Miniature Masterpieces

Miniature Masterpieces
Author: Giovanni Sarpellon
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1995
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

The history of the revival of mosaic glass in Italy.

Netsuke

Netsuke
Author: Noriko Tsuchiya
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2014
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Netsuke have once again come to the fore in the popular imagination of the public. This book brings together one hundred of the beautiful and interesting netsuke from the extensive collection of the British Museum, each of which has its own special charm and story to tell.

The Tiniest Art Museum in the World

The Tiniest Art Museum in the World
Author: Whalen Book Works
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1951511204

This easy-to-fold mini art museum comes with more than 16 classic works of art from world-renowned museums, ready for you to arrange and rearrange! Escape into your own creative world! Open up The Tiniest Art Museum in the World to find easily foldable museum walls and more than a dozen masterpieces to place and rearrange in your very own tiny museum! Including classics such as: - The Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai - Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat by Vincent Van Vogh - The Thinker by August Rodin - Esther before Ahasuerus by Artemisia Gentileschi - Melencolia I by Albrecht Dürer - Study for a Sunday on la Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat This handsome paper box features a complete miniature museum, ready for you to curate. Contents include: - Our comprehensive 48-page guidebook to the artworks included, The Tiniest Art Museum in the World Guidebook, plus step-by-step instructions for building your museum and how to keep your art safe and not wrinkled, bent, destroyed, etc.! - Foldable museum walls - 16+ pieces of classic art for your museum (both portrait and landscape) that attach to the walls so you can mix and match Gift this miniature make-your-own museum to your favorite art lover—or yourself!

Masterpiece

Masterpiece
Author: Elise Broach
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2008-09-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0805082700

In this follow-up to "Shakespeare's Secret," Broach delivers a fast-paced mystery in which a young boy and a beetle attempt to pull off a staged art heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Illustrations.

Masterpieces in Miniature: The Detectives

Masterpieces in Miniature: The Detectives
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 740
Release: 2005-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312349387

Agatha Christie is the world's most popular writer in modern times and her books have only been outsold by the Bible and Shakespeare. Best remembered for such classic crime novels as Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, and Death on the Nile, her works have been cherished by generations of readers. Christie, however, was also a master of the shorter crime story and this volume collects some of her finest short stories. Each of these thirty-nine stories features one of Christie's famous detectives - Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, and Harley Quin - in some of their most baffling and intriguing cases, as these ingenious Christie tales show how satisfying and compelling the crime short story can be.

Indian Miniature Painting

Indian Miniature Painting
Author: Anjan Chakraverty
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9788174363343

This book journeys through the development and decline of the schools of Indian miniature painting. The represented masterpieces bear testimony to the genius of the painters. Of special interest is the context, portrayed through contemporary literature and chronicles that throw light on the lives of these master artists.

Masterpieces in Miniature

Masterpieces in Miniature
Author: Claudia Wagner
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2018-04-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781781300626

The creation of miniature intaglios - or incised carvings - which could be impressed on clay or wax was one of the earliest crafts of civilisation. To this the Greeks added relief cameos, while comparable skills were lavished on the decoration of metal finger rings. These artefacts record subjects of significance for their period and place but are also the direct expression of an artist's skills and imagination. Engraved gems were collected first by the ancient Romans and then throughout the Renaissance were a source for knowledge of `classical' subjects and styles, when they were copied - from Michelangelo to Rubens - by the foremost artists of the day. The gemstones explored here are from a distinguished collection made in the earlier twentieth century by a notable connoisseur of ancient art. Many originate from named older European collections and were previously unknown to scholars and collectors. The authors have sought to offer a balanced selection of earlier eastern and Greek stones, alongside others from the neo-classical era. The book offers a survey of the finest products of the gems craft over millennia.

The Art of the Gun

The Art of the Gun
Author: Robert Lee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2011-05-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9780971753389

Art of the Gun: Magnificent Colts Selections from the Robert M. Lee CollectionMagnificent Colts, the first in the five mega-volume The Art of the Gun series, celebrates the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Colt Company, by Samuel Colt, the first industrial tycoon. No object in history can rival the best quality gun in its multiple status as symbol of freedom, captivating mechanical marvel, tool of history, favorite for presentation, treasured equipment of sport, and masterful object of decorative art. Over several decades, Robert M. Lee has collected these treasures, including major examples of Colt production. The Art of the Gun celebrates these masterpieces in words and pictures all of them in glowing color, with most of the arms in actual size.

The Spirit of Indian Painting

The Spirit of Indian Painting
Author: B. N. Goswamy
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-08-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0500239509

“Wonderful . . . A book to make both layman and connoisseur alike realize why pre-modern Indian painting is one of the great arts of the world.” —Neil MacGregor Through close encounters with over a hundred carefully selected works, spanning nearly a thousand years, and ranging from Jain manuscripts and Pahari and Mughal miniatures to Company School paintings, B. N. Goswamy unlocks the many treasures that lie within Indian painting. In an illuminating introduction, and as Goswamy relates the stories behind each work and deciphers the visual vocabulary and language of the painters, he brings to life the cultural, social, and political milieu in which they were created. Lavishly illustrated, and combining erudition with great storytelling, The Spirit of Indian Painting reveals the beauty of this richly varied body of work in a new and brilliant light.