The Athenaeum
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Page : 862 pages
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Release : 1880
Category : Arts
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Page : 862 pages
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Release : 1880
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Page : 878 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 1876
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Page : 726 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 1852
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Page : 1462 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 1852
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Page : 700 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 1862
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Author : Harry John Wilmot-Buxton
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Painters
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Author : Charissa Bremer-David
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892364556
This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from Gobelins and Beauvais, bronze firedogs from Fontainebleau, and a lathe-turned ivory goblet of astonishing complexity from Saxony are among the other highlights of this handsome volume.
Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892367857
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Author : Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher : Lucia Marquand
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Painting
ISBN : 9781555953614
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Author : J. Paul Getty Museum
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Drawing
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