Download or read book Meissen and Other Continental Porcelain Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection written by Yvonne Hackenbroch and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meissen and Other Continental Porcelain Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection written by Irwin Untermyer and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Published for the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1956 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eighteenth century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art written by Indianapolis Museum of Art and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This very thorough catalogue, with excellent footnotes and bibliography, firmly places the subject in its broadest context." --Apollo Covers approximately 95 pieces, representing Chelsea, Bow, Derby, Worcester, Chamberlain-Worcester, Caughley, Longton Hall, Spode, and Hilditch and Sons.
Download or read book A Guide to the Wrightsman Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1979 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English and Other Silver in the Irwin Untermyer Collection written by Irwin Untermyer and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1963 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wrightsman Collection Vols 3 and 4 Furniture Snuffboxes Silver Bookbindings Porcelain written by and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1970 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Watteau Music and Theater written by Antoine Watteau and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2009 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Accompanying an exhibition in honor of Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this engaging book examines the influence of music and theater on the art of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Fifteen major paintings and a number of drawings by Watteau that illustrate the connections between painting and the performing arts in Paris are explored. In addition, drawings and prints by other 18th-century artists featuring musical or theatrical subjects and objects and musical instruments are included."--Publisher description.
Download or read book Ceramic Art and Civilisation written by Paul Greenhalgh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his major new history, Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of ceramics as a story of human civilisation, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. As a core craft technology, pottery has underpinned domesticity, business, religion, recreation, architecture, and art for millennia. Indeed, the history of ceramics parallels the development of human society. This fascinating and very human history traces the story of ceramic art and industry from the Ancient Greeks to the Romans and the medieval world; Islamic ceramic cultures and their influence on the Italian Renaissance; Chinese and European porcelain production; modernity and Art Nouveau; the rise of the studio potter, Art Deco, International Style and Mid-Century Modern, and finally, the contemporary explosion of ceramic making and the postmodern potter. Interwoven in this journey through time and place is the story of the pots themselves, the culture of the ceramics, and their character and meaning. Ceramics have had a presence in virtually every country and historical period, and have worked as a commodity servicing every social class. They are omnipresent: a ubiquitous art. Ceramic culture is a clear, unique, definable thing, and has an internal logic that holds it together through millennia. Hence ceramics is the most peculiar and extraordinary of all the arts. At once cheap, expensive, elite, plebeian, high-tech, low-tech, exotic, eccentric, comic, tragic, spiritual, and secular, it has revealed itself to be as fluid as the mud it is made from. Ceramics are the very stuff of how civilized life was, and is, led. This then is the story of human society's most surprising core causes and effects.
Download or read book The Arcanum written by Janet Gleeson and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary episode in cultural & scientific history comes to life in the fascinating story of a genius, greed, & exquisite beauty revealed by the obsessive pursuit of the secret formula for one of the most precious commodities of eighteenth century European royalty-fine porcelain.
Download or read book China Trade Porcelain Patterns of Exchange written by Clare Le Corbeiller and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1974 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The William Appleton Coolidge Collection written by Peter C. Sutton and published by Museum of Fine Arts Boston. This book was released on 1995 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection formed by William Appleton Coolidge speaks of a remarkable breadth of taste, of a spirit responsive to works of art of all periods, and of visual discrimination of a high order. Many of the works are intimate in scale, appropriate for domestic contemplation, and it is no surprise that this most unselfish of collectors delighted in sharing his prized possessions with his friends. But he was also keen to benefit a wider audience: for years the finest of them were on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, and before his death Mr. Coolidge had begun to donate masterpieces, including the paintings by Rubens and Signac. There have been collectors who formed larger and greater collections; however, there were very few who cast their net as broadly as William Coolidge while sustaining such a consistently high level of quality. His catholicity of taste is a characteristic virtue of the Boston past, namely its intellectual curiosity about different times and peoples and its receptivity to good ideas regardless of point or period of origin. There is still much to be learned and enjoyed in such an attitude.
Download or read book How to Read European Decorative Arts written by Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning three centuries of creativity, from the High Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution, this volume in The Met’s How to Read series provides a peek into daily lives across Europe—from England, Spain, and France to Germany, Denmark, and Russia. Featuring 40 exemplary objects, including furniture, tableware, utilitarian items, articles of personal adornment, devotional objects, and display pieces, this publication covers many aspects of European society and lifestyles, from the modest to the fabulously wealthy. The book considers the contributions of renowned masters, such as the Dutch cabinetmaker Jan van Mekeren and the Italian goldsmith Andrea Boucheron, as well as talented amateurs, among them the anonymous young Englishwoman who embroidered an enchanting chest with scenes from the Story of Esther. The works selected include both masterpieces and less familiar examples, some of them previously unpublished, and are discussed not only in light of their art-historical importance but also with regard to the social issues relevant to each, such as the impact of colonial slavery or the changing status of women artists.
Download or read book Guide to the Literature of Art History written by Etta Arntzen and published by Chicago : American Library Association. This book was released on 1980 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Highlights of the Untermyer Collection of English and Continental Decorative Arts written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1977 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
