Author: Hispanic Society of America. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazilian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 985
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Hispanic Society of America. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazilian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 985
Book Description
European Clocks and Watches in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Clare VincentPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395790
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Among the world's greatest technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works. It showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms. Among these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars; an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day; and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Created by the best craftsmen in Austria, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, these magnificent timepieces have been selected for their remarkable beauty and design, as well as their sophisticated mechanics. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels.
Catalogue
Author: Warburg Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Decorative Arts
Author: Charissa Bremer-DavidPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892362219
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This volume includes concise, illustrated entries on the more than 450 examples of furniture, porcelain, and silver from the Museum's collection. New to this expanded edition are sections devoted to maiolica and glass. An index of previous owners and updated bibliographies are of particular help to the scholar.
The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts
Author: Detroit Institute of ArtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Anna Thomson Dodge, heiress to the automotive fortune, built a great home and decorated it with one of the finest groups of 18th-century French decorative arts in America. Here are more than 130 pieces of furniture, sculpture, metalwork, tapestries, Sevres porcelain, and paintings, many from royal collections.
Catalogues of Works on the Fine Arts... by Bernard Quaritch
Author: Bernard QuaritchCatalogue of the Library
Author: Hispanic Society of America. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Hispanic
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
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