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Recueil factice d'articles de presse concernant "la Vie amoureuse de Talma", par A. Antoine
Author: Recueil factice d'articles de presse et documents sur le centenaire de Talma
Author: Recueil factice d'articles de presse et documents concernant les habitations, les meubles et les costumes de Talma
Author: Recueil factice d'articles de presse concernant l'art théâtral de Talma et après Talma
Author: Recueil factice d'articles de presse et documents concernant les statues et portraits de Talma
Author: Esther Happy
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
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"Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...
Inventing the Louvre
Author: Andrew McClellanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520221765
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A narrative history of the founding of the Louvre that also explores the ideological underpinnings, pedagogical aims, and aesthetic criteria of this, the first great national art museum.
The First Modern Museums of Art
Author: Carole PaulPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606061208
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the first modern, public museums of art—civic, state, or national—appeared throughout Europe, setting a standard for the nature of such institutions that has made its influence felt to the present day. Although the emergence of these museums was an international development, their shared history has not been systematically explored until now. Taking up that project, this volume includes chapters on fifteen of the earliest and still major examples, from the Capitoline Museum in Rome, opened in 1734, to the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, opened in 1836. These essays consider a number of issues, such as the nature, display, and growth of the museums’ collections and the role of the institutions in educating the public. The introductory chapters by art historian Carole Paul, the volume’s editor, lay out the relationship among the various museums and discuss their evolution from private noble and royal collections to public institutions. In concert, the accounts of the individual museums give a comprehensive overview, providing a basis for understanding how the collective emergence of public art museums is indicative of the cultural, social, and political shifts that mark the transformation from the early-modern to the modern world. The fourteen distinguished contributors to the book include Robert G. W. Anderson, former director of the British Museum in London; Paula Findlen, Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University; Thomas Gaehtgens, director of the Getty Research Institute; and Andrew McClellan, dean of academic affairs and professor of art history at Tufts University. Show more Show less
Sculpture and Enlightenment
Author: Erika NaginskiPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892369590
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This volume explores the ways in which the aesthetics of public art were affected by the social, political, and cultural changes of the Enlightenment.
The Body Politic
Author: Antoine de BaecquePublisher:
ISBN: 9780804728171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Drawing on some 2,000 sources, this is a remarkable history of the French Revolution told through the study of images of the body as they appeared in the popular literature of the time.