An Anthropology of Common Ground

An Anthropology of Common Ground PDF Author: Nathalia Brichet
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995527799
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
How might we explore commonness in cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural collaboration? This book answers this question by analyzing a cultural heritage project reconstructing a former Danish plantation in Ghana, entailing histories of slavery, questions of building materials, ideas of cultural exchange, and discussions of authenticity.

Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century

Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century PDF Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780894682117
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Heda's Banquet Piece, Frans Hals' Willem Coymans, and Rembrandt's Lucretia. Paintings by these and other masters attracted the American collectors P. A. B. Widener, his son Joseph, and Andrew W. Mellon, whose bequests form the heart of the National Gallery's distinguished and remarkably cohesive collection of ninety-one Dutch paintings.

The Rose in Fashion

The Rose in Fashion PDF Author: Amy de la Haye
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300250088
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Examples from jewelry, millinery, handbags, perfume, couture, and everyday dress show how the rose--both beautiful and symbolic--has inspired fashion over hundreds of years.

The Age of Rembrandt

The Age of Rembrandt PDF Author: Roland E. Fleischer
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780915773022
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
This is a study of seventeenth-century Dutch painting.

Rethinking Rembrandt

Rethinking Rembrandt PDF Author: Alan Chong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789040096730
Category : Art, Dutch
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Tien essays, naar aanleiding van een in oktober 2000 in het Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston gehouden symposium met als titel "Rethinking Rembrandt", waarin jonge wetenschappers een nieuwe en frisse kijk op Rembrandt geven.

Selling Russia's Treasures

Selling Russia's Treasures PDF Author: N. I︠U︡ Semenova
Publisher: Abbeville Press
ISBN: 9780789211545
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Selling Russia's Treasures documents one of the great cultural dramas of the twentieth century: the sale, by a cash-hungry Soviet government, of the artistic treasures accumulated by the Russian aristocracy over the centuries and nationalized after the October 1917 revolution. An astonishing variety of objects, from icons and illuminated manuscripts to Fabergé eggs and Old Master paintings, entered the collections of wealthy Westerners like Andrew Mellon and Armand Hammer in the 1920s and 30s. Written by the leading experts in the field and long regarded as the definitive book on the subject, the original Russian edition of Selling Russia's Treasures is sought after scholars and laymen alike. Now, for the first time, it is made available in English, in a revised and expanded edition that includes a new chapter on the secret files of the Hermitage, previously considered lost, as well as new research on the sale of religious art, and of twentieth-century French masterworks from the Museum of New Western Art. Numerous color plates reunite long-dispersed works in a virtual museum that illustrates the powerful blow inflicted on Russia's cultural heritage by these secretive sales, and rare photographs and archival documents help bring this buried history to light.

American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century

American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century PDF Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 454

Book Description
The energy and optimism of the new nation are abundantly apparent in this catalogue. It features some of the icons of American art, such as John Singleton Copley's The Copley Family and Gilbert Stuart's portraits of the first five presidents. Numerous paintings, including Benjamin West's Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill), are discussed from a new perspective, the result of information culled from letters, wills, and other previously unpublished documents. The author offers new interpretations of some works, among them Charles Willson Peale's portrait of the Baltimore couple Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming. The volume is richly illustrated, with carefully selected comparative illustrations.

European Post-medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

European Post-medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art PDF Author: Edith Appleton Standen
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870994069
Category : Tapestry
Languages : en
Pages : 426

Book Description
Tapestry making flourished in the major centers of western Europe from the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Thousands of tapestries were woven as special commissions for church, crown, and nobility. This publication is a comprehensive catalogue of the Museum's collection of tapestries and allied works made after the Middle Ages.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Stone Sculpture

The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Stone Sculpture PDF Author: Antoine Hermary
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395502
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 437

Book Description


French Paintings

French Paintings PDF Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300193305
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description