Index of Art Sales Catalogs, 1981-1985: Main index, January 5, 1981-October 6, 1984
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Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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Author | : Tom Stammers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2020-06-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108807224 |
Offering a broad and vivid survey of the culture of collecting from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, The Purchase of the Past explores how material things became a central means of accessing and imagining the past in nineteenth-century France. By subverting the monarchical establishment, the French Revolution not only heralded the dawn of the museum age, it also threw an unprecedented quantity of artworks into commercial circulation, allowing private individuals to pose as custodians and saviours of the endangered cultural inheritance. Through their common itineraries, erudition and sociability, an early generation of scavengers established their own form of 'private patrimony', independent from state control. Over a century of Parisian history, Tom Stammers explores collectors' investments – not just financial but also emotional and imaginative – in historical artefacts, as well as their uncomfortable relationship with public institutions. In so doing, he argues that private collections were a critical site for salvaging and interpreting the past in a post-revolutionary society, accelerating but also complicating the development of a shared national heritage.
Author | : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library |
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Total Pages | : 1060 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Darius A. Spieth |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 535 |
Release | : 2017-11-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9004276750 |
Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings were aesthetic, intellectual, and economic touchstones in the Parisian art world of the Revolutionary era, but their importance within this framework, while frequently acknowledged, never attracted much subsequent attention. Darius A. Spieth’s inquiry into Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art reveals the dominance of “Golden Age” pictures in the artistic discourse and sales transactions before, during, and after the French Revolution. A broadly based statistical investigation, undertaken as part of this study, shows that the upheaval reduced prices for Netherlandish paintings by about 55% compared to the Old Regime, and that it took until after the July Revolution of 1830 for art prices to return where they stood before 1789.
Author | : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library |
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Total Pages | : 1060 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Gillian Wilson |
Publisher | : J. Paul Getty Museum |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9781606066300 |
The first comprehensive catalogue of the Getty Museum’s significant collection of French Rococo ébénisterie furniture. This catalogue focuses on French ébénisterie furniture in the Rococo style dating from 1735 to 1760. These splendid objects directly reflect the tastes of the Museum’s founder, J. Paul Getty, who started collecting in this area in 1938 and continued until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection is particularly rich in examples created by the most talented cabinet masters then active in Paris, including Bernard van Risenburgh II (after 1696–ca. 1766), Jacques Dubois (1694–1763), and Jean-François Oeben (1721–1763). Working for members of the French royal family and aristocracy, these craftsmen excelled at producing veneered and marquetried pieces of furniture (tables, cabinets, and chests of drawers) fashionable for their lavish surfaces, refined gilt-bronze mounts, and elaborate design. These objects were renowned throughout Europe at a time when Paris was considered the capital of good taste. The entry on each work comprises both a curatorial section, with description and commentary, and a conservation report, with construction diagrams. An introduction by Anne-Lise Desmas traces the collection’s acquisition history, and two technical essays by Arlen Heginbotham present methodologies and findings on the analysis of gilt-bronze mounts and lacquer. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu/publications/rococo/ and includes zoomable, high-resolution photography. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book, and JPG downloads of the main catalogue images.
Author | : Gillian Wilson |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2013-08-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892362545 |
Among the finest examples of European craftsmanship are the clocks produced for the luxury trade in the eighteenth century. The J. Paul Getty Museum is fortunate to have in its decorative arts collection twenty clocks dating from around 1680 to 1798: eighteen produced in France and two in Germany. They demonstrate the extraordinary workmanship that went into both the design and execution of the cases and the intricate movements by which the clocks operated. In this handsome volume, each clock is pictured and discussed in detail, and each movement diagrammed and described. In addition, biographies of the clockmakers and enamelers are included, as are indexes of the names of the makers, previous owners, and locations.
Author | : Harvard University. Fine Arts Library |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Art |
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