Author: PIERRE. ROUXPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033869215
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
Book Description
CATALOGUE D'UNE RICHE COLLECTION DE TABLEAUX, DES TROIS ECOLES, ET PAR LES PLUS GRANDS MAITRES
Author: PIERRE. ROUXPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033869215
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
Book Description
Orestes
Author: VoltairePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1627933212
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."
Your Humble Servant
Author: Hans CoolsPublisher: Uitgeverij Verloren
ISBN: 9065509089
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art
Author: Darius A. SpiethPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004276750
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings were aesthetic, intellectual, and economic touchstones in the Parisian art world of the Revolutionary era, but their importance within this framework, while frequently acknowledged, never attracted much subsequent attention. Darius A. Spieth’s inquiry into Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art reveals the dominance of “Golden Age” pictures in the artistic discourse and sales transactions before, during, and after the French Revolution. A broadly based statistical investigation, undertaken as part of this study, shows that the upheaval reduced prices for Netherlandish paintings by about 55% compared to the Old Regime, and that it took until after the July Revolution of 1830 for art prices to return where they stood before 1789.
The Work of Rubens
Author: Adolf RosenbergStyle in Art
Author: Lincoln RothschildPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Booktrek
Author: Clive PhillpotPublisher: Jrp Ringier Kunstverlag Ag
ISBN: 9783037642078
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Examines the evolution of the artists' book and their perception in the art world.
From the Enlightenment to the Police State
Author: Paul P. BernardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Antoine PiconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book offers a unique insight to the teaching and practice of architects and engineers.
The Century of Artists' Books
Author: Johanna DruckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
"Over the last ten years this book has become the definitive text in an emergent field: teachers, librarians, students, artists, and readers turn to the expertise contained on these pages every day."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved