Author: Robert Edward DellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Burlington Magazine
Author: Robert Edward DellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Burlington Magazine
Author: Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Author: Marina BelozerskayaPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Country Life
Author: The Art of South and Southeast Asia
Author: Steven KossakPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870999923
Category : Art, South Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Presents works of art selected from the South and Southeast Asian and Islamic collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, lessons plans, and classroom activities.
Valuable Data on New York, the World's Greatest Market
Author: Lacquerware in Asia, Today and Yesterday
Author: Monika KopplinPublisher: Unesco
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Dating back several thousand years, the art of lacquer is one of the most ancient expressions of Asian culture, and this publication provides an overview of the different kinds of methods and materials used in Cambodia, China, India, Korea, Japan, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The number of people employed in this ancestral art has fallen dramatically throughout Asia in recent decades, and this book considers the challenges to its survival as well as highlighting the importance of documenting past and modern procedures.
The Pleasures of Collecting
Author: Gardner Callahan TeallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Philippe de Montebello and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: James R. HoughtonPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393402
Category : Art museum directors
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
China, 5000 Years
Author: Sherman E. LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description