Author: Sotheby's (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Important French and Continental Furniture and Decorations from a Collection Formed by Roberto Polo
Author: Sotheby's (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Important French and Continental Furniture and Decorations from a Collection Formed by Roberto Polo
Author: Sotheby's (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Important French and Continental Furniture and Decorations from a Collection Formed by Roberto Polo
Author: Important French and Continental Furniture and Decorations from a Collection Formed by Roberto Polo
Author: Art and Auctions
Author: Important French and Continental Furniture and Deocrations from a Collection Formed by Roberto Polo
Author: Sotheby's (Firm)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: Painting a New World
Author: Donna PiercePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0914738496
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"The little-known story of viceregal Mexico is told by an international team of scholars whose work was previously available only piecemeal or not at all in English. Much of their research was undertaken especially for this volume."--BOOK JACKET.
Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World
Author: Ilona KatzewPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300176643
Category : Art and society
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An absorbing discussion of the myriad depictions of the indigenous people of Mexico and Peru in colonial times