Author: Caroline GeareyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Two French Queens and Other Sketches
Author: Caroline GeareyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Two French Queens
Author: Caroline GeareyTwo French Queens (Elizabeth of Valois, 1545-1568; Marguerite of Valois, 1553-1615), and Other Sketches
Author: Caroline GEAREYKings, Queens, and Courtiers
Author: Martha WolffPublisher: Art Inst of Chicago
ISBN: 9780300170252
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This sumptuous catalogue provides an overview of French art circa 1500, a dynamic, transitional period when the country, resurgent after the dislocations of the Hundred Years' War, invaded Italy and all media flourished. What followed was the emergence of a unique art: the fusion of the Italian Renaissance with northern European Gothic styles. Outstanding examples of exquisite and revolutionary works are featured, including paintings, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, tapestries, and metalwork. Exciting new research brings to life court artists Jean Fouquet, Jean Bourdichon, Michel Colombe, Jean Poyer, and Jean Hey (The Master of Moulins), all of whose creations were used by kings and queens to assert power and prestige. Also detailed are the organization of workshops and the development of the influential art market in Paris and patronage in the Loire Valley.
Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France
Author: Kathleen WellmanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300178859
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses.
Athenais
Author: Lisa HiltonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780316141642
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
As lovely and charming as she was shrewd and calculating, Athenais de Montespan became the most powerful noblewoman of her day by brilliantly manipulating her forbidden role as mistress of King Louis XIV. With a lively narrative style that reads like fiction, Hilton reveals the woman behind the most dazzling days of the Sun King's reign. photos.
The Public Library Journal
Author: Cardiff (Wales). Free LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Spectator
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1268
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Queens' Play
Author: Dorothy DunnettPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0140282408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The second book in the world-famous Lymond Chronicles, which bring to life sixteenth-century history through the eyes of one man: Francis Crawford of Lymond. Menaced by England and riven by internal discord, Scotland in 1548 clung to a single hope of survival as a nation - an alliance with France to be sealed by the betrothal of the five-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Dauphin. But once in France, Mary suffers a series of ominous 'accidents'. The one man Mary's mother, the Dowager Queen, feels she can trust to procter her daughter, now seven, is Francis Crawford. Lymond is dispatched to France and embarks upon a nightmare game of hide-and-seek at the very heart of the glittering, decadent court of Henri II.
The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description