Author: Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
American Song Sheets, Slip Ballads and Poetical Broadsides, 1850-1870. A Catalogue of the Collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Dwight's Journal of Music
Author: Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913
Author: Harris NewmarkPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
History of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760
Author: Ellen Douglas LarnedPublisher:
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Category : Windham County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Farmer's Advocate
Author: Prices of Clothing
Author: John M. CurranPublisher:
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
American Practical Navigator
Author: Nathaniel BowditchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
The Evening Post
Author: Allan NevinsPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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.