ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
3690 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
6970 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
2990 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
2350 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
1490 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
m^mg VORWORT Von SIR PHILIP HENDY Direktor (1946-67) DIE Nationalgalerie bietet eine wuiderbare Auswahl an Bildern, von Margaritones vergoldetem Altarvorsatz bis zu Renoirs Les Parapluies". Jeder kann etwas für seinen Geschmack finden, jedoch ist gerade die Vielfalt für den Besucher beim ersten...
DIE NATIONALGALERIE • GESTERN UND HEUTE
Oben: die nationalgalerie in der Zeit vor 1837. Diese Abbildung von W. Mackenzie (jetzt im Victoria and Albert-Museum) zeigt das Innere von Mr. Angersteins Haus, Pali Mail Nr. 100; die meisten der hier zu sehenden Gemálde gehörten zur Sammlung...
DER TOWER VON LONDONvon Olwen HedleyObgleich der Name 'Tower von London* seit langem zur Kennzeichnung der Gesamtheit der von König Wilhelm L, dem 'Eroberer', gegründeten Festxmg und des königlichen Palastes benutzt wird, galt er ursprünglich dem zentralen und beherrschenden Merkmal, dem...
THE PICTORIAL HISTORY OFWESTMINSTER ABBEYBY CANON ADAM FOX, D.D.formerly sub-dean of westminsterTHE recorded history of Westminster Abbey begins in Edward the Confessor's time, but there are glimpses of its existence before that. The name occurs in a 10th-century document where it is described as a...
her majesty's royal palace and fortress of the
TOWER OF LONDON
by a former resident governor and major
THE richly varied history of this country since 1078, the year in which construction of the White Tower began, is exemplified in the Tower of London. Kings of England, when the battle turned...
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DER Rat der angelsächsschen Könige war eine Versammlung der „Weisen", vom König ernannt um ihm mit Rat beizustehen. Er bestand aus Grafen, Bischöfen, Äbten, den Würdenträgern des Hofs und...
CITY OF SALISBURYMichael St John ParkerT^HE Salisbury of today is the second city of that name. The site of its predecessor, still known in medieval Latin style as Old Sarum, can be clearly seen even now, a steep hill just beyond the limits of modern building, off the road running north to...
DIE WESTMINSTER-ABTEIDomherr Adam Fox, DDDie aufgezeichnete Geschichte der Westminster-Abtei beginnt zur Zeit Eduards des Bekenners; es lagen aber schon vorher gewisse Anzeichen ihres Bestehens vor. Ihr Name erscheint in einer Aufzeichnung des 10. Jahrhunderts und weist somit atif die vorherige...
The History ofTHE PALACE OF WESTMINSTERTHE name 'Westminster' means the minster (or monastery) established to the west of the city of London. This monastery was the ancestor of the present Westminster Abbey. It remained small and somewhat isolated until, in the years between 1050 and 1065, Kíng...
CHESTER CATHEDRALThe Very Rev. G. O. Addleshaw, Dean of Chester 1963-1977T~lHE story of Chosrcr Cathedral begins in 907 with the fortification of Chester by Ethelfleda, the martial sister of Edward the Elder, king of Wessex, as a strong-point against the half-heathen Norse from Ireland who were...
The TOWER OF LONDONby Olwen HedleyAlthough the name 'Tower of London' has long been used to denote the whole of the great fortress and royal palace founded by King William I, 'the Conqueror', it belonged anciently to the central and most commanding feature, the keep. John Stow, the...
ST. GILES' CATHEDRALTHE HIGH KIRK OF EDINBURGHBY THE REV. H. C. WHITLEY Ph.D.,D.D.ST. GILES' is the very heart ofScotland. Its stones speak our strenuous history.In 854 there was a church of some kind on this site on the spiny ridge of Edinburgh. It belonged to Lindis-farne (Holy Isle), where...
LLANDAFF CATHEDRALTHE RIGHT REVEREND ERYL S. THÖMAS*A CATHEDRAL is, in idea and origin, a great church in which the bishop of the diocese has his cathedra, his seat or 'see', and in which he and the clergy to whom he has delegated the responsibility of the care of the cathedral maintain the...
The south porch (left) at the base of the Oxford or Dunstan tower was built by Thomas Mapildon about 1422. The canopied figures are of the 19th century. The nave, looking east (right)3 was completed in 1410. The builders retained the ground plan of the earlier Norman nave but added new height. Le...
COVENTRYCATHEDRAL H. C. N. WILLIAMS Provost of Coventry Cathedral SACRED indeed is the ground upon which Coventry Cathedral is built. Hard by the west wall of the new cathedral are visible the bases of somé of the massive buttresses which supported the great medieval cathedral. Joined to the new...
CANON HERBERT WADDAMS THE word "Canterbury" is the modern form of Cantwarabyrig, the fortress of the people of Kent, a name which was firmly attached to it by the middle of the sixth century. In Román times it had been known as Durovernum, and the city, built and fortified by the Romans, was sited...
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
TATE GALLERY
BY SIR JOHN ROTHENSTEIN, C.B.E.
The Director and Keeper
THE idea of the Tate Gallery took shape in 1890. In that year Henry Tate's gift of sixty-seven paintings and three sculptures, almost all of them the work of Victorian contemporaries, was offered to...
THE GRAND STAIRCASEThe Grand Staircase, which stands on the site of an open courtyard known as the Brick Court, can be approached from both the North Terrace and from the State Entrance in the Quadrangle. The present staircase was built by Salvin in 1866 to replace the one constructed by Wyatville...
WESTMINSTER ABBEYCanon Adam Fox, D.D.T^HE recorded history of Westminster Abbey begins in Edward the Confessor's time, but there are glimpses of its existence before that. The name occurs in a 10th-century document where it is described as a terrible place, that is, an awesome place. This evidence...
THE CHINA MUSEUM The magnificent collection of china is housed in the northern entrance to the Grand Staircase and is the first item of interest that the visitor to the State Apartments sees. The collection includes a fine set of Minton china in royal blue made in 1877 for Queen Victoria, and...
The
Royal House of Windsor
In the early hours of 6 February 1952 Princess Elizabeth, the elder daughter of King George VI, was given the news that her father had died peacefully in his sleep and she was now Queen Elizabeth II.
At the age of twenty-five she became the forty-second sovereign of...
^w- I 1 CATHEDRAL ST. PAUL'S FOR thirteen and a half centuries a cathedral dedicated to the honour of Saint Paul has stood upon the summit of Ludgate Hill. Sir Christopher Wren's great Renaissance church which rises majestically over the City is the fifth to bear the name of London's patron saint....
MARITIME GREENWICH
Frank G. G. Carr
WHEN, after the Second World War Blackwall power station was built straddling the division between the eastern and the western hemispheres, this fact was permanently indicated on the brickwork by a verticai line of demarcation flanked by two words. At the...
ISUPPOSE that more has been written about Shakespeare and Stratford - good, bad and indifferent - than any other single subject. At any rate, this is the conclusion I am sure you would reach with me if you could share the privilege I have of working in a library lined with shelf upon shelf of...
WESTMINSTER ABBEY Canon Adam Fox, D.D. THE recorded history of Westminster Abbey begins in Edward the Confessor's time, but there are glimpses of its existence before that. The name occurs in a lOth-century document where it is described as a terrible place, that is, an awesome place. This evidence...
r^TOWER OF LONDON A Brief History right: The Middle Tower. It built in the time of Edward I. The Tower of London has been called 'The Cradle of the English race'. It is well named for it was here that England had her first beginnings as a nation. It is, moreover, the oldest palace, fortress and...
WESTMINSTER ABBEY Westminster abbey, or, to give it its official designation, the Collegiate Church of St Peter in Westminster, derives its more familiar name from being the Minster in the West in contrast to St Paul's, the Cathedral in the East. But Westminster was not a cathedral (i.e. a church...
Alatri: TCtruskische Stadtmauern
I. - DIE ANTIKE KUNST
Schon in prähistorischer Zeit begegnet man auf italischem Boden Denkmälern und Gegenständen, welche, wenn auch nur in bescheidenem Masse, den Charakter von Kunstwerken tragen. Aus der ältesten bekannten Kultur Oberitaliens, die nach dem...
^w- I 1 CATHEDRAL ST. PAUL'S FOR thirteen and a half centuries a cathedral dedicated to the honour of Saint Paul has stood upon the summit of Ludgate Hill. Sir Christopher Wren's great Renaissance church which rises majestically over the City is the fifth to bear the name of London's patron saint....
DIE NATIONALGALERIE GESTERN UND HEUTE Oben: die nationalgalerie in der Zeit vor 1837. Diese Abbildung von W. Mackenzie (jetzt im Victoria and Albert-Museum) zeigt das Innere von Mr. Angersteins Haus, Pali Mail Nr. 100; die meisten der hier zu sehenden Gemálde gehörten zur Sammlung Angerstein....
FOREWORD By SIR PHILIP HENDY Director (1946-67) THE National Gallery offers a wonderful rangé of pictures, from Margaritone's gilded wooden altar-frontal, with its Madonna enthroned for eternity, to Renoir's Les Parapluies, where a change in the weather causes a little group in the Street to...
The History ofTHE PALACE OF WESTMINSTERT^HE name 'Westminster' means the minster (or monastery) estabhshed to the west of the city of London. This monastery was the ancestor of the present Westminster Abbey. It remained small and somewhat isolated until, in the years between 1050 and 1065, King...
COVENTRY CATHEDRAL A NEW CATHEDRAL FOR THE MODERN WORLD The 14th-century cathedral church of St. Michael was reduced to ruins by fire bombs during the night of Thursday 14th November 1940. This was the night when Coventry suffered the longest air-raid of any one night on any British city during the...
DURHAM CATHEDRAL The Venerable C. J. Stranks, m.a., m.líu. DURHAM Cathedral is unique. It is the finest example of Early Norman architecture in England and its massive grandeur is enhanced by the magnifieence of the site. As the Cathedral of the Prince Bishop of Durham who, until 1836, exercised...
PARIS EIN FÜHRER ENTLANG DER SEINE Ich glaube, Paris ist die einzige Stadt, in der ein grofier Flufí, Kilometer um Kilometer> zu beiden Ufern den natürlicben Mittelpunkt eines Kunstwerks bildet", sagt John Russell und jeder, der Paris kennt und liebt, muí? ihm wohl zustimmen. Vom Pont Sully und...
INTRODUCTION
'By the sudden death of my dear father I am called upon to assume the duties and responsibility of sovereignty.'
T
ihese were the words of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in her simple yet moving Accession Speech of 8 February 1952, just 36 hours after she had learnt that her...
EAST TERRACEUPPER WARDHOME PARKMIDDLE WARDentranceLOWER WARDVISITORS' GUIDE TO THE CASTLE1.King Henry VIII Gate2.Salisbury Tower3.Garter Tower4.Curfew Tower5.Horseshoe Cloister6.St. George's Chapel7.Garter House8.Albert Memorial Chapel9.King Henry III Tower10.Entrance To North Terrace11.Round...
ST. GILES' CATHEDRALTHE HIGH. KIRK OF EDINBURGHThe Very Reverend H C Whitley*ST. GILES' is the very heart of Scotland. Its stones speak our strenuous history.In 854 there was a church of somé kind on this site on the spiny ridge of Edinburgh. It belonged to Lindis-farne (Holy Isle), where...
THE PICTORIAL HISTORY OFWESTMINSTER ABBEYBY CANON ADAM FOX, D.D.formerly sub-dean of westminsterTHE recorded history of Westminster Abbey begins in Edward the Confessor's time, but there are glimpses of its existence before that. The name occurs in a ioth-century documentwhere it is described as a...
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THIS is a pictorial record of the life of Her Majesty
The Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of
Edinburgh from the time of their engagement to the
marriage of their daughter. It is also a record of the work
of those photographers who have specialised in photo-
graphing the Royal...
THE PICTORIAL HISTORY OF
MARITIME GREENWICH
BY FRANK G. G. CARR, C.B., C.B.E., F.S.A. Director National Maritime Museum 1947 - 1966
WHEN the new power station at Blackwall was opened a few years ago, a small boy stood by his father in the crowd, watching the ceremony. Idly direct-ing his gaze...
CHRIST CHURCH OXFORDMichael WattsThe origins of the monastery which once occupied the site on which Christ Church now stands are obscure and the détails of the life of its foundress, St Frideswide (c. ad 680-735), are equally difiicult to establish.Despite this, there is a consistent tradition...
The TOWER OF LONDONby Olwen HedleyAlthough the name 'Tower of London' has long been used to denote the whole of the great fortress and royal palace founded by King William I, 'the Conqueror', it belonged anciently to the central and most commanding feature, the keep. Jolin Stow, the...
QUEEN MARY'S DOLLS' HOUSE
Clifford Musgrave, O.B.E.
There can be hardly anyone of what-ever âge or sex, who is not amused and intrigued by dolls' houses. They are naturally the spécial realm of little girls, but boys and even grown-up men and women are far from being im-mune to their...
THE TEMPLE CHURCH'T'he Temple Church, one of London's hidden treasures, miraculously escaped the Great Fire of 1666. It was not so fortunate on 10 May 1941 when it was grievously burnt during the last and worst night of the Blitz. However, much of the fabric survived, and after sympathetic...
THE CITY OF CHESTER
THE ANCIENT ROMAN FORTRESS OF DEVA
In ad 43 four Roman legions and auxiliary troops landed in Kent and so began the Roman occupation of Britain that was to last for more than 300 years. As the frontiers of the new province of the Roman empire were pushed northwards and the...
LA NATIONAL GALLERY • HIER ET AUJOURD'HUI
Ci-dessus: La national gallery a ses débuts (avant 1837). Intérieur de F. Mackenzie (actuellement au V ctoria and Albert Muséum) : deux salles de l'hôtel particulier de M. Anger-stein No. 100 Pall Mail. La plupart des tableaux qui y figurent sont...