French And Continental Furniture Clocks And Works Of Art
Download French And Continental Furniture Clocks And Works Of Art full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free French And Continental Furniture Clocks And Works Of Art ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Detroit Institute of Arts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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 | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joseph Alsop |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 750 |
Release | : 2023-08-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0691252254 |
A cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market In The Rare Art Traditions, Joseph Alsop offers a wide-ranging cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market. He argues that art collecting is the basic element in a remarkably complex and historically rare behavioral system, which includes the historical study of art, the market for buying and selling art, museums, forgery, and the astonishing prices commanded by some works of art. The Rare Art Traditions tells the story of three important traditions of art collecting: the classical tradition that began in Greece, the Chinese tradition, and the Western tradition. The result is a major original contribution to art history.
Author | : Clare Vincent |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2015-11-25 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1588395790 |
Among the world's greatest technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works. It showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms. Among these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars; an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day; and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Created by the best craftsmen in Austria, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, these magnificent timepieces have been selected for their remarkable beauty and design, as well as their sophisticated mechanics. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels.
Author | : Gillian Wilson |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 721 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 1606066323 |
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 | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 689 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Tapestry |
ISBN | : 0870996444 |
A study of the condition, subject, design, manufacture, ownership, and exhibitions for each tapestry or set of tapestries in the Museum's medieval tapestry collection. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Edward Dell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |