Author: Prague (Czech Republic)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Austrian Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Bohemian Section at the Austrian Exhibition, Earl's Court, London, S. W. 1906
Author: Prague (Czech Republic)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Austrian Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Guide to the Bohemian Section and to the Kingdom of Bohemia
Author: Austrian Exhibition, London. Bohemian sectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bohemia (Czech Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Great Britain and Austria-Hungary During the First World War
Author: Harry HanakPublisher: London, Oxford U.P
ISBN:
Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942
Author: Quarterly Guide for Readers
Author: Finsbury (England). Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Catalog of the Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Author: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Page's Engineering Weekly
Author: 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.