Author: Thomas BalstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
John Martin, 1799-1854, His Life and Works
Author: Thomas BalstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
Author: Michael TaylorPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1324093935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
“Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age. When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country’s southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But Mary Anning had in fact discovered the “first” ichthyosaur, and over the next seventy-five years—as the science of paleontology developed, as Charles Darwin posited radical new theories of evolutionary biology, and as scholars began to identify the internal inconsistencies of the Scriptures—everything changed. Beginning with the archbishop who dated the creation of the world to 6 p.m. on October 22, 4004 BC, and told through the lives of the nineteenth-century men and women who found and argued about these seemingly impossible, history-rewriting fossils, Impossible Monsters reveals the central role of dinosaurs and their discovery in toppling traditional religious authority, and in changing perceptions about the Bible, history, and mankind’s place in the world.
A Century of British Painters
Author: Richard RedgravePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801492174
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
In the 1860s, the brothers Richard and Samuel Redgrave sat down to write the book that was, in effect, the first popular account of British painting. With remarkable industry, they examined and sifted through the earlier studies and documentary sources while also contributing a great deal of firsthand knowledge. Many of the artists of the time were personal friends or acquaintances, and Richard Redgrave was a member of the Royal Academy.
The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
Author: Joanne ShattockPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521391009
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Antiquarian Bookman
Author: The Parish of Chelsea: The Parish of Chelsea, pt. 2
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Art and Architecture Division
Author: New York Public Library. Art and Architecture DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
A Strange Business
Author: James HamiltonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1605988715
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human genius, money and influence, its crucibles the streets and institutions, its catalyst time, its control the market. In this rich and fascinating book, James Hamilton investigates the vibrant exchange between culture and business in nineteenth-century Britain, which became a center for world commerce following the industrial revolution. He explores how art was made and paid for, the turns of fashion, and the new demands of a growing middle-class, prominent among whom were the artists themselves. While leading figures such as Turner, Constable, Landseer, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Dickens are players here, so too are the patrons, financiers, collectors and industrialists; publishers, entrepreneurs, and journalists; artists' suppliers, engravers, dealers and curators; hostesses, shopkeepers and brothel keepers; quacks, charlatans, and auctioneers. Hamilton brings them all vividly to life in this kaleidoscopic portrait of the business of culture in nineteenth-century Britain, and provides thrilling and original insights into the working lives of some of the era's most celebrated artists.
British Master Prints
Author: Associated American ArtistsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prints, British
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Men of the Time
Author: George Henry TownsendPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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