy / Gina Canepa and Lorna Dillon -- Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…(2004) -- Paris : always destroyed, always triumphant (1986) -- The sixty-minute Louvre : Paris by stopwatch (1993) -- Queen of angels, not quite ready for her close-up (undated) -- L.A., how do I love thee? …”

Table of Contents: “…Morse's Gallery of the Louvre: social tensions in an ideal world / Patricia Johnston -- Cartoons in color: David Gilmour Blythe's very uncivil war / Sarah Burns -- "Ain't I a woman?"…”
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Table of Contents: “…Tijhuis -- The affair of the statuettes reexamined: Picasso and Apollinaire's role in the famed Louvre theft / Silvia Loreti -- Art, terrorism, and organized crime / Bojan Dobovšek -- Fakes and deception: examining fraud in the art market / Kenneth Polk and Duncan Chappell -- Implication of art theft in the fine art insurance industry / Dorit Straus -- Four art crimes and their effect on the art trade / Noah Charney -- Trepidations of a private art collector / Judah Best -- Defending art / Colonel Giovanni Pastore -- Q & A with two innovative security directors / Dennis Ahern and Anthony Amore -- Exercises in futility: the pursuit of protecting art / Stevan P. …”