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Book Art and Auctions

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  • Author :
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  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Art and Auctions written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proust s Duchess

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  • Author : Caroline Weber
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2019-11-26
  • ISBN : 0345803124
  • Pages : 754 pages

Download or read book Proust s Duchess written by Caroline Weber and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion--a brilliant look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe--these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber says, "transformed themselves, and were transformed by those around them, into living legends: paragons of elegance, nobility, and style." All well but unhappily married, these women sought freedom and fulfillment by reinventing themselves, between the 1870s and 1890s, as icons. At their fabled salons, they inspired the creativity of several generations of writers, visual artists, composers, designers, and journalists. Against a rich historical backdrop, Weber takes the reader into these women's daily lives of masked balls, hunts, dinners, court visits, nights at the opera or theater. But we see as well the loneliness, rigid social rules, and loveless, arranged marriages that constricted these women's lives. Proust, as a twenty-year-old law student in 1892, would worship them from afar, and later meet them and create his celebrated composite character for The Remembrance of Things Past.

Book The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs

Download or read book The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Delicious Decadence  The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Delicious Decadence The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century written by Monica Preti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines, and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such, scholars will welcome this collection of essays by internationally recognised experts that gathers together for the first time varied and stimulating perspectives on the nineteenth-century collector and art market for French eighteenth-century art, and ultimately the formation of collections that form part of such august institutions as the Louvre and the National Gallery in London. The book is the culmination of a successful conference organised jointly between the Wallace Collection and the Louvre, on the occasion of the acclaimed exhibition Masterpieces from the Louvre: The Collection of Louis La Caze. Exploring themes relating to collectors, critics, markets and museums from France, England and Germany, the volume will appeal to academics and students alike, and become essential reading on any course that deals with the history of collecting, the history of taste and the nineteenth-century craze for the perceived douceur de vivre of eighteenth-century France. It also provides valuable insight into the history of the art markets and the formation of museums.

Book Les Livres de L ann  e

Download or read book Les Livres de L ann e written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

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  • Author : Warburg Institute. Library
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  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 770 pages

Download or read book Catalogue written by Warburg Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore  Including the Additions Made Since 1882

Download or read book Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore Including the Additions Made Since 1882 written by Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the New York Public Library

Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .

Book List of Works Relating to Furniture and Interior Decoration

Download or read book List of Works Relating to Furniture and Interior Decoration written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs

Download or read book Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs written by Robert Edward Dell and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library  The Fogg Art Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library The Fogg Art Museum written by Harvard University. Fine Arts Library and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art  New York

Download or read book Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library Catalog

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  • Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1040 pages

Download or read book Library Catalog written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: