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Book Synopsis A Rothschild Renaissance by : Dora Thornton
Download or read book A Rothschild Renaissance written by Dora Thornton and published by British museum Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sumptuously illustrated book presenting the highlights of Renaissance court treasures, bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, MP in 1898.
Book Synopsis fitzwilliam museum bcclean bequest by : O. M. Dalton
Download or read book fitzwilliam museum bcclean bequest written by O. M. Dalton and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1912 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Architecture and Panelling by : Bruno Pons
Download or read book Architecture and Panelling written by Bruno Pons and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly account of the origins of Waddesdon Manor and a catalogue of the celebrated panelling, describing and analyzing the 385 individual elements.
Download or read book The Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Keystone written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Waddesdon Bequest by : Hugh Tait
Download or read book The Waddesdon Bequest written by Hugh Tait and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gem written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to be dazzled by this shining and sumptuous visual guide to the world's greatest treasures. Feast your eyes on glittering gemstones, kaleidoscopic minerals, and famous trinkets in this comprehensive exploration of Earth's finest jewels. Following a foreword from Aja Raden, hundreds of pages take a lavish look at precious stones, precious metals, and organic gems in all their natural wonder. From agate to zoisite, everything under the Sun is encapsulated in spectacular photography and accessible text. Trace the history of gemmology and get the inside story on our planet's most famous and fabulous gems, including the mysterious Hope Diamond, the stunning Koh-i-Noor of the Crown Jewels, and exquisite Fabergé eggs. Find out their physical properties, check the price tags, and discover the most remarkable record-breakers. This exceptionally extravagant book is a picture-packed, fact-filled celebration guaranteed to bring sparkle to your life and your library.
Book Synopsis A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury). by :
Download or read book A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury). written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury). by : British Museum
Download or read book A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury). written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Art of Small Things by : John Mack
Download or read book The Art of Small Things written by John Mack and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book celebrates the art of the miniature, but also looks beyond it at the many aspects of "small worlds"--in particular, their capacity to evoke responses that far exceed their physical dimensions. Mack explores the talismanic, religious, or magical properties with which miniatures are often imbued. Considering a wide range of objects, he examines the use of the miniature form in various cultural contexts.
Book Synopsis A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum by : British Museum
Download or read book A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fake? written by Mark Jones and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the methods used to make artistic, literary, documentary, and political forgeries and the recent scientific advances in their detection. Includes over 600 objects from the British Museum and many other major collections, from ancient Babylonia to the present day.
Book Synopsis The Whole Picture by : Alice Procter
Download or read book The Whole Picture written by Alice Procter and published by Cassell. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again. " Financial Times 'A smart, accessible and brilliantly structured work that encourages readers to go beyond the grand architecture of cultural institutions and see the problematic colonial histories behind them.' - Sumaya Kassim Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonize' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall? How to deal with the colonial history of art in museums and monuments in the public realm is a thorny issue that we are only just beginning to address. Alice Procter, creator of the Uncomfortable Art Tours, provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art history and tells the stories that have been left out of the canon. The book is divided into four chronological sections, named after four different kinds of art space: The Palace, The Classroom, The Memorial and The Playground. Each section tackles the fascinating, enlightening and often shocking stories of a selection of art pieces, including the propaganda painting the East India Company used to justify its rule in India; the tattooed Maori skulls collected as 'art objects' by Europeans; and works by contemporary artists who are taking on colonial history in their work and activism today. The Whole Picture is a much-needed provocation to look more critically at the accepted narratives about art, and rethink and disrupt the way we interact with the museums and galleries that display it.
Book Synopsis Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by :
Download or read book Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dutch Silver written by J.W. Frederiks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Power of Gifts by : Felicity Heal
Download or read book The Power of Gifts written by Felicity Heal and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gifts are always with us: we use them positively to display affection and show gratitude for favours; we suspect that others give and accept them as douceurs and bribes. The gift also performed these roles in early modern English culture: and assumed a more significant role because networks of informal support and patronage were central to social and political behaviour. Favours, and their proper acknowledgement, were preoccupations of the age of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Hobbes. As in modern society, giving and receiving was complex and full of the potential for social damage. 'Almost nothing', men of the Renaissance learned from that great classical guide to morality, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 'is more disgraceful than the fact that we do not know how either to give or receive benefits'. The Power of Gifts is about those gifts and benefits - what they were, and how they were offered and received in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It shows that the mode of giving, as well as what was given, was crucial to social bonding and political success. The volume moves from a general consideration of the nature of the gift to an exploration of the politics of giving. In the latter chapters some of the well-known rituals of English court life - the New Year ceremony, royal progresses, diplomatic missions - are viewed through the prism of gift-exchange. Gifts to monarchs or their ministers could focus attention on the donor, those from the crown could offer some assurance of favour. These fundamentals remained the same throughout the century and a half before the Civil War, but the attitude of individual monarchs altered specific behaviour. Elizabeth expected to be wooed with gifts and dispensed benefits largely for service rendered, James I modelled giving as the largesse of the Renaissance prince, Charles I's gift-exchanges focused on the art collecting of his coterie. And always in both politics and the law courts there was the danger that gifts would be corroded, morphing from acceptable behaviour into bribes and corruption. The Power of Gifts explores prescriptive literature, pamphlets, correspondence, legal cases and financial records, to illuminate social attitudes and behaviour through a rich series of examples and case-studies.
Book Synopsis English and Other Silver in the Irwin Untermyer Collection by : Irwin Untermyer
Download or read book English and Other Silver in the Irwin Untermyer Collection written by Irwin Untermyer and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1963 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
