Author: Frederick LitchfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Notable Paintings ..., Important XVIII Century French Furniture ... Royal Gobelins Tapestries ...
Author: Illustrated History of Furniture
Author: Frederick LitchfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response
Author: Dr Inge ReistPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 147243806X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This collection of fourteen essays by distinguished art and cultural historians examine points of similarity and difference in British and American art collecting. Half the essays examine the trends that dominated the British art collecting scene of the nineteenth century. Others focus on American collectors, using biographical sketches and case studies to demonstrate how collectors in the United States embellished the British model to develop their own, often philanthropic approach to art collecting.
Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Author: Gillian WilsonPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 089236050X
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
J. Paul Getty began to collect French decorative arts in the 1930s and continued to do so until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection has continued to grow since then at a rapid pace and contains over three hundred individual pieces at the time this book is published. This volume illustrates fifty of them. The selection represents a cross section of the collection, which covers the period from approximately 1660 to 1800. In the eighteenth century it became fashionable in Parisian society to decorate the interiors of houses with Far Eastern materials such as lacquer and porcelain. This taste was catered to by the marchands-merciers, members of a guild who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, the antique dealer, and the picture dealer. These men devised highly ingenious settings for Far Eastern porcelains to adapt their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. Information about them and their clientele has been used in cataloguing the Getty Museum’s collection of mounted oriental porcelain, which is large and of high quality. This book is not a catalogue, nor is it a mere picture book or checklist. Each piece has been chosen because it represents a particular aspect of the crafts involved in the production of objects that were made by Parisian craftsmen for the crown, the nobility, and the rich bourgeoisie. The pieces are arranged in chronological order. Translations of the French archival extracts, an index, and a concise bibliography have been provided.
Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum
Author: Harvard University. Fine Arts LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Illustrated History of Furniture, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Containing Four Hundred Illustrations of Representative, Examples of the Different Periods
Author: Frederick LitchfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Parke-Bernet GalleriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Interior Design
Author: Joanna BanhamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136787585
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1469
Book Description
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Upholstery in America & Europe
Author: Edward S. CookePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393024692
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Upholstery in America fills a large gap in our knowledge of the decorative arts.
The American Educator
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description