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Author : Arthur Charles Edwards
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Account Books of Benjamin Mildmay, Earl Fitzwalter written by Arthur Charles Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine Casey
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1800083548
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 ( download)
Download or read book Enriching Architecture written by Christine Casey and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refinement and enrichment of surfaces in stone, wood and plaster is a fundamental aspect of early modern architecture which has been marginalised by architectural history. Enriching Architecture aims to retrieve and rehabilitate surface achievement as a vital element of early modern buildings in Britain and Ireland. Rejected by modernism, demeaned by the conceptual ‘turn’ and too often reduced to its representative or social functions, we argue for the historical legitimacy of creative craft skill as a primary agent in architectural production. However, in contrast to the connoisseurial and developmental perspectives of the past, this book is concerned with how surfaces were designed, achieved and experienced. The contributors draw upon the major rethinking of craft and materials within the wider cultural sphere in recent years to deconstruct traditional, oppositional ways of thinking about architectural production. This is not a craft for craft’s sake argument but an effort to embed the tangible findings of conservation and curatorial research within an evidence-led architectural history that illuminates the processes of early modern craftsmanship. The book explores broad themes of surface treatment such as wainscot, rustication, plasterwork, and staircase embellishment together with chapters focused on virtuoso buildings and set pieces which illuminate these themes.
Author : Richard Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0826439101
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Creating Paradise written by Richard Wilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building or rebuilding their houses was one of the main concerns of the English nobility and gentry, some might say their greatest achievement. This is the first book to look at the building of country houses as a whole. Creating Paradise shows why owners embarked on building programmes, often following the Grand Tour or excursions around other houses in England; where they looked for architectural inspiration and assistance; and how the building was actually done. It deals not only with great houses, including Holkham and Castle Howard, but also the diversity of smaller ones such as Felbrigg and Dyrham, and shows the cost not only of building but of decorating and furnishing houses and of making their gardens. Creating Paradise is an important and original contribution to its subject and a highly readable account of the attitude of the English ruling class to its most important
Author : Enid Robbie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Forgotten Commissioner written by Enid Robbie and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a middle-aged London lawyer, Sir William Mildmay had a reputation for prudence and frugality that landed him a position on the Anglo-French Commission in Paris. The Commission's ongoing negotiations and failure to ratify the 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chappelle and resolve long-standing differences were to have far-reaching consequences for the futures of Britain, France, Canada, the American colonies, and India. The contents of William Mildmay's letters, his private commission journal, and his official commission reports provide remarkable first-hand insight into the tortuous process of eighteenth-century diplomacy. Mildmay's notes also raise the fascinating possibility that in the early summer of 1752 a successful end of the treaty negotiations might have been possible, thus preventing or delaying the Seven Years' War. Given the importance of the resulting conflagration for Britain and its Empire, Mildmay's detailed descriptions of the commission's work is a remarkable and unique chronicle of a crucial episode in British and French diplomacy. Enid Robbie's Forgotten Commissioner resurrects the uncertainties, personalities, infighting, and political double-dealing behind the Anglo-French Commission through an examination of one of its quietest but most dedicated participants. As Robbie weaves Mildmay's personal fortunes through the larger diplomatic negotiations, the reader understands that politics and diplomacy were life and death professions, not just for nations, but for individual careers.
Author : Hannah Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521828767
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Georgian Monarchy written by Hannah Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Publisher : Hudson Hills
ISBN 13 : 9781555951177
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (511 download)
Download or read book English, Irish, & Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute written by Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 1997 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning catalog, Wees, curator of decorative arts at the Clark Art Institute, shares her extensive knowledge of silver. Robert Sterling Clark, who established the Art Institute in 1955, preferred Huguenot silver? especially that of Paul de Lamerie? so his collection, which contains typical objects from the early 16th to the mid-20th centuries, is especially rich in 18th-century examples. Wees arranges this collection according to general function ("Dining," "Lighting," etc.) and prefaces each chapter with exhaustively footnoted essays. She accompanies each item with crisp black-and-white photographs, a wealth of description, and helpful commentary. Analogous to Kathryn Buhler's standard catalog of American silver in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, this is a wonderful tool for researching makers and hallmarks, comparing stylistic elements, or just marveling at the beauty of an extraordinary collection. While not intended to be a historical compendium, this informative, visual feast belongs in all silver reference collections and will also certainly appeal to individual collectors. 19 colour & 1,222 b/w illustrations
Author : Philippa Glanville
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136611630
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Silver in England written by Philippa Glanville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Silver is unique among the decorative arts in that its raw material is both inherently valuable and infinitely reusable. Its ownership has been a social bench-mark and its form has exercised the skills of sculptors, designers, chasers and engravers, but ultimately it could be, and normally was, melted down and refashioned quite without sentiment. Because of this constant recycling, the survival of any individual object is quite random and unrelated to its uniqueness or otherwise in its period. Hitherto plate historians have focused on individual objects almost to the exclusion of the context - social or economic - from which they came but now that context is seen as crucial in understanding historic plate. So in the first section of this book each chapter considers contemporary attitudes and usage.
Author : Christopher Hartop
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Geometry and the Silversmith written by Christopher Hartop and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an important collection, the author charts the use of geometric shapes in English silver, as well as Asian influences, during two centuries, 1630-1830.
Author : David Hunter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783270616
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Lives of George Frideric Handel written by David Hunter and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories moulded our understanding of the musician, the man and the icon?
Author : Maxine Berg
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719052743
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (527 download)
Download or read book Consumers and Luxury written by Maxine Berg and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume charts the rise of consumer culture in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. Essays are included on France and Holland, but the focus is primarily on Britain. Themes discussed include art markets, collecting and display, and are set alongside those of value and luxury.
Author : David Hughson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book London; written by David Hughson and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Chamberlayne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Magnae Britanni Notitia: Or, The Present State of Great Britain; with Diverse Remarks Upon the Ancient State Thereof written by John Chamberlayne and published by . This book was released on 1737 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Walford's Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Walford
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Walford's Antiquarian written by Edward Walford and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Huguenot Society of London
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London written by Huguenot Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bibliography of some works relating to the Huguenot refugees, whence they came, where they settled": v. 1, pp. 130-149.
Author : Thomas Wright
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Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The History and Topography of the County of Essex written by Thomas Wright and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
