Orientalistes au Liban: Phénicie, Liban, Art de l’estampe

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LebanonPostcard présente le livre: Les Orientalistes au Liban, Phénicie, Liban et l’Art de l’estampe – The Orientalists in Lebanon, Phoenicia, Lebanon and the Art of engraving – المستشرقون في لبنان, فينيفيا, لبنان وفن الرشم – Hardcover book with dust jacket, 34×25 cm, 305 pages – Text in English, French and Arabic

– Note of the publisher.
– The Sign and the Memory by H.E. Joseph Donato, Ambassador of Lebanon, Doctor of Literature and Human Sciences.
– A brief sketch of the history of engraving – by Richard A. Chaine.

Contents:

– 350 illustrations of engravings – 304 pages of English, French and Arabic texts by more than 400 Authors and Orientalists since the Phoenicians and until the XIXth century-Fine glossy paper-format 24 x 34 cm. – Offset printing. 90 coloured plates in quadrichromy – Carton binding – Colored Jacket.
– 332 Painters – 184 engravers or lithographers – Among whom 323 are included in the Benezit or are members of Royal Academies of Fine Arts. (BZ)
– 91 Universities teaching the Oriental Languages since 1076 in foreign Countries.
– 950 Lebanese towns and villages classified because of their historical, archaeological importance… 300 of which were compounded by German Teutonic, Italian, or French crusaders’ edifices during the XIIth century.
– A list of 200 European and American diplomats since the XIIth century.
– A list of 300 names of Lebanese families well-known and mentioned in the texts for their artistic, literary and scientific importance, scholars who taught at the Universities of Europe, Russia and the States, – Seniors of the Maronite College in Rome, – Journalists…
– All the texts and indexes are computerised and repertoried by subjects and countries of origin:
Besides the codes of 45 countries, we indexed 40 different subjects: Agriculture, Architecture, Archaeology, Art, Grafts, Costumes, Engravers, Ways and Customs, Geography, History, Leisures, Meteorology, Mineralogy, Mythology, Painters, Politics, Human Sciences, Trade, Zoology.
– A Synoptical and chronological table of more than 700 events, diplomatic, military, political, seismic on one hand, and scientific, literary, and religious on the other which marked the great historical dates in the Middle East.
– A repertory of 49 earthquakes and cataclisms:
3 during the last six centuries and cataclysms:
3 during the last six centuries before Christ.
21 between the 1st and the 10th century.
25 between the XIth and the XIXth century.
– Finally, an index of names and nouns.

Editions Richard A. Chahine “Chahine Gallery”
103 Rue Mme Curie (Zeidaniye)
Beirut, Lebanon

BACK COVER: VALLEY OF KADICHA, MOUNT LEBANON – 1854 H. FENN pinxit – BRADSHAW sc.

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