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A biography of a man and his eternal search for Beauty.
Author : Philippe Jullian
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Aestheticism (Literature)
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A biography of a man and his eternal search for Beauty.
Author : Edgar Munhall
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Art
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"This is the sage of James Abbott McNeill Whistler's painting of Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac"--Page 9. Painting held by the Frick Collection.
Author : Philippe Jullian
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Lucy Paquette
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 2020-10-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780578735221
THE HAMMOCK: A novel based on the true story of French painter James Tissot portrays ten remarkable years in the life of James Tissot (1836-1902), who rebuilt - and then lost - his reputation in London. THE HAMMOCK is a psychological portrait, exploring the forces that unwound the career of this complex man. Based on contemporary sources, the novel brings Tissot's world alive in a story of war, art, Society glamour, love, scandal, and tragedy.
Author : Pierre Apraxine
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300085099
Issued in conjuction with the exhibition of the same title held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 18 Sept. - 31 Dec. 2000.
Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Random House
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 147357403X
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020* 'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening Standard The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. The commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a scientific man with a famously complicated private life. Pozzi's life played out against the backdrop of the Parisian Belle Epoque. The beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic, decadent and violent, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2019**
Author : Caroline Weber
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0345803124
From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion--a brilliant look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe--these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber says, "transformed themselves, and were transformed by those around them, into living legends: paragons of elegance, nobility, and style." All well but unhappily married, these women sought freedom and fulfillment by reinventing themselves, between the 1870s and 1890s, as icons. At their fabled salons, they inspired the creativity of several generations of writers, visual artists, composers, designers, and journalists. Against a rich historical backdrop, Weber takes the reader into these women's daily lives of masked balls, hunts, dinners, court visits, nights at the opera or theater. But we see as well the loneliness, rigid social rules, and loveless, arranged marriages that constricted these women's lives. Proust, as a twenty-year-old law student in 1892, would worship them from afar, and later meet them and create his celebrated composite character for The Remembrance of Things Past.
Author : Philippe Jullian
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Jurisprudence
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Author : Philippe Jullian
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,70 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : 0870993291