The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal


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The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, published annually, is a compendium of articles and shorter notes on the Museum's permanent collection--Antiquities, Decorative Arts, Drawings, Manuscripts, Painting, Photographs, and Sculpture and Work of Art. It includes a full illustrated checklist of recent acquisitions, with an introduction by John Walsh, Director of the museum. This year's articles include: Dawson Carr on Pier Francesco Mola's Vision of Saint Bruno; Thomas DaCosta, Kaufmann, and Virginia Roehrig on tromope l'oeil in Netherlandish book painting of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; Nicholas Penny's "Lord Rockingham's Sculpture Collection and The Judgement of Paris by Nollekens"; and Carl Brandon Strehhlke on Cenni di Francesco, the Gianfigliazzi, and the Church of Santa Trinita in Florence.




Catalogue des objets d'art, de curiosité et d'ameublement, tableaux de différentes écoles, importante composition par Alexandre Hesse, dessins anciens par : Barbiéri, Lalive, Pillement, etc., porcelaines et faïences, Paris, Chantilly, Chine, Compagnie des Indes, etc., bois et ivoires sculptés, argenterie et métal, objets de vitrine, objets variés, parure en or et mosaïque provenant de la vente des diamants de la Couronne, bronzes, pendules, meubles anciens des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles en marqueterie et bronzes, mobilier de salon Louis XVI, couvert de tapisserie d'Aubusson, autres salons Louis XVI et Directoire, chambre à coucher de la Restauration, commodes, secrétaires, meubles d'appui, bureaux, lits Directoire, berceau Empire, tables et sièges divers, etc., suite de trois belles tapisseries des Flandres de la fin du XVIe siècle, autres tapisseries anciennes des Flandres, d'Aubusson et de Felletin, tapis d'Aubusson


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Dictionary of Building and Civil Engineering


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This dual-language dictionary lists over 20,000 specialist terms in both French and English, covering architecture, building, engineering and property terms. It meets the needs of all building professionals working on projects overseas. It has been comprehensively researched and compiled to provide an invaluable reference source in an increasingly European marketplace.




Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement, anciennes faiences du Rhodes, de Deruta, etc., porcelaines de la Chine & du Japon, objets divers - émaux cloissonés, bronze, de barye, horloge de table du XVIe siècle, sièges et meubles, tapisseries du XVIIIe sìcle, tapis d'orient, tableaux anciens et modernes, aquarelles, dessins, pastels par Ch. Coypel, Ducreux, Géricault, J. Stevens, Subleyras, A. Vollon, etc., gravures du dix-huitième siècle appartenant à M. C...


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Gustave Courbet


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Child of materialism and positivism, Courbet was without a doubt one of the most complex painters of the nineteenth century. Symbolising the rejection of traditions, Courbet did not hesitate to confront the public with the truth by liberating painting of conventional rules. He became from then on the leader of pictorial realism.







Catalogue de 300 tableaux anciens et des objets d'art et d'ameublement, anciennes porcelaines de Chine, de Sèvres, de Saxe, émaux de Limoges, miniatures, sculptures en marbre, en ivoire, bronzes dart, bronze chinois, émaux cloisonnés, objets variés, meubles anciens, bronze d'ameublement, sièges, tapisseries, tapis persans, composant la collection de M. le baron de Beurnonville ...


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Orestes


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Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."