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Habsburg Treasures

Author : Sabine Haag
Publisher : Vendome Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865652989
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Habsburg Treasures written by Sabine Haag and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years after the tragic theft of Benvenuto Cellini’s masterpiece, a gold and enamel saltcellar, Vienna’s Kunstkammer (Art Room) at the Kunsthistorisches Museum has reopened. Completely renovated, the gallery is once again showcasing the Habsburg dynasty’s exceptional collection of art and wonders. Here is a trove of sculptures and bronzes by such giants as Donatello and Giambologna, the world’s greatest collection of Baroque carved-ivory figures, and glorious Baroque silver goblets and vessels, as well as magically endowed natural wonders, such as ostrich eggs mounted in jewels, gold, and silver gilt. Pride of place is held by the Cellini saltcellar, which was found nearly 3 years after its disappearance in the woods 55 miles north of Vienna, as were the thieves. It had been buried underground and survived in perfect condition. With text by the museum’s director, Sabine Haag, and the curator of the Kunstkammer, Franz Kirchweger, alongside specially commissioned photography, this book celebrates a marvelous collection, at last reunited.

Treasures of the Habsburgs

Author : Sabine Haag
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500516805
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Treasures of the Habsburgs written by Sabine Haag and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of Habsburg was one of the wealthiest dynasties in Europe, and many of its members were also great collectors and patrons of the arts. Their love of magnificence is reflected in the quality and diversity of the objects in Viennas Kunstkammer, one of the most important collections of decorative arts in the world. This book features around 150 of the masterpieces from the Habsburg collections, ranging from sublime works of sculpture and fine metalwork to exotic objects fashioned from ostrich eggs, nautilus shells, rhinoceros horns and sharks teeth. Alongside the Saliera, Benvenuto Cellinis famous golden salt cellar, and the High Gothic sculpture known as the Krumau Madonna, are extraordinarily delicate works carved from ivory, gorgeous tapestries and mechanical marvels. The emperors, princes and archdukes who shaped these collections wanted not only to create a sense of wonder in all who gazed upon them but also to symbolize their own dominion over the world. Filled with lavish photographs and fascinating insights, this is a worthy tribute to the Habsburgs and their lasting artistic legacy.

Habsburg Treasures

Author : Katja Schmitz-von Ledebur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976710288
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Habsburg Treasures written by Katja Schmitz-von Ledebur and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Habsburgs

Author : Benjamin Curtis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441100539
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Habsburgs written by Benjamin Curtis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Habsburgs rank among the most celebrated ruling dynasties in history. At one point, their territories stretched not only across Europe but across the globe, into Asia, Africa and the Americas. By virtue of their long pre-eminence, the family made an indelible mark on European affairs, shaping the course of international politics and diplomacy, and knitting together the diverse peoples of Central Europe. The story of the Habsburgs is theatrical and compelling, but it is also vital for understanding how kings ruled, nations rose, and societies changed as modern Europe came into being. In this book, Benjamin Curtis explores both the Spanish and Austrian branches of the dynasty, providing a concise, comprehensive picture of the dynasty's development. This study clearly demonstrates why the Habsburgs are considered the most consistently accomplished practitioners of European dynasticism.

Princely Treasures

Author : Géza von Habsburg
Publisher : Vendome Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Princely Treasures written by Géza von Habsburg and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The princely treasures examined in this book survive from the Renaissance tradition of hoarding wealth not merely for reasons of war and defense but also for the love of collecting beautiful, "marvelous," or rare things. In this all-color book the reader will encounter some of the most fascinating personalities of medieval-Renaissance/Baroque Europe, as well as some of the brightest stars of the European decorative arts: the sculptors Benvenuto Cellini, Adriaen de Vries, and Balthasar Permoser, the silversmiths Wenzel Jamnitzer and Johann Melchior Dinglinger, the Saracchi and Miseroni lapidarists of Milan, the painter Pol and Jean de Limbourg, Jan Vermeyen, and Guiseppe Arcimboldo, the enamalist Pierre Courteys, and the ceramist Bernard Palissy, among scores of others.

Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire

Author : Matthew Rampley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000768295
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire written by Matthew Rampley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire is a study of museums of design and applied arts in Austria-Hungary from 1864 to 1914. The Museum for Art and Industry (now the Museum of Applied Arts) as well as its design school occupies a prominent place in the study. The book also gives equal attention to museums of design and applied arts in cities elsewhere in the Empire, such as Budapest Prague, Cracow, Brno and Zagreb. The book is shaped by two broad concerns: the role of liberalism as a political, cultural and economic ideology motivating the museums’ foundation, and their engagement with the politics of imperial, national and regional identity of the late Habsburg Empire. This book will be of interest for scholars of art history, museum studies, design history, and European history.

Habsburg Splendor

Author : Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)
ISBN 13 : 9780300210866
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Habsburg Splendor written by Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien and published by Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful book tells the fascinating story of the Habsburg dynasty, which ruled most of central Europe, Spain, Belgium, and parts of Italy for nearly 600 years, from the 15th through the 20th century. Charles V (1500-1558) once remarked that the sun never set on the Habsburg Empire, and for most of its history, Vienna served as its capital. The Habsburgs were acclaimed collectors and generous patrons of the arts. Franz Joseph I (1830-1916), the penultimate emperor of the dynasty, created the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna to house the artistic treasures of the empire. Today, this museum possesses one of the most renowned collections in the world of Western art. An extraordinarily wide-ranging survey of the Habsburgs' collections, this volume features classical Greek and Roman works, medieval arms and armor, tapestries, early modern painting and craftwork, ceremonial gilded carriages, and opulent costumes. Together, they reveal the splendor and the spectacle of the Habsburg court. Distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in association with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Exhibition Schedule: Minneapolis Institute of Arts (02/15/15-05/10/15) The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (06/14/15-09/13/15) High Museum of Art (10/18/15-01/17/16)

Princes and Artists

Author : Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Princes and Artists written by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The relationship between artists and their patrons has always been a complex and fascinating one. In the case of the Habsburg rules of the sixteenth and seventh centuries, this is especially true, not only because those rulers are themselves of intrinsic interest, but because the artists whom they encouraged or employed - Durer, Titian, El Grego, Rubens - were among the greatest of all times. In Princes and Artists Professor Trevor-Roper explores the relationship between art and patronage through the careers of the Emperor Charles V (1500-58), his son Philip II of Spain (1527-98), the Emperor Rudolf II (1552-1612) and 'the arch-dukes" - Albert and Isabella - who ruled the southern Netherlands from 1598 to 1633. In the context of their personal lives, their several courts, their political activities, and the ideological conflicts of the era, art played an immensely important role - partly as propaganda, partly for the sheer aesthetic pleasure it gave. The author argues that the distinctive characteristics of patronage in this period, which spanned the transition from the High Renaissance to the Baroque in art, from the Reformation to the Counter-Reformation in ideology, are to be explained by the 'world picture' of the age: "Art symbolised a whole view of life, of which politics were a part, and which the court had a duty to advertise and sustain." -- Book jacket.

Sissi’s World

Author : Maura E. Hametz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501313452
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Sissi’s World written by Maura E. Hametz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, and other media of one of the most popular, revered, and misunderstood female figures in European cultural history. Sissi's World explores the cultural foundations for the endurance of the Sissi legends and the continuing fascination with the beautiful empress: a Bavarian duchess born in 1837, the longest-serving Austrian empress, and the queen of Hungary who died in 1898 at the hands of a crazed anarchist. Despite the continuing fascination with “the beloved Sissi," the Habsburg empress, her impact, and legacy have received scant attention from scholars. This collection will go beyond the popular biographical accounts, recountings of her mythic beauty, and scattered studies of her well-known eccentricities to offer transdisciplinary cultural perspectives across art, film, fashion, history, literature, and media.

Austrian Information

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Austrian Information written by and published by . This book was released on 1970-02 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dubbie

Author : Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781987970203
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Dubbie written by Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the ugly duckling was actually an eagle - an eagle with two heads? It's not easy being a double-headed eagle. This is something little Dubbie finds out soon after hatching. With his single-headed family being clueless how to raise him, he embarks on a quest to find kindred eagles. On this journey, he makes friends with a runaway girl named Emma, but also encounters villains with a hidden agenda who are intent on keeping the past in the past - particularly double-headed eagles. Will Dubbie find his double-headed family? Will he and Emma be able to outwit their foes? Follow their adventures through the magical city of Vienna and find out for yourself.

Imperial Cities in the Tsarist, the Habsburg, and the Ottoman Empires

Author : Ulrich Hofmeister
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000968847
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Cities in the Tsarist, the Habsburg, and the Ottoman Empires written by Ulrich Hofmeister and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the various ways imperial rule constituted and shaped the cities of Eastern Europe until the First World War in the Tsarist, Habsburg, and Ottoman empires. In these three empires, the cities served as hubs of imperial rule: their institutions and infrastructures enabled the diffusion of power within the empires while they also served as the stages where the empire was displayed in monumental architecture and public rituals. To this day, many cities possess a distinctively imperial legacy in the form of material remnants, groups of inhabitants, or memories that shape the perceptions of in- and outsiders. The contributions to this volume address in detail the imperial entanglements of a dozen cities from a long-term perspective reaching back to the eighteenth century. They analyze the imperial capitals as well as smaller cities in the periphery. All of them are "imperial cities" in the sense that they possess traces of imperial rule. By comparing the three empires of Eastern Europe this volume seeks to establish commonalities in this particular geography and highlight trans-imperial exchanges and entanglements. This volume is essential reading to students and scholars alike interested in imperial and colonial history, urban history and European history.

Fabergé Revealed

Author : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780917046902
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book Fabergé Revealed written by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The exquisite objects created by goldsmith and jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé and his studio in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the aristocracy and nobility of imperial Russia are considered to be some of the most refined examples of the jeweler's art of any age. Of greatest fascination are the extraordinary Easter eggs created as special commissions for the Russian imperial family and other notable patrons - works that remain unparalleled in their ingenuity of construction and sheer beauty. Accompanying a major exhibition Faberge Revealed represents a landmark for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and for Fabergé scholarship. The essays by Géza von Habsburg and other scholars present new findings on Fabergé, his workshops, and the creation of these extraordinary objects. For the first time all items by or attributed to Fabergé in VMFA's collection are documented along with the museum's significant holdings of other Russian decorative arts..."--Publisher description.

The Red Prince

Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465012477
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Red Prince written by Timothy Snyder and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilhelm Von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and, every so often, a dress. He could handle a saber, a pistol, a rudder, or a golf club; he handled women by necessity and men for pleasure. He spoke the Italian of his archduchess mother, the German of his archduke father, the English of his British royal friends, the Polish of the country his father wished to rule, and the Ukrainian of the land Wilhelm wished to rule himself. In this exhilarating narrative history, prize-winning historian Timothy D. Snyder offers an indelible portrait of an aristocrat whose life personifies the wrenching upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century, as the rule of empire gave way to the new politics of nationalism. Coming of age during the First World War, Wilhelm repudiated his family to fight alongside Ukrainian peasants in hopes that he would become their king. When this dream collapsed he became, by turns, an ally of German imperialists, a notorious French lover, an angry Austrian monarchist, a calm opponent of Hitler, and a British spy against Stalin. Played out in Europe's glittering capitals and bloody battlefields, in extravagant ski resorts and dank prison cells, The Red Prince captures an extraordinary moment in the history of Europe, in which the old order of the past was giving way to an undefined future-and in which everything, including identity itself, seemed up for grabs.

The Carriage Journal

Author : Jill Ryder
Publisher : Carriage Assoc. of America
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Carriage Journal written by Jill Ryder and published by Carriage Assoc. of America. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Lincoln's Carriages (a look at several vehicles connected to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln} by KEN WHEELING Conserving the Lincoln Carriage by BRIAN HOWARAD & DAVID Coaching in the Highlands reprinted from HARPER'S WEEKLY (1875) Cobb+Co Museum's Military Wagon /[how not to completely restore a WWI wagon} by ANDREW MCDonalD & JEFF POWELL

Fabergé

Author : Géza von Habsburg-Lothringen
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500092392
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Fabergé written by Géza von Habsburg-Lothringen and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1993 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of Carl Faberge are among the world's outstanding artistic treasures. Imperial Jeweller to the Russian court, Faberge enjoyed acclaim across Europe: a status epitomized by his creation of a miniature replica of the Russian crown jewels for the 1900 Paris Exposition: from 4,000 diamonds.

Beyond Fabergé

Author : Marie Betteley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780764360435
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Fabergé written by Marie Betteley and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare look at the exquisite world of Russian treasures that lies beyond Fabergé. Imperial Russia evokes images of a vanished courts unparalleled splendor: magnificent tiaras, gem-encrusted necklaces, snuff boxes and other diamond-studded baubles of the tsars and tsarinas. During that time, jewelry symbolized power and wealth, and no one knew this better than the Romanovs. The era marked the high point of the Russian jewelers' art. Beginning with Catherine I's reign in 1725, in the century when women ruled Russia, until the Russian Revolution of 1917, the imperial capital's goldsmiths perfected their craft, and soon the quality of Russias jewelry equaled, if not surpassed, the best that Europes capitals could offer. Who created these jewels that helped make the Russian Court the richest in Europe? Hint: it wasn't Carl Fabergé. This is the first systematic survey in any language of all the leading jewelers and silver masters of Imperial Russia. The authors skillfully unfold for us the lives, histories, creations, and makers marks of the artisans whose jewels and silver masterworks bedazzled the tsars. The previously unheralded names include Pauzié, Bolin, Hahn, Koechli, Seftigen, Marshak, Morozov, Nicholls & Plincke, Grachev, Sazikov, and many others. The market for these exquisite masterworks is also explored, from its beginnings to today's auction world and collector demand. More than 600 stunning photos reacquaint the world with the master artisans and their creations.