Author: Cincinnati Art Museum
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300115806
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewelry, fashion, hairstyles, and the decorative arts. Unlike many other genres, miniatures have a tradition in which amateurs and professionals have operated in parallel and women artists have flourished as professionals. This richly illustrated book presents approximately 180 portrait miniatures selected from the holdings of the Cincinnati Art Museum, the largest and most diverse collection of its kind in North America. The book stresses the continuity of stylistic tradition across Europe and America as well as the vitality of the portrait miniature format through more than four centuries. A detailed catalogue entry, as well as a concise artist biography, appears for each object. Essays examine various aspects of miniature painting, of the depiction of costume in miniatures, and of the allied art of hair work.
Perfect Likeness
Author: Cincinnati Art Museum
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300115806
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewelry, fashion, hairstyles, and the decorative arts. Unlike many other genres, miniatures have a tradition in which amateurs and professionals have operated in parallel and women artists have flourished as professionals. This richly illustrated book presents approximately 180 portrait miniatures selected from the holdings of the Cincinnati Art Museum, the largest and most diverse collection of its kind in North America. The book stresses the continuity of stylistic tradition across Europe and America as well as the vitality of the portrait miniature format through more than four centuries. A detailed catalogue entry, as well as a concise artist biography, appears for each object. Essays examine various aspects of miniature painting, of the depiction of costume in miniatures, and of the allied art of hair work.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300115806
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewelry, fashion, hairstyles, and the decorative arts. Unlike many other genres, miniatures have a tradition in which amateurs and professionals have operated in parallel and women artists have flourished as professionals. This richly illustrated book presents approximately 180 portrait miniatures selected from the holdings of the Cincinnati Art Museum, the largest and most diverse collection of its kind in North America. The book stresses the continuity of stylistic tradition across Europe and America as well as the vitality of the portrait miniature format through more than four centuries. A detailed catalogue entry, as well as a concise artist biography, appears for each object. Essays examine various aspects of miniature painting, of the depiction of costume in miniatures, and of the allied art of hair work.
Chinnery
Author: Robin Hutcheon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Angus Chinnery
Author: Hugo F. VanTerpool
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1625167938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Angus Chinnery is a handsome and intelligent boy who grows into manhood fulfilling all his childhood promise. He migrates from Tortola in the British Virgin Islands to the USA in his early twenties with his young wife, who shortly thereafter annuls their marriage. Angus goes to live with his Uncle Ebbie and then enters the University of New York. He becomes a lawyer and works for a while at a New York law firm. Homesick for his native land, he returns to Tortola, where he marries a lovely girl. Together they raised a beautiful family, with two sons and two daughters. His business associate is a young lawyer from Jamaica, and together they build a close relationship and a prosperous firm. Angus can honestly say, "I Am Happiest When at Home." His part of the African diaspora has come to an end.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1625167938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Angus Chinnery is a handsome and intelligent boy who grows into manhood fulfilling all his childhood promise. He migrates from Tortola in the British Virgin Islands to the USA in his early twenties with his young wife, who shortly thereafter annuls their marriage. Angus goes to live with his Uncle Ebbie and then enters the University of New York. He becomes a lawyer and works for a while at a New York law firm. Homesick for his native land, he returns to Tortola, where he marries a lovely girl. Together they raised a beautiful family, with two sons and two daughters. His business associate is a young lawyer from Jamaica, and together they build a close relationship and a prosperous firm. Angus can honestly say, "I Am Happiest When at Home." His part of the African diaspora has come to an end.
The Studio
Chinnery's Hotel
Author: J. Birje-Patil
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
After spending nearly four uneasy decades in her ancestral England and accompanied by her dead sister's daughter Camilia, Grace returns to the cantonment township of Mhow where she had spent a much-cossetted childhood and youth in her parents' establishment called Chinnery's Hotel. The fictional Mhow, with its polo tournaments, tent-pegging, ballroom dances, Masonic Lodge and whist drives serves as a prototype of cantonments between the wars, where the resident British live in appalling ignorance of the political realities which would dislodge and transplant them to war-ravaged England in 1947.The bleak post-war life in London feeds Grace's nostalgia for her childhood home.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
After spending nearly four uneasy decades in her ancestral England and accompanied by her dead sister's daughter Camilia, Grace returns to the cantonment township of Mhow where she had spent a much-cossetted childhood and youth in her parents' establishment called Chinnery's Hotel. The fictional Mhow, with its polo tournaments, tent-pegging, ballroom dances, Masonic Lodge and whist drives serves as a prototype of cantonments between the wars, where the resident British live in appalling ignorance of the political realities which would dislodge and transplant them to war-ravaged England in 1947.The bleak post-war life in London feeds Grace's nostalgia for her childhood home.
Notes and Queries
The Connoisseur
George Chinnery, 1774-1852
Indian Renaissance
Author: Hermionede Almeida
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351562959
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 917
Book Description
Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India is the first comprehensive examination of British artists whose first-hand impressions and prospects of the Indian subcontinent became a stimulus for the Romantic Movement in England; it is also a survey of the transformation of the images brought home by these artists into the cultural imperatives of imperial, Victorian Britain. The book proposes a second - Indian - Renaissance for British (and European) art and culture and an undeniable connection between English Romanticism and British Imperialism. Artists treated in-depth include James Forbes, James Wales, Tilly Kettle, William Hodges, Johann Zoffany, Francesco Renaldi, Thomas and William Daniell, Robert Home, Thomas Hickey, Arthur William Devis, R. H. Colebrooke, Alexander Allan, Henry Salt, James Baillie Fraser, Charles Gold, James Moffat, Charles D'Oyly, William Blake, J. M. W. Turner and George Chinnery.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351562959
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 917
Book Description
Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India is the first comprehensive examination of British artists whose first-hand impressions and prospects of the Indian subcontinent became a stimulus for the Romantic Movement in England; it is also a survey of the transformation of the images brought home by these artists into the cultural imperatives of imperial, Victorian Britain. The book proposes a second - Indian - Renaissance for British (and European) art and culture and an undeniable connection between English Romanticism and British Imperialism. Artists treated in-depth include James Forbes, James Wales, Tilly Kettle, William Hodges, Johann Zoffany, Francesco Renaldi, Thomas and William Daniell, Robert Home, Thomas Hickey, Arthur William Devis, R. H. Colebrooke, Alexander Allan, Henry Salt, James Baillie Fraser, Charles Gold, James Moffat, Charles D'Oyly, William Blake, J. M. W. Turner and George Chinnery.