Author: Dobell, P.J. & A.E., booksellers, London
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: American Art Association
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Languages : en
Pages : 1276

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Author: Jeannette Leonard Gilder
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 910

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Author: Dorothy Osborne
Publisher: Routledge
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Seventy-seven letters from an upper-class English woman to her paramour offer a window in to a courtship that, the editor argues, are marked by the intelligence of the writer and her insistence of being treated as an intellectual equal. Explanatory notes and an introduction discussing the importance of the letters for understanding gender politics in 17th century England accompany the letters. Appendices present letters from after the marriage, genealogies, and other contextual information. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author: William Winter
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Marion Harry Spielmann
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Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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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.

Author: Sotheran, Henry and Co
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Languages : en
Pages : 906

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