Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
Author: A History of the Commercial and Financial Relations Between England and Ireland
Author: Alice Effie MurrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Chambers' Edinburgh Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : General interest periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
The True Interest and Political Maxims, of the Republic of Holland
Author: Pieter de la CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
Author: The National System of Political Economy
Author: Friedrich ListPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Dutch and Flemish Furniture
Author: Esther SingletonPublisher:
ISBN: 375243208X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Dutch and Flemish Furniture by Esther Singleton
The Continental System
Author: Eli Filip HeckscherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Continental System (Economic blockade)
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
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.