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Author: Ulrike Schober Publisher: DUMONT monte ISBN: 9783832070960 Category : Castles Languages : en Pages : 0
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The most beautiful and important castles and palaces of Europe are presented here in a single volume. 240 color illustrations and high-quality photographs, along with background information, historical facts, and entertaining anecdotes, make this is an indispensable reference for lovers of architecture and history alike.
Author: Ulrike Schober Publisher: DUMONT monte ISBN: 9783832070960 Category : Castles Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The most beautiful and important castles and palaces of Europe are presented here in a single volume. 240 color illustrations and high-quality photographs, along with background information, historical facts, and entertaining anecdotes, make this is an indispensable reference for lovers of architecture and history alike.
Author: Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 216
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A total of 176 photographs, 56 in full color, reveal the richness and splendor of some of the most extraordinary buildings of all time.
Author: Elisheva Carlebach Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674052544 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 305
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Palaces of Time resurrects the seemingly banal calendar as a means to understand early modern Jewish life. Elisheva Carlebach has unearthed a trove of beautifully illustrated calendars, to show how Jewish men and women both adapted to the Christian world and also forged their own meanings through time.
Author: Wolfram Koeppe Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN: 1588392880 Category : Incrustation (Stone carving) Languages : en Pages : 422
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"In the royal and princely courts of Europe, artworks made of multicolored semiprecious stones were passionately coveted objects. Known as pietre dure, or hardstones, this type of artistic expression includes?paintings in stone,? which were composed of intricately cut separate pieces that were made into magnificent tabetops, cabinets, and wall decorations. Other works included vessels and ornaments carved with virtuosic skill from a single piece of rare and brilliant lapis lazuli, chalcedony, jasper, or similarly prized substance; exquisite objects such as boxes, clocks, and jewelry; and portraits of nobles sculpted in variously colored stones. Derived from ancient Roman decorative stonework, the art of pietre dure was developed in Renaissance Florence, where the manufacture of such objects was enthusiastically sponsored by Medici princes. Ideally suited for ostentatious display, the works sent an unmistakable message of wealth and political might that was understood in centers of power everywhere. From Italy the medium spread across Europeto Prague, Madrid, Naples, Paris, and later Saint Petersburg. Precious and fragile, pietre dure objects are rarely brought together in large numbers. This richly illustrated catalogue contains more than 150 masterworks from across Europe, dating from five centuries, including almost every artistic use of semiprecious stone during this time as well as some of the finest examples of the medium. Eight essays by European and American experts discuss the individualized development of pietre dure in every European region, the latest developments in scholarship, the interrelationships between art and dynastic politics and between cultures, and a variety of techniques used to produce these luxurious masterworks."--Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author: Ulrike Schober
Author: Ulrike Schober
Author: Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Author: Ulrike Schöber
Author: Elisheva Carlebach
Author: Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Author: Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
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Author: Wolfram Koeppe
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