Author: David Josiah BrewerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Speeches, addresses, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Crowned Masterpieces of Eloquence that Have Advanced Civilization
Author: David Josiah BrewerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Speeches, addresses, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Catalogue of the Valuable Library Formed by the Late Sir Herbert Leon--Sotheby & Co.'s Sale of the Valuable Library Formed by the Late Sir Herbert Leon
Author: Sir Herbert Samuel Leon (bart.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Export Book Company Book Sale Catalogs
Author: Export Book CoThe National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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.
Dictionary Catalog of the University Library, 1919-1962
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Crowned masterpieces of eloquence
Author: David J. BrewerPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5875051396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Crowned masterpieces of eloquence, representing the advance of civilization, as collected in The world's best orations, from the earliest period to the present time.
Society and solitude, 12 chapters
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPerforming Arts Books, 1876-1981
Author: Publisher: New York : R.R. Bowker Company
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1728
Book Description