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Author : S PARRISIEN
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 9780999913321
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)
Download or read book George IV Grand Entertainment written by S PARRISIEN and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2001-03-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Parissien
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780719556524
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)
Download or read book George IV written by Steven Parissien and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography aims to present George IV against the cultural background of his age, showing how his behaviour affected the contemporary view of both the monarch and the monarchy. It analyses the personal gifts of a man whose style defined an age.
Author : Hannibal Evans Lloyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book George IV. written by Hannibal Evans Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Banvard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Life of George IV, (King of England) written by John Banvard and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Boyd Hilton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199218919
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? written by Boyd Hilton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a period scarred by apprehensions of revolution, war, invasion, poverty and disease, elite members of society lived in fear of revolt. Boyd Hilton examines the changes in society between 1783-1846 and the transformations from raffish and rakish behaviour to the new norms of Victorian respectability.
Author : Diana Davis
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606066412
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Tastemakers written by Diana Davis and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the development, role, and influence of the British decorative art dealers who invented an Anglo-Gallic style for elite interiors. In this volume Diana Davis demonstrates how London dealers invented a new and visually splendid decorative style that combined the contrasting tastes of two nations. Departing from the conventional narrative that depicts dealers as purveyors of antiquarianism, Davis repositions them as innovators who were key to transforming old art objects from ancien régime France into cherished “antiques” and, equally, as creators of new and modified French-inspired furniture, bronze work, and porcelain. The resulting old, new, and reconfigured objects merged aristocratic French eighteenth-century taste with nineteenth-century British preference, and they were prized by collectors, who displayed them side by side in palatial interiors of the period. The Tastemakers analyzes dealer-made furnishings from the nineteenth-century patron’s perspective and in the context of the interiors for which they were created, contending that early dealers deliberately formulated a new aesthetic with its own objects, language, and value. Davis examines a wide variety of documents to piece together the shadowy world of these dealers, who emerge center stage as a traders, makers, and tastemakers.
Author : Percy Fitzgerald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Life of George IV. including his Letters and Opinions with a View of the Men, Manners, and Politics of his Reign written by Percy Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. Ditchfield
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230599435
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book George III written by G. Ditchfield and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a political study of the reign of George III which draws upon unpublished sources and takes account of recent research to present a rounded appreciation of one of the most important and controversial themes in British history. It examines the historical reputation of George III, his role as a European figure and his religious convictions, and offers a discussion of the domestic and imperial policies with which he was associated.
Author : Michael Ledger-Lomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198753551
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Queen Victoria written by Michael Ledger-Lomas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Spiritual Lives series features biographies of prominent men and women whose eminence is not primarily based on a specifically religious contribution. Each volume provides a general account of the figure's life and thought, while giving special attention to his or her religious contexts, convictions, doubts, objections, ideas, and actions. Many leading politicians, writers, musicians, philosophers, and scientists have engaged deeply with religion in significant and resonant ways that have often been overlooked or underexplored. Some of the volumes will even focus on men and women who were lifelong unbelievers, attending to how they navigated and resisted religious questions, assumptions, and settings. The books in this series will therefore recast important figures in fresh and thought-provoking ways"--
Author : Stephen Gundle
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191623377
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Glamour written by Stephen Gundle and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glamour is one of the most tantalizing and bewitching aspects of contemporary culture - but also one of the most elusive. The aura of celebrity, the style of the fashion world, the vanity of the rich and beautiful, and the publicity-driven rites of café society are all imbued with its irresistible magnetism. But what exactly is glamour? Where does it come from? How old is it? And can anyone quite capture its magic? Stephen Gundle answers all these questions and more in this first ever history of the phenomenon, from Paris in the tumultuous final decades of the eighteenth century through to Hollywood, New York, and Monte Carlo in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from Napoleon to Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe, from Beau Brummell to Gianni Versace. Throughout, the book captures the excitement and sex appeal of glamour while exposing its mechanisms and exploring its sleazy and sometimes tragic underside. As Gundle shows, while glamour is exciting and magnetic, its promise is ultimately an illusion that can only ever be partially fulfilled.
Author : Holger Hoock
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847652239
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Empires of the Imagination written by Holger Hoock and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries, Britain evolved from a substantial international power yet relative artistic backwater into a global superpower and a leading cultural force in Europe. In this original and wide-ranging book, Hoock illuminates the manifold ways in which the culture of power and the power of culture were interwoven in this period of dramatic change. Britons invested artistic and imaginative effort to come to terms with the loss of the American colonies; to sustain the generation-long fight against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France; and to assert and legitimate their growing empire in India. Demonstrating how Britain fought international culture wars over prize antiquities from the Mediterranean and Near East, the book explores how Britons appropriated ancient cultures from the Mediterranean, the Near East, and India, and casts a fresh eye on iconic objects such as the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon Marbles.
Author : Michael Hall
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473530954
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Art, Passion & Power written by Michael Hall and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hall’s consummate history is not just the story of the evolution of one of the world’s great collections... The book is also a through-the-keyhole insight into the shifting tastes, good or bad, of 1,000 years of monarchs." - The Times The Royal Collection is the last great collection formed by the European monarchies to have survived into the twenty-first century. Containing over a million artworks and objects, it covers all aspects of the fine and decorative arts, from paintings by Rembrandt and Michelangelo to grand sculpture, Fabergé eggs and some of the most exquisite furniture ever made. The Royal Collection also offers a revealing insight into the history of the British monarchy from William the Conqueror to Queen Elizabeth II, recording the tastes and obsessions of kings and queens over the past 500 years. With unprecedented access to the royal residences of St James' Palace, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, Art, Passion & Power traces the history of this national institution from the Middle Ages to the present day, exploring how royalty used the arts to strengthen their position as rulers by divine right and celebrating treasures from the Crown Jewels to the "Abraham" tapestries in Hampton Court Palace. Author Michael Hall examines the monarchy's response to changing attitudes to the arts and sciences during the Enlightenment and celebrates the British monarchy's role in the democratisation of art in the modern world. Packed with glimpses of rarely seen artworks, Art, Passion & Power is a visual treat for all art enthusiasts. Accompanying the BBC television series and a major exhibition at the Royal Academy, Art, Passion & Power is the definitive statement on the British monarchy's treasures of the art world.
Author : Anne M. Stott
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526736446
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Lost Queen written by Anne M. Stott and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the tragically short life of the only daughter of Britain’s King George IV who won the heart of a nation. As the only child of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick, Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817) was the heiress presumptive to the throne. Her parents’ marriage had already broken up by the time she was born. She had a difficult childhood and a turbulent adolescence, but she was popular with the public, who looked to her to restore the good name of the monarchy. When she broke off her engagement to a Dutch prince, her father put her under virtual imprisonment, and she endured a period of profound unhappiness. But she held out for the freedom to choose her husband, and when she married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, she finally achieved contentment. Her happiness was cruelly cut short when she died in childbirth at the age of twenty-one, only eighteen months later. A shocked nation went into mourning for its “people’s princess,” the queen who never was. “This perspicacious study of Charlotte’s short life is superb. Anne Stott is an accomplished and highly readable biographer whose earlier subjects have included William Wilberforce and Hannah More. She wears her research lightly—which is not to say that the book is anything less than scholastic (quite the opposite). Highly recommended.” —Naomi Clifford, author of The Murder of Mary Ashford
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852855819
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (558 download)
Download or read book The Hanoverians written by Jeremy Black and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-01-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed critique of the eighteenth-century German family and their reign on the British throne includes coverage of such topics as the language barrier that impacted George I's controversial rule, George III's loss of the American colonies and bouts with mental instability, and George IV's scandalous marriage and attempted divorce.
Author : William Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life and Reign of George IV. written by William Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Nellis Richter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350372749
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Gallery at Cleveland House written by Anne Nellis Richter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1806, the Marquess and Marchioness of Stafford opened a gallery at Cleveland House, London, to display their internationally-renowned collection of Old Master paintings to the public. A ticket to the gallery's Wednesday afternoon openings was a sought-after prize, granting access to the collection and the house's dazzling interior in the company of artists, celebrities, and Britain's elite. This book explores the gallery's interior through the lens of its abundant material culture, including paintings in gilded frames, furniture, silver oil lamps, flower arrangements, and the numerous printed catalogues and guidebooks that made the gallery visible to those who might never cross its threshold. Through detailed analysis of these objects and a wide range of other visual, material, textual and archival sources, the book presents the gallery at Cleveland House as a methodological case study on how the display of art in the 19th century was shaped by notions about public and private space, domesticity, and the role art galleries played in the formation of national culture. In doing so, the book also explains how and why magnificent private galleries and the artworks and objects they contained gripped the public imagination during a critical period of political and cultural transformation during and after the Napoleonic Wars. Combining historical, cultural and material analysis, the book will make essential reading for researchers in British art in the Regency period, museum studies, collecting studies, social history, and the histories of interior decoration and design in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Author : Steven Parissien
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312284022
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (84 download)
Download or read book George IV: Inspiration of the Regency written by Steven Parissien and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2002-04-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father of modern celebrity, King George IVof England is contextualized against the cultural backdrop of his age: The Regency. Already a byword for taste and extravagance when he became Prince Regent in 1811, George IV remains as vivid and notorious a figure today as he was in his own time. He provided the monarchs who followed him with a lesson in how and how not to conduct oneself. In many ways a strikingly modern sovereign, he attempted to manipulate his public image to divert attention from the less savory aspects of his private life. His ultimate mistake was to actually believe in the image he had manufactured rather than in the depressing reality. Steven Parissien brings us George IV against the cultural backdrop of his age, showing how his legacy still affects our contemporary view of the monarchy.
