Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art

Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art
Author: Darius A. Spieth
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2017-11-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004276750

Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings were aesthetic, intellectual, and economic touchstones in the Parisian art world of the Revolutionary era, but their importance within this framework, while frequently acknowledged, never attracted much subsequent attention. Darius A. Spieth’s inquiry into Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art reveals the dominance of “Golden Age” pictures in the artistic discourse and sales transactions before, during, and after the French Revolution. A broadly based statistical investigation, undertaken as part of this study, shows that the upheaval reduced prices for Netherlandish paintings by about 55% compared to the Old Regime, and that it took until after the July Revolution of 1830 for art prices to return where they stood before 1789.

Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet
Author: Georges Riat
Publisher: Parkstone Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Child of materialism and positivism, Courbet was without a doubt one of the most complex painters of the nineteenth century. Symbolising the rejection of traditions, Courbet did not hesitate to confront the public with the truth by liberating painting of conventional rules. He became from then on the leader of pictorial realism.

Chinese Ceramics

Chinese Ceramics
Author: Jean Joseph Marquet de Vasselot
Publisher:
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1922
Genre: Pottery
ISBN:

On Virginity ; Against Remarriage

On Virginity ; Against Remarriage
Author: Saint John Chrysostom
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : E. Mellen Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1983
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

This is an English translation of these treatises. The work is also introduced by Elizabeth Clark, who sets forth the context of the treatises and makes an extended comparison between John's teaching and that of Paul in 1 Corinthians.

Rethinking Boucher

Rethinking Boucher
Author: Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780892368259

"Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--BOOK JACKET.

Satirae

Satirae
Author: Juvenal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1882
Genre:
ISBN:

The Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300-1800

The Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300-1800
Author: William Monter
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-01-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 030017327X

In this lively and pathbreaking book, William Monter sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. Monter surveys the governmental records of Europe's thirty women monarchs—the famous (Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great) as well as the obscure (Charlotte of Cyprus, Isabel Clara Eugenia of the Netherlands)—describing how each of them achieved sovereign authority, wielded it, and (more often than men) abandoned it. Monter argues that Europe's female kings, who ruled by divine right, experienced no significant political opposition despite their gender.

Bowed and keyboard instruments in the age of Mozart

Bowed and keyboard instruments in the age of Mozart
Author: Thomas Friedemann Steiner
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2010
Genre: Bowed stringed instruments
ISBN: 9783034303965

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