Author: Richard OffnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting
Author: Richard OffnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting
Author: Richard OffnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Index of Art Sales Catalogs 1981-1985: Main index, October 7, 1984-December 23, 1985. Subject index
Author: Auction Catalogues
Author: Christie's Amsterdam B.V.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Warburg Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450
Author: Laurence B. KanterPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870997254
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
. By way of introduction to the objects themselves are three essays. The first, by Laurence B. Kanter, presents an overview of Florentine illumination between 1300 and 1450 and thumbnail sketches of the artists featured in this volume. The second essay, by Barbara Drake Boehm, focuses on the types of books illuminators helped to create. As most of them were liturgical, her contribution limns for the modern reader the medieval religious ceremonies in which the manuscripts were utilized. Carl Brandon Strehlke here publishes important new material about Fra Angelico's early years and patrons - the result of the author's recent archival research in Florence.
The Encyclopedia of Antiques
Author: Jon RicePublisher: Crescent
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
"An illustrated guide to the world of collecting"--Jacket subtitle.
Library Catalog
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Fonthill Recovered
Author: Caroline DakersPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787350460
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.