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Book Synopsis Catalogue of Valuable Paintings, Antique Flemish Tapestries, Antique Italian, French and English Furniture ... by : Richard Mansfield
Download or read book Catalogue of Valuable Paintings, Antique Flemish Tapestries, Antique Italian, French and English Furniture ... written by Richard Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis European Porcelain in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by : Jeffrey Munger
Download or read book European Porcelain in The Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Jeffrey Munger and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Porcelain imported from China was the most highly coveted new medium in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe. Its pure white color, translucency, and durability, as well as the delicacy of decoration, were impossible to achieve in European earthenware and stoneware. In response, European ceramic factories set out to discover the process of producing porcelain in the Chinese manner, with significant artistic, technical, and commercial ramifications for Britain and the Continent. Indeed, not only artisans, but kings, noble patrons, and entrepreneurs all joined in the quest, hoping to gain both prestige and profit from the enterprises they established. This beautifully illustrated volume showcases ninety works that span the late sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century and reflect the major currents of European porcelain production. Each work is illustrated with glorious new photography, accompanied by analysis and interpretation by one of the leading experts in European decorative arts. Among the wide range of porcelains selected are rare blue-and-white wares and figures from Italy, superb examples from the Meissen factory in Germany and the Sèvres factory in France, and ceramics produced by leading British eighteenth-century artisans. Taken together, they reveal why the Metropolitan Museum’s holdings in this field are among the finest in the world. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}
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Book Synopsis The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts by : Detroit Institute of Arts
Download or read book The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts written by Detroit Institute of Arts and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Thomson Dodge, heiress to the automotive fortune, built a great home and decorated it with one of the finest groups of 18th-century French decorative arts in America. Here are more than 130 pieces of furniture, sculpture, metalwork, tapestries, Sevres porcelain, and paintings, many from royal collections.
Book Synopsis The Directory of Museums & Living Displays by : Kenneth Hudson
Download or read book The Directory of Museums & Living Displays written by Kenneth Hudson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-06-18 with total page 1067 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis European Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by : Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide,
Download or read book European Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide, and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully produced volume is the first to survey the Metropolitan Museum's world-renowned collection of European furniture. One hundred and three superb examples from the Museum's vast holdings are featured. They originated in workshops in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia, or Spain and date from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. A number of them belonged to such important historical figures as Pope Urban VIII, Louis XIV, Madame de Pompadour, and Napoleon. The selection includes chairs, tables, beds, cabinets, commodes, settees and sofas, bookcases and standing shelves, desks, fire screens, athéniennes, coffers, chests, mirrors and frames, showcases, and lighting equipment. There is also one purely decorative piece, a superb vase made for a Russian noble family who, according to one awestruck viewer, "owned all the malachite mines in the world." The makers of some of the objects are unknown, but most of the pieces can be identified by label, documentation, or style as the work of an outstanding European designer-craftsman, such as André-Charles Boulle, Thomas Chippendale, David Roentgen, or Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Book Synopsis Period Living & Traditional Homes Escapes by : Peter Brimacombe
Download or read book Period Living & Traditional Homes Escapes written by Peter Brimacombe and published by Jarrold Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travel guide with a difference: a combination of regional tour and style file which presents the means of escape to the wonders of another age. Aimed at those who love travelling Britain to explore country houses and stately homes, or at a dedicated follower of historical architecture and style, this delightful book contains 500 illustrations and regional maps.
Download or read book The Antiquary written by Edward Walford and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum by : Gillian Wilson
Download or read book Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum written by Gillian Wilson and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. Paul Getty began to collect French decorative arts in the 1930s and continued to do so until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection has continued to grow since then at a rapid pace and contains over three hundred individual pieces at the time this book is published. This volume illustrates fifty of them. The selection represents a cross section of the collection, which covers the period from approximately 1660 to 1800. In the eighteenth century it became fashionable in Parisian society to decorate the interiors of houses with Far Eastern materials such as lacquer and porcelain. This taste was catered to by the marchands-merciers, members of a guild who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, the antique dealer, and the picture dealer. These men devised highly ingenious settings for Far Eastern porcelains to adapt their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. Information about them and their clientele has been used in cataloguing the Getty Museum’s collection of mounted oriental porcelain, which is large and of high quality. This book is not a catalogue, nor is it a mere picture book or checklist. Each piece has been chosen because it represents a particular aspect of the crafts involved in the production of objects that were made by Parisian craftsmen for the crown, the nobility, and the rich bourgeoisie. The pieces are arranged in chronological order. Translations of the French archival extracts, an index, and a concise bibliography have been provided.
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Download or read book The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Rough Guide to Madeira by : Matthew Hancock
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Madeira written by Matthew Hancock and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Art Treasures in the British Isles by : Bernard S. Myers
Download or read book Art Treasures in the British Isles written by Bernard S. Myers and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the country's artistic heritage and showing where they may be found today.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the magnificent collection of works of art and vertu, formed by mr. David Falcke, who is about finally retiring from business. Which will be sold by auction, by messrs. Christie and Manson, April.19, 1858, and 18 following days by : David Falcke
Download or read book Catalogue of the magnificent collection of works of art and vertu, formed by mr. David Falcke, who is about finally retiring from business. Which will be sold by auction, by messrs. Christie and Manson, April.19, 1858, and 18 following days written by David Falcke and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Penny satirist and London pioneer [afterw.] The London pioneer [afterw.] The London literary pioneer [afterw.] Literary pioneer by :
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Book Synopsis The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette by :
Download or read book The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victorian London written by Liza Picard and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Londoners, the years 1840 to 1870 were years of dramatic change and achievement. As suburbs expanded and roads multiplied, London was ripped apart to build railway lines and stations and life-saving sewers. The Thames was contained by embankments, and traffic congestion was eased by the first underground railway in the world. A start was made on providing housing for the "deserving poor." There were significant advances in medicine, and the Ragged Schools are perhaps the least known of Victorian achievements, in those last decades before universal state education. In 1851 the Great Exhibition managed to astonish almost everyone, attracting exhibitors and visitors from all over the world. But there was also appalling poverty and exploitation, exposed by Henry Mayhew and others. For the laboring classes, pay was pitifully low, the hours long, and job security nonexistent. Liza Picard shows us the physical reality of daily life in Victorian London. She takes us into schools and prisons, churches and cemeteries. Many practical innovations of the time—flushing lavatories, underground railways, umbrellas, letter boxes, driving on the left—point the way forward. But this was also, at least until the 1850s, a city of cholera outbreaks, transportation to Australia, public executions, and the workhouse, where children could be sold by their parents for as little as £12 and streetpeddlers sold sparrows for a penny, tied by the leg for children to play with. Cruelty and hypocrisy flourished alongside invention, industry, and philanthropy.