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Author : Goucher College
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by Goucher College and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Goucher College
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue written by Goucher College and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David J. Buch
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945193333
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Dance Music from the Ballets de Cour, 1575-1651: Six allemandes ; 2: Ballet à Cheval fait pour le grand Carouselle fait a la Place Royal pour le Mariage de Louis 13 (4 airs) ; 3: Concert à Louis XIII par les 24 viollons et les 12 Grand hautbois de plusieurs airs choisy de Differens ballets, 1627 ; 4: Ballet des Nations ... ; 5: Ballet du Roy des Festes de Baccus ... 1651 written by David J. Buch and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Buch's informative volume is the first modern study edition and commentary dealing with almost all of the surviving French five-part scores of dance music from the ballets de cour 1575-1651. These full scores are especiall y important since most ballets from this time are preserved only in two-part readings (melody and bass). The exception here is a newly-created five-part score for the Ballet des Nations based on an original two-part setting. Also included are the six Allemandes from 1575 to ca. 1600 a Ballet cheval of 1615 a selection of miscellaneous Entres from several ballets prepared for the Concert Louis XIII par les Viollons et lest 12 Grands hautbois of 1627 and Philidor's five-part reading of seventeen Entres from the Ballet du Roy des Festes de Baccus of 1651.
Author : Richard Parish
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191618810
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing written by Richard Parish and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'le christianisme est étrange' - Pascal, Pensées Pascal's assertion that 'Christianity is strange', provides the theme for Richard Parish's exploration of Catholic particularity, as it was expressed in the writing of the French seventeenth century. This was a period of quite exceptional fertility in a range of genres: apologetics, sermons, devotional manuals, catechisms, martyr tragedies, lyric poetry, polemic and spiritual autobiography. Parish examines a broad cross-section of this corpus with reference to the topics of apologetics, physicality, language, discernment, polemics and salvation; and draws evidence both from canonical figures (Pascal, Bossuet, Fénelon, St François de Sales, Madame Guyon) and from less easily-available texts. Parish aims to consider all those distinctive features that the heritage of the Catholic Reformation brought to the surface in France, and to do so in support of the numerous ways in which Christian doctrine could be understood as being strange: it is by turns contrary to expectations, paradoxical, divisive, carnal and inexpressible. These features are exploited imaginatively in the more conventional literary forms, didactically in pulpit oratory and empirically in the accounts of personal spiritual experience. In addition they are manifested polemically in debates surrounding penance, authority, inspiration and eschatology, and often push orthodoxy to its limits and beyond in the course of their articulation. This volume provides an unsettling account of a belief system to which early-modern France often unquestioningly subscribed, and shows how the element of cultural assimilation of Catholic Christianity into much of Western Europe only tenuously contains a subversive and counter-intuitive creed. The degree to which that remains the case will be for the reader to decide.
Author : Esther Susan Bell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300218885
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Brothers Le Nain written by Esther Susan Bell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful volume that brings to light the forgotten Le Nain brothers, a trio of 17th-century French master painters who specialized in portraiture, religious subjects, and scenes of everyday peasant life In France in the 17th century, the brothers Antoine (c. 1598-1648), Louis (c. 1600/1605-1648), and Mathieu (1607-1677) Le Nain painted images of everyday life for which they became posthumously famous. They are celebrated for their depictions of middle-class leisure activities, and particularly for their representations of peasant families, who gaze out at the viewer. The uncompromising naturalism of these compositions, along with their oddly suspended action, imparts a sense of dignity to their subjects. Featuring more than sixty paintings highlighting the artists' full range of production, including altarpieces, private devotional paintings, portraits, and the poignant images of peasants for which the brothers are best known, this generously illustrated volume presents new research concerning the authorship, dating, and meaning of the works by well-known scholars in the field. Also groundbreaking are the results of a technical study of the paintings, which constitutes a major contribution to the scholarship on the Le Nain brothers.
Author : Thomas Frederick Crane
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book La Société Française Au Dix-septième Siècle written by Thomas Frederick Crane and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Delia Gaze
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136599010
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Concise Dictionary of Women Artists written by Delia Gaze and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes some 200 complete entries from the award-winning Dictionary of Women Artists, as well as a selection of introductory essays from the main volume.
Author : Lesley Stevenson
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606069020
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Louise Moillon written by Lesley Stevenson and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and career of Louise Moillon (1609/10–1696) offers a fascinating case study of a supremely talented artist whose posthumous reputation has been mired in invisibility. Born and raised in Paris, Moillon was the sole woman in a circle of Calvinist Protestant émigrés who brought their tradition of still-life painting with them from Flanders. During her lifetime, she was able to enjoy a degree of professional independence and attract enough recognition to be regarded as on a level with her male counterparts, yet her exquisite work and enigmatic story are little known today. This illustrated biography examines some of the ways in which Moillon’s story has been represented since the revival of interest in her work and draws on recent scholarship to situate the painter in her rightful place. Offering a sweeping exploration of the genre of still life, this book also chronicles how a woman in early modern France was able to capture the attention of the artistic world while dissecting why her prominence waned in the centuries following her death.
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Total Pages : 1856 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Publishers' Trade List Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Hyde
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204069
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Cultivated Power written by Elizabeth Hyde and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2005-03-07 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultivated Power explores the collection, cultivation, and display of flowers in early modern France at the historical moment when flowering plants, many of which were becoming known in Europe for the first time, piqued the curiosity of European gardeners and botanists, merchants and ministers, dukes and kings. Elizabeth Hyde reveals how flowers became uniquely capable of revealing the curiosity, reason, and taste of those elite men who engaged in their cultivation. The cultural and increasingly political value of such qualities was not lost on royal panegyrists, who seized upon the new meanings of flowers in celebrating the glory of Louis XIV. Using previously unexplored archival sources, Hyde recovers the extent of floral plantations in the gardens of Versailles and the sophisticated system of nurseries created to fulfill the demands of the king's gardeners. She further examines how the successful cultivation of those flowers made it possible for Louis XIV to demonstrate that his reign was a golden era surpassing even that of antiquity. Cultivated Power expands our knowledge of flowers in European history beyond the Dutch tulip mania, and restores our understanding of the importance of flowers in the French classical garden. The book also develops a fuller perspective on the roles of gender, rank, and material goods in the age of the baroque. Using flowers to analyze the movement of culture in early modern society, Cultivated Power ultimately highlights the influence of curious florists on the taste of the king, and the extension of the cultural into the realm of the political.
Author : J. S. Spink
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472505018
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book French Free-Thought from Gassendi to Voltaire written by J. S. Spink and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes an important contribution to the history of ideas in France in the century preceding the main manifestations of the Enlightenment. A number of detailed studies already exist which deal with special aspects of the thought of the period, and works abound on individual thinkers such as Descartes and Pascal. Professor Spink, however, has endeavoured to present within a single volume a full, coherent and balanced account of the radical inquiries in literature, philosophy, and the natural sciences that stemmed from the intellectual crisis of the 1620s. He analyses the content of this body of free-thought and devotes particular attention to the ways in which the new ideas were disseminated in the face of the hostility of the civil and ecclesiastical authorities.
Author : Pierre Athanase Larousse
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1780 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustre written by Pierre Athanase Larousse and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Salomon Reinach
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Story of Art Throughout the Ages written by Salomon Reinach and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christian Michel
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606065351
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture written by Christian Michel and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (French Academy of Painting and Sculpture)—perhaps the single most influential art institution in history—governed the arts in France for more than 150 years, from its founding in 1648 until its abolition in 1793. Christian Michel's sweeping study presents an authoritative, in-depth analysis of the Académie’s history and legacy. The Académie Royale assembled nearly all of the important French artists working at the time, maintained a virtual monopoly on teaching and exhibitions, enjoyed a priority in obtaining royal commissions, and deeply influenced the artistic landscape in France. Yet the institution remains little understood today: all commentary on it, during its existence and since its abolition, is based on prejudices, both favorable and critical, that have shaped the way the institution has been appraised. This book takes a different approach. Rather than judging the Académie Royale, Michel unravels existing critical discourse to consider the nuances and complexities of the academy’s history, reexamining its goals, the shifting power dynamics both within the institution and in the larger political landscape, and its relationship with other French academies and guilds.
Author : James David Draper
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870998404
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Augustin Pajou written by James David Draper and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1997 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination concentrates on the beginnings of Neoclassicism and explores the philosophical and scientific underpinnings of the Enlightenment, in which Pajou played an important part.
Author : Salomon Reinach
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Apollo written by Salomon Reinach and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Salomon Reinach
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Apollo, a General History of the Plastic Arts written by Salomon Reinach and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
