Download or read book A Catalogue of a Fine Collection of Marble Groups Busts and Figures Some Elegant Marble Chimney Pieces Marble and Granite Slabs Antique and Modern Florentine Bronzes in Groups Single Figures Vases and Ornaments Beautifully Inlaid Table Tops Also a Variety of Works in Alabaster of a Superior Quality Including Vases Tazza Figures Groups and Other Objects Part Recently Imported from Italy 1843 written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A catalogue of a collection of Italian marble sculpture including a fine bust of Diana by Noidon a large group of two Cupids struggeling for an apple the Magadalen reposing on a rock a beautiful whole length figure after Canova several small groups of highly interesting subjects by Rigaud Fran ois Marin Laru c a marble vase of the Cinque Cento period a bust of Clio six elegant Italian marble chimney pieces bronze groups etc 1849 written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Luxury Arts of the Renaissance written by Marina Belozerskaya and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Catalogue of an Important and Valuable Collection of High class Bronzes in Single Figures and Groups written by Artingstall & Hind and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sculpture Marble Groups Busts Figures A catalogue of a fine collection of marble groups part recently imported from Italy Which will be sold by auction by Messrs Foster and Son the 24th day of May 1843 etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book European Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide, and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully produced volume is the first to survey the Metropolitan Museum's world-renowned collection of European furniture. One hundred and three superb examples from the Museum's vast holdings are featured. They originated in workshops in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia, or Spain and date from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. A number of them belonged to such important historical figures as Pope Urban VIII, Louis XIV, Madame de Pompadour, and Napoleon. The selection includes chairs, tables, beds, cabinets, commodes, settees and sofas, bookcases and standing shelves, desks, fire screens, athéniennes, coffers, chests, mirrors and frames, showcases, and lighting equipment. There is also one purely decorative piece, a superb vase made for a Russian noble family who, according to one awestruck viewer, "owned all the malachite mines in the world." The makers of some of the objects are unknown, but most of the pieces can be identified by label, documentation, or style as the work of an outstanding European designer-craftsman, such as André-Charles Boulle, Thomas Chippendale, David Roentgen, or Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

Download or read book Pr cis of the Lectures on Architecture written by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802–5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise. Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism. His formal systematization of plans, elevations, and sections transformed architectural design into a selective modular typology in which symmetry and simple geometrical forms prevailed. His emphasis on pragmatic values, to the exclusion of metaphysical concerns, represented architecture as a closed system that subjected its own formal language to logical processes. Now published in English for the first time, the Précis and the Graphic Portion are classics of architectural education.

Download or read book Ancient and Modern Furniture and Woodwork written by John Hungerford Pollen and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Reserved Collection of Statues Busts Vases Urns Sarcophagi c written by Mr. Christie (James) and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Genius of Architecture Or The Analogy of that Art with Our Sensations written by Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics. Camus's description of the French hotel argues that architecture should please the senses and the mind.

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