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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Connoisseur
Author: The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts
Author: Detroit Institute of ArtsPublisher:
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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.
Books Added
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
European Clocks and Watches in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Clare VincentPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395790
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Among the world's greatest technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works. It showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms. Among these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars; an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day; and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Created by the best craftsmen in Austria, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, these magnificent timepieces have been selected for their remarkable beauty and design, as well as their sophisticated mechanics. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels.
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?"
Art and Auctions
Author: New York Magazine
Author: Catalogue
Author: Hispanic Society of America. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Brazilian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 985
Book Description
Newsletter
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet IncPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
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