Author: Boston Athenaeum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 782

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Author: Boston Athenaeum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 732

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Author: Monica Preti
Publisher: PU Rennes
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : fr
Pages : 508

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C'est dans cette époque charnière de l'histoire de la culture européenne que s'organise le système moderne du marché de l'art et que se transforme la conception même de l'héritage artistique. Etudes réunies autour de trois thèmes : La circulation des oeuvres d'art : organisation, pratiques et enjeux ; Marchands et collectionneurs ; Paris et l'Europe : mouvements de mode et diffusion.

Author: Larry Wolff
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804727020
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Wolff explores how Western thinkers contributed to defining and characterizing Eastern Europe as half-civilized and barbaric.

Author: William Andrew Chatto
Publisher: London : J.R. Smith
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Author: Sarah Collins
Publisher:
ISBN: 1843843420
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Author: Leonard Forrer
Publisher:
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Category : Medalists
Languages : en
Pages : 750

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Author: Philip Mansel
Publisher: Orion Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780753818558
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he met. He stayed with Madame du Barry, dined with Frederick the Great and travelled to the Crimea with Catherine the Great. But Ligne was more than a frivolous charmer. He participated in and recorded some of the most important events and movements of his day: the Enlightenment; the struggle for mastery in Germany; the decline of the Ottoman Empire; the birth of German nationalism; and the wars to liberate Europe from Napoleon. He had surprisingly radical views, believing for example in property rights for women, legal rights for Jews and the redistribution of wealth. He was also a highly respected writer and his books on gardens, his letters from the Crimea and his epigrams are considered minor classics of French literature.

Author: Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368259
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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"Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Michiel Groesen
Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783836552097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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When the New World was really new, Theodore de Bry drew inspiration from some of history's greatest explorers to record its wonders. From Virginia and Florida to Brazil, his work captivated the European imagination with visions of freshly discovered landscapes, customs, and peoples. This reproduction brings together his finest engravings of...