General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher :
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 16,12 MB
Release : 1967
Category : English imprints
ISBN :
A Century of Artists Books
Author : Riva Castleman
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 1997-09
Category :
ISBN : 9780810961814
Book Description
Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.
Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt
Author : Marie Svoboda
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606066536
Book Description
This publication presents fascinating new findings on ancient Romano-Egyptian funerary portraits preserved in international collections. Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings had undergone in-depth study to determine by whom they were made and how. An international collaboration known as APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research) was launched in 2013 to promote the study of these objects and to gather scientific and historical findings into a shared database. The first phase of the project was marked with a two-day conference at the Getty Villa. Conservators, scientists, and curators presented new research on topics such as provenance and collecting, comparisons of works across institutions, and scientific studies of pigments, binders, and supports. The papers and posters from the conference are collected in this publication, which offers the most up-to-date information available about these fascinating remnants of the ancient world. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu/publications/mummyportraits/ and includes zoomable illustrations and graphs. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book.
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher :
Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1967
Category : English imprints
ISBN :
Book Description
Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice
Author : Arie Wallert
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 29,27 MB
Release : 1995-08-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892363223
Book Description
Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
Ancient Coin Collecting
Author : Wayne G. Sayles
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,51 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Coins, Ancient
ISBN : 9780873414425
Book Description
This is your road map to finding your way around the ancient coin fraternity. With more than 200 photographs, tables and charts and a pronunciation guide, you will acquire the knowledge needed to survive this sometimes bewildering market. Get a jump start on the incredible world of the ancients by acquiring a basic understanding of their politics, history, mythology, and astrology and how it affected the minting and designing of their coins.
The Social Life of Coffee
Author : Brian Cowan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300133502
Book Description
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.
Select Documents of English Constitutional History
Author : George Burton Adams
Publisher :
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category :
ISBN : 9789353806286
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Pedigree and Panache
Author : Shireen Huda
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,28 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1921313722
Book Description
"Art auctions have long captured the public imagination. They regularly make news headlines and have become synonymous with glamour, money and social distinction. The marketing of auction houses and the works they sell has resulted in firms attaining authoritative positions and the ability both to influence and reflect collecting tastes. Pedigree and panache is the first comprehensive history of the art auction in Australia. In this fascinating work, Shireen Huda investigates the construction of the glamorous reputation of art auctions and art auction houses. Featuring absorbing case studies of key art auctions and major art auction houses in Australia (including Christies, Sothebys and Deutscher-Menzies) the work provides an overview of the origin and international development of art auctions. The development of the Australian marketplace is then explored, detailing colonial inception and continuing until Christies' withdrawal of its saleroom presence in 2006."--Provided by publisher.
French Rococo Ébénisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Author : Gillian Wilson
Publisher : J. Paul Getty Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781606066300
Book Description
The first comprehensive catalogue of the Getty Museum’s significant collection of French Rococo ébénisterie furniture. This catalogue focuses on French ébénisterie furniture in the Rococo style dating from 1735 to 1760. These splendid objects directly reflect the tastes of the Museum’s founder, J. Paul Getty, who started collecting in this area in 1938 and continued until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection is particularly rich in examples created by the most talented cabinet masters then active in Paris, including Bernard van Risenburgh II (after 1696–ca. 1766), Jacques Dubois (1694–1763), and Jean-François Oeben (1721–1763). Working for members of the French royal family and aristocracy, these craftsmen excelled at producing veneered and marquetried pieces of furniture (tables, cabinets, and chests of drawers) fashionable for their lavish surfaces, refined gilt-bronze mounts, and elaborate design. These objects were renowned throughout Europe at a time when Paris was considered the capital of good taste. The entry on each work comprises both a curatorial section, with description and commentary, and a conservation report, with construction diagrams. An introduction by Anne-Lise Desmas traces the collection’s acquisition history, and two technical essays by Arlen Heginbotham present methodologies and findings on the analysis of gilt-bronze mounts and lacquer. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu/publications/rococo/ and includes zoomable, high-resolution photography. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book, and JPG downloads of the main catalogue images.
