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Author : Caroline Gearey
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Total Pages : 418 pages
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Download or read book Two French Queens and Other Sketches written by Caroline Gearey and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 418 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 : Caroline Gearey
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Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Two French Queens written by Caroline Gearey and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen Wellman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300178859
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France written by Kathleen Wellman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses.
Author : Lisa Hilton
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ISBN 13 : 9780316141642
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Athenais written by Lisa Hilton and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As lovely and charming as she was shrewd and calculating, Athenais de Montespan became the most powerful noblewoman of her day by brilliantly manipulating her forbidden role as mistress of King Louis XIV. With a lively narrative style that reads like fiction, Hilton reveals the woman behind the most dazzling days of the Sun King's reign. photos.
Author : Cardiff (Wales). Free Libraries
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Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Public Library Journal written by Cardiff (Wales). Free Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1268 pages
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Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Author : James Silk Buckingham
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Total Pages : 874 pages
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Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
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Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Best Books: F, History and historical biography. G, Archaeology and historical collaterals written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meredith Martin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674059476
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Dairy Queens written by Meredith Martin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a lively narrative that spans more than two centuries, Meredith Martin tells the story of a royal and aristocratic building type that has been largely forgotten today: the pleasure dairy of early modern France. These garden structures—most famously the faux-rustic, white marble dairy built for Marie-Antoinette’s Hameau at Versailles—have long been dismissed as the trifling follies of a reckless elite. Martin challenges such assumptions and reveals the pivotal role that pleasure dairies played in cultural and political life, especially with respect to polarizing debates about nobility, femininity, and domesticity. Together with other forms of pastoral architecture such as model farms and hermitages, pleasure dairies were crucial arenas for elite women to exercise and experiment with identity and power. Opening with Catherine de’ Medici’s lavish dairy at Fontainebleau (c. 1560), Martin’s book explores how French queens and noblewomen used pleasure dairies to naturalize their status, display their cultivated tastes, and proclaim their virtue as nurturing mothers and capable estate managers. Pleasure dairies also provided women with a site to promote good health, by spending time in salubrious gardens and consuming fresh milk. Illustrated with a dazzling array of images and photographs, Dairy Queens sheds new light on architecture, self, and society in the ancien régime.
Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Best Books: F, History and historical biography. G, Archaeology and historical collaterals. 1923 written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leeds (England). Public Libraries, Art Gallery and Museum
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Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Books Exclusive of Prose Fiction in the Central Lending Library written by Leeds (England). Public Libraries, Art Gallery and Museum and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dorothy Dunnett
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140282408
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Queens' Play written by Dorothy Dunnett and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1999-02-25 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the world-famous Lymond Chronicles, which bring to life sixteenth-century history through the eyes of one man: Francis Crawford of Lymond. Menaced by England and riven by internal discord, Scotland in 1548 clung to a single hope of survival as a nation - an alliance with France to be sealed by the betrothal of the five-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Dauphin. But once in France, Mary suffers a series of ominous 'accidents'. The one man Mary's mother, the Dowager Queen, feels she can trust to procter her daughter, now seven, is Francis Crawford. Lymond is dispatched to France and embarks upon a nightmare game of hide-and-seek at the very heart of the glittering, decadent court of Henri II.
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Author : Nancy Goldstone
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316409677
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The Rival Queens written by Nancy Goldstone and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century. Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story of two remarkable women, a mother and daughter driven into opposition by a terrible betrayal that threatened to destroy the realm. Catherine de' Medici was a ruthless pragmatist and powerbroker who dominated the throne for thirty years. Her youngest daughter Marguerite, the glamorous "Queen Margot," was a passionate free spirit, the only adversary whom her mother could neither intimidate nor control. When Catherine forces the Catholic Marguerite to marry her Protestant cousin Henry of Navarre against her will, and then uses her opulent Parisian wedding as a means of luring his followers to their deaths, she creates not only savage conflict within France but also a potent rival within her own family. Rich in detail and vivid prose, Goldstone's narrative unfolds as a thrilling historical epic. Treacherous court politics, poisonings, international espionage, and adultery form the background to a story that includes such celebrated figures as Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Nostradamus. The Rival Queens is a dangerous tale of love, betrayal, ambition, and the true nature of courage, the echoes of which still resonate.
Author : Leonie Frieda
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063235919
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Catherine de Medici written by Leonie Frieda and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the STARZ original series, The Serpent Queen, premiering September 11. “A beautifully written portrait of a ruthless, subtle and fearless woman fighting for survival and power in a world of gangsterish brutality, routine assassination and religious mania. . . . Frieda has brought a largely forgotten heroine-villainess and a whole sumptuously vicious era back to life. . . . This is The Godfather meets Elizabeth.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Poisoner, besotted mother, despot, necromancer, engineer of a massacre: the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen of France to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds. Based on comprehensive research including thousands of Catherine’s own letters, Frieda unfurls Catherine’s story from her troubled childhood in Florence to her tumultuous marriage to Henry II of France; her transformation of French culture to her reign as a queen who would use brutality to ensure her children’s royal birthright. Brilliantly executed, this enthralling biography goes beyond myth to paint a very human portrait of this remarkable figure.
Author : Alison Booth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226065464
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book How to Make It as a Woman written by Alison Booth and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-11-25 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
