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Author : Norma Alarcón
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Imperial Tapestry written by Norma Alarcón and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hermann Schmitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Tapestries of the Vienna Imperial Court written by Hermann Schmitz and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Florian Knothe
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789881902498
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Imagining Qianlong written by Florian Knothe and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication accompanies an unprecedented exhibition highlighting four of the magnificent chinoiserie tapestries of Chinese Emperor Qianlong, woven after designs by Fran ois Boucher at the famous Beauvais manufactory from 1758-1760. The large and well-preserved textiles form part of the royal French commission by King Louis XV, objects of which were presented to Qianlong in 1766. These celebrated tapestries are joined by another historic set of culturally related depictions in print--The Battles of the Emperor of China. The engravings were ordered by Qianlong, drawn by Jesuit painters at the Imperial Court in Beijing and then printed in Paris 1769-1774. The 'culture' of these prints follows King Louis XIV's influential images of the Histoire du Roi and presents Qianlong as both a war hero and as the undisputed leader of China in the mid-eighteenth century. These depictions date to the exact same time period, one that coincides with the high demand for chinoiserie in France--culminating in the world-famous designs by Boucher--and the Imperial Court of China's interest in French design and culture. Despite their world-renowned fame, these groups of images previously have not been shown together. Imagining Qianlong presents one of the rare topics to celebrate the court cultures in both France and China, at a time when the empires idolized each other, and cultural influences and exchanges were highly significant and supported by well-established and prosperous monarchs during an increasingly enlightened eighteenth century. In order to highlight the cross-cultural aspects of this project, Florian Knothe (HKU), Pascal-Fran ois Bertrand (Bordeaux), Nicholas Pearce (Glasgow) and Kristel Smentek (MIT) have contributed essays detailing the sociocultural history of the tapestries and prints. Each scholar is an expert in their fields and a well-versed lecturer on Chinese artistic influences in France, as well as French and European Jesuit culture in China.
Author : Guy Delmarcel
Publisher : Lannoo Uitgeverij
ISBN 13 : 9789020938869
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Flemish Tapestry from the 15th to the 18th Century written by Guy Delmarcel and published by Lannoo Uitgeverij. This book was released on 1999 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : AngŽlica Gorodischer
Publisher : Small Beer Press
ISBN 13 : 1618730193
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Kalpa Imperial written by AngŽlica Gorodischer and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emperors, empresses, storytellers, thievesand the Natural History of Ferrets.
Author : George Leland Hunter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Practical Book of Tapestries written by George Leland Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas P. Campbell
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588392309
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Tapestry in the Baroque written by Thomas P. Campbell and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eloise Samson Vaughan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Tapestry written by Eloise Samson Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas P. Campbell
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588390225
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Tapestry in the Renaissance written by Thomas P. Campbell and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2002 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tapestries--the art form of kings--were a principal tool used by powerful Renaissance rulers to convey their wealth and might. From 1460 to 1560, courts and churches lavished vast sums on costly weavings in silk and gold thread from designs by leading artists. In this lavishly illustrated book, the first major survey of tapestry production of this period, contributors analyze some of these & beautiful tapestries, examine the stylistic and technical development of tapestry production in the Low Countries, France, and Italy during the Renaissance, and discuss the contribution that the medium made to art, liturgy, and propaganda of the day.
Author : Elena Phipps
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588391310
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Colonial Andes written by Elena Phipps and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2004 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This unique volume illustrates and discusses in detail more than 160 extraordinary fine and decorative art works of the colonial Andes, including examples of the intricate Inca weavings and metalwork that preceded the colonial era as well as a few of the remarkably inventive forms this art took after independence from Spain. An international array of scholars and experts examines the cultural context, aesthetic preoccupations, and diverse themes of art from the viceregal period, particularly the florid patternings and the fanciful beasts and hybrid creatures that have come to characterize colonial Andean art."--Jacket.
Download or read book The Tapestries of the Vienna Imperial Court written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Leland Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tapestries, Their Origin, History and Renaissance written by George Leland Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charissa Bremer-David
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892363797
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)
Download or read book French Tapestries and Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum written by Charissa Bremer-David and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1997-07-24 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Tapestries and Textiles is a survey of the Getty Museum's seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French textiles—one of the world's finest collections. Featuring twenty-five extraordinary tapestries woven at the Gobelins and Beauvais manufactories, the catalogue also highlights three carpets, two knotted-pile screens, and two sets of embroidered bed hangings, one of which is the only complete lit à la duchesse surviving from the period. Among the magnificent textiles discussed in this lavish volume are the Emperor of China tapestry series, the whimsical Story of Don Quixote, and Boucher's cycle The Story of Psyche. A gatefold in the book opens to reveal a photograph of the stately twenty-nine-foot carpet commissioned for Louis XIV's Galerie du Bord de l'Eau at the Louvre, a piece never publicly displayed in this century. Each entry includes a listing of artists and weavers, date and place of manufacture, and materials and techniques used, followed by a complete description and a condition statement. The accompanying commentary provides information on the literary, historical, and visual source of design imagery as well as the context of the textile's commission and production. In addition, each textile shown has a complete provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography. For lovers of French decorative arts and connoisseurs of textiles, this book offers a study both of the art of tapestry- and textile-making and of the aesthetic tradition exemplified by these remarkable objects.
Author : Kien Nguyen
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316055549
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Tapestries written by Kien Nguyen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based loosely on the life of the author's grandfather, a professional embroiderer in the court of the last king of Vietnam in the early 1900s, Kien Nguyen has reimagined his grandfather's amazing story to weave a tapestry of his own: this stunning and page-turning novel. Dan Nguyen is seven years old when he witnesses his father brutally beheaded by the mayor in a bid for power. Dan's wife, Ven, 20 years his senior, makes him promise to one day avenge his father's death. In order to protect him until he is old enough to defend his family's honor, Ven hides Dan as a servant in the house of the enemy -- and Dan falls in love with the one person he can never have, the mayor's beautiful granddaughter Tai May. Dan's journey from slavery into scandal, and finally to the royal court where he has the chance to win Tai May's heart, is a story of spellbinding drama and intrigue, and, ultimately, the story of a great love affair.
Author : Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Tapestry Book written by Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Owen Matthews
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620402416
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Glorious Misadventures written by Owen Matthews and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two centuries ago, shortly after the U.S. was formed, a Russian expedition set its sights on the Pacific Northwest. It could have changed history. At the dawn of the nineteenth century two empires met on the far side of North America. Spain was the tired and hidebound colonial master of much of the Americas. Russia was the upstart, hungry for America's Pacific Northwest coast, a prize left unclaimed after the golden age of exploration. The dream of a Russian America became the goal of the Russian America Company, championed and led by Nikolai Rezanov, aristocratic adventurer and diplomat and courtier to Tsar Alexander I. At a time when John Jacob Astor was amassing his own fortune in the fur trade, Rezanov envisioned transforming fur-hunting stations on the Alaskan coast into the hub of a Pacific empire stretching from Siberia to California. The distances were vast-thousands of miles overland across the endless Russian steppes, thousands more by sea to Alaska and down to San Francisco bay. His men were unreliable-disorderly, dissolute, disease-ridden-and the dangers ever-present. Yet Rezanov persisted, and in 1806-just as Lewis and Clark were discovering the Columbia River to the north-he came close to realizing his dream. Had he done so, the history of the United States might have been very different. Owen Matthews brilliantly chronicles a hitherto untold story of adventure and colonial ambition, brought to life by vivid first-hand accounts and his own travels across Russia, recalling a time when dreams of glory pushed men to the limits of human endurance.
Author : Hermann Schmitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)
Download or read book The Tapestries of the Vienna Imperial Court written by Hermann Schmitz and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
