Gerard David

Gerard David
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1998
Genre: Painters
ISBN: 0870998773

Ainsworth (Senior Conservation Research Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) examines the work of the great Bruges painter Gerard David (ca. 1455-1523), focusing on the motivating forces behind the startling changes in his work caused by shifting devotional practices, changing art markets, the accommodation of foreign art clients, and the evolving secular nature of painting demanded by the newly wealthy middle class in the early years of the 16th century. Illustrations, some 343 in all, include abundant comparative material, such as drawings and workshop copies, as well as 69 superb color reproductions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
Author: David Gerard
Publisher: David Gerard
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2017-07-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

An experimental new Internet-based form of money is created that anyone can generate at home; people build frightening firetrap computers full of video cards, putting out so much heat that one operator is hospitalised with heatstroke and brain damage. A young physics student starts a revolutionary new marketplace immune to State coercion; he ends up ordering hits on people because they might threaten his great experiment, and is jailed for life without parole. Fully automated contractual systems are proposed to make business and the law work better; the contracts people actually write are unregulated penny stock offerings whose fine print literally states that you are buying nothing of any value. The biggest crowdfunding in history attracts $150 million on the promise that it will embody “the steadfast iron will of unstoppable code”; upon release it is immediately hacked, and $50 million is stolen. How did we get here? David Gerard covers the origins and history of Bitcoin to the present day, the other cryptocurrencies it spawned including Ethereum, the ICO craze and the 2017 crypto bubble, and the attempts to apply blockchains and smart contracts to business. Plus a case study on blockchains in the music industry. Bitcoin and blockchains are not a technology story, but a psychology story. Remember: if it sounds too good to be true, it almost certainly is. “A sober riposte to all the upbeat forecasts about cryptocurrency” — New York Review of Books “A very convincing takedown of the whole phenomenon” — BBC News

Early Netherlandish Painting

Early Netherlandish Painting
Author: Otto Pächt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This volume follows on from Pacht's work on the Van Eycks and their circle, to encompass the great artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Figures such as Van Der Weyden, Bouts, Christus, Van Der Goes and Memling, as well as lesser known artists, are examined in turn. With detailed discussion of particular paintings, style and symbolism.

Gerard David

Gerard David
Author: William Henry James Weale
Publisher:
Total Pages: 94
Release: 1905
Genre:
ISBN:

Gerard David

Gerard David
Author: Hans J. van Miegroet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1989
Genre: Painters
ISBN: 9789061532125

Lost in Plain Sight

Lost in Plain Sight
Author: David Gerard
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2010-06-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0557354080

A single phone call changes Anthony's life forever. Something about Diane's voice is different-distant. Instinctively, he realizes that his wife is in trouble. Something has gone horribly wrong, but what? He retraces her route to a nearby restaurant and witnesses the aftermath of a grisly traffic accident. He soon discovers that it's Diane under the bloody sheet. The trauma of her death triggers his first out-of-body experience and communication with her. It continues to haunt him. He wants to believe the encounter is genuine, but is it? He fears the psychological impact has put him over the edge. Shock and grief take over Anthony's life, setting-off paranormal episodes and hallucinations. He is suddenly thrust into timeless worlds that exist just beyond the five senses, yet seem to be an extension of physical reality and two simple truths hidden in plain sight ... so the journey begins. Little does he know where it will take him and how much is at stake

Early Netherlandish Painting

Early Netherlandish Painting
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1986
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780894680939

The volume contains entries for paintings in the National gallery that were produced in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by artists from the Netherlands. The entries are arranged alphabetically by artist; a short biography and bibliography for each artist is followed by individual entries on the paintings, each in order of acquisition. The authors address traditional questions of attributes and iconography; in addition, they examine the social, economic, and religious context in which the individual work of art functioned. The volume is also probable the first museum catalogue to include the results of examination by infrared reflectography and dendrochronological analysis.

MR Architecture + Decor

MR Architecture + Decor
Author: David Mann
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-04-11
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1683350138

MR Architecture + Decor’s work—which, true to its name, straddles the line between architecture and interior design—is driven by the belief that close collaborations with clients lead to personalized and intimate homes. The first collection of the firm’s 20 years of work includes a brief history of the firm, founded by David Mann. Featuring seven never-before-seen projects, the text not only describes each project but also includes two distinct points of view: that of MR Architecture + Decor and that of the client or collaborator. More than 200 appealing photographs of some of the firm’s gorgeous residential work are included, taken by such leading architecture and interior design photographers as François Dischinger, Eric Piasecki, Simon Upton, and Joshua McHugh. MR Architecture + Decor celebrates an architecture and design firm whose variety and depth of work, from Takashimaya, the legendary department store on Fifth Avenue, to log cabins in Montana, demonstrates the power of creativity and collaboration.

Tasting Victory

Tasting Victory
Author: Gerard Basset
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2020-03-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1783528613

This the memoir of Gerard Basset, OBE, the greatest wine professional of his generation. A school dropout, Gerard had to come to England to discover his passion. He threw himself into learning everything he could about wine, immersing himself in the world of Michelin star restaurants and beginning the steep climb to the top of the career ladder. Tasting Victory charts his business successes: co-founding and selling the innovative Hotel du Vin chain and founding, with his wife Nina, the much-loved Hotel TerraVina. It recounts in detail just how he managed to earn his unprecedented sequence of qualifications; Gerard is the first and only individual to hold the famously difficult Master of Wine qualification simultaneously with that of Master Sommelier and MBA in Wine Business. But it is his pursuit of the most important award of all that forms the core of this book – how, at his seventh attempt, and after a training regime that would shame most Olympic athletes, the fifty-three-year-old Gerard Basset was finally crowned the Best Sommelier of the World, and acknowledged as the greatest sommelier of his generation. Gerard's memoir is not only the story of how a champion is made, but also a record of how fine dining and hospitality changed in England, going from stale and unexciting to the world-leading sector it is today. Above all, it’s a book about succeeding against great odds: in typical fashion it was when he was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus that Gerard responded by deciding to write Tasting Victory, which he completed shortly before his death in January 2019.