Author: Sotheby's Belgravia (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Catalogues of Sales
Author: Sotheby's Belgravia (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Catalogue of English and Continental Furniture, Musical Boxes, Automata, Dolls, Costumes ...
Author: Catalogues of Sales
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Connoisseur
Author: Bibliographie der Antiquariats-, Auktions- und Kunstkataloge
Author: Standard Catalog for Public Libraries
Author: H.W. Wilson CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
Book Description
Extravagant Inventions
Author: Wolfram KoeppePublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394743
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition "Extravagant Inventions: the Princely Furniture of the Roentgens" on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 30, 2102, through January 27, 2013.
Catalogue of Musical Boxes, Automata, Dolls, Costume Textiles, English and Continental Furniture...
Author: Country Life
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.