A History of Turin


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Queenship in Europe 1660-1815


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Graphic History


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The suite of forty prints published in Geneva in 1570 depicting the wars, massacres and troubles of the French Wars of Religion may have been the first picture history made in woodcuts or etchings that promised a geenral public a true view of great events of the recent past. This richly illustrated study reconstructs the gradual elaboration of this experimental work, situating it within the previously untold story of the use of the graphic arts to report the news in the fist centuries of European printmaking. Successive chapters explore the pictorial traditions that inspired the printmakers, examine how they gathered their information, assess the reliability of the scenes, and analyze the historical vision informing the series. Part 2 reproduces the full suite with commentary in double page fold-outs. Through the study of a single print series, lost chapters in the history of jorunalism, of the graphic arts, and of Protestant historical consciousness re-emerge.




Catalogue d'une collection venant de l'étranger d'estampes anciennes & modernes, eaux-fortes, burin et manière noire, lithographies, photographies, portraits, dont plusieurs planches de cuivres gravées par Hollar, Livius, Vorsterman, etc., quelques dessins anciens, dont la vente aura lieu Hôtel des commissaires-priseurs, rue Drouot, n° 5, salle n° 7, les vendredi 25 et samedi 26 octobre 1867 [...] Me Delbergue-Cormont, commissaire-priseur [...] assisté de M. Vignères, marchand d'estampes


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The Judgment of Palaemon


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In Virgil's third Eclogue, Palaemon concludes the poetry competition between Menalcas and Damoetas by saying that he cannot choose between them, a judgment that is emblematic of the contest between Neo-Latin and vernacular poetry in Renaissance France. Both forms of poetry draw on similar roots, both are equally accomplished, and the contest between them is largely amicable. The Judgment of Palaement illustrates the almost symbiotic relationship between Renaissance Latin and French poetry, while exploring poets' motivation for choosing one language over another, the different challenges each form of writing involved, and the extent of the collaboration between different language communities. It focuses on some of the major writers of the period, as well as less known ones, and on genres specific to humanist poetry. It shows that composing in Latin was often considered more natural than writing in the vernacular, at a time when many Frenchmen's mother tongue was a non-standard French dialect or distinct language. Book jacket.




Giphantia


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Reproduction of the original.







Catalogue d'une collection importante, d'estampes anciennes, composée: d'eaux-fortes de maîtres divers, pièces de Rembrandt et de son école, gravures au burin, sujets et portraits français, portraits anglais, ouvrages à figures et oeuvres; Puis quelques dessins et miniatures et un manuscrit à dessins sur l'histoire de l'Angleterre; ayant fait partie du cabinet de Mr. le Comte C***, de la succession de feu Mr. J. van der Linden et autres...


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New Paths


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(251e) Catalogue d'estampes anciennes & modernes, livres à figures, vignettes pour illustration d'après Desenne, Gravelot, Johannot, Lefèvre, Marillier, Moreau le jeune, etc.; planches de cuivre, tirages de vignettes d'après Moreau et portraits gravés par Saint-Aubin provenant du fonds de Renouard, portraits, oeuvres de Ficquet, Savart, etc., tableaux, dessins de Graville, Gravelot & autres ; objets de curiosité, composant la collection de feu M. Capé, ancien relieur. Dont la vente aura lieu Hotel des Commissaires-Priseurs, Rue Drouot, n° 5, salle n° 4, au premier étage, les Mercredi 25, Jeudi 26, Vendredi 27 & Samedi 28 Mars 1868 [...].


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