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Author : Kenneth Rose
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780297787334
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Kings, Queens & Courtiers written by Kenneth Rose and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1985 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martha Wolff
Publisher : Art Inst of Chicago
ISBN 13 : 9780300170252
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Kings, Queens, and Courtiers written by Martha Wolff and published by Art Inst of Chicago. This book was released on 2011 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sumptuous catalogue provides an overview of French art circa 1500, a dynamic, transitional period when the country, resurgent after the dislocations of the Hundred Years' War, invaded Italy and all media flourished. What followed was the emergence of a unique art: the fusion of the Italian Renaissance with northern European Gothic styles. Outstanding examples of exquisite and revolutionary works are featured, including paintings, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, tapestries, and metalwork. Exciting new research brings to life court artists Jean Fouquet, Jean Bourdichon, Michel Colombe, Jean Poyer, and Jean Hey (The Master of Moulins), all of whose creations were used by kings and queens to assert power and prestige. Also detailed are the organization of workshops and the development of the influential art market in Paris and patronage in the Loire Valley.
Author : Kenneth Rose
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780297789567
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (895 download)
Download or read book Kings, Queens & Courtiers written by Kenneth Rose and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1985 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth Rose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780600562894
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Intimate Portraits of Kings, Queens & Courtiers written by Kenneth Rose and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Toby Wilkinson
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500771634
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Lives of the Ancient Egyptians: Pharaohs, Queens, Courtiers and Commoners written by Toby Wilkinson and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2007-11-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 biographies reveal the true character and diversity of the ancient world's greatest civilization The biographies included here give voice not only to ancient Egypt's rulers but also to the people who built the great monuments, staffed government offices, farmed, served in the temples, and fought to defend the country's borders. Spanning thousands of years of ancient Egyptian history, the book offers a fresh perspective on an always fascinating civilization through the lives of: The god-kings, from great rulers like Khufu and Ramesses II to less famous monarchs such as Amenemhat I and Osorkon Egypt's queens: the powerful Tiye, the beautiful Nefertiti, Tutankhamun's tragic child-bride Ankhesenamun, and the infamous Cleopatra The officials who served the pharaoh: the architect Imhotep who designed the first pyramid, the court dwarf Perniankhu, and the royal sculptor Bak Ordinary women who are often overlooked in official accounts: Hemira, a humble priestess from a provincial Delta town, and Naunakht, whose will reveals the trials and tribulations of family life Commoners and foreigners such as the irascible farmer Hekanakht, the serial criminal Paneb, and Urhiya, the mercenary who rose to the rank of general in the Egyptian army. Lives of the Ancient Egyptians offers remarkable insights into the history and culture of the Nile Valley and very personal glimpses of a vanished world. Note: The ebook edition includes the complete text of the printed book without illustrations
Author : William Shawcross
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307273318
Total Pages : 1162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Queen Mother written by William Shawcross and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century. Consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, and grandmother of Prince Charles, Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and, certainly, no one could have imagined that her long life (she died in 2002) would come to reflect a changing nation over the course of an entire century. Vividly detailed, written with unrestricted access to her personal papers, letters, and diaries, this candid royal biography by William Shawcross is also a singular history of Britain in the twentieth century.
Author : Lucy Worsley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1639734708
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (397 download)
Download or read book The Courtiers written by Lucy Worsley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kensington Palace is now most famous as the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales, but the palace's glory days came between 1714 and 1760, during the reigns of George I and II . In the eighteenth century, this palace was a world of skulduggery, intrigue, politicking, etiquette, wigs, and beauty spots, where fans whistled open like switchblades and unusual people were kept as curiosities. Lucy Worsley's The Courtiers charts the trajectory of the fantastically quarrelsome Hanovers and the last great gasp of British court life. Structured around the paintings of courtiers and servants that line the walls of the King's Staircase of Kensington Palace-paintings you can see at the palace today-The Courtiers goes behind closed doors to meet a pushy young painter, a maid of honor with a secret marriage, a vice chamberlain with many vices, a bedchamber woman with a violent husband, two aging royal mistresses, and many more. The result is an indelible portrait of court life leading up to the famous reign of George III , and a feast for both Anglophiles and lovers of history and royalty.
Author : Robert Lacey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439108390
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Monarch written by Robert Lacey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than fifty years, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor -- who became Elizabeth II, Queen of England on February 6, 1952 -- has been loved and loathed, revered and feared, applauded and criticized by her people. Still she endures as a captivating figure in the world's most durable symbol of political authority: the British monarchy. In Monarch, a meticulously detailed portrait of Elizabeth II as both a human being and an institution, bestselling author Robert Lacey brings the queen to life as never before: as baby "Lilibet" learning to wave to a crowd in the Royal Mews; as a child "ardently praying for a brother" so as to avoid her fate; as a young woman falling in love with and marrying her cousin Philip; and as the mother-in-law of the most complicated royal of all, Princess Diana. Updated with new material to reflect the 2002 Golden Jubilee and the passing of the Queen Mum -- and featuring dozens of photographs, a family tree of the Hanoverian-Windsor-Mountbatten families, and a map that charts the location of royal castles -- Monarch is an engaging, critical, and celebratory account of Elizabeth's half-century reign that no reader of popular history should be without.
Author : Kate Emerson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439177839
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (778 download)
Download or read book Secrets of the Tudor Court: By Royal Decree written by Kate Emerson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AS TEMPESTUOUS AS THE TUDOR MONARCHS THEMSELVES, THE SECRETS OF THE TUDOR COURT SERIES HAS BEEN CALLED “RIVETING” (BOOKLIST) AND “WELL DRAWN” (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY). Charming. Desirable. Forbidden. Brought to court with other eligible young noblewomen by the decree of King Henry VIII, lovely Elizabeth “Bess” Brooke realizes for the first time that beauty can be hazardous. Although Bess has no desire to wed the aging king, she and her family would have little choice if Henry’s eye were to fall on her. And other dangers exist as well, for Bess has caught the interest of dashing courtier Will Parr. Bess finds Will’s kisses as sweet as honey, but marriage between them may be impossible. Will is a divorced man, and remarriage is still prohibited. Bess and Will must hope that the king can be persuaded to issue a royal decree allowing Will to marry again . . . but to achieve their goal, the lovers will need royal favor. Amid the swirling alliances of royalty and nobles, Bess and Will perform a dangerous dance of palace intrigue and pulse-pounding passions. Brought to glowing life by the talented Kate Emerson, and seen through the eyes of a beautiful young noblewoman, By Royal Decree illuminates the lives of beautiful young courtiers in and out of the rich and compelling drama of the Tudor court.
Author : conte Baldassarre Castiglione
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book of the Courtier written by conte Baldassarre Castiglione and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Courtney
Publisher : Methuen Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780413776662
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Queen's Stamps written by Nicholas Courtney and published by Methuen Pub Limited. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and definitive history of the finest stamp collection in the world, now in paperback with a new index and epilogue This elegant book is the definitive account of one of the world's most important and extensive stamp collections, and the monarchs and keepers who have contributed to it. Inaugurated by Queen Victoria, and enlarged by five successive British monarchs, the main body of the Collection came into being under George V, whose passionate and shrewd acquisition of many other private collections has ensured the unique and comprehensive character of his own. This is a story told through the stamps themselves, many of the most famous of which are produced here in full color, as well as through astonishing anecdotes featuring the kings, queens, and courtiers who brought them together. This informative, surprising, highly illustrated volume is written to appeal to the general reader with an interest in Royal history, as well as to the specialist enthusiast.
Author : Geordie Greig
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497629012
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book The King Maker written by Geordie Greig and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A treasure trove that throws new and entertaining light” on the friendship between the WWII-era king and the man who inspired The King’s Speech (The Times, London). Louis Greig, a war hero and rugby international, entered the privileged world of the British royal family as mentor, physician, and friend to a young and hesitant Prince Albert, the man who became King George VI and whose challenges were so vividly brought to life in the award-winning film The King’s Speech. Greig’s influence helped to guide the prince from a stammering, shy schoolboy to become one of the most respected constitutional monarchs, seeing the nation through the Second World War and bringing the monarchy closer to the people. Geordie Greig, grandson of Louis Greig, has drawn on private family papers and public archives to reveal an intimate friendship that lasted almost half a century.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Genealogies Cataloged by the Library of Congress Since 1986 written by Library of Congress and published by Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.
Author : Philip Eade
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805095446
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Prince Philip written by Philip Eade and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the first thirty years of Prince Philip's life from his childhood in Greece, France, Nazi Germany, and Britain to his marriage to Queen Elizabeth.
Author : Carolly Erickson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312287348
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Lilibet written by Carolly Erickson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-01-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest historical portrait from Erickson, whose book "Alexandra" was called "Gifted. . . breathless . . . heartbreaking . . . Erickson excels."--"Chicago Tribune."
Author : Prithivi Nath Kaul Bamzai
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9788185880310
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Culture and Political History of Kashmir written by Prithivi Nath Kaul Bamzai and published by M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrian Tinniswood
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465094031
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Behind the Throne written by Adrian Tinniswood and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An upstairs/downstairs history of the British royal court, from the Middle Ages to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II Monarchs: they're just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and worry about money. Henry VIII tripped over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back on the alcohol bills. In Behind the Throne, historian Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the reality of five centuries of life at the English court, taking the reader on a remarkable journey from one Queen Elizabeth to another and exploring life as it was lived by clerks and courtiers and clowns and crowned heads: the power struggles and petty rivalries, the tension between duty and desire, the practicalities of cooking dinner for thousands and of ensuring the king always won when he played a game of tennis. A masterful and witty social history of five centuries of royal life, Behind the Throne offers a grand tour of England's grandest households.
