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Catalogue Raisonne Des Mineraux Coquilles Et Autres Curiosites Naturelles Contenues Dans Le Cabinet De Feu M Geoffroy De Lacademie Royale Des Sciences
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Book Synopsis Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe by : Kristel Smentek
Download or read book Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe written by Kristel Smentek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated connoisseur, drawings collector, print dealer, book publisher and authority on the art of antiquity, Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774) was a pivotal figure in the eighteenth-century European art world. Focusing on the trajectory of Mariette?s career, this book examines the material practices and social networks through which connoisseurs forged the idea of art as an object of empirical and historical analysis. Drawing on significant unpublished archival material as well as on histories of science, publishing, collecting and display, this book shows how Mariette and his colleagues? practices of classification and interpretation of the graphic arts gave rise to new conceptions of artistic authorship and to a history of art that transcended the biographies of individual artists. To follow Mariette?s career through the eighteenth century is to see that art was consolidated as a specialized category of intellectual inquiry-and that style emerged as its structuring analytic device-in the overlapping spaces of the collector?s cabinet, the connoisseur?s portfolio and the dealer?s shop.
Book Synopsis The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences by : Adriana Craciun
Download or read book The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences written by Adriana Craciun and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and objects drawn from Europe and beyond, including artefacts from India and China, West Africa and Polynesia. A series of authoritative essays written by experts in the field explores the full range of material culture in the long eighteenth century, raising crucial questions about notions of property and invention, homely and commercial lives. The book also includes a series of well-illustrated exhibits, a startling and provocative assemblage of objects from the Enlightenment world, each accompanied by expert commentaries. The collection of essays and exhibits is the result of collaborative debate by scholars from Europe and north America, who have together worked on the cross-disciplinary importance of material history in making sense of how past society was fundamentally transformed through the world of goods.
Book Synopsis Catalogue raisonné des minéraux, coquilles et autres curiosités naturelles by : Étienne-Louis Geoffroy
Download or read book Catalogue raisonné des minéraux, coquilles et autres curiosités naturelles written by Étienne-Louis Geoffroy and published by . This book was released on 1753 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue raisonné des minéraux, coquilles et autres curiosités naturelles, contenues dans le cabinet de feu m. Geoffroy de l'Académie Royale des Sciences by :
Download or read book Catalogue raisonné des minéraux, coquilles et autres curiosités naturelles, contenues dans le cabinet de feu m. Geoffroy de l'Académie Royale des Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1753 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Mineral Collecting 1530-1799 by : Wendell E. Wilson
Download or read book The History of Mineral Collecting 1530-1799 written by Wendell E. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue raisonné des minéraux, coquilles et autres curiosités naturelles contenues dans le cabinet de feu M. [Claude-Joseph] Geoffroy,... [Par son neveu Etienne-Louis Geoffroy] by : Étienne-Louis Geoffroy
Download or read book Catalogue raisonné des minéraux, coquilles et autres curiosités naturelles contenues dans le cabinet de feu M. [Claude-Joseph] Geoffroy,... [Par son neveu Etienne-Louis Geoffroy] written by Étienne-Louis Geoffroy and published by . This book was released on 1753 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Spaces and Collections in the History of Science by : Marta C. Lourenço
Download or read book Spaces and Collections in the History of Science written by Marta C. Lourenço and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Incompleat Chymist by : Jon Eklund
Download or read book The Incompleat Chymist written by Jon Eklund and published by Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metamorphoses written by Emanuele Coccia and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all fascinated by the mystery of metamorphosis – of the caterpillar that transforms itself into a butterfly. Their bodies have almost nothing in common. They don’t share the same world: one crawls on the ground and the other flutters its wings in the air. And yet they are one and the same life. Emanuele Coccia argues that metamorphosis – the phenomenon that allows the same life to subsist in disparate bodies – is the relationship that binds all species together and unites the living with the non-living. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, plants, animals: they are all one and the same life. Each species, including the human species, is the metamorphosis of all those that preceded it – the same life, cobbling together a new body and a new form in order to exist differently. And there is no opposition between the living and the non-living: life is always the reincarnation of the non-living, a carnival of the telluric substance of a planet – the Earth – that continually draws new faces and new ways of being out of even the smallest particle of its disparate body. By highlighting what joins humans together with other forms of life, Coccia’s brilliant reflection on metamorphosis encourages us to abandon our view of the human species as static and independent and to recognize instead that we are part of a much larger and interconnected form of life.
Book Synopsis The Transmutations of Chymistry by : Lawrence M. Principe
Download or read book The Transmutations of Chymistry written by Lawrence M. Principe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reevaluates the changes to chymistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653–1715) and the changing fortunes of his discipline at the Académie Royale des Sciences, France’s official scientific body. By charting Homberg’s remarkable life from Java to France’s royal court, and his endeavor to create a comprehensive theory of chymistry (including alchemical transmutation), Lawrence M. Principe reveals the period’s significance and reassesses its place in the broader sweep of the history of science. Principe, the leading authority on the subject, recounts how Homberg’s radical vision promoted chymistry as the most powerful and reliable means of understanding the natural world. Homberg’s work at the Académie and in collaboration with the future regent, Philippe II d’Orléans, as revealed by a wealth of newly uncovered documents, provides surprising new insights into the broader changes chymistry underwent during, and immediately after, Homberg. A human, disciplinary, and institutional biography, The Transmutations of Chymistry significantly revises what was previously known about the contours of chymistry and scientific institutions in the early eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis Inventing the Louvre by : Andrew McClellan
Download or read book Inventing the Louvre written by Andrew McClellan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-10-26 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history of the founding of the Louvre that also explores the ideological underpinnings, pedagogical aims, and aesthetic criteria of this, the first great national art museum.
Download or read book Utopia's Garden written by E. C. Spary and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public establishment of natural history: the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. E. C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Muséum, arguing that agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and collections in explaining why natural history was important for French rulers. But the Muséum's success was also a consequence of its employees' Revolutionary rhetoric: by displaying the natural order, they suggested, the institution could assist in fashioning a self-educating, self-policing Republican people. Natural history was presented as an indispensable source of national prosperity and individual virtue. Spary's fascinating account opens a new chapter in the history of France, science, and the Enlightenment.
Book Synopsis Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads by : Stephen T. Asma
Download or read book Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads written by Stephen T. Asma and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The natural history museum is a place where the line between "high" and "low" culture effectively vanishes--where our awe of nature, our taste for the bizarre, and our thirst for knowledge all blend happily together. But as Stephen Asma shows in Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads, there is more going on in these great institutions than just smart fun. Asma takes us on a wide-ranging tour of natural history museums in New York and Chicago, London and Paris, interviewing curators, scientists, and exhibit designers, and providing a wealth of fascinating observations. We learn how the first museums were little more than high-toned side shows, with such garish exhibits as the pickled head of Peter the Great's lover. In contrast, today's museums are hot-beds of serious science, funding major research in such fields as anthropology and archaeology. "Rich in detail, lucid explanation, telling anecdotes, and fascinating characters.... Asma has rendered a fascinating and credible account of how natural history museums are conceived and presented. It's the kind of book that will not only engage a wide and diverse readership, but it should, best of all, send them flocking to see how we look at nature and ourselves in those fabulous legacies of the curiosity cabinet."--The Boston Herald.
Book Synopsis Luxury in the Eighteenth Century by : M. Berg
Download or read book Luxury in the Eighteenth Century written by M. Berg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Luxury in the 18th Century' explores the political, economic, moral and intellectual effects of the production and consumption of luxury goods, and provides a broadly-based account from a variety of perspectives, addressing key themes of economic debate, material culture, the principles of art and taste, luxury as 'female vice' and the exotic.
Book Synopsis Arthur Young's Travels in France by : Arthur Young
Download or read book Arthur Young's Travels in France written by Arthur Young and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue raisonné des minéraux, cristallisations, cailloux, agates, jaspes, pétrifications by : Collectif
Download or read book Catalogue raisonné des minéraux, cristallisations, cailloux, agates, jaspes, pétrifications written by Collectif and published by Hachette Livre Bnf. This book was released on 2021-03-06 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue raisonné des minéraux, cristallisations, cailloux, agates, jaspes, pétrifications, coquilles, &c., qui composent le cabinet de feu M. de L'Isle, et dont la vente se fera... le 5 décembre 1780... Date de l'édition originale: 1780 Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande. Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables. Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique. Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr
Book Synopsis Catalogue raisonné de coquilles et autres curiosités naturelles by : Edme-François Gersaint
Download or read book Catalogue raisonné de coquilles et autres curiosités naturelles written by Edme-François Gersaint and published by . This book was released on 1736 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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