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| Author | : Abraham Kenneth Snowman |
| Publisher | : Gramercy |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
| ISBN | : |
Think Faberge, and what comes to mind are images of fabulous, glittering jewelry, the mystery and allure of Europe's great royal courts and, of course, the magnificent Imperial Easter Eggs made for the Russian Tsars. Carl Faberge was, first and foremost, a goldsmith, and the exquisite objects that came out of the Faberge workshop at its peak represent the ultimate refinement of the goldsmith's art. Each piece was designed with the express purpose of bringing joy to its recipient. Accomplishments of the Faberge workshop were not limited to precious metals and lapidary work. Their enameling techniques consistently attained a subtlety adn brilliance of technique that had rarely been matched elsewhere - the work glows with richly colored enamels used with unrivaled virtuosity.
| Author | : Bonny Ibhawoh |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2013-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199664846 |
This is a vital study of the motivations of the British Imperial Appeal Courts and the tensions between the demands of imperial law and justice and those of African law and custom. Examining the central role of the Privy Council and the Courts, it reveals the impact of the colonized peoples in shaping the processes and outcomes of imperial justice.
| Author | : Rosemary E. Scott |
| Publisher | : Sun Tree Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
First published as a catalog for an exhibition of Qing porcelain held in the United States by the Percival David Foundation and the American Federation of Arts, this book presents Qing dynasty porcelain created for the Chinese imperial court. This book presents only items made for and appreciated by Chinese royalty, rather than the porcelain made for export to the West.
| Author | : A. J. S. Spawforth |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 2011-06-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521290135 |
Monarchy was widespread as a political system in the ancient world. This 2007 volume offers a substantial discussion of ancient monarchies from the viewpoint of the ruler's court. The monarchies treated are Achaemenid and Sassanian Persia, the empire of Alexander, Rome under both the early and later Caesars, the Han rulers of China and Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty. A comparative approach is adopted to major aspects of ancient courts, including their organisation and physical setting, their role as a vehicle for display, and their place in monarchial structures of power and control. This approach is broadly inspired by work on courts in later periods of history, especially early-modern France. The case studies confirm that ancient monarchies created the conditions for the emergence of a court and court society. The culturally specific conditions in which these monarchies functioned meant variety in the character of the ruler's court from one society to another.
| Author | : Jeroen Duindam |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 461 |
| Release | : 2011-08-11 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9004206221 |
This volume presents new research on royal courts from antiquity to the modern world, from Asia to Europe. It addresses the interactions of rulers and and elites at court, as well as the multiple connections between court, capital, and realm.
| Author | : Milo Cleveland Beach |
| Publisher | : Mapin |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9781935677161 |
Books have been treasured for centuries in the Islamic world, as precious objects worthy of royal admiration. This was especially true in Muslim India, where generations of Mughal emperors commissioned and collected volumes of richly illuminated manuscripts and lavishly illustrated folios. They assembled workshops of the leading artists and calligraphers to produce the books that filled their extensive libraries. Today, those works remain a vibrant part of India's cultural and artistic history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In this revised and expanded edition of his popular 1981 book, Dr Milo Beach presents the superb collection of Mughal painting in the Freer Gallery of Art. He adds many of the outstanding works that entered the collection with the opening of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in 1987. Together, the Freer and Sackler Galleries, the Smithsonian's museums of Asian art, have the distinction of being one of the world's leading repositories of Mughal art. An introductory essay examines the Mughal art of the book and traces the contributions of a succession of rulers in Muslim India. Brief artist biographies and an extensive bibliography complete this updated volume.
| Author | : John Vanderspoel |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780472104857 |
The conflict between duty and individual freedom
| Author | : John Frederick Matthews |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 1975 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Kristina Kleutghen |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2015-01-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0295805528 |
In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used Western perspectival illusionism to transform walls and ceilings with visually striking images that were also deeply meaningful to Qianlong. These unprecedented works not only offer new insights into late imperial China’s most influential emperor, but also reflect one way in which Chinese art integrated and domesticated foreign ideas. In Imperial Illusions, Kristina Kleutghen examines all known surviving examples of the Qing court phenomenon of “scenic illusion paintings” (tongjinghua), which today remain inaccessible inside the Forbidden City. Produced at the height of early modern cultural exchange between China and Europe, these works have received little scholarly attention. Richly illustrated, Imperial Illusions offers the first comprehensive investigation of the aesthetic, cultural, perceptual, and political importance of these illusionistic paintings essential to Qianlong’s world. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/imperial-illusions
| Author | : András Németh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2018-10-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1108423639 |
Presents the first comprehensive study of the 'Byzantine Google' and how it reshaped Byzantine court culture in the tenth century.
