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The Baroque Treasury at the Grünes Gewölbe Dresden

Author : Dirk Syndram
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Baroque Treasury at the Grünes Gewölbe Dresden written by Dirk Syndram and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailing the contents of the "Gr�nes Gew�lbe"—or Green Vault—this catalog surveys the Treasury of the Saxonian Kings, depicting the collections of August the Strong, King of Saxony and Poland. The study illustrates how the museum was unparalleled in its time and maintains its distinction today with an extravagant profusion of precious objects in the gold, silver, enamel, and precious stones that proclaimed the wealth and artistic taste of the Saxon dynasty. Capturing a treasure trove from the early 18th century, this examination presents the vault's eight exquisitely decorated display rooms designed to inspire amazement in visitors.

Renaissance and Baroque Treasury Art

Author : Dirk Syndram
Publisher : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance and Baroque Treasury Art written by Dirk Syndram and published by Hirmer Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2004 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Green Vault is the most magnificent treasure chamber museum in Europe Home to the Dresden Green Diamond, the Green Vault houses more than 120 precious objects, most of them dating from the Renaissance through to the late Baroque period Housed in the Residence Palace of Dresden, this storehouse of treasures displays, some of the most important works of European culture.

The Historic Grünes Gewölbe at Dresden

Author : Dirk Syndram
Publisher : Deutscher Kunstverlag
ISBN 13 : 9783422072862
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book The Historic Grünes Gewölbe at Dresden written by Dirk Syndram and published by Deutscher Kunstverlag. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous "Historisches Grünes Gewölbe" returns to the residential palace for the first time after 60 years in September 2006. The beautifully illustrated catalogue takes the reader on a fascinating tour through this unique "Gesamtkunstwerk". The "Grünes Gewölbe" was founded in 1550 by Elector August of Saxony as the state treasury, "Geheime Verwahrung." Augustus the Strong converted it into a publicly accessible Schatzkunst museum in 1729. His idea was unrivalled: the eight display rooms with their exquisite interiors and the highly impressive mise en scène of the collection were designed to inspire amazement. The extravagant profusion of precious objects in gold, silver, enamel and precious stones, the ivories, bronzes and jewellery proclaimed the wealth and artistic taste of the Saxon dynasty. In 1942 the collection was closed and taken into storage at Königstein fortress. The museum's exterior and three of the eight rooms were severely damaged during the war. From 1974 a part of the collection could be seen again, but it was not until 2004 when the "Neues Grünes Gewölbe" was reopened with exhibits from the Renaissance to Neo-Classicism. The book introduces the masterpieces of this fascinating collection and provides an insight into the brilliant concept of the museum's founder, from which the inspiration for this presentation has been drawn.

Art of the Royal Court

Author : Wolfram Koeppe
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588392880
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Art of the Royal Court written by Wolfram Koeppe and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2008 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the royal and princely courts of Europe, artworks made of multicolored semiprecious stones were passionately coveted objects. Known as pietre dure, or hardstones, this type of artistic expression includes?paintings in stone,? which were composed of intricately cut separate pieces that were made into magnificent tabetops, cabinets, and wall decorations. Other works included vessels and ornaments carved with virtuosic skill from a single piece of rare and brilliant lapis lazuli, chalcedony, jasper, or similarly prized substance; exquisite objects such as boxes, clocks, and jewelry; and portraits of nobles sculpted in variously colored stones. Derived from ancient Roman decorative stonework, the art of pietre dure was developed in Renaissance Florence, where the manufacture of such objects was enthusiastically sponsored by Medici princes. Ideally suited for ostentatious display, the works sent an unmistakable message of wealth and political might that was understood in centers of power everywhere. From Italy the medium spread across Europeto Prague, Madrid, Naples, Paris, and later Saint Petersburg. Precious and fragile, pietre dure objects are rarely brought together in large numbers. This richly illustrated catalogue contains more than 150 masterworks from across Europe, dating from five centuries, including almost every artistic use of semiprecious stone during this time as well as some of the finest examples of the medium. Eight essays by European and American experts discuss the individualized development of pietre dure in every European region, the latest developments in scholarship, the interrelationships between art and dynastic politics and between cultures, and a variety of techniques used to produce these luxurious masterworks."--Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Pearls for the Crown

Author : Mónica Domínguez Torres
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271097221
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Pearls for the Crown written by Mónica Domínguez Torres and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of European expansion, pearls became potent symbols of imperial supremacy. Pearls for the Crown demonstrates how European art legitimated racialized hierarchies and inequitable notions about humanity and nature that still hold sway today. When Christopher Columbus encountered pristine pearl beds in southern Caribbean waters in 1498, he procured the first source of New World wealth for the Spanish Crown, but he also established an alternative path to an industry that had remained outside European control for centuries. Centering her study on a selection of key artworks tied to the pearl industry, Mónica Domínguez Torres examines the interplay of materiality, labor, race, and power that drove artistic production in the early modern period. Spanish colonizers exploited the expertise and forced labor of Native American and African workers to establish pearling centers along the coasts of South and Central America, disrupting the environmental and demographic dynamics of their overseas territories. Drawing from postcolonial theory, material culture studies, and ecocriticism, Domínguez Torres demonstrates how, through use of the pearl, European courtly art articulated ideas about imperial expansion, European superiority, and control over nature, all of which played key roles in the political circles surrounding the Spanish Crown. This highly anticipated interdisciplinary study will be welcomed by scholars of art history, the history of colonial Latin America, and ecocriticism in the context of the Spanish colonies.

The Throne of the Great Mogul in Dresden

Author : Dror Wahrman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300271832
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Throne of the Great Mogul in Dresden written by Dror Wahrman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful deciphering of an extraordinary art object, illuminating some of the biggest questions of the eighteenth century The Throne of the Great Mogul (1701–8) is a unique work of European decorative art: an intricate miniature of the court of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb depicted during the emperor’s birthday celebrations. It was created by the jeweler Johann Melchior Dinglinger in Dresden and purchased by the Saxon prince Augustus the Strong for an enormous sum. Constructed like a theatrical set made of gold, silver, thousands of gemstones, and amazing enamel work, it consists of 164 pieces that together tell a detailed story. Why did Dinglinger invest so much time and effort in making this piece? Why did Augustus, in the midst of a political and financial crisis, purchase it? And why did the jeweler secrete in it messages wholly unrelated to the prince or to the Great Mogul? In answering these questions, Dror Wahrman, while shifting scales from microhistory to global history, opens a window onto major historical themes of the period: the nature of European absolutism, the princely politics of the Holy Roman Empire, the changing meaning of art in the West, the surprising emergence of a cross-continental lexicon of rulership shared across the Eastern Hemisphere, and the enactment in jewels and gold of quirky contemporary theories about the global history of religion.

Fragile Diplomacy

Author : Maureen Cassidy-Geiger
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300126815
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Fragile Diplomacy written by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While imported Chinese porcelain had become a valuable commodity in Europe in the seventeenth century, local attempts to produce porcelain long remained unsuccessful. At last the secret of hard-paste porcelain was uncovered, and in 1710 the first European porcelain was manufactured in Saxony. Meissen porcelain, still manufactured today, soon ranked in value with silver and gold. This thorough and lavishly illustrated volume explores the early years of Meissen porcelain and how the princes of Saxony came to use highly prized porcelain pieces as diplomatic gifts for presentation to foreign courts. An eminent team of international contributors examines the trade of Meissen with other nations, from England to Russia. They also investigate the cultural ambience of the Dresden Court, varying tastes of the markets, the wide range of porcelain objects, and their designers and makers. Individual chapters are devoted to gifts to Denmark, other German courts, the Holy Roman Empire, Italy, France, and other nations. For every Meissen collector or enthusiast, this book will be not only a treasured handbook but also a source of visual delight.

The Glory of Baroque Dresden

Author : Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Glory of Baroque Dresden written by Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Old Masters Picture Gallery

Author : Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden, Germany)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Old Masters Picture Gallery written by Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden, Germany) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance

Author : Julius von Schlosser
Publisher : Getty Research Institute
ISBN 13 : 160606679X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance written by Julius von Schlosser and published by Getty Research Institute. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the pioneering book that launched the study of art and curiosity cabinets is available in English. Julius von Schlosser’s Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance (Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance) is a seminal work in the history of art and collecting. Originally published in German in 1908, it was the first study to interpret sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cabinets of wonder as precursors to the modern museum, situating them within a history of collecting going back to Greco-Roman antiquity. In its comparative approach and broad geographical scope, Schlosser’s book introduced an interdisciplinary and global perspective to the study of art and material culture, laying the foundation for museum studies and the history of collections. Schlosser was an Austrian professor, curator, museum director, and leading figure of the Vienna School of art history whose work has not achieved the prominence of his contemporaries until now. This eloquent and informed translation is preceded by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann’s substantial introduction. Tracing Schlosser’s biography and intellectual formation in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, it contextualizes his work among that of his contemporaries, offering a wealth of insights along the way.

Let's Go 2008 Western Europe

Author : Let's Go Inc.
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312374587
Total Pages : 1144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Let's Go 2008 Western Europe written by Let's Go Inc. and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with travel information, including listings, deals, and insider tips: CANDID LISTINGS of hundreds of places to eat, sleep, drink, and feel like a local. RELIABLE MAPS to get you around cities, towns, and the countryside. CHEAP, DELICIOUS EATS from Spanish paella to Norwegian pickled herring. VOLUNTEER and work opportunities throughout Europe. INSIDER TIPS on the best straight and gay nightlife, traveling cheap, and finding vegetarian food. Advice on HIKING, BIKING, AND CLIMBING from the Pyrenees to the Dolomites. A useful PHRASEBOOK to help you say "I'm lost" in fifteen different languages.

Making Marvels

Author : Wolfram Koeppe
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396770
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Making Marvels written by Wolfram Koeppe and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than 150 treasures from several of the world’s most prestigious collections, Making Marvels explores the vital intersection of art, technology, and political power at the courts of early modern Europe. It was there, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, that a remarkable outpouring of creativity and learning gave rise to exquisite objects that were at once beautiful works of art and technological wonders. By amassing vast, glittering collections of these ingeniously crafted objects, princes flaunted their wealth and competed for mastery over the known world. More than mere status symbols, however, many of these marvels ushered in significant advancements that have had a lasting influence on astronomy, engineering, and even international politics. Incisive texts by leading scholars situate these works within the rich, complex symbolism of life at court, where science and splendor were pursued with equal vigor and together contributed to a culture of magnificence.

Emblems in the Free Imperial City

Author : Mara R. Wade
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900469160X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Emblems in the Free Imperial City written by Mara R. Wade and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civic virtues were central to early modern Nürnberg’s visual culture. These essays explore Nürnberg as a location from which to study the intersection of art and power. The imperial city was awash in emblems, and they informed most aspects of everyday life. The intent of this volume is to focus new attention on the town hall emblems, while simultaneously expanding the purview of emblem studies, moving from strict iconological approaches to collaborations across methodologies and disciplines.

Dresden and Environs

Author : Grieben-Verlag
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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The Rough Guide to Europe 2004

Author : David Abram
Publisher : Rough Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781843531081
Total Pages : 1080 pages
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The Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget

Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 140935878X
Total Pages : 1710 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget written by Rough Guides and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 1710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget is the ultimate guide to exploring this fascinating continent on a shoestring, with coverage of all the top sights, the clearest mapping of any guide and handy hints on how to save money. Discover the highlights of Europe, from the vibrant capitals of London, Paris and Rome to the great outdoors, whether skiing in the Alps, hiking in the Tatras or surfing on the Portuguese coast. Read about Europe's great attractions from the Sistine Chapel in Rome to the Aya Sofia in Istanbul. And with coverage of four new countries - Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina - The Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget is more comprehensive than ever before. Find practical advice on travelling around Europe, whether by InterRail, Eurail or bus, and what to see and do in each country. With up-to-date descriptions of the best hostels and budget hotels, bars, cafés and cheap restaurants, plus European shopping and festivals, this guide is the budget-conscious traveller's must-have item for European trips. Make the most of your trip to Europe with The Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget.

Rick Steves Germany 2020

Author : Rick Steves
Publisher : Rick Steves
ISBN 13 : 1641711485
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Rick Steves Germany 2020 written by Rick Steves and published by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From fairy-tale castles and alpine forests to quaint villages and modern cities: experience Germany with Rick Steves! Inside Rick Steves Germany 2020 you'll find: Comprehensive coverage for planning a multi-week trip through Germany Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favorites Top sights and hidden gems, from the towering Zugspitze and jagged Alps to rustic villages and delicious strudel How to connect with local culture: Stroll through a Kristkindlemarkt around Christmas, chat with fans about the latest fussball match, or kick back in a biergarten Beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps with Rick's candid, humorous insight The best places to eat, sleep, and relax with a berlinerweisse in hand Self-guided walking tours of lively neighborhoods and incredible museums Vital trip-planning tools, like how to link destinations, build your itinerary, and get from place to place Detailed maps, including a fold-out map for exploring on the go Useful resources including a packing list, German phrase book, a historical overview, and recommended reading Over 1,000 bible-thin pages include everything worth seeing without weighing you down Annually updated information on Munich, Bavaria, Tirol, Salzburg, Berchtesgaden, Baden-Baden, the Black Forest, Rothenburg, Würzburg, Frankfurt, Rhine Valley, Mosel Valley, Trier, Cologne, Nürnburg, Lutherland, Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Hamburg, and more Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves Germany 2020. Planning a one- to two-week trip? Check out Rick Steves Best of Germany.