Al eeuwenlang wordt de mens gefascineerd door dieren die alleen in de verbeelding bestaan: fabeldieren als de draak en de feniks. Ook de eenhoorn behoort tot de geestelijke bagage van de moderne mens en onderzoek van de eenhoortraditie biedt een reeks verrassende 'sleutelgatvisies op uiteenlopende cultuurperioden en kennisgebieden. Dit boek beschrijft hoe de eenhoorn deel gaat uitmaken van het gedachtegoed van de Griekstalige Mediterrane wereld, zowel in wetenschappelijk als in religieus opzi...

The Sociology of News reviews and synthesizes not only what is happening to journalism but also what is happening to the scholarly understanding of journalism. In the Second Edition, each chapter of the book has been updated to account for the radical changes that have reshaped the news industry over the last decade. With a new chapter on the sharp contraction of the news business in the United States since 2007, The Sociology of News examines journalism as a social institution and analyzes t...

The collection of Netherlandish Old Master paintings in the Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, is one of the largest in the world outside the Netherlands and Belgium. Primavera Press is proud to present the first two volumes of its bilingual catalogue raisonné.

The first volume contains one hundred and five Dutch and Flemish portraits from 1600 to 1800, including paintings by great masters such as Anthony van Dyck, Frans Hals, Thomas de Keyser, and Bartholomeus van der Helst, as well as fi...

Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711) was the most successful Dutch painter of his time, admired by the patricians of Amsterdam and the court of William iii of Orange. An eighteenth-century critic called him ‘undoubtedly the greatest genius there ever was in painting’.After a century of neglect his rehabilitation began in 1970 when the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum acquired a series of his monumental grisaille paintings. In an international exhibition (Cologne, Cassel, Dordrecht 2007) he was presented a...