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Book Newlyn Flowers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Averil King
  • Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
  • Release : 2005-10-28
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Newlyn Flowers written by Averil King and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 2005-10-28 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dod Procter, famous for figure studies of young women and girls about to blossom into womanhood, was also the creator of a series of evocative flower paintings. This book presents her experience of travel in many countries, and her introduction to their exotic flora and fauna that added to the richness and subtlety of her flower painting.

Book Britain s Best Museums and Galleries

Download or read book Britain s Best Museums and Galleries written by Mark Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sumptuously illustrated guide is a magnificent celebration of the museums of the British Isles and their contents, revealing a treasure trove of riches and a unique record of the nation's life and history. Britain has many of the world's best museums and galleries, great and small. Mark Fisher has travelled across Britain, from the West of Ireland to East Anglia, from the Orkneys to St. Ives, to select the best 350: famous and little-known, international and local; collections of fashion; flying machines and fans; ceramics and motorcars; boots, shoes and lasts; great works of art. Richly illustrated and packed with stories about the remarkable men and women who have created, donated and cared for these collections, this is an essential companion for all who love museums, showing the familiar in a new light and introducing readers to many hidden delights they never knew existed.

Book Tales from the Big House  Temple Newsam

Download or read book Tales from the Big House Temple Newsam written by Steve Ward and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated only 4 miles southeast of the bustling cosmopolitan city of Leeds lies a jewel in the crown of British stately homes. Set in 1,200 acres of rolling parkland and woods is Temple Newsam House, once described as the Hampton Court of the North.The estate has survived almost 900 years of history. Although first mentioned in the Domesday Book, it was the Knights Templar who gave the name to the land. The house that now stands on the site was begun in 1518 and has witnessed many events: the execution for treason of one of its owners; the birth of Lord Darnley, unlucky husband of Mary Queen of Scots; the Civil War rivalry of a family; the home of a flirtatious mistress of the Prince of Wales (later George IV); and the suffering of the First World War, when it was used as a convalescent home for wounded soldiers.The house and estate is now owned by the Leeds City Council and is open as a public park for all to enjoy. The house itself is part of Leeds Museums and Galleries and displays many different collections and exhibitions. On the estate is a working farm, known as Home Farm, which is the largest working rare breed center in the UK and is a popular attraction for many visitors.

Book Taking Shape

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martina Droth
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780892369638
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Taking Shape written by Martina Droth and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This exhibition challenges the reasons why sculpture is usually considered alone, in the gallery, and the decorative arts are considered as part of a period setting. It suggests that by breaking away from these conventional categories we can see how sculpture is also part of a spatial conversation, and how furniture and fittings can be appreciated as unique works." "With five original essays and forty complete catalogue entries, this publication both documents an exhibition and goes beyond it, opening our eyes to the fluidity of formal language in the 'long' eighteenth century, and to the ways in which objects can change according to whether they are seen together or apart, as mobile or fixed, as two- or three-dimensional, as ideal or as functional." --Book Jacket.

Book Great Houses and Their Treasures

Download or read book Great Houses and Their Treasures written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wallpapers at Temple Newsam

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Wells-Cole
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9780954797959
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book Wallpapers at Temple Newsam written by Anthony Wells-Cole and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home

Download or read book The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home written by Peter Mandler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the prevailing view of a modern English culture besotted with its history and aristocracy, Mandler portrays instead a continuously changing society where both intellectual and popular attitudes have only recently turned to admiration.

Book Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales  1300 1500  Volume 1  Northern England

Download or read book Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales 1300 1500 Volume 1 Northern England written by Anthony Emery and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-13 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of a three-volume survey of greater houses in England and Wales of the 14th and 15th centuries, first published in 1996.

Book The Country House Described

Download or read book The Country House Described written by Michael Holmes and published by Graphic Arts Center Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The aim of this index is to provide a quick reference to the literature on individual country houses in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, held in the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Over 4,000 country houses are included. The contents of 135 general books on architecture, architectural details and county histories have been indexed, as well as guides to individual country houses, catalogues of collections and sales catalogues. Only a few periodicals, apart from Country Life up to 1982, have been included."--Introduction.

Book Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall

Download or read book Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall written by Temple Newsam House and published by . This book was released on with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Church Woodwork in the British Isles  1100 1535

Download or read book Church Woodwork in the British Isles 1100 1535 written by Robert A. Faleer and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church Woodwork in the British Isles, 1100-1535: An Annotated Bibliography is a thoroughly researched bibliographic guide to monographic, serial, archival, and graphical resources that deal with all aspects of late Romanesque, Gothic, and early Renaissance ecclesiastical woodwork in churches throughout the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Dealing with both the decorative and structural elements of wooden church furnishings fittings, this authoritative reference tool includes more than 900 annotated citations for works published from the mid-19th century to the present. The extensive and informative annotations provide a synopsis of each cited resource. Resources are categorized in separate chapters by their specific location in the church, their decorative features, their structural function, or other pertinent criteria. This annotated bibliography represents the most comprehensive reference tool for material that deals with church woodwork that has yet been published.

Book Seeing Beyond the Word

    Book Details:
  • Author : Finney
  • Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • Release : 1999-05-12
  • ISBN : 9780802838605
  • Pages : 600 pages

Download or read book Seeing Beyond the Word written by Finney and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1999-05-12 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays seeks to redefine the discussion of Calvinism's impact on the visual arts through an exploration of Reformed artistic influences in England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, and America. 200+ illustrations, many in color.

Book Carol Rhodes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carol Rhodes
  • Publisher : John Donald
  • Release : 2013-11
  • ISBN : 9781906270698
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Carol Rhodes written by Carol Rhodes and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains two illuminating essays, one by the renowned art critic Tom Lubbock and the other by artist and writer Merlin James.

Book British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections

Download or read book British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections written by Christopher Wright and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets a new standard as a work of reference. It covers British and Irish art in public collections from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, and it encompasses nearly 9,000 painters and 90,000 paintings in more than 1,700 separate collections. The book includes as well pictures that are now lost, some as a consequence of the Second World War and others because of de-accessioning, mostly from 1950 to about 1975 when Victorian art was out of fashion. By listing many tens of thousands of previously unpublished works, including around 13,000 which do not yet have any form of attribution, this book becomes a unique and indispensable work of reference, one that will transform the study of British and Irish painting.

Book The Knights Templar in Yorkshire

Download or read book The Knights Templar in Yorkshire written by Diane Holloway and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where can you see an effigy of a Templar? What prompted King John to hand England over to an Italian? Who worked for the Templars in Yorkshire? The Knights Templar in Yorkshire answers all these questions and many more. This new book explores what medieval life was like during the Templars' stay in Yorkshire. Not only was it the biggest county in Britain, but in Templar terms it was also the richest. They owned more land, property and people in Yorkshire than in any other county in England. This fascinating volume takes the reader on an intimate tour of the ten major Templar sites established in Yorkshire, and reveals what life was like for their inhabitants - how the land was farmed, what the population ate, how they were taxed and local legends. Illustrated with an intriguing collection of photographs and specially commissioned maps, this book is sure to appeal to anyone interested in medieval history.

Book Leeds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Wrathmell
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300107364
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Leeds written by Susan Wrathmell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents: Leeds is a city with a rich commercial tradition and fine buildings to match. Its prosperity, founded on the wool trade, is reflected in the seventeenth-century church of St John, with its magnificent Jacobean woodcarving and furnishings, while the town's eighteenth-century expansion produced elegant Georgian parades and squares with homes for wealthy merchants. They now stand cheek-by-jowl with solid, proud warehouses and offices of the railway age in a wonderful variety of styles ranging from elegant neo-Grecian to Gothic, Moorish and Egyptian.