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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 1973 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Old Pottery and Porcelain Marks

Download or read book Handbook of Old Pottery and Porcelain Marks written by C Jordan Thorn and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Book of Meissen

Download or read book The Book of Meissen written by Robert E. Röntgen and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now the standard reference. More than 1200 illustrations, 282 in color, show the history of the Meissen porcelain manufactory in Germany and the products it produced. Years of meticulous research in the Meissen archives have culminated in this unexcelled reference book. Special attention is given to the 19th and 20th century products of the manufactory, which have been neglected in most books on Meissen.

Book Fragile Diplomacy

Download or read book Fragile Diplomacy written by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While imported Chinese porcelain had become a valuable commodity in Europe in the seventeenth century, local attempts to produce porcelain long remained unsuccessful. At last the secret of hard-paste porcelain was uncovered, and in 1710 the first European porcelain was manufactured in Saxony. Meissen porcelain, still manufactured today, soon ranked in value with silver and gold. This thorough and lavishly illustrated volume explores the early years of Meissen porcelain and how the princes of Saxony came to use highly prized porcelain pieces as diplomatic gifts for presentation to foreign courts. An eminent team of international contributors examines the trade of Meissen with other nations, from England to Russia. They also investigate the cultural ambience of the Dresden Court, varying tastes of the markets, the wide range of porcelain objects, and their designers and makers. Individual chapters are devoted to gifts to Denmark, other German courts, the Holy Roman Empire, Italy, France, and other nations. For every Meissen collector or enthusiast, this book will be not only a treasured handbook but also a source of visual delight.

Book Handbook of Pottery and Porcelain Marks

Download or read book Handbook of Pottery and Porcelain Marks written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Concise Encyclopedia of Continental Pottery and Porcelain

Download or read book The Concise Encyclopedia of Continental Pottery and Porcelain written by Reginald George Haggar and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent book, compiled by one of the world's best-known authorities, is the most comprehensive encylopedia of Continental pottery and porcelain every published. It gives concise but complete enteries from A to Z, covering factories, manufacturers, artists, processes, materials, special terminology, and potters' and artists' marks from all the pottery and porcelain centers of Europe. Ilustrated with 24 magnificent full page, colored plates, 160 pages of monochrome photographs, and over 1,600 line drawings. This volume is a companion to the much-sought-after The Concise Encyclopedia of English Pottery and Porcelain.--Amazon.com.

Book The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain  1710 50

Download or read book The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710 50 written by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arnhold porcelain collection is the most important of the great pre-war Meissen collections to have survived intact, remaining with the descendants of the original collectors Heinrich and Lisa Arnhold. Most of the pieces date from the first decades of the royal factory established by August II, elector of Saxony and king of Poland, in 1710, featuring a broad range of early works, much of it experimental. Brought to America in the 1940's ahead of the family's move from Dresden, Henry Arnhold has continued to expand its depth and range, resulting in a rich and personal collection. This volume contains essays by Sebastian Kuhn and Heike Biedermann, and is introduced by Henry's Arnhold's personal recollection of his family as collectors and art patrons in Dresden and of how the porcelain collection was created.

Book In His Milieu

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amy Golahny
  • Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9789053569337
  • Pages : 498 pages

Download or read book In His Milieu written by Amy Golahny and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered in honor of John Michael Montias (1928–2005), the foremost scholar on Johannes Vermeer and a pioneer in the study of the socioeconomic dimensions of art, the essays in In His Milieu are an essential contribution to the study of the social functions of making, collecting, displaying, and donating art. The nearly forty essays here by—all internationally recognized experts in the fields of art history and the economics of art—are especially revealing about the Renaissance and Baroque eras and present new material on such artists as Rembrandt, Van Eyck, Rubens, and da Vinci.

Book Apollo

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1948
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 684 pages

Download or read book Apollo written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magazine of the arts for connoisseurs and collectors.

Book Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J  Paul Getty Museum

Download or read book Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J Paul Getty Museum written by Gillian Wilson and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2002-03-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. Paul Getty had a passion for the exquisitely made furniture and decorative objects of eighteenth-century France, which he began collecting in the 1930s. Gillian Wilson, curator of decorative arts since 1971, has broadened and strengthened the collection, adding Boulle furniture, mounted oriental porcelain, tapestries, clocks, ceramics, and more. In the 1980s and 1990s the Museum continued to enlarge its decorative arts holdings, creating a European sculpture department in 1984 and adding glass, maiolica, goldsmiths’ work, pietre dure, and furniture from Italy and Northern Europe. This book is a revised and expanded edition of Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). In addition to more than forty recent acquisitions—among these four wall sconces from Versailles that once belonged to Marie Antoinette and an elaborate upholstered bed from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld—it includes the results of years of research. Designed for scholars, students, and devotees of the decorative arts, this volume provides a comprehensive look at the Getty's fine collection.

Book A dictionary of factories  artists  technical terms et cetera

Download or read book A dictionary of factories artists technical terms et cetera written by William Bowyer Honey and published by . This book was released on with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fuseli

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  • Author : Franziska Lentzsh
  • Publisher : Scheidegger and Spiess
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Fuseli written by Franziska Lentzsh and published by Scheidegger and Spiess. This book was released on 2005 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in connection with an exhibition held at Kunsthaus Zeurich Oct. 14, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006.

Book The Art of Commedia

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  • Author : M. A. Katritzky
  • Publisher : Rodopi
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9042017988
  • Pages : 626 pages

Download or read book The Art of Commedia written by M. A. Katritzky and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian comedians attracted audiences to performances at every level, from the magnificent Italian, German and French court festival appearances of Orlando di Lasso or Isabella Andreini, to the humble street trestle lazzi of anonymous quacks. The characters they inspired continue to exercise a profound cultural influence, and an understanding of the commedia dell'arte and its visual record is fundamental for scholars of post-1550 European drama, literature, art and music. The 340 plates presented here are considered in the light of the rise and spread of commedia stock types, and especially Harlequin, Zanni and the actresses. Intensively researched in public and private collections in Oxford, Munich, Florence, Venice, Paris and elsewhere, they complement the familiar images of Jacques Callot and the Stockholm Recueil Fossard within a framework of hundreds of significant pictures still virtually unknown in this context. These range from anonymous popular prints to pictures by artists such as Ambrogio Brambilla, Sebastian Vrancx, Jan Bruegel, Louis de Caulery, Marten de Vos, and members of the Valckenborch and Francken clans. This volume, essential for commedia dell'arte specialists, represents an invaluable reference resource for scholars, students, theatre practitioners and artists concerned with commedia-related aspects of visual, dramatic and festival culture, in and beyond Italy.

Book B  ttger Stoneware

Download or read book B ttger Stoneware written by Dirk Syndram and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Porcelain, 1709 made ready for production by Johann Friedrich Boettger and universally known as Boettger red stoneware, represented the most elegant ceramics in Europe before experimentation led to rediscovery in Europe of the coveted white hard-paste porcelain, also known as Meissen Porcelain. Finished by the application of sophisticated techniques, Boettger red stoneware soon ranked high in favor with princes, of whom ostentation was expected. Combined with ruby glass, silver, gold and precious stones, it also entered the exalted sphere of the court treasury. Beginning with the universal 'alchemist' Boettger himself, the present publication provides an overview of the ways artisans dealt creatively with this hard material, how models were drawn from goldsmiths' art and what role was played by Boettger red stoneware in the Baroque treasury of Augustus the Strong. Essays reveal that exquisitely finished Boettger stoneware also set trends in court art.

Book The Burlington Magazine

Download or read book The Burlington Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mellon

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  • Author : David Cannadine
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 0679450327
  • Pages : 800 pages

Download or read book Mellon written by David Cannadine and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2006 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing a towering, controversial figure to life, this landmark work by preeminent historian David Cannadine offers the first biography of Andrew Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy as no one had ever quite done before.

Book Reading Objects in the Contact Zone

Download or read book Reading Objects in the Contact Zone written by Eva-Maria Troelenberg and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: