Author : Kate Ezra
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870996339
Tantalizing trivia. this Hitler, spoiling everything?"
Author : Maria Andaloro
Publisher : Franco Cosimo Panini
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788857003467
The Royal Palace of Palermo, today seat of the Sicilian Regional Assembly, is one of the symbols of Sicily and of the rich Sicilian and national patrimony. Formerly a fortress, then royal palace and finally building of government, the palace is today an
Author : Rachel Peat
Publisher : Royal Collection Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781909741683
Japan: Courts and Culture tells the story of three centuries of British royal contact with Japan, from 1603 to c.1937, when the exchange of exquisite works of art was central to both diplomatic relations and cultural communication. With discussions of courtly rituals, trade relationships, treaties, and other matters of concern between the two nations, this book provides important historical and political context in addition to granting a new look at the works of art in question. Featuring new research on previously unpublished works, including porcelain, lacquer, armor, embroidery, metalwork, and works on paper, this book showcases the unparalleled craftsmanship of these objects, and the local materials, techniques, and traditions behind them. Japan: Courts and Culture is published to accompany a spectacular exhibition of the same name, which opens at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, in June 2020. The book's stunning photography, contextual essays, and historical insights offer a highly visual record of a royal narrative and history that has not yet been widely documented.
Author : Simon Thurley
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0008389977
The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.
Author : Desmond Shawe-Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Art museums
ISBN : 9781909741737
The exhibition brings together some of the most important paintings in the Royal Collection from the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace. Usually on public view during the annual Summer Opening of the Palace, the paintings will be shown in The Queen?s Gallery while Reservicing works are carried out to protect the historic building for future generations. The Picture Gallery was originally designed by the architect John Nash for George IV to display his collection of Dutch, Flemish and Italian Old Master paintings. Artists represented in the exhibition include Titian, Guercino, Guido Reni, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens, Jan Steen, Claude and Canaletto.00Exhibition: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, UK (dates TBD).
Author : Eleanor Herman
Publisher : Prelude Books
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 071565313X
The story of poison is the story of power... For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns and antidotes tested on condemned prisoners. Servants licked the royal family’s spoons, tried on their underpants and tested their chamber pots. Ironically, royals terrified of poison were unknowingly poisoning themselves daily with their cosmetics, medications and filthy living conditions. Women wore makeup made with lead. Men rubbed feces on their bald spots. Physicians prescribed mercury enemas, arsenic skin cream, drinks of lead filings and potions of human fat and skull, fresh from the executioner. Gazing at gorgeous portraits of centuries past, we don’t see what lies beneath the royal robes and the stench of unwashed bodies; the lice feasting on private parts; and worms nesting in the intestines. The Royal Art of Poison is a hugely entertaining work of popular history that traces the use of poison as a political - and cosmetic - tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Kremlin today.
Author : Warwick Rodwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1317248007
Westminster came into existence in the later Anglo-Saxon period, and by the mid-11th century, when Edward the Confessor’s great new abbey was built, it was a major royal centre two miles south-west of the City of London. Within a century or so, it had become the principal seat of government in England, and this series of twenty-eight papers covers new research on the topography, buildings, art-history, architecture and archaeology of Westminster’s two great establishments — Abbey and Palace. Part I begins with studies of the topography of the area, an account of its Roman-period finds and an historiographical overview of the archaeology of the Abbey. Edward the Confessor’s enigmatic church plan is discussed and the evidence for later Romanesque structures is assembled for the first time. Five papers examine aspects of Henry III’s vast new Abbey church and its decoration. A further four cover aspects of the later medieval period, coronation, and Sir George Gilbert Scott’s impact as the Abbey’s greatest Surveyor of the Fabric. A pair of papers examines the development of the northern precinct of the Abbey, around St Margaret’s Church, and the remarkable buildings of Westminster School, created within the remains of the monastery in the 17th and 18th centuries. Part II part deals with the Palace of Westminster and its wider topography between the late 11th century and the devastating fire of 1834 that largely destroyed the medieval palace. William Rufus’s enormous hall and its famous roofs are completely reassessed, and comparisons discussed between this structure and the great hall at Caen. Other essays reconsider Henry III’s palace, St Stephen’s chapel, the king’s great chamber (the ‘Painted Chamber’) and the enigmatic Jewel Tower. The final papers examine the meeting places of Parliament and the living accommodation of the MPs who attended it, the topography of the Palace between the Reformation and the fire of 1834, and the building of the New Palace which is better known today as the Houses of Parliament.
Author : Henriette Linnemann
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 8711981636
Fredensborg Slot blev bygget som jagtslot for Frederik 4. i 1722 af hofarkitekt I.C. Krieger og har siden dannet ramme om både dagligliv og store begivenheder i Kongehuset. Her holdes bryllups-, sølvbryllups- og fødselsdagsfester, her modtages gæster fra alverdens lande, og dronning Margrethe og hendes familie tilbringer forår og efterår på slottet. Dronning Margrethe har udført et omfattende arbejde med at føre slottet tilbage til den oprindelige indretning, mens prins Henrik indrettede sine private gemakker i en mere global og franskinspireret stil. Vi kommer også ind i de private arbejdsværelser og stuer, som aldrig har været vist før, og dronning Margrethe har en vigtig stemme i bogen, når hun fortæller om, hvordan statsoverhoveder ridser deres navnetræk ind i slottets glasruder med en diamant, og hvordan hun og prins Henrik spiste frokost i Lille Barokspisestue og tilbragte aftenerne i Frederik 4.s Rum. [5 hjerter] "Det er et prægtigt værk, som J. Henriette Linnemann har skabt om Fredensborg Slot." Lars Hedebo Olsen, Politiken [5 stjerner] "Linnemann gennemfører et detaljernes skoleridt, men får det føjet sammen til et festfyrværkeri over en dansk kunst- og kulturhistorie, hvor der også bliver tid til et "besøg" i privaten." Flemming Østergaard, Jyllands-Posten "Fotografierne er enestående, præcise og velgennemtænkte; de understøtter bogens originale fortælling. Værket handler om stilsættelse, styling; hvordan ting skal tage sig ud, og hvordan man opnår det ønskede helhedsindtryk." Anne Knudsen, Weekendavisen
Author : Lynne Ellsworth Larsen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 2023-06-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1000899683
Dahomey’s Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin. The book explores the Royal Palace of Dahomey’s relationship to the religious, cultural, and national identity of the pre-colonial Kingdom of Dahomey (c. 1625–1892), colonial Dahomey (1892–1960) and post-colonial Benin (1960–present). The Royal Palace of Dahomey covers more than 108 acres and was surrounded by a wall over two miles long. When the French colonial army arrived in Abomey in 1892, the ruling king set fire to the palace to keep it from falling into enemy hands. Though much of the palace structure was subsequently left to ruin, a portion of it was restored from which the French ruled for a short period. In 1945, the colonial administration transformed part of the palace into a museum, and in 1985 the entire palace was added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list. This book documents the palace’s physical transformations in relation to its changing purposes and explores how the space maintained religious significance despite change. The palace’s construction, destruction, and restorations demonstrate how architecture can be manipulated and transformed according to the agendas of governments or according to the religious and cultural needs of a populace. The palace functions as a historic record by discussing aspects of documentation, revision, language, and interpretation. Covering almost four centuries of Dahomey’s history, this book will be of interest to researchers and students of African art and architecture, religious studies, west African history, and post-colonial studies.
Author : Tara Zanardi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 1350277614
A desire for intimacy in domestic spaces – motivated by a growing sense of individualistic expression, an incentive to conceal the labor or enslavement taking place, and an appetite for solace and comfort – led to interiors taking on more specific roles in the eighteenth century. By examining the architectural, visual, and material culture of eighteenth-century spaces, Intimate Interiors foregrounds the interrelated concepts of intimacy, privacy, informality, and sociability in order to show how these ideas played an increasingly integral role in the period's architectural and material design. Across eleven innovative chapters that explore issues of gender, politics, travel, exoticism, imperialism, sensorial experiences, identity, interiority, and modernity, this volume demonstrates how intimacy was a fundamental goal in the planning of private quarters. In doing so, the political nature of private spaces is uncovered, whilst highlighting the contradictions and complexities of these highly performative “private” interiors. Employing distinct methodological perspectives across various geographical sites, from Turkey to Versailles, Britain to Benin, Intimate Interiors draws as-yet untraced connections between Enlightenment Europe, imperial outposts, and major metropolitan centers across the globe.
