Author: Sotheby, Parke-Bernet Los AngelesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Catalogues of Sales
Author: Sotheby, Parke-Bernet Los AngelesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
French, English and Continental Furniture, Decorations, Rugs and Carpets
Author: Sotheby's (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Art & Auction
Author: Interior Design and Decoration
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interior decoration
Languages : en
Pages : 1382
Book Description
The Art Gallery
Author: French, English and Continental Furniture and Decorations, Rugs and Carpets
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts
Author: Detroit Institute of ArtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Anna Thomson Dodge, heiress to the automotive fortune, built a great home and decorated it with one of the finest groups of 18th-century French decorative arts in America. Here are more than 130 pieces of furniture, sculpture, metalwork, tapestries, Sevres porcelain, and paintings, many from royal collections.
French, English and Continental Furniture and Decorations, Rugs and Carpets
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carpets
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Fonthill Recovered
Author: Caroline DakersPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787350479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
Royal Art of Benin
Author: Kate EzraPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870996339
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Tantalizing trivia. this Hitler, spoiling everything?"