1866 04 25 26 Catalogue Of A Valuable Collection Of Coins And Medals The Property Of A Collector And Of An Irish Amateur Deceased Comprising Greek And Roman Silver And Copper
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Money of Pre-federal America
Author | : John M. Kleeberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
Prominent Families of New York
Author | : Lyman Horace Weeks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
ISBN | : |
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Author | : Marina Belozerskaya |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2005-10-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892367857 |
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.
A Dictionary of Numismatic Names
Author | : Albert Romer Frey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Numismatics |
ISBN | : |
Dilettanti
Author | : Bruce Redford |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2008-08-07 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892369248 |
Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettani. Elegantly and wittily he dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the groundwork for the Neoclassical revival and for the scholarly study of Graeco-Roman antiquity. After the foundation of the society in 1732, the Dilettani commissioned portraits of the members. Including a striking group of mock-classical and mock-religious representations, these portraits were painted by George Knapton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. During the second half of the century, the society’s expeditions to the Levant yielded a series of pioneering architectural folios, beginning with the first volume The Antiquities of Athens in 1762. These monumental volumes aspired to empirical exactitude in text and image alike. They prepared the way for Specimens of Antient Sculpture (1809), which combines the didactic (detailed investigations into technique, condition, restoration, and provenance) with the connoisseurial (plates that bring the illustration of ancient sculpture to new artistic heights). The Society of Dilettanti’s projects and publications exemplify the Enlightenment ideal of the gentleman amateur, which is linked in turn to a culture of wide-ranging curiosity.
English Book Collectors
Author | : William Younger Fletcher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Book collectors |
ISBN | : |