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Author | : Marina Belozerskaya |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2005-10-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892367857 |
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Author | : Joseph Aronson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : John Stuart Thomson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Aesthetic movement (Art) |
ISBN | : 0870994689 |
"This project is the first comprehensive study of a phenomenon that not only dominated the American arts of the 1870s and 1880s, but also helped set the course of such later developments in the United States as the Arts and Crafts movement, the indigenous interpretation of Art Nouveau, and even the rise of modernism. In fact, the early history of the Metropolitan--its founding, its sponsorship of a school of industrial design, and its display of decorative works--is inextricably tied to the Aesthetic movement and its educational goals. "In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement" comprised some 175 objects including furniture, metalwork, stained glass, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper, painting, and sculpture. Some of these had rarely been displayed; others, although familiar, were being shown in new and even startling contexts. The exhibition and catalogue are arranged thematically to illustrate both the major styles of a visually rich movement and the ideas that generated its diversity"--From publisher's description.
Author | : David Charles Preyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : N. I︠U︡ Semenova |
Publisher | : Abbeville Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780789211545 |
Selling Russia's Treasures documents one of the great cultural dramas of the twentieth century: the sale, by a cash-hungry Soviet government, of the artistic treasures accumulated by the Russian aristocracy over the centuries and nationalized after the October 1917 revolution. An astonishing variety of objects, from icons and illuminated manuscripts to Fabergé eggs and Old Master paintings, entered the collections of wealthy Westerners like Andrew Mellon and Armand Hammer in the 1920s and 30s. Written by the leading experts in the field and long regarded as the definitive book on the subject, the original Russian edition of Selling Russia's Treasures is sought after scholars and laymen alike. Now, for the first time, it is made available in English, in a revised and expanded edition that includes a new chapter on the secret files of the Hermitage, previously considered lost, as well as new research on the sale of religious art, and of twentieth-century French masterworks from the Museum of New Western Art. Numerous color plates reunite long-dispersed works in a virtual museum that illustrates the powerful blow inflicted on Russia's cultural heritage by these secretive sales, and rare photographs and archival documents help bring this buried history to light.
Author | : Sinclair Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2021-04-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Former Congressman and now Judge Cass Timberlane is a middle-aged, incorruptible, highly respected man who enjoys good books and playing the flute. He falls for Jinny, a much younger girl from a lower class in his small Minnesota town. At first, the marriage is happy, but Jinny becomes bored with the small town and with the judge's friends. She leaves him for an affair.Lewis's nineteenth novel is an examination of marriage, love, romance, heartache and trust.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 2020-05-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3846051764 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Author | : Dianne Sachko Macleod |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521550901 |
A look at Victorian art from the perspective of the middle-class patron.