Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Piccadilly Series
Author: 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.
Art and Auctions
Author: Maggs Bros. Catalogues
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Sheltering Art
Author: Rochelle ZiskinPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271037857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
"Explores the role of private art collections in the cultural, social, and political life of early eighteenth-century Paris. Examines how two principal groups of collectors, each associated with a different political faction, amassed different types of treasures and used them to establish social identities and compete for distinction"--Provided by publisher.
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdThe Wrightsman Collection. Vols. 1 and 2, Furniture, Gilt Bronze and Mounted Porcelain, Carpets
Author: Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Italy for Sale
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004680446
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Italian Renaissance art, objects, and even the idea of Italy itself figured heavily both in the dynamic international art market and in the eyes of the general public. The alternative objects that were actively dispersed and collected -- authentic works, pastiches, Renaissance-inspired counterfeits, and reproductions -- in the diverse media of paint, plaster, terracotta, and photography, had a tremendous impact on visual culture across social strata. These essays examine less studied aspects of this market through the lens of just a few of the countless successful sales of objects out of Italy.