Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 982
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Report
Author: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The Studio
Author: Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882
Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Le Guide Musical
Author: Connaissance Des Arts
Author: Augustin Pajou
Author: James David DraperPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870998404
Category : Neoclassicism (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This examination concentrates on the beginnings of Neoclassicism and explores the philosophical and scientific underpinnings of the Enlightenment, in which Pajou played an important part.
French furniture: Louis XV period
Author: Carle DreyfusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Proust's Duchess
Author: Caroline WeberPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345803124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion--a brilliant look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe--these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber says, "transformed themselves, and were transformed by those around them, into living legends: paragons of elegance, nobility, and style." All well but unhappily married, these women sought freedom and fulfillment by reinventing themselves, between the 1870s and 1890s, as icons. At their fabled salons, they inspired the creativity of several generations of writers, visual artists, composers, designers, and journalists. Against a rich historical backdrop, Weber takes the reader into these women's daily lives of masked balls, hunts, dinners, court visits, nights at the opera or theater. But we see as well the loneliness, rigid social rules, and loveless, arranged marriages that constricted these women's lives. Proust, as a twenty-year-old law student in 1892, would worship them from afar, and later meet them and create his celebrated composite character for The Remembrance of Things Past.
Dissertations, 1909-1945
Author: Stockholms universitetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description