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Author : Walpole Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The ... Volume of the Walpole Society written by Walpole Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walpole Society (Great Britain)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Annual Volume of the Walpole Society written by Walpole Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ana Debenedetti
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787354601
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Botticelli Past and Present written by Ana Debenedetti and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent exhibitions dedicated to Botticelli around the world show, more than ever, the significant and continued debate about the artist. Botticelli Past and Present engages with this debate. The book comprises four thematic parts, spanning four centuries of Botticelli’s artistic fame and reception from the fifteenth century. Each part comprises a number of essays and includes a short introduction which positions them within the wider scholarly literature on Botticelli. The parts are organised chronologically beginning with discussion of the artist and his working practice in his own time, moving onto the progressive rediscovery of his work from the late eighteenth to the turn of the twentieth century, through to his enduring impact on contemporary art and design. Expertly written by researchers and eminent art historians and richly illustrated throughout, the broad range of essays in this book make a valuable contribution to Botticelli studies.
Author : Cinzia Maria Sicca
Publisher : Studies in British Art
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book John Talman written by Cinzia Maria Sicca and published by Studies in British Art. This book was released on 2008 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a full-length study of John Talman, the first director of the Society of Antiquaries and one of the most influential collectors of drawings in early 18th century Britain.
Author : Sarah Burnage
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351545825
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book "The British School of Sculpture, c.1760-1832 " written by Sarah Burnage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British School of Sculpture, c. 1760?1832 represents the first edited collection exploring one of the most significant moments in British art history, returning to centre stage a wide range of sculpture considered for the first time by some of the most important scholars in the field. Following a historical and historiographical introduction by the editors, situating British sculpture in relation to key events and developments in the period, and the broader scholarship on British art more generally in the period and beyond, the book contains nine wide-ranging case studies that consider the place of antique and modern sculpture in British country houses in the period, monuments to heroes of commerce and the Napoleonic Wars, the key debates fought around ideal sculpture at the Royal Academy, the reception of British sculpture across Europe, the reception of Hindu sculpture deriving from India in Britain, and the relationship of sculpture to emerging industrial markets, both at home and abroad. Challenging characterisations of the period as 'neoclassical', the volume reveals British sculpture to be a much more eclectic and various field of endeavour, both in service of the state and challenging it, and open to sources ranging from the newly arrived Parthenon Frieze to contemporary print culture.
Author : Greg Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135173010X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist written by Greg Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: Draw ing on extensive primary research, Greg Smith describes the shifting cultural identities of the English watercolour, and the English watercolourist, at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. His convincing narrative of the conflicts and alliances that marked the history of the medium and its practitioners during this period includes careful detail about the broader artistic context within which watercolours were produced, acquired and discussed. Smith calls into question many of the received assumptions about the history of watercolour painting. His account exposes the unsatisfactory nature of the traditional narrative of watercolour painting’s development into a ’high’ art form, which has tended to offer a celebratory focus on the innovations and genius of individual practitioners such as Turner and Girtin, rather than detailing the anxieties and aspirations that characterized the ambivalent status of the watercolourist. The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist is published with the assistance of the Paul Mellon Foundation.
Author : Gail Feigenbaum
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606060422
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Sacred Possessions written by Gail Feigenbaum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study explores how interpretations of religious art change when it is moved into a secular context.
Author : Alison Clarke
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004518908
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Spaces of Connoisseurship written by Alison Clarke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spaces of Connoisseurship explores the ‘who’, ‘where’ and ‘how’ of judging Old Master paintings in the nineteenth-century British art trade, via a comparison of family art dealers Thomas Agnew & Sons (“Agnew’s) and London’s National Gallery.
Author : Natalie Livingstone
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0553392085
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)
Download or read book The Mistresses of Cliveden written by Natalie Livingstone and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Downton Abbey comes an immersive historical epic about a lavish English manor and a dynasty of rich and powerful women who ruled the estate over three centuries of misbehavior, scandal, intrigue, and passion. Five miles from Windsor Castle, home of the royal family, sits the Cliveden estate. Overlooking the Thames, the mansion is flanked by two wings and surrounded by lavish gardens. Throughout its storied history, Cliveden has been a setting for misbehavior, intrigue, and passion—from its salacious, deadly beginnings in the seventeenth century to the 1960s Profumo Affair, the sex scandal that toppled the British government. Now, in this immersive chronicle, the manor’s current mistress, Natalie Livingstone, opens the doors to this prominent house and lets the walls do the talking. Built during the reign of Charles II by the Duke of Buckingham, Cliveden attracted notoriety as a luxurious retreat in which the duke could conduct his scandalous affair with the ambitious courtesan Anna Maria, Countess of Shrewsbury. In 1668, Anna Maria’s cuckolded husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury, challenged Buckingham to a duel. Buckingham killed Shrewsbury and claimed Anna Maria as his prize, making her the first mistress of Cliveden. Through the centuries, other enigmatic and indomitable women would assume stewardship over the estate, including Elizabeth, Countess of Orkney and illicit lover of William III, who became one of England’s wealthiest women; Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, the queen that Britain was promised and then denied; Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland, confidante of Queen Victoria and a glittering society hostess turned political activist; and the American-born Nancy Astor, the first female member of Parliament, who described herself as an “ardent feminist” and welcomed controversy. Though their privileges were extraordinary, in Livingstone’s hands, their struggles and sacrifices are universal. Cliveden weathered renovation and restoration, world conflicts and cold wars, societal shifts and technological advances. Rich in historical and architectural detail, The Mistresses of Cliveden is a tale of sex and power, and of the exceptional women who evaded, exploited, and confronted the expectations of their times. Praise for The Mistresses of Cliveden “Theatrical festivities, political jockeying and court intrigues are deftly described with a verve and attention to domestic comforts that show the author at her best. . . . [Livingstone’s] portraits of strenuous and assertive women who resisted subjection, sometimes deploying their sexual allure to succeed, on other occasions drawing on their husband’s wealth, are astute, spirited, and empathetic.”—The Wall Street Journal “Missing Downton Abbey already? This tome promises ‘three centuries of scandal, power, and intrigue’ and Natalie Livingstone definitely delivers.”—Good Housekeeping “Lively . . . The current chatelaine—the author herself—deserves no small credit for keeping the house’s legend alive. . . . Any of her action-filled chapters would merit a mini-series.”—The New York Times Book Review “Though the personal tales and tidbits are fascinating, and the sensational details of these women’s lives will intrigue Downton Abbey devotees, the real star of the story is Cliveden.”—Booklist “Lovers of modern English history and the scandals that infiltrated upper-crust society will find much to enjoy in this work.”—Library Journal
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1800 pages
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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas N. Corns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521590471
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Royal Image written by Thomas N. Corns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the crisis in the representation of the monarchy that was provoked by the execution of Charles I.
Author : Charles Molesworth
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477308423
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book The Capitalist and the Critic written by Charles Molesworth and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A skillful and fascinating retelling of the often testy relationship between J. P. Morgan and Roger Fry, two men who did more to establish the preeminence of the Metropolitan Museum of Art than any collector and curator before or since. Shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art began an ambitious program of collection building and physical expansion that transformed it into one of the world’s foremost museums, an eminence that it has maintained ever since. Two men of singular qualities and accomplishments played key roles in the Met’s transformation—J. P. Morgan, America’s leading financier and a prominent art collector, and Roger Fry, the headstrong English expert in art history who served as the Met’s curator of painting. Their complicated, often contentious relationship embodies and illuminates the myriad tensions between commerce and art, philanthropists and professional staff, that a great museum must negotiate to define and fulfill its mission. In this masterful, multidisciplinary narrative, Charles Molesworth offers the first in-depth look at how Morgan and Fry helped to mold the cultural legacy of masterpieces of painting and the development of the “encyclopedic” museum. Structuring the book as a joint biography, Molesworth describes how Morgan used his vast wealth to bring European art to an American citizenry, while Fry brought high standards of art history from the world of connoisseurs to a general public. Their clashes over the purpose and functions of the Met, which ultimately led to Fry’s ouster, reveal the forces—personal and societal—that helped to shape the Metropolitan Museum and other major American cultural institutions during the twentieth century.
Author : Jemma Field
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526142511
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Anna of Denmark written by Jemma Field and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching the Stuart courts through the lens of the queen consort, Anna of Denmark, this study is underpinned by three key themes: translating cultures, female agency and the role of kinship networks and genealogical identity for early modern royal women. Illustrated with a fascinating array of objects and artworks, the book follows a trajectory that begins with Anna’s exterior spaces before moving to the interior furnishings of her palaces, the material adornment of the royal body, an examination of Anna’s visual persona and a discussion of Anna’s performance of extraordinary rituals that follow her life cycle. Underpinned by a wealth of new archival research, the book provides a richer understanding of the breadth of Anna’s interests and the meanings generated by her actions, associations and possessions.
Author : Stuart Sillars
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521878373
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Illustrated Shakespeare, 1709-1875 written by Stuart Sillars and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete study of the history and tradition of illustrated editions of Shakespeare, containing 167 illustrative images from major editions.
Author : Louis A. Landa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400877334
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book English Literature, Volume 2 written by Louis A. Landa and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two volumes containing the annual bibliographies of 18th century scholarship published in the Philological Quarterly. "An excellent aid to the student of 18th century literature."—Saturday Review. Volume 2, 1939-1950, includes consolidated index for both volumes. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Jane R. Cohen
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814202845
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators written by Jane R. Cohen and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gillian Darley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300086959
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (869 download)
Download or read book John Soane written by Gillian Darley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Soane (1753-1837) was one of the most influential and original of all English architects. In this lavishly illustrated biography, Darley places Soane's life and buildings side by side, and her insights into this complex man and his turbulent life add a great deal to the understanding of his extraordinary work. 235 illustrations, 75 in color.
