Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1712
Book Description
The Mercantile Adjuster ... and the Lawyer and Credit Man ...
Mercantile Adjuster and the Lawyer and Credit Man
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collecting of accounts
Languages : en
Pages : 1650
Book Description
The Mercantile Adjuster ... and the Lawyer and Credit Man ...
Author: The Credit Monthly
Author: An Enquiry Into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain
Author: Henry ThorntonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Credit
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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.
Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History
Author: Association of American Law SchoolsPublisher:
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Category : Common law
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Money and the Mechanism of Exchange
Author: William Stanley JevonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exchange
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
THE MAN VERSUS THE STATE
Author: Herbert SpencerBackpacker
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.