Author: J. LewinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : fr
Pages : 722
Book Description
Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books
Author: J. LewineBronzes of the 19th Century
Author: Pierre KjellbergPublisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
An illustrated encyclopedia with 1000 photos of over 700 nineteenth century French sculptors including Rodin, Barye, d'Angers and Carpeaux, with biographies, listings of works (with size and foundry when known), museum pieces in France and elsewhere, and recent sales. Also provides an overview of 19th century bronze sculpture, the foundries that cast the bronzes, and methods used to cast works.
Esther Happy
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
"Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...
Du Barry
Author: Stanley LoomisCatalogue of European Daggers
Author: Bashford DeanPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
This catalogue features daggers in numerous examples dating from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century and provides a history of not only the daggers in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, but also the broader history of daggers in general. The illuminating text traces the dagger's development and mode of use throughout the time period while also differentiating it from concurrent development of swords. Included in the text are helpful line illustrations that better show the form and decoration of the daggers, accompanied by a plate section, which allows for easy comparison of the works.
Philostratus
Author: Philostratus (the Athenian)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Old Regime France, 1648-1788
Author: William DoylePublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198731302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The kingdom of France, a byword for upheaval and instability for a century before 1660, was transformed over the subsequent generation into the greatest power in Europe and an institutional model admired and imitated almost everywhere. A further century elapsed befoer this hegemony was challenged, and even then the collapse of monarchy in 1788 took most people by surprise. This book, bringing together an authoritative international panel of historians, portrays and analyses the life of France between two revolutions, a time later known as the old regime. All aspects of French life are covered: the economy, social development, religion and culture, French activity overseas, and not least politics and public life, where our understanding has been completely renewed over recent years. A detailed chronology and full bibliography complete this compelling analysis of an age behind whose calm and assured facade forces were developing which were to shape a very different country and continent.
Correspondence
Author: VoltaireMadame Du Barry
Author: Joan HaslipPublisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781850437536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Born the illegitimate daughter of a monk and a seamstress, Madame du Barry rose from poverty to become one of the most powerful and wealthy women of France. A courtesan, she became Louis XV's official mistress and was fêted as one of France's most beautiful women. On Louis XV's death she became vulnerable to those secretly longing for her downfall. Marie Antoinette had her imprisoned for a year, and in 1793 she was executed by the Revolutionary Tribunal for her aristocratic associations. Joan Haslip's classic biography shares the extraordinary and ultimately tragic story of du Barry's life and, in turn, illustrates the dazzling world of the eighteenth century royal court of France and the horrors of the Revolution.
The Du Barry Inheritance
Author: Marion WardPublisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780344409561
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
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