Author: David CharltonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521887607
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.
Opera in the Age of Rousseau
Author: David CharltonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521887607
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Author: Colin B. BaileyPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892365641
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Jean-Baptiste Greuze's diminutive picture of a rosy-cheeked girl wringing out her linen was one of fourteen works that he exhibited at the Salon of 1761 in Paris. This lively and engrossing book traces the history of the Getty Museum's painting, compares the work to other laundresses painted by Greuze, and explores social mores and the role of artists model in the eighteenth century. It provides an enlightening account of Greuze's life and times and the influences on his work.
Fathers, Pastors and Kings
Author: Alison ForrestalPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719069765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Fathers, Pastors and Kings is a first-class research monograph on an important issue in the history of the Catholic Church, exploring the conceptions of episcopacy that shaped the identity of the bishops of France in the wake of the reforming Council of T.
Gottfried Semper
Author: Harry Francis MallgravePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300066241
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Biografie van de Duitse architect en architectuurtheoreticus (1803-1879)
The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Stone Sculpture
Author: Antoine HermaryPublisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395502
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern; Volume 1
Author: John MacKinnon RobertsonPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781018465210
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books
Author: J. LewineValincour
Author: Charles G. S. WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Jean-Baptiste Henri du Trousset de Valincour (1653-1730) was both government official and man of letters. In his governmental career, he occupied prominent posts in the household of le comte de Toulouse, son of Louis XIV and Admiral of France. As a man of letters he made his mark as the author of the first critical appraisal of Madame de Lafayette's masterpiece, La Princess de Cleves. He was a poet, literary critic, historian, and polemicist for the Church of France.
Censorship in France from 1715 to 1750
Author: Albert BachmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Censorship
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Paul Revere's Ride
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description