Author: Sotheby's (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Important 17th and 18th Century English Furniture
Author: Sotheby's (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Important 17th and 18th Century English Furniture; Eighteenth Century French and Other Continental Furniture, Eighteenth Century Chinese & European Pottery and Porcelain; Eighteenth Century English & Irish Glass; Mirrors, Lamps & Other Lighting Appointments; Textiles, Modern Paintings & Drawings; Old Masters & English 18th-19th Century Sporting Paintings. The Entire Stock of F. Partridge & Sons. Public Auction March 29
Author: Parke-Bernet GalleriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Catalogues of Sales
Author: Parke-Bernet GalleriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Arts Magazine
Author: Antiques
Author: The Magazine Antiques
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.
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Author: Corcoran Gallery of ArtPublisher: Lucia Marquand
ISBN: 9781555953614
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Indianapolis Monthly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Indianapolis Monthly is the Circle City’s essential chronicle and guide, an indispensable authority on what’s new and what’s news. Through coverage of politics, crime, dining, style, business, sports, and arts and entertainment, each issue offers compelling narrative stories and lively, urbane coverage of Indy’s cultural landscape.
Chinese Reverse Glasspainting 1720-1820
Author: Thierry AudricPublisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783034338219
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Displaying a talent for combining aesthetic sensibility with scientific rigor, the author has given new life to something that once excited European passions: an original, non-academic art at the forefront of the 'new technology' of the time. For decades, aristocrats of the Old World and then American collectors (the latter at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries) spent countless sums on the purchase of these works, which were worth a fortune. These wealthy collectors of curiosities of all types were also most certainly great dreamers seeking a worthy setting for their dreams. Unbeknownst to them, their endeavours had much greater scope, creating and nourishing the conditions for a rare encounter between two worlds: a golden age of atypical collaboration, a combined adventure between China and Europe.