Download or read book Crescendo of the Virtuoso written by Paul Metzner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound audiences. Who these characters were, how they attained their fame, and why Paris became the focal point of their activities is the subject of Paul Metzner's absorbing study. Covering the years 1775 to 1850, Metzner describes the careers of a handful of virtuosos: chess masters who played several games at once; a chef who sculpted hundreds of four-foot-tall architectural fantasies in sugar; the first police detective, whose memoirs inspired the invention of the detective story; a violinist who played whole pieces on a single string. He examines these virtuosos as a group in the context of the society that was then the capital of Western civilization. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999.

Download or read book Jules Verne written by William Butcher and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly readable narrative of a writing phenomenon. The world's most translated best-selling writer.

Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography written by Thomas Hartwell Horne and published by London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814 (London : G. Woodfall). This book was released on 1814 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Analysis of the Game of Chess written by François Danican Philidor and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Noble Game of Chess written by Philip Stamma and published by . This book was released on 1745 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Kings of Chess written by William Hartston and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Philostratus written by Philostratus (the Athenian) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Baron Dominique Vivant Denon 1747 1825 written by Judith Nowinski and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a scholarly approach to bring Denon to life and to the attention of contemporary readers. To make his acquaintance is to recapture the aristocracy and the world of art and letters at the turn of the 19th century in several European capitals.

Download or read book Chess player s Annual for the Year written by Charles Tomlinson and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Treasury of Chess Lore written by Fred Reinfeld and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion and Other Various Occurrences in the Church of England written by John Strype and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Yvain written by Chretien de Troyes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.

Download or read book Benjamin Franklin and Chess in Early America written by Ralph Hagedorn and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue D Une Belle Et Rare Collection D Objets D Art Antiquites Medailles Grecques Et Romaines written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue d'une belle et rare collection d'objets d'art, antiquites, medailles grecques et romaines, camees, pierres gravees, vases peints, bronze, marbres, mosaiques, nielles et emaux, tableaux et dessins anciens et modernes de grands maitres, estampes anciennes et modernes, livres sur les arts, composant le cabinet de feu M. N. Revil, dont la vente aura lieu les lundi 24 fevrier 1845 et les cinq jours suivants... / Me Bonnefons de Lavialle, commissaire-priseur; [experts] Roussel et Defer Date de l'edition originale: 1845 Sujet de l'ouvrage: Revil, Narcisse (17..?-1844) -- Collections d'art [Vente (Art). 1845-02-24 - 1845-03-01. Paris][Collection (Art). Revil, Narcisse. 1845]Reference bibliographique: Lugt, 17637 Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF. Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique. En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles. Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr

Download or read book Catalogue d une belle collection d objets d art et de haute curiosit written by Bonnefons-Lavialle and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue d une collection de tableaux anciens et modernes written by Collectif and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue d Objets d Art Marbres Bronzes d Art Et d Ameublement Des Xvie Xviie Et Xviiie Si cles written by Arthur Bloche and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue d'objets d'art, marbres importants, bronzes d'art et d'ameublement des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, très beaux meubles anciens, tableaux anciens et modernes, le tout garnissant un hôtel et formant la collection de M. de X***... vente... 16-21 avril 1883... / [expert] A. Bloche Date de l'édition originale: 1883 Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande. Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables. Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique. Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr