Catalogue Of Highly Important French Furniture Tapestries Clocks And Works Of Art
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Author | : Detroit Institute of Arts |
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Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art |
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Anna Thomson Dodge, heiress to the automotive fortune, built a great home and decorated it with one of the finest groups of 18th-century French decorative arts in America. Here are more than 130 pieces of furniture, sculpture, metalwork, tapestries, Sevres porcelain, and paintings, many from royal collections.
Author | : Hispanic Society of America. Library |
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Total Pages | : 985 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Brazilian literature |
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Author | : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library |
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Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library |
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Total Pages | : 854 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. Libraries |
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Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Carnegie Institute |
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Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Art museums |
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Includes report of the director of fine arts, of the director of the Museum, and of the director of the Technical schools.
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.
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Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Art |
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Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Peter McNeil |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2016-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019164028X |
We live in a world obsessed by luxury. Long-distance airlines compete to offer first-class sleeping experiences and hotels recommend exclusive suites where you are never disturbed. Luxury is a rapidly changing global industry that makes the headlines daily in our newspapers and on the internet. More than ever, luxury is a pervasive presence in the cultural and economic life of the West - and increasingly too in the emerging super-economies of Asia and Latin America. Yet luxury is hardly a new phenomenon. Today's obsession with luxury brands and services is just one of the many manifestations that luxury has assumed. In the middle ages and the Renaissance, for example, luxury was linked to notions of magnificence and courtly splendour. In the eighteenth century luxury was at the centre of philosophical debates over its role in shaping people's desires and oiling the wheels of commerce. And it continues to morph today, with the growth of the global super-rich and increasing wealth polarization. From palaces to penthouses, from couture fashion to lavish jewellery, from handbags to red wine, from fast cars to easy money, Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello present the first ever global history of luxury, from the Romans to the twenty-first century: a sparkling and ever-changing story of extravagance, excess, novelty, and indulgence.