Author: Henry Augustin Beers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Henry Augustin Beers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Gems in the Early Modern World
Author: Michael Bycroft
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319963791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This edited collection is an interdisciplinary study of gems in the early modern world. It examines the relations between the art, science, and technology of gems, and it does so against the backdrop of an expanding global trade in gems. The eleven chapters are organised into three parts. The first part sets the scene by describing how gems moved around the early modern world, how they were set in motion, and how they were pulled together in the course of their travels. The second part is about value. It asks why people valued gems, how they determined the value of a given gem, and how the value of a gem was connected to its perceived place of origin. The third part deals with the skills involved in cutting, polishing, and mounting gems, and how these skills were transmitted and articulated by artisans. The common themes of all these chapters are materials, knowledge and global trade. The contributors to this volume focus on the material properties of gems such as their weight and hardness, on the knowledge involved in exchanging them and valuing them, and on the cultural consequences of the expanding trade in gems in Eurasia and the Americas.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319963791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This edited collection is an interdisciplinary study of gems in the early modern world. It examines the relations between the art, science, and technology of gems, and it does so against the backdrop of an expanding global trade in gems. The eleven chapters are organised into three parts. The first part sets the scene by describing how gems moved around the early modern world, how they were set in motion, and how they were pulled together in the course of their travels. The second part is about value. It asks why people valued gems, how they determined the value of a given gem, and how the value of a gem was connected to its perceived place of origin. The third part deals with the skills involved in cutting, polishing, and mounting gems, and how these skills were transmitted and articulated by artisans. The common themes of all these chapters are materials, knowledge and global trade. The contributors to this volume focus on the material properties of gems such as their weight and hardness, on the knowledge involved in exchanging them and valuing them, and on the cultural consequences of the expanding trade in gems in Eurasia and the Americas.
Europe 1450 to 1789
Author: Jonathan Dewald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780684312002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780684312002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Constable's England
Author: Graham Reynolds
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870993356
Category : Art, English
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870993356
Category : Art, English
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Painters and Their Works
The Golden Age
Author: Bob Haak
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500234075
Category : Painting, Dutch
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500234075
Category : Painting, Dutch
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Patrons and Painters
Author: Francis Haskell
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300025408
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Fusing the social and economic history with the cultural and artistic achievements of seventeenth and eighteenth century Italy, this book presents a unique and invaluable perspective on the period.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300025408
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Fusing the social and economic history with the cultural and artistic achievements of seventeenth and eighteenth century Italy, this book presents a unique and invaluable perspective on the period.
Rhymes on Art; Or, The Remonstrance of a Painter: in Two Parts
Author: Martin Archer Shee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The New Laokoon
Author: Irving Babbitt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Dutch Painters
Author: Christopher Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting, Dutch
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting, Dutch
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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