Author: Anna JollyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Fürstliche Interieurs
Author: Anna JollyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Luxury
Author: Peter McNeilPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199663246
Category : Affluent consumers
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The first ever global history of luxury, from Roman villas to Russian oligarchs: a sparkling story of novelty, excess, extravagance, and indulgence through the centuries.
Extravagant Inventions
Author: Wolfram KoeppePublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394743
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition "Extravagant Inventions: the Princely Furniture of the Roentgens" on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 30, 2102, through January 27, 2013.
Luxury After the Terror
Author: Iris MoonPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271093099
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
When Louis XVI was guillotined on January 21, 1793, vast networks of production that had provided splendor and sophistication to the royal court were severed. Although the king’s royal possessions—from drapery and tableware to clocks and furniture suites—were scattered and destroyed, many of the artists who made them found ways to survive. This book explores the fabrication, circulation, and survival of French luxury after the death of the king. Spanning the final years of the ancien régime from the 1790s to the first two decades of the nineteenth century, this richly illustrated book positions luxury within the turbulent politics of dispersal, disinheritance, and dispossession. Exploring exceptional works created from silver, silk, wood, and porcelain as well as unrealized architectural projects, Iris Moon presents new perspectives on the changing meanings of luxury in the revolutionary and Napoleonic periods, a time when artists were forced into hiding, exile, or emigration. Moon draws on her expertise as a curator to revise conventional accounts of the so-called Louis XVI style, arguing that it was only after the revolutionary auctions liquidated the king’s collections that their provenance accrued deeper cultural meanings as objects with both a royal imprimatur and a threatening reactionary potential. Lively and accessible, this thought-provoking study will be of interest to curators, art historians, scholars, and students of the decorative arts as well as specialists in the French Revolution.
The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1
Author: Christopher BrewardPublisher: Cambridge History of Fashion
ISBN: 1108495567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 759
Book Description
Explores how the long history of fashion from antiquity to c. 1800 created global networks and animated world communities.
The Architecture of Percier and Fontaine and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Revolutionary France
Author: Iris MoonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315316269
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (1764–1838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853) designed interiors that responded to the radical ideologies and collective forms of destruction that took place during the French Revolution. The architects visualized new forms of imperial sovereignty by inverting the symbols of monarchy and revolution, constructing meeting rooms resembling military encampments and gilded thrones that replaced the Bourbon lily with Napoleonic bees. Yet in the wake of political struggle, each foundation stone that the architects laid for the new imperial regime was accompanied by an awareness of the contingent nature of sovereign power. Contributing fresh perspectives on the architecture, decorative arts, and visual culture of revolutionary France, this book explores how Percier and Fontaine’s desire to build structures of permanence and their inadvertent reliance upon temporary architectural forms shaped a new awareness of time, memory, and modern political identity in France.
HALI
Author: Display of Art in the Roman Palace, 1550–1750
Author: Gail FeigenbaumPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606062980
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This book explores the principles of the display of art in the magnificent Roman palaces of the early modern period, focusing attention on how the parts function to convey multiple artistic, social, and political messages, all within a splendid environment that provided a model for aristocratic residences throughout Europe. Many of the objects exhibited in museums today once graced the interior of a Roman Baroque palazzo or a setting inspired by one. In fact, the very convention of a paintings gallery— the mainstay of museums—traces its ancestry to prototypes in the palaces of Rome. Inside Roman palaces, the display of art was calibrated to an increasingly accentuated dynamism of social and official life, activated by the moving bodies and the attention of residents and visitors. Display unfolded in space in a purposeful narrative that reflected rank, honor, privilege, and intimacy. With a contextual approach that encompasses the full range of media, from textiles to stucco, this study traces the influential emerging concept of a unified interior. It argues that art history—even the emergence of the modern category of fine art—was worked out as much in the rooms of palaces as in the printed pages of Vasari and other early writers on art.
Neo-classicism to Pop
Author: Sue KerryPublisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Late Eighteenth & Early Nineteenth Century Textiles presents a selection of pieces chosen for their beauty, their elegance and their relevance to the history of textile design.
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