Author: Ludwig PietschPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Hans Makart, His Painting: Diana's Hunting Party
Sissi’s World
Author: Maura E. HametzPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501313452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, and other media of one of the most popular, revered, and misunderstood female figures in European cultural history. Sissi's World explores the cultural foundations for the endurance of the Sissi legends and the continuing fascination with the beautiful empress: a Bavarian duchess born in 1837, the longest-serving Austrian empress, and the queen of Hungary who died in 1898 at the hands of a crazed anarchist. Despite the continuing fascination with “the beloved Sissi," the Habsburg empress, her impact, and legacy have received scant attention from scholars. This collection will go beyond the popular biographical accounts, recountings of her mythic beauty, and scattered studies of her well-known eccentricities to offer transdisciplinary cultural perspectives across art, film, fashion, history, literature, and media.
Public Opinion
Author: Rand McNally Guide to New York City and Environs ...
Author: Handy Guide to New York City
Author: Rand McNally and CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Artist
Author: The Artist and Journal of Home Culture
Author: Cosmo Collection
Author: George Hall BakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Ringling
Author: David C. WeeksPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813059399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
John Nicholas Ringling's years in Sarasota spanned the final quarter-century of his life. On Florida's west coast, as the Ringling's Circus became "the greatest show on earth," he collected Baroque paintings, European decorative art, and Italian statuary, built the ostentatious mansion Ca'd'Zan, developed and marketed most of the barrier islands around Sarasota Bay, and became the focus of a confusing pastiche of acclaim, misconception, and suspicion. Sarasota's Ringling Museum is his priceless cultural legacy to the people of Florida and the world of art--an inheritance at risk for the ten years that Ringling's estate was in probate. The author of this first intensive look at Ringling's presence in Sarasota sets the man against the backdrop of Florida from World War I through the land boom and the turbulent twenties into the depression years and Ringling's lapse into obscurity. Illustrated with nearly fifty black-and-white photographs, many never before published, this is the chronicle of a man, as the foreword claims, "who was not afraid to think or live on a grand scale, who knew what he wanted from life, and from art."
Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings
Author: John Denison ChamplinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description