Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
Book Description
Country Life
Index of Art Sales Catalogs 1981-1985: Main index, October 7, 1984-December 23, 1985. Subject index
Author: Catalogues of Sales
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage
Author: Patrick W. Montague-SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 2312
Book Description
Picture Sources UK
Author: Rosemary EakinsPublisher: Little Brown and Company (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Directories
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Illustrated London News
Author: Standard Catalog for Public Libraries
Author: H.W. Wilson CompanyStandard Catalog for Public Libraries. Supplement
Author: H.W. Wilson CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Author: Marina BelozerskayaPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Author: Corcoran Gallery of ArtPublisher: Lucia Marquand
ISBN: 9781555953614
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.