Author : Edward Impey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,43 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781858945934
Edward Impey provides a highly illustrated history of Kensington Palace from its foundation early in the 17th century, its early ownership when William and Mary bought it right through to its association with Diana, Princess of Wales and its current status in the 21st century.
Author : Simon Thurley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 38,75 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300076398
Compiles information about a myriad of topics, ranging from the arts and life sciences to computers and the zodiac. 8 yrs+
Author : Anne Walthall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0520941519
Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that have dominated much of human history. Written by leading historians, anthropologists, and archeologists, these lively essays take us from Mayan states to twentieth-century Benin in Nigeria, to the palace of Japanese Shoguns, the Chinese Imperial courts, eighteenth-century Versailles, Mughal India, and beyond. Together they investigate how women's roles differed, how their roles changed over time, and how their histories can illuminate the structures of power and societies in which they lived. This work also furthers our understanding of how royal courts, created to project the authority of male rulers, maintained themselves through the reproductive and productive powers of women.
Author : Tony Spawforth
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1429928786
“An illuminating portrait” of the palace―its architecture, its scandals, its politics, and its role in France’s tumultuous history (The New York Times Book Review). The story of Versailles is one of historical drama, under the last three kings of France's old regime, mixed with the high camp and glamour of the European courts, all in an iconic home for the French arts. The palace itself has been radically altered since 1789, and the court was long ago swept away. Versailles sets out to rediscover what is now a vanished world: a great center of power, seat of royal government, and, for thousands, a home both grand and squalid, bound by social codes almost incomprehensible to us today. Using eyewitness testimony as well as the latest historical research, Tony Spawforth offers the first full account of Versailles in English in over thirty years. Blowing away the myths of Versailles, he analyses afresh the politics behind the Sun King’s construction of the palace and shows how Versailles worked as the seat of a royal court. He probes the conventional picture of a “perpetual house party” of courtiers and gives full weight to the darker side: not just the mounting discomfort of the aging buildings but also the intrigue and status anxiety of its aristocrats. The book brings out clearly the fateful consequences for the French monarchy of its relocation to Versailles and also examines the changing place of Versailles in France’s national identity since 1789. Includes photographs “Animates the palace that was home to the most charismatic monarchy in Europe for a century, until the French Revolution . . . well-researched and highly engrossing.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : John Martin Robinson
Publisher : Royal Collection Trust
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781902163185
Illustrated history of Buckingham Palace.
Author : Lucy Worsley
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Worsley and Souden's book tells the story of one of the finest palaces in Europe, covering the original buildings of Henry VIII's reign and the baroque additions by Sir Christopher Wren, as well as the famous Gardens. It also reveals details of palace life for both the monarchy and those 'below stairs'.
Author : Brian Hoey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 1990
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Felix Arnold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,91 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0190624558
This book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Islamic palace architecture in Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and southern Italy, presenting all known palace buildings in ground plans, sections and individual descriptions. The author traces their evolution from the 8th to the 19th century and places them within the context of the history of Islamic culture.
Author : Francesca Piqué
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 2000-03-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892365692
The Republic of Benin in West Africa is home to more than forty ethnic groups, the largest of which is the Fon. In the early seventeenth century, the Fon established a society ruled by a dynasty of kings, who over the years forged the powerful kingdom of Dahomey. In their capital city of Abomey, they built a remarkable complex of palaces that became the center of the kingdom's political, social, and religious life. The palace walls were decorated with colorful low-relief sculptures, or bas-reliefs, which recount legends and battles and glorify the history of the dynasty's reign. Over the centuries, these visual stories have represented and perpetuated the history and myths of the Fon people. The Palace Sculptures of Abomey combines lavish color photographs of the bas-reliefs with a lively history of the Dahomey kingdom, complemented by period drawings, rare historical photographs, and colorful textile art. The book provides a vivid portrait of these exceptional narrative sculptures and the equally remarkable people who crafted them. Also included are a reading of the stories on the walls and details of the four-year collaboration between the Benin Ministry of Culture and Communications and the Getty Conservation Institute to conserve the bas-reliefs of Abomey. Final chapters describe the Historic Museum of Abomey, now housed in the palace complex, and discuss the continuing popularity of bas-reliefs in contemporary West African art.
Author : George Wightwick
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
