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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : John W. Haseltine
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2024-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385306760
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : James Silk Buckingham
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Page : 852 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 1903
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Author : James Silk Buckingham
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Page : 894 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : William Laidlaw Purves
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Page : 70 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 1903
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Page : 938 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Arts
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Author : James Silk Buckingham
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Page : 934 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 1894
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Page : 872 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
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Page : 710 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Union catalogs
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Author : John M. Kleeberg
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
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Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 39,20 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.