Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Oriental Manuscripts, Miniatures and Works of Art
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Catalogues of Sale
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Albert Houtum Schindler: A Remarkable Polymath in Late-Qajar Iran
Author: D.T. PottsPublisher: Mage Publishers
ISBN: 1949445682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Widely regarded in his lifetime as the greatest living authority on all things Iranian, across an enormous range of disciplines, Albert Houtum Schindler lived and worked in Iran from 1868 to 1911. All who either met or corresponded with him came away praising his encyclopaedic knowledge and remarkable insight. A member of numerous learned societies in Europe, he sustained a wide web of intellectual contacts and was insatiably curious. As an employee of the Indo-European Telegraph Department, the Imperial Bank of Persia and the Persian Bank Mining Rights Corporation, he experienced firsthand the ups and downs of Iran’s slow but inexorable movement towards modernity. Yet when he died in 1916 his obituaries were frustratingly brief. Private when it came to the details of his personal life, Albert Houtum Schindler gave little away. This book is the first full-scale examination of the life and legacy of an extraordinary witness to the late-Qajar period and the land, people and history of Iran.
Catalogues of Sales
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
The Clique
Author: Dictionary Catalogue of the Library of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada
Author: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Church history
Languages : un
Pages : 660
Book Description
T・L・S, the Times Literary Supplement
Author: Selling Russia's Treasures
Author: N. I︠U︡ SemenovaPublisher: Abbeville Press
ISBN: 9780789211545
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Selling Russia's Treasures documents one of the great cultural dramas of the twentieth century: the sale, by a cash-hungry Soviet government, of the artistic treasures accumulated by the Russian aristocracy over the centuries and nationalized after the October 1917 revolution. An astonishing variety of objects, from icons and illuminated manuscripts to Fabergé eggs and Old Master paintings, entered the collections of wealthy Westerners like Andrew Mellon and Armand Hammer in the 1920s and 30s. Written by the leading experts in the field and long regarded as the definitive book on the subject, the original Russian edition of Selling Russia's Treasures is sought after scholars and laymen alike. Now, for the first time, it is made available in English, in a revised and expanded edition that includes a new chapter on the secret files of the Hermitage, previously considered lost, as well as new research on the sale of religious art, and of twentieth-century French masterworks from the Museum of New Western Art. Numerous color plates reunite long-dispersed works in a virtual museum that illustrates the powerful blow inflicted on Russia's cultural heritage by these secretive sales, and rare photographs and archival documents help bring this buried history to light.
India
Author: Stuart Cary WelchPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0030061148
Category : Art, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A selection of 333 works of art representing masterpieces of the sacred and court traditions as well as their urban, folk, and tribal heritage.
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