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Book Synopsis David Le Marchand 1674-1726 by : Charles Avery
Download or read book David Le Marchand 1674-1726 written by Charles Avery and published by Ben Uri Gallery & Museum. This book was released on 1996 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Le Marchand was an expert ivory carver and executed some of the most impressive cameo portraits ever carved in ivory. This is the first book on his work, and was published to accompany a major touring exhibition.Le Marchand learned his craft in his native Dieppe, the port to which elephant tusks were shipped from West Africa. However, as a Huguenot he was forced in 1685 to flee religious persecution in France, and settled in Edinburgh in 1696. Here he secured the patronage of some leading Scottish families, including the Earl of Cromartie and the Duke of Perth, for whom he was to undertake important portrait commissions.More distinguished patrons were to follow after Le Marchand moved to London in 1705. Among those who flocked to him for portrait busts and cameos were Queen Anne, George I and the Duke of Marlborough, as well as Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Christopher Wren, Samuel Pepys, and the founder of Guy's Hospital, Thomas Guy.This book examines the role of Le Marchand in the artistic, commercial and intellectual worlds of his day and includes a fully illustrated catalogue of works encompassing the entire range of his activity as a sculptor.
Book Synopsis The Material Culture of the Jacobites by : Neil Guthrie
Download or read book The Material Culture of the Jacobites written by Neil Guthrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of material objects associated with the Jacobites, produced, acquired and treasured in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Book Synopsis The Look of the Past by : Ludmilla Jordanova
Download or read book The Look of the Past written by Ludmilla Jordanova and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we use visual and material culture to shed light on the past? Ludmilla Jordanova offers a fascinating and thoughtful introduction to the role of images, objects and buildings in the study of past times. Through a combination of thematic chapters and essays on specific artefacts – a building, a piece of sculpture, a photographic exhibition and a painted portrait – she shows how to analyse the agency and visual intelligence of artists, makers and craftsmen and make sense of changes in visual experience over time. Generously illustrated and drawing on numerous examples of images and objects from 1600 to the present, this is an essential guide to the skills that students need in order to describe, analyse and contextualise visual evidence. The Look of the Past will encourage readers to think afresh about how they, like people in the past, see and interpret the world around them.
Book Synopsis Life after Gravity by : Patricia Fara
Download or read book Life after Gravity written by Patricia Fara and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade. Isaac Newton is celebrated throughout the world as a great scientific genius who conceived the theory of gravity. But in his early fifties, he abandoned his life as a reclusive university scholar to spend three decades in London, a long period of metropolitan activity that is often overlooked. Enmeshed in Enlightenment politics and social affairs, Newton participated in the linked spheres of early science and imperialist capitalism. Instead of the quiet cloisters and dark libraries of Cambridge's all-male world, he now moved in fashionable London society, which was characterized by patronage relationships, sexual intrigues and ruthless ambition. Knighted by Queen Anne, and a close ally of influential Whig politicians, Newton occupied a powerful position as President of London's Royal Society. He also became Master of the Mint, responsible for the nation's money at a time of financial crisis, and himself making and losing small fortunes on the stock market. A major investor in the East India Company, Newton benefited from the global trading networks that relied on selling African captives to wealthy plantation owners in the Americas, and was responsible for monitoring the import of African gold to be melted down for English guineas. Patricia Fara reveals Newton's life as a cosmopolitan gentleman by focussing on a Hogarth painting of an elite Hanoverian drawing room. Gazing down from the mantelpiece, a bust of Newton looms over an aristocratic audience watching their children perform a play about European colonialism and the search for gold. Packed with Newtonian imagery, this conversation piece depicts the privileged, exploitative life in which this eminent Enlightenment figure engaged, an uncomfortable side of Newton's life with which we are much less familiar.
Book Synopsis Never at Rest by : Richard S. Westfall
Download or read book Never at Rest written by Richard S. Westfall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-04-29 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destined to become the standard biography of Isaac Newton, this meticulously detailed work centers on his scientific career, but also deals with every facet of his life. Westfall has drawn on recent research which has fundamentally altered our perception of Newton.
Download or read book Newton written by Patricia Fara and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Newton is now universally celebrated as a genius of science, renowned for his innovatory work on gravity and optics. Yet Newton did not always enjoy such legendary status. His posthumous reputation has constantly changed and is riddled with contradictions. NEWTON investigates the different ways in which Newton's life and works have been interpreted at different times. It charts his transformation into a scientific genius, explaining the changing attitude of the scientific community towards Newton's ideas, from Berkeley to Einstein. It also explores the making of Newton the national hero, through the myths that surround him and the many artistic and literary descriptions of him. NEWTON tells the fascinating story of Newton's reputation, shedding light on the growth of science generally and on our changing attitude towards our intellectual heritage. 'Fara's brilliant book is not so much a biography as the story of a phenomenon . . . fascinating' Scotsman 'Fara does not debunk Newton as recent novelists have but delivers him more whole and greater than ever' Sunday Herald
Author :Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Architecture and Sculpture Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :474 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (89 download)
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory by : Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Architecture and Sculpture
Download or read book Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory written by Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Architecture and Sculpture and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :British Museum. Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780861599943 Total Pages :32 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (999 download)
Book Synopsis David Le Marchand by : British Museum. Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities
Download or read book David Le Marchand written by British Museum. Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Portrait Sculpture by : Aileen Dawson
Download or read book Portrait Sculpture written by Aileen Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1756, the British Museum has acquired, by gift, bequest or purchase, some 90 works of portrait sculpture. Presented in a variety of media, most of the sitters are eminent statesmen, scholars and authors and many of the works are by sculptors of the first rank, yet the pieces have rarely been on public display and are correspondingly little known. The portraits have been closely studied and catalogued in this illustrated volume. For each piece, Aileen Dawson considers the gensis, material, place in the artist's oeuvre, and history in the museum.
Book Synopsis Enlightenment in a Smart City by : Pittock Murray Pittock
Download or read book Enlightenment in a Smart City written by Pittock Murray Pittock and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided by urban innovation and Smart City theory, it pinpoints the distinctive features that made Enlightenment in the Scottish capital possible. In a journey packed with evidence and incident, Murray Pittock explores various civic networks - such as the newspaper and printing businesses, the political power of the gentry and patronage networks, as well as the pub and coffee-house life - as drivers of cultural change. His analysis reveals that the attributes of civic development, which lead to innovation and dynamism, were at the heart of what made Edinburgh a smart city of 1700.
Book Synopsis Huguenot Heritage by : Robin D. Gwynn
Download or read book Huguenot Heritage written by Robin D. Gwynn and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director of the 1985 Huguenot Heritage tercentenary commemoration, Gwynn surveys the contributions to Britain and Ireland by the French-speaking Calvinist refugees who crossed the Channel between the 16th and 18th centuries. Among the topics are the situation in France, settlements in England, government reaction, crafts and trades, churches, opposition, the impact of Louis XIV's defeat, and assimilation. The first edition was published by Routledge in 1985; the second incorporates literature published and artefacts discovered since then, and is more comprehensively footnoted. All referencing material has been updated tin the light of new findings. And the plate section has been expanded to take into account recently available pictures of Huguenot artefacts and scenes.
Book Synopsis The Iconography of Sir Isaac Newton to 1800 by : Milo Keynes
Download or read book The Iconography of Sir Isaac Newton to 1800 written by Milo Keynes and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue and iconography of the extraordinary wealth of images of Sir Isaac Newton, both before and after his death. Sir Isaac Newton [1642-1727] is rare among figures of the past for the number of authentic paintings, engravings and images of him which survive. He was painted by some nine different artists in the latter part of his life, and after his death both portraits and sculptures continued to proliferate, the amazing demand for representations of his image demonstrating his immense fame. This iconography, lavishly illustrated in both colour and black and white, and involving the disciplines of History of Art and History of Science, catalogues 231 icons in two sections, and is thus an invaluable guide to the images. Part I contains 122 portraits and Part II 109 sculptures, about fifty of which were produced before his death, the rest from then until 1800.
Book Synopsis The Marriage Registers of St. Dunstan's Stepney, in the County of Middlesex: 1697-1719 by : Stepney, Eng. (Middlesex) St. Dunstan Parish
Download or read book The Marriage Registers of St. Dunstan's Stepney, in the County of Middlesex: 1697-1719 written by Stepney, Eng. (Middlesex) St. Dunstan Parish and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quarto Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Victoria and Albert Museum by : Elizabeth James
Download or read book The Victoria and Albert Museum written by Elizabeth James and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive bibliography and exhibition chronology of the world's greatest museum of the decorative arts and design. The Victoria and Albert Museum, or South Kensington Museum as it used to be known, was founded by the British Government in 1852, out of the proceeds from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Like the Exhibition, it aimed to improve the expertise of designers, and the taste of the public, by exposing them to examples of good design from all countries and periods. 2,500 publications have to date been produced by, for, or in association with the V&A. The National Art Library, which is part of the Museum, has prepared this detailed catalogue, supplemented by a secondary list of 500 other books closely related to the V&A. The 1,500 exhibitions and displays recorded include those held in the main Museum and at its branches, the Bethnal Green Museum (now the National Museum of Childhood) and the Theatre Museum, Covent Garden, and additionally those it has organized at external venues, in Great Britain and abroad. The exhibitions and publications are fully cross-referenced, and there are name, title and subject indexes to the whole work, as well as an explanatory introduction.
Book Synopsis The Quiet Conquest by : Museum of London
Download or read book The Quiet Conquest written by Museum of London and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Encyclopædia Britannica: Italy-Kyshtym by :
Download or read book The Encyclopædia Britannica: Italy-Kyshtym written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
