Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical ManuscriptsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquis of Bath Preserved at Longleat, Wiltshire: The Harley papers, 1516-1785
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical ManuscriptsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquis of Bath
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical ManuscriptsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Guide to the Collections
Author: National Library of AustraliaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Clarion State College. Carlson LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the University Library, 1919-1962
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Author-title Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Author: Marina BelozerskayaPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Folger Shakespeare LibraryPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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