Download or read book La collection de tapisseries de Louis XIV written by Jean Vittet and published by Faton. This book was released on 2010 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sa mort, en 1715, Louis XIV laissait l'une des plus belles collections de tapisseries jamais constituées. En effet, en cinquante ans, ce souverain réunit un ensemble sans égal de plus de 2 500 pièces de haute et basse lisse, tissées d'or et d'argent pour la plupart, qu'il constitua non seulement en effectuant de prestigieuses acquisitions auprès de grands collectionneurs comme le duc d'Epernon, Nicolas Fouquet et Mazarin, mais aussi en passant d'innombrables commandes aux manufactures royales nouvellement fondées, oeuvres qui vinrent rejoindre les vénérables tentures héritées de ses ancêtres. Parmi les plus prestigieuses séries, figuraient ainsi la célèbre tenture de L'Histoire de Scipion de Jules Romain, tissage bruxellois qui avait appartenu à François 1er, plusieurs exemplaires des Actes des Apôtres d'après Raphaël, dont l'un fait pour Charles 1er d'Angleterre, issu de la fabrique de Mortlake, ou encore les superbes Chasses de Maximilien, dessinées par Bernard van Orley, aujourd'hui conservées au musée du Louvre. Parallèlement, les productions des manufactures des Gobelins et de Beauvais, inspirées principalement par Charles Le Brun, mais aussi par Nicolas Poussin et Pierre Mignard, vinrent enrichir la collection destinée désormais à la magnificence des maisons royales. L'inventaire de ces tapisseries, rédigé en 1716 après la mort du roi, encore jamais édité, est ici pour la première fois présenté dans sa totalité, commenté et surtout accompagné de l'identification de très nombreuses pièces encore conservées en France ou dans le monde, avec plus de quatre cents photographies en couleur, la plupart très récentes. Aboutissement de dix années de recherche, cette édition du texte de 1716 par Jean Vinet, Inspecteur des collections du Mobilier national, et Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée, Directeur des collections, est assortie, pour chaque notice, d'une description complémentaire des tapisseries, d'un historique, d'une bibliographie et d'un commentaire. Aussi souvent que possible, la localisation des pièces est précisée avec leur reproduction. Une introduction générale et un index facilitent l'usage de ce catalogue sans équivalent sur le sujet, préfacé par Bernard Schotter, Administrateur général du Mobilier national.

Download or read book 1668 written by Peter Sahlins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Sahlins’s brilliant new book reveals the remarkable and understudied “animal moment” in and around 1668 in which authors (including La Fontaine, whose Fables appeared in that year), anatomists, painters, sculptors, and especially the young Louis XIV turned their attention to nonhuman beings. At the center of the Year of the Animal was the Royal Menagerie in the gardens of Versailles, dominated by exotic and graceful birds. In the remarkable unfolding of his original and sophisticated argument, Sahlins shows how the animal bodies of the menagerie and others (such as the dogs and lambs of the first xenotransfusion experiments) were critical to a dramatic rethinking of governance, nature, and the human. The animals of 1668 helped to shift an entire worldview in France — what Sahlins calls Renaissance humanimalism — toward more modern expressions of Classical naturalism and mechanism. In the wake of 1668 came the debasement of animals and the strengthening of human animality, including in Descartes’s animal-machine, highly contested during the Year of the Animal. At the same time, Louis XIV and his intellectual servants used the animals of Versailles to develop and then to transform the symbolic language of French absolutism. Louis XIV came to adopt a model of sovereignty after 1668 where his absolute authority is represented in manifold ways with the bodies of animals and justified by the bestial nature of his human subjects. 1668: The Year of the Animal in France explores and reproduces the king’s animal collections — in printed text, weaving, poetry, and engraving, all seen from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. Sahlins brings the animals of 1668 together and to life as he observes them critically in their native habitats — within the animal palace itself by Louis Le Vau, the paintings and tapestries of Charles Le Brun, the garden installations of André Le Nôtre, the literary work of Charles Perrault and the natural history of his brother Claude, the poetry of Madeleine de Scudéry, the philosophy of René Descartes, the engravings of Sébastien Leclerc, the trans_fusion experiments of Jean Denis, and others. The author joins the non_human and human agents of 1668 — panthers and painters, swans and scientists, weasels and weavers — in a learned and sophisticated treatment that will engage scholars and students of early modern France and Europe and readers broadly interested in the subject of animals in human history.

Download or read book A Kingdom of Images written by Peter Fuhring and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once considered the golden age of French printmaking, Louis XIV’s reign saw Paris become a powerhouse of print production. During this time, the king aimed to make fine and decorative arts into signs of French taste and skill and, by extension, into markers of his imperialist glory. Prints were ideal for achieving these goals; reproducible and transportable, they fueled the sophisticated propaganda machine circulating images of Louis as both a man of war and a man of culture. This richly illustrated catalogue features more than one hundred prints from the Getty Research Institute and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, whose print collection Louis XIV established in 1667. An esteemed international group of contributors investigates the ways that cultural policies affected printmaking; explains what constitutes a print; describes how one became a printmaker; studies how prints were collected; and considers their reception in the ensuing centuries. A Kingdom of Images is published to coincide with an exhibition on view at the Getty Research Institute from June 18 through September 6, 2015, and at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris from November 2, 2015, through January 31, 2016.

Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collections of Tapestry and Embroidery in the South Kensington Museum written by South Kensington Museum and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Paintings by Modern and Old Masters written by E. Secrétan and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art written by Babette Bohn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history. Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from art experts that address various aspects of European visual arts produced from circa 1300 to 1700 Divided into five broad conceptual headings: Social-Historical Factors in Artistic Production; Creative Process and Social Stature of the Artist; The Object: Art as Material Culture; The Message: Subjects and Meanings; and The Viewer, the Critic, and the Historian: Reception and Interpretation as Cultural Discourse Covers many topics not typically included in collections of this nature, such as Judaism and the arts, architectural treatises, the global Renaissance in arts, the new natural sciences and the arts, art and religion, and gender and sexuality Features essays on the arts of the domestic life, sexuality and gender, and the art and production of tapestries, conservation/technology, and the metaphor of theater Focuses on Western and Central Europe and that territory's interactions with neighboring civilizations and distant discoveries Includes illustrations as well as links to images not included in the book

Download or read book Woven Gold written by Charissa Bremer-David and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meticulously woven by hand with wool, silk, and gilt-metal thread, the tapestry collection of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, represents the highest achievements of the art form. Intended to enhance the king’s reputation by visualizing his manifest glory and to promote the kingdom’s nascent mercantile economy, the royal collection of tapestries included antique and contemporary sets that followed the designs of the greatest artists of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, including Raphael, Giulio Romano, Rubens, Vouet, and Le Brun. Ranging in date from about 1540 to 1715 and coming from weaving workshops across northern Europe, these remarkable works portray scenes from the bible, history, and mythology. As treasured textiles, the works were traditionally displayed in the royal palaces when the court was in residence and in public on special occasions and feast days. They are still little known, even in France, as they are mostly reserved for the decoration of elite state residences and ministerial offices. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of fourteen marvelous examples of the former royal collection that will be displayed exclusively at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from December 15, 2015, to May 1, 2016. Lavishly illustrated, the volume presents for the first time in English the latest scholarship of the foremost authorities working in the field.

Download or read book Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV written by Robert Wellington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past provides a new interpretation of objects and images commissioned by Louis XIV (1638-1715) to document his reign for posterity. The Sun King's image-makers based their prediction of how future historians would interpret the material remains of their culture on contemporary antiquarian methods, creating new works of art as artifacts for a future time. The need for such items to function as historical evidence led to many pictorial developments, and medals played a central role in this. Coin-like in form but not currency, the medal was the consummate antiquarian object, made in imitation of ancient coins used to study the past. Yet medals are often elided from the narrative of the arts of ancient r?me France, their neglect wholly disproportionate to the cultural status that they once held. This revisionary study uncovers a numismatic sensibility throughout the iconography of Louis XIV, and in the defining monuments of his age. It looks beyond the standard political reading of the works of art made to document Louis XIV's history, to argue that they are the results of a creative process wedded to antiquarianism, an intellectual culture that provided a model for the production of history in the grand si?e.

Download or read book Webs of Allusion written by Alison Adams and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 2003 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om protestantiska emblemböcker i 1500-talets Frankrike.

Download or read book Tapestry in the Baroque written by Thomas Patrick Campbell and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2010 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated volume is a comprehensive survey of 17th century European tapestry. It features some of the finest surviving examples from many international collections, as well as a number of related designs and oil sketches.

Download or read book Visitors to Versailles written by Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to visit one of the most magnificent courts of Europe? Based on a wealth of contemporary documents and surviving works of art, this lavish book explores the experiences of those who swarmed the palace and grounds of Versailles when it was the seat of the French monarchy. Engaging essays describe methods of transportation, the elaborate codes of dress and etiquette, precious diplomatic gifts, royal audiences, and tours of the palace and gardens. Also presented are the many types of visitors and guests who eagerly made their way to this center of power and culture, including day-trippers and Grand Tourists, European diplomats, overseas ambassadors, incognito travelers, and Americans. Through paintings and portraits, furniture, costumes and uniforms, arms and armor, guidebooks, and other works of art, Visitors to Versailles illuminates what travelers encountered at court and what impressions, gifts, and souvenirs they took home with them. In bringing to life their experiences, this sumptuously illustrated volume reminds us why Versailles has enchanted generations of visitors from the ancien régime to the present day.

Download or read book The Houses and Collections of the Marquis de Marigny written by Alden R. Gordon and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1750 and his death in 1781, the Marquis de Marigny?brother of Madame de Pompadour, courtier to Louis XV, and one of eighteenth-century France's important patrons of art and architecture?amassed a collection that was broad in scope, progressive in taste, and exceptional in quality and provenance. This book offers a transcription of the exhaustive inventory of Marigny's estate together with an essay in which Alden R. Gordon not only sketches Marigny's life and times but also re-creates the interiors and grounds where the paintings, statues, books, household goods, and other property listed in the inventory were displayed and used. Also included are plans of Marigny's last four residences; lists of heirs, paintings, and auction sales; transcriptions of shipping manifests and sales catalogs; indexes; and a glossary.

Download or read book Histoire de la tapisserie written by Jules Guiffrey and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wallace Collection written by Wallace Collection (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue of the Wallace Collection of eighteenth-century French furniture. Covers the materials, construction and decoration of each piece, with an account of its history and a commentary on its dating, style and maker.

Download or read book Flemish Tapestry from the 15th to the 18th Century written by Guy Delmarcel and published by Lannoo Uitgeverij. This book was released on 1999 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sale written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sale Catalogues written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: