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A Catalogue of a Valuable and Choice Assemblage of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Pictures, the Property of a Man of Fashion ... which Will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Christie at His Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, March 11, 1808, and Following Day, at Twelve O'clock

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Languages : en
Pages : 8

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Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art

Author: Darius A. Spieth
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004276750
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 535

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Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings were aesthetic, intellectual, and economic touchstones in the Parisian art world of the Revolutionary era, but their importance within this framework, while frequently acknowledged, never attracted much subsequent attention. Darius A. Spieth’s inquiry into Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art reveals the dominance of “Golden Age” pictures in the artistic discourse and sales transactions before, during, and after the French Revolution. A broadly based statistical investigation, undertaken as part of this study, shows that the upheaval reduced prices for Netherlandish paintings by about 55% compared to the Old Regime, and that it took until after the July Revolution of 1830 for art prices to return where they stood before 1789.

The Education of Henry Adams

Author: Henry Adams
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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One of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written, The Education of Henry Adams is told in the third person, as if its author were watching his own life unwind. It begins with his early life in Quincy, the family seat outside of Boston, and soon moves on to primary school, Harvard College, and beyond. He learns about the unpredictability of politics from statesmen and diplomats, and the newest discoveries in technology, science, history, and art from some of the most important thinkers and creators of the day. In essentially every case, Adams claims, his education and upbringing let him down, leaving him in the dark. But as the historian David S. Brown puts it, this is a “charade”: The Education’s “greatest irony is its claim to telling the story of its author’s ignorance, confusion, and misdirection.” Instead, Adams uses its “vigorous prose and confident assertions” to attack “the West after 1400.” For instance, industrialization and technology make Adams wonder “whether the American people knew where they were driving.” And in one famous chapter, “The Dynamo and the Virgin,” he contrasts the rise of electricity and the power it brings with the strength and resilience of religious belief in the Middle Ages. The grandson and great-grandson of two presidents and the son of a politician and diplomat who served under Lincoln as minister to Great Britain, Adams was born into immense privilege, as he knew well: “Probably no child, born in the year, held better cards than he.” After growing up a Boston Brahmin, he worked as a journalist, historian, and professor, moving in early middle age to Washington. Although Adams distributed a privately printed edition of a hundred copies of The Education for friends and family in 1907, it wasn’t published more widely until 1918, the year he died. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1919, and in 1999 a Modern Library panel placed it first on its list of the best nonfiction books published in the twentieth century. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

English Book Collectors

Author: William Younger Fletcher
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Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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A History of the French in London

Author: Debra Kelly
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ISBN: 9781905165865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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This book examines, for the first time, the history of the social, cultural, political and economic presence of the French in London, and explores the multiple ways in which this presence has contributed to the life of the city. The capital has often provided a place of refuge, from the Huguenots in the 17th century, through the period of the French Revolution, to various exile communities during the 19th century, and on to the Free French in the Second World War.It also considers the generation of French citizens who settled in post-war London, and goes on to provide insights into the contemporary French presence by assessing the motives and lives of French people seeking new opportunities in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It analyses the impact that the French have had historically, and continue to have, on London life in the arts, gastronomy, business, industry and education, manifest in diverse places and institutions from the religious to the political via the educational, to the commercial and creative industries.

A Catalogue of a Valuable and Choice Assemblage of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Pictures, the Property of a Man of Fashion ... which Will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Christie at His Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, March 11, 1808, and Following Day, at Twelve O'clock

Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art

The Education of Henry Adams

English Book Collectors

A History of the French in London

The History of Signboards, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

James Ward R. A., 1769-1859

The Life of William Blake

Passages from the Diaries of Mrs. Philip Lybbe Powys of Hardwick House, Oxon

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