Download or read book Statuts et privileges du corps des marchands orfevres joyailliers de la ville Paris written by Pierre Le Roy and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 18th century, the master smith Pierre Le Roy codified all of the applicable regulations governing silversmithing in France into a single volume. In French, with an introduction in French and English, this book provides a window from which to observe the luxury trade of silversmithing.
Download or read book From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris written by Janine M. Lanza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking especially at widows of master craftsmen in early modern Paris, this study provides analysis of the social and cultural structures that shaped widows' lives as well as their day-to-day experiences. Janine Lanza examines widows in early modern Paris at every social and economic level, beginning with the late sixteenth century when changes in royal law curtailed the movement of property within families up to the time of the French Revolution. The glimpses she gives us of widows running businesses, debating remarriage, and negotiating marriage contracts offer precious insights into the daily lives of women in this period. Lanza shows that understanding widows dramatically alters our understanding of gender, not only in terms of how it was lived in this period but also how historians can use this idea as a category of analysis. Her study also engages the historiographical issue of business and entrepreneurship, particularly women's participation in the world of work; and explicitly examines the place of the law in the lived experience of the early modern period. How did widowed women use their newly acquired legal emancipation? How did they handle their emotional loss? How did their roles in their families and their communities change? How did they remain financially solvent without a man in the house? How did they make decisions that had always been made by the men around them? These questions all touch upon the experience of widows and on the ways women related to prevalent structures and ideologies in this society. Lanza's study of these women, the ways they were represented and how they experienced their widowhood, challenges many historical assumptions about women and their roles with respect to the law, the family, and economic activity.
Download or read book French Silver in the J Paul Getty Museum written by Charissa Bremer-David and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly illustrated, this is the first comprehensive catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s celebrated collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver. The collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver at the J. Paul Getty Museum is of exceptional quality and state of preservation. Each piece is remarkable for its beauty, inventive form, skillful execution, illustrious provenance, and the renown of its maker. This volume is the first complete study of these exquisite objects, with more than 250 color photographs bringing into focus extraordinary details such as minuscule makers’ marks, inscriptions, and heraldic armorials. The publication details the formation of the Museum’s collection of French silver, several pieces of which were selected by J. Paul Getty himself, and discusses the regulations of the historic Parisian guild of gold- and silversmiths that set quality controls and consumer protections. Comprehensive entries catalogue a total of thirty-three pieces with descriptions, provenance, exhibition history, and technical information. The related commentaries shed light on the function of these objects and the roles they played in the daily lives of their prosperous owners. The book also includes maker biographies and a full bibliography. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at getty.edu/publications/french-silver/ and includes 360-degree views and zoomable high-resolution photography. Also available are free PDF and EPUB downloads of the book, and JPG downloads of the main catalogue images.
Download or read book Bibliography of Economics 1751 1775 written by Henry Higgs and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1935 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Gems in the Early Modern World written by Michael Bycroft and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection is an interdisciplinary study of gems in the early modern world. It examines the relations between the art, science, and technology of gems, and it does so against the backdrop of an expanding global trade in gems. The eleven chapters are organised into three parts. The first part sets the scene by describing how gems moved around the early modern world, how they were set in motion, and how they were pulled together in the course of their travels. The second part is about value. It asks why people valued gems, how they determined the value of a given gem, and how the value of a gem was connected to its perceived place of origin. The third part deals with the skills involved in cutting, polishing, and mounting gems, and how these skills were transmitted and articulated by artisans. The common themes of all these chapters are materials, knowledge and global trade. The contributors to this volume focus on the material properties of gems such as their weight and hardness, on the knowledge involved in exchanging them and valuing them, and on the cultural consequences of the expanding trade in gems in Eurasia and the Americas.
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Goldsmiths Library of Economic Literature Printed books to 1800 compiled by Margaret Canney and David Knott v 2 Printed books 1801 1850 compiled by Margaret Canney David Knott and Joan M Gibbs written by Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Mastery elegance written by Alvin L. Clark and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz is the catalogue of an exhibition that presents, for the first time, a selection from the most comprehensive private American collection of French old master drawings. The catalogue features 115 drawings by seventy artists, which range in date from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the early years of the nineteenth.
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Download or read book The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes written by Charles Truman and published by Angeles County Museum of Art. This book was released on 1991 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection is the most comprehensive assemblage of 18th-century gold boxes still in private hands. This volume is a catalogue of the collection, which includes 149 masterpieces, most of them snuff-boxes.
Download or read book Goldsmiths Silversmiths and Bankers written by University of London. Centre for Metropolitan History and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines all aspects of the trade in London, Paris and Zurich, particularly the design , manufacture and marketing of plate, and the provision of financial services
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Download or read book Catalogue with Data Upon Cognate Items in Other Harvard Libraries written by Kress Library of Business and Economics and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Kress Library of Business and Economics written by Kress Library of Business and Economics and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
