A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting
Author : Richard Offner
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Art and religion
ISBN :
The Fourteenth Century
Author : Klara Steinweg
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Painting, Italian
ISBN :
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The Fourteenth Century
Author : Miklós Boskovits
Publisher :
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Miniature painters
ISBN :
Book Description
Science and Polity in France
Author : Charles Coulston Gillispie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 1400824613
Book Description
By the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had little to do with each other directly, there were increasingly frequent intersections. This is a study of those transactions between science and state, knowledge and power--on the eve of the French Revolution. Charles Gillispie explores how the links between science and polity in France were related to governmental reform, modernization of the economy, and professionalization of science and engineering.
Taste and Power
Author : Leora Auslander
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,10 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0520920945
Book Description
Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century, revealing how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as to economic and social transformations. Enriched by Auslander's experience as a cabinetmaker, this work demonstrates how furniture served to represent and even generate its makers' and consumers' identities.
Work in France
Author : Steven L. Kaplan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Labor
ISBN : 9780801416972
Book Description
Eighteen scholars from both sides of the Atlantic look at the question of work across three centuries of French history. Representing both younger and older generations, they move beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries in order to consider human labor as it was actually performed and to determine what it has meant to specific groups and individuals at particular historical moments. This book proposes some fundamental revisions in the history of work which will have important implications for our understanding of social, political, economic, and cultural developments not only in France but throughout Europe.
The Sultan's Fountain
Author : Agnieszka Dobrowolska
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9774165233
Book Description
The small sabil-kuttab (a charitable foundation particular to Cairo that combines a public water dispensary with a Quranic school) built in 1760 opposite the venerated Sayyida Zeinab Mosque is almost unique in Cairo: it is one of only two dedicated by a reigning Ottoman sultan, and--astonishingly--it is decorated inside with blue-and-white tiles from Amsterdam depicting happy scenes from the Dutch countryside. Why did the sultan, Mustafa III, cloistered in his Istanbul palace, decide to build a sabil in Cairo? Why did he choose this site for it? How did it come to be adorned with Dutch tiles? What were the connections between Cairo, Istanbul, and Amsterdam in the middle of the eighteenth century? The authors answer these questions and many more in this entertaining and beautifully illustrated history of an extraordinary building, describing also the recent conservation efforts to preserve it for posterity.
The Ottoman House
Author : S. Ireland
Publisher : British Institute at Ankara
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1912090619
Book Description
Seemingly contradictory ideas of privacy and community dominate Ottoman cities. While houses are internally divided to guard female modesty behind a frontage studded with peep-holes, streets in cities like Amasya are often bridged by first-floor passageways between different houses. This book contains 17 papers by architects and archaeologists looking at how the Ottoman house was structured, how it has varied over time and space, and how surviving examples are faring in a world of breeze-block construction. Although the examples discussed are all Near Eastern, and mostly from Turkey, the revelations this book contains about structuring principles will make it a valuable companion to understanding architectural relics from all over the Ottoman Empire.
The Art of Ceramics
Author : Howard Coutts
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300083874
Book Description
The great age of European ceramic design began around 1500 and ended in the early 19th century with the introduction of large-scale production of ceramics. In this illustrated history, with nearly 300 color and black and white photos and reproductions, curator Howard Coutts considers the main stylistic trends�Renaissance, Mannerism, Oriental, Rococo, and Neoclassicism�as they were represented in such products as Italian Majolica, Dutch Delftware, Meissen and S�vres porcelain, Staffordshire, and Wedgwood pottery. He pays close attention to changes in eating habits over the period, particularly the layout of a formal dinner, and discusses the development of ceramics as room decoration, the transmission of images via prints, marketing of ceramics and other luxury goods, and the intellectual background to Neoclassicism.
Families in Politics
Author : Linda Schatkowski Schilcher
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
