Download or read book Art of Colonial Latin America written by Gauvin A. Bailey and published by Phaidon Press Limited. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively survey of a critical period of Latin American art.
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Download or read book American Furniture and Decorative Arts from Spain s Northern Colonial Frontier written by Sotheby's and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Southern Furniture 1680 1830 written by Ronald Hurst and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a history of the South's cabinetmaking traditions
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Download or read book Pewter at Colonial Williamsburg written by John D. Davis and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of British pewter at Colonial Williamsburg is remarkable for its breadth and detail. It illustrates the development of basic forms and types of decoration from the first decades of the seventeenth century through those of the nineteenth, and includes a complementary admixture of American examples, which often exhibit readily identifiable regional and individual preferences. This catalog is divided into sections based on use, including dining wares, drinking vessels, and religious objects. This organization allows for the juxtaposition of related forms and for the appreciation of their chronologies and development. The important Colonial Williamsburg collection that has been formed over the past seventy-five years. It highlights the many purposes pewter served in early American history, assisting in the transfer of culture from Europe and in the shaping of distinctive American attitudes and artifacts, and is also illustrative of the broad distribution of British wares, especially apparent in Virginia and the lower Chesapeake region, where there were relatively few practicing pewterers and where there was a decided dependence on imported pewter.
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Download or read book Early American Decorative Arts 1620 1860 written by Rosemary Troy Krill and published by Altamira Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winterthur Museum is well-known for its dazzling decorative arts collections. Since 1952, Winterthur staff has worked to compile comprehensive training materials. Now, Rosemary Krill with Pauline Eversmann, two Winterthur educators, have created a general, highly accessible guide to interpreting early American decorative arts.
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