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ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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The Encyclopedia of Visual Art: Special studies. ... Index
Author: International Who's who in Art and Antiques
Author: Ernest KayPublisher: Cambridge [Eng.] : Melrose Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Museums in Poland
Author: Maria SołtysiakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
King of the World
Author: Philip ManselPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022669092X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
Louis XIV was a man in pursuit of glory. Not content to be the ruler of a world power, he wanted the power to rule the world. And, for a time, he came tantalizingly close. Philip Mansel’s King of the World is the most comprehensive and up-to-date biography in English of this hypnotic, flawed figure who continues to captivate our attention. This lively work takes Louis outside Versailles and shows the true extent of his global ambitions, with stops in London, Madrid, Constantinople, Bangkok, and beyond. We witness the importance of his alliance with the Spanish crown and his success in securing Spain for his descendants, his enmity with England, and his relations with the rest of Europe, as well as Asia, Africa, and the Americas. We also see the king’s effect on the two great global diasporas of Huguenots and Jacobites, and their influence on him as he failed in his brutal attempts to stop Protestants from leaving France. Along the way, we are enveloped in the splendor of Louis’s court and the fascinating cast of characters who prostrated and plotted within it. King of the World is exceptionally researched, drawing on international archives and incorporating sources who knew the king intimately, including the newly released correspondence of Louis’s second wife, Madame de Maintenon. Mansel’s narrative flair is a perfect match for this grand figure, and he brings the Sun King’s world to vivid life. This is a global biography of a global king, whose power was extensive but also limited by laws and circumstances, and whose interests and ambitions stretched far beyond his homeland. Through it all, we watch Louis XIV progressively turn from a dazzling, attractive young king to a belligerent reactionary who sets France on the path to 1789. It is a convincing and compelling portrait of a man who, three hundred years after his death, still epitomizes the idea of le grand monarque.
Europe 1450 to 1789
Author: Jonathan DewaldPublisher:
ISBN: 9780684312002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Cracow, City of Museums
Author: Jerzy BanachPublisher:
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Category : Art, Polish
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Patrons, Brokers, and Clients in Seventeenth-century France
Author: Sharon KetteringPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195036735
Category : Decentralization in government
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
A bold new study of politics and power in 17th-century France, this book argues that the French Crown extended its control over the provinces and laid the foundations for a centralized state by removing patronage power from the provincial governors and putting it instead in the hands of newly-created provincial power brokers--regional notables who cooperated with the Paris ministers in exchange for their patronage.
Japonisme in Western Painting from Whistler to Matisse
Author: Klaus BergerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521373210
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
George Washington's Chinaware
Author: Susan Gray DetweilerPublisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Susan Detweiler and Mount Vernon's curator, Christine Meadows, tell the story of Washington from his early years at Mount Vernon to the presidency and his official residences in New York and Philadelphia. -- Book flap.
Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory
Author: Yūko KikuchiPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415297907
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Yanagi Soetsu, Bernard Leach and Hamada Shoji are the golden trio of the Mingei (folkcrafts) movement. The theory at its core and its adaptation by Leach, has long been an influential 'Oriental' asethetic philosophy for studio craft artists in the West.