The Purchase of the Past

The Purchase of the Past
Author: Tom Stammers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2020-06-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1108478840

Offers a broad and vivid overview of the culture of collecting in France over the long nineteenth-century.

Artists and Amateurs

Artists and Amateurs
Author: Perrin Stein
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2013
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1588394980

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 1, 2013-January 5, 2014.

Artists and Amateurs

Artists and Amateurs
Author: Perrin Stein
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2013-10-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300197004

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 1, 2013-January 5, 2014.

History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration in Its Relation to Anatomic Science and the Graphic Arts

History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration in Its Relation to Anatomic Science and the Graphic Arts
Author: Ludwig Choulant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 538
Release: 1852
Genre: Anatomy
ISBN:

In this classical work Choulant traced the evolution of anatomical illustration from the early schematic plates up to his own time, including a valuable bibliography. This English edition, translated by Frank, is enriched by the chapter on anatomical illustration since Choulant, by Garrison. -- H.W. Orr.

Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Author: Gillian Wilson
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2002-03-07
Genre: Design
ISBN: 089236632X

J. Paul Getty had a passion for the exquisitely made furniture and decorative objects of eighteenth-century France, which he began collecting in the 1930s. Gillian Wilson, curator of decorative arts since 1971, has broadened and strengthened the collection, adding Boulle furniture, mounted oriental porcelain, tapestries, clocks, ceramics, and more. In the 1980s and 1990s the Museum continued to enlarge its decorative arts holdings, creating a European sculpture department in 1984 and adding glass, maiolica, goldsmiths’ work, pietre dure, and furniture from Italy and Northern Europe. This book is a revised and expanded edition of Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). In addition to more than forty recent acquisitions—among these four wall sconces from Versailles that once belonged to Marie Antoinette and an elaborate upholstered bed from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld—it includes the results of years of research. Designed for scholars, students, and devotees of the decorative arts, this volume provides a comprehensive look at the Getty's fine collection.

Richelieu

Richelieu
Author: Christine Toulier
Publisher: Berger M. Editions
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The Temple of Gnidus

The Temple of Gnidus
Author: Charles de Secondat Montesquieu
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2018-04-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781385750537

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) T177494 Anonymous. By Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. Parallel French and English titlepages and text, the French title being 'Le temple de Gnide'. With a final advertisement leaf. Dublin: printed by S. Powell, 1750. 155, [3]p.; 12°