Catalogue of English and Continental Furniture, Musical Boxes, Automata, Dolls, Costumes ...
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Release : 1970
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Author : Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Bronzes
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Author : Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 39,19 MB
Release : 1970-05-22
Category : Art
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Page : 35 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,71 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.
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Art
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Page : 35 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Simon J. Knell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1351916424
Collecting is a key function of museums. Its apparent simplicity belies a complexity of questions and issues which make all collecting imprecise and unrepresentative. This book exposes the many meanings of collections, the different perspectives taken by different cultures, and the institutional response to the collecting problem. One major concern is omission, whether this be determined by politics, professional ethics, the law or social agenda. How did curators collect during the war in Croatia? What were the problems of trying to collect the ’old’ South Africa when the new one was born? Can museums collect from groups which seem to ’deviate’ from society’s norms? How has the function of museums affected the practices of international trade? Can museums collect successfully if collecting agenda are being set externally? Museums and the Future of Collecting encourages museums to move away from the collecting of isolated tokens; to move beyond the collecting policy and to understand more clearly the intellectual function of what they do. Here examples are given from Australia, Sweden, Canada, Spain, Britain and Croatia which provide this intellectual understanding and many practical tools for evaluating a future collecting strategy.
Author : George Santayana
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Release : 1947
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Author : Leah Dickerman
Publisher : National Gallery of Art, Washington/D.A.P.
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
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Edited by Leah Dickerman. Essays by Brigid Doherty, Sabine T. Kriebel, Dorothea Dietrich, Michael R. Taylor, Janine Mileaf and Matthew S. Witkovsky. Foreword by Earl A. Powell III.