Author: Wallace Collection (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Wallace Collection Catalogue: Gallery VII
Author: Wallace Collection (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Wallace Collection Catalogues
Author: Wallace Collection (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Wallace Collection
Author: Wallace Collection (London, England)Publisher:
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Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Wallace Collection Catalogues
Author: Wallace Collection (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Forgotten Masters
Author: William DalrymplePublisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN: 1781301018
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company officials from Indian painters who had previously worked for the Mughals. Published to coincide with the first UK exhibition of these masterworks at The Wallace Collection, this book celebrates the work of a series of extraordinary Indian artists, each with their own style and tastes and agency, all of whom worked for British patrons between the 1770s and the bloody end of the Mughal rule in 1857. Edited by writer and historian William Dalrymple, these hybrid paintings explore both the beauty of the Indian natural world and the social realities of the time in one hundred masterpieces, often of astonishing brilliance and originality. They shed light on a forgotten moment in Anglo-Indian history during which Indian artists responded to European influences while keeping intact their own artistic visions and styles. These artists represent the last phase of Indian artistic genius before the onset of the twin assaults - photography and the influence of western colonial art schools - ended an unbroken tradition of painting going back two thousand years. As these masterworks show, the greatest of these painters deserve to be remembered as among the most remarkable Indian artists of all time.
Wallace Collection Catalogue: Gallery V. Supplement to parts I and II. Indices to parts I, II, and III
Author: Wallace Collection (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The Noble Art of the Sword
Author: Tobias CapwellPublisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
ISBN: 9780900785436
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Accompanying a major international exhibition at the Wallace Collection (May - September 2012), this book celebrates the artistic and cultural importance of the sword, as a symbol of power and prestige, as a flamboyant fashion statement and as an icon of the Age of Discovery. It will feature weapons and related works of art from the Wallace Collection as well as other great collections of arms and armor; never-before-seen illustrated works on fencing drawn from the library of the 8th Lord Howard de Walden; and portraits, prints, and drawings that will help place the Renaissance civilian sword in its social and artistic context. It will also explore the ancient origins of the modern sport of fencing, one of only nine original Olympic events practiced since the first Olympiad of the modern era of 1896, revealing a place in history where art and sport converged.
The Wallace Collection
Author: Stephen DuffyPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Wallace Collection is both a national museum and the finest private collection of art ever assembled by one family. It was bequeathed to the nation in 1897 by Lady Wallace, widow of Sir Richard Wallace, the illegitimate son of the fourth Marquess of
The Historical Topography of Samarra
Author: Alastair NorthedgePublisher: Samarra Studies
ISBN: 9780903472227
Category : Sāmarrā' (Iraq)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the first fundamentally new work to come out in half a century on one of the world's most famous Islamic archaeological sites: Samarra, in Iraq. This capital of the Abbasid caliphs in the 9th century is not only one of the largest urban sites worldwide, but also gives us the essence of what the physical appearance of the caliphate was like, for early Baghdad is long lost. Northedge sets out to explain the history and development of this enormous site, 45 km long, using both archaeological and textual sources to weave a new interpretation of how the city worked: its four caliphal palaces, four Friday mosques, cantonments for the military and for the palace servants, houses for the men of state and generals.
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