Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041824444
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438
Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041824444
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
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.
English as a Global Language
Author: David CrystalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107611806
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.
Greenwich Time and the Longitude
Author: Derek HowsePublisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A Book of Golden Deeds
Author: Charlotte Mary YongePublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Illustrated London News
Author: The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884
Author: James Hammond TrumbullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hartford County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Bulletin of the Public Library
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library ...
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin for the Providence Public Library ...
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description