Author: Sir John Newenham SummersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830
Author: Sir John Newenham SummersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The Spectator
Author: Readers' Guide
Author: A History of Renaissance Architecture in England, 1500-1800
Author: Reginald BlomfieldPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337664770
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The Academy and Literature
Author: The Winterthur Museum Libraries Collection of Printed Books and Periodicals: General catalog
Author: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Gardner's Art Through the Ages: Renaissance and modern art
Author: Helen GardnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
This classic art history survey text has sold more than two million copies since it was first published in 1926. The ideal text for the full-year history course, it surveys the entire span of Western art from prehistory to the present and offers overviews of significant areas of non-Western art. Features: * New to this edition: * Increased number of illustrations, more in color. * Heightened visual appeal and superior accuracy of color resulting from printing at 175-line screen resolution. * Addition of new maps, timelines, and improved photographic views. * Reorganized, expanded, and revised chapters in Part One reflect significant changes in the field of ancient art over the last decade. (Author Fred S. Kleiner, Classical scholar, is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology, the official journal of the Archaeological Institute of America). * Inclusion of more art from North American museums facilitates students' viewing of actual works. * Inclusion of many new views of previously illustrated monuments. * Increased attention to social and political context of works of art in the ancient world. * Presentation of more classical works of art created for non-elite patrons. * Reorganized by Early Christian, Islamic, and Byzantine material. * Addition of twenty-eight new line art figures. * Expanded coverage of Chinese art and introduction of Korean art. * Expanded coverage of Mayan ceramics and stelae, new coverage of Peruvian textiles and Colombian gold work. * Revision of African art, updated in a separate chapter with twice as many images as the previous edition. * Reorganized chapters covering Northern and Italian Renaissance. * Reorganized coverage of eighteenth-century material. * Increased coverage of women and minority artists. * Totally reorganized nineteenth- and twentieth-century material, many new images from nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists. -- Amazon.com
The Academy
Author: Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Author: Helen GardnerPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Covers: the ancient world, the middle ages, the world beyond Europe, the renaissance and the baroque and rococo, the modern and postmodern world.