Author: Paul RoblinPublisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 43
Book Description
Catalogue de 25, 000 portraits anciens et modernes, estampes, vignettes..., provenant de la collection de M. B***,... vente... 27 mars 1886
Author: Paul Roblin25.000 portraits anciens et modernes Estampes et vignettes,... Livres et recueil de portraits
Author: Estampes anciennes et modernes, portraits, dessins, suites de vignettes pour l'illustration... : catalogue... vente... 27 Mai 1882
Author: Dupont aîné (marchand d'estampes.)Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 27
Book Description
Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books
Author: J. LewineRembrandt and His World
Author: Christopher WhitePublisher:
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Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Sultan's Fountain
Author: Agnieszka DobrowolskaPublisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9774165233
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The small sabil-kuttab (a charitable foundation particular to Cairo that combines a public water dispensary with a Quranic school) built in 1760 opposite the venerated Sayyida Zeinab Mosque is almost unique in Cairo: it is one of only two dedicated by a reigning Ottoman sultan, and--astonishingly--it is decorated inside with blue-and-white tiles from Amsterdam depicting happy scenes from the Dutch countryside. Why did the sultan, Mustafa III, cloistered in his Istanbul palace, decide to build a sabil in Cairo? Why did he choose this site for it? How did it come to be adorned with Dutch tiles? What were the connections between Cairo, Istanbul, and Amsterdam in the middle of the eighteenth century? The authors answer these questions and many more in this entertaining and beautifully illustrated history of an extraordinary building, describing also the recent conservation efforts to preserve it for posterity.
The Ottoman House
Author: S. IrelandPublisher: British Institute at Ankara
ISBN: 1912090619
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Seemingly contradictory ideas of privacy and community dominate Ottoman cities. While houses are internally divided to guard female modesty behind a frontage studded with peep-holes, streets in cities like Amasya are often bridged by first-floor passageways between different houses. This book contains 17 papers by architects and archaeologists looking at how the Ottoman house was structured, how it has varied over time and space, and how surviving examples are faring in a world of breeze-block construction. Although the examples discussed are all Near Eastern, and mostly from Turkey, the revelations this book contains about structuring principles will make it a valuable companion to understanding architectural relics from all over the Ottoman Empire.
Authentic Art Deco Alphabets
Author: Editions GuérinetPublisher:
ISBN: 9780486250908
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
42 plates of authentic Art Deco alphabets, numbers, vignettes, monograms, frames and attention-getters -- all royalty-free.
Families in Politics
Author: Linda Schatkowski SchilcherPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
John Golding
Author: Dawn AdesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781909932388
Category : Painting, British
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
John Golding (1929-2012) was a British artist, scholar and curator.Perhaps best known for his seminal book, Cubism: A history and an Analysis 1907-1914 (1959) he actually considered himself primarily a painter and exhibited extensively both in the UK and internationally during a career that spanned almost six decades. In retrospect, his reputation as a notable art historian somewhat, arguably, overshadowed his own practice as an artist. So, this new monograph endeavours to reveal and celebrate the other side of his oeuvre.'Golding's knowledge of Renaissance painting, especially the great Venetians [...] informed his own work as he moved out of figuration and into abstract canvases in which light was the subject. He painted vertical streaks of colour down his canvases like pleated light (as he put it) and occasionally on, say, a misty blue, he would scatter clusters of gold pigment to reflect the actual light. After the end of the 20th century, he started to structure his paintings so that they appeared to be based on photographs from thousands of feet above the Earth, with 'roads' and 'bridges' and 'canals'...' - Michael McNay, 2012 (The Guardian)Golding's work was additionally shown alongside Bridget Riley, John Hoyland, Frank Auerbach, Peter Blake and David Hockney in important group exhibitions in London such as, British Painting 74' at Hayward Gallery and, British Painting 1952-77 at the Royal Academy of Arts.