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Category : Coins
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Spink & Son's Monthly Numismatic Circular
Author: Seaby's Coin and Medal Bulletin
Author: Nicolas Lancret
Author: Mary Tavener HolmesPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892368322
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
In a garden glade before a grand fountain, surrounded by a musical party, an elegant woman in a lustrous white gown dances as part of a foursome, raising her eyes to the viewer as if extending an invitation to the dance. This is the enticing scene in the J. Paul Getty Museum's painting "Dance before a Fountain" by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743), an excellent example of the fete galante, a genre that was created and reached the peak of its popularity in France during the first half of the eighteenth century. This monograph seeks to familiarize American audiences with Lancret, a master of this genre, who was a revered painter in his own time, rivalling his contemporaries Antoine Watteau and Francois Boucher, and a favourite of crowned heads across Europe. Mary Tavener Holmes's engrossing text uses this painting as a springboard to reveal a remarkable amount about the painter, his mode of painting, Paris at the time this work was made, eighteenth-century dance, and the world of art patronage and collecting in France and elsewhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Lavishly illustrated with comparative paintings by artists such as Watteau, Boucher, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Francois De Troy, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and Hubert Robert, this fascinating peek into a bygone Parisian era is a treat for the eyes and the intellect alike.
The Landscape of Lexicography
Author: Alina VillalvaPublisher: Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa - Centro de Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas da universidade de Aveiro
ISBN: 9899866652
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
This book consists of a series of papers that look at three different aspects of the landscape as seen in dictionaries from across Europe. Multilingual diachronic case studies into lexicographical descriptions of flora, landscape features and colours concentrate on three supposedly simple words: daisies (Bellis perenis L.), hills and the colour red. The work is part of the ongoing LandLex initiative, originally developed as part of the COST ENeL - European Network for e-Lexicography - action. The group brings together researchers in lexicography and lexicology from across Europe and is dedicated to studying multilingual and diachronic issues in language. It aims to valorise the wealth of European language diversity as found in dictionaries by developing and testing new digital annotation tools and a historical morphological dictionary prototype. Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union
Songs & Poems
Author: Robert BurnsArt in Reproduction
Author: Robert VerhoogtPublisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9053569138
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
This illuminating study examines the cultural meaning of artistic reproduction in a refreshingly new context through its consideration of how three artists managed the reproduction of their work.
History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration in Its Relation to Anatomic Science and the Graphic Arts
Author: Ludwig ChoulantPublisher:
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Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
In this classical work Choulant traced the evolution of anatomical illustration from the early schematic plates up to his own time, including a valuable bibliography. This English edition, translated by Frank, is enriched by the chapter on anatomical illustration since Choulant, by Garrison. -- H.W. Orr.
Cassell's Natural History
Author: Peter Martin DuncanPublisher:
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Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Cassell's Natural History -
Author: P. Martin DuncanPublisher:
ISBN: 1446528480
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words
Author: Walter William SkeatPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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