Download or read book Sisters of Fortune written by Jehanne Wake and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first American heiresses took Britain by storm in 1816, two generations before the great late Victorian beauties. Marianne, Louisa, Emily and Bess Caton were descended from the first settlers in Maryland, and brought up in Baltimore by their grandfather Charles Carroll, one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Download or read book The Victoria and Albert Museum written by Elizabeth James and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive bibliography and exhibition chronology of the world's greatest museum of the decorative arts and design. The Victoria and Albert Museum, or South Kensington Museum as it used to be known, was founded by the British Government in 1852, out of the proceeds from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Like the Exhibition, it aimed to improve the expertise of designers, and the taste of the public, by exposing them to examples of good design from all countries and periods. 2,500 publications have to date been produced by, for, or in association with the V&A. The National Art Library, which is part of the Museum, has prepared this detailed catalogue, supplemented by a secondary list of 500 other books closely related to the V&A. The 1,500 exhibitions and displays recorded include those held in the main Museum and at its branches, the Bethnal Green Museum (now the National Museum of Childhood) and the Theatre Museum, Covent Garden, and additionally those it has organized at external venues, in Great Britain and abroad. The exhibitions and publications are fully cross-referenced, and there are name, title and subject indexes to the whole work, as well as an explanatory introduction.

Download or read book Apsley House written by Julius Bryant and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apsley House is a magnificent building housing a unique collection. Designed by the architect Robert Adam, the house was remodelled for the 1st Duke of Wellington and filled with dazzling works of art and memorabilia. The new guide contains full-colour maps, plans, eyewitness accounts and historic photographs.

Download or read book London written by Bridget Cherry and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume on London architecture covers the boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey and Islington. It gives a view of London's expansion northward from formal Georgian squares, to the hill towns of Hampstead and Highgate.

Download or read book Ancient Marbles in Great Britain written by Adolf Michaelis and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of Paintings in the Wellington Museum Apsley House written by Wellington Museum and published by Paul Holberton Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seldom has there been a gift of equal magnificence. In 1947 the 7th Duke of Wellington presented to the nation his London residence Apsley House together with a large part of its contents, the collection of the 1st Duke. Among the paintings are some of the finest canvases from the Spanish Royal Collection, captured by the 1st Duke of Wellington from Joseph Bonaparte in 1813. There are also important seventeenth-century Dutch paintings bought by the 1st Duke himself, as well as a series of French and British portraits of his illustrious contemporaries and depictions of battle scenes, which provide a visual record of the Napoleonic period. With entries updated from the 1982 catalogue by C.M. Kauffmann, the collection is published in colour for the first time. It contains detailed entries for 200 pictures including masterpieces by Correggio, Goya, Murillo, Velázquez, Sir David Wilkie, Jan Steen, Jan Brueghel the Elder and Rubens.

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Download or read book Great Houses of London written by James Stourton and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Houses of London tells the stories of some of the grandest and most fascinating houses in this historic city, from their famous owners and occupants to their renovations and the many riches held within each.

Download or read book Apsley House Wellington Museum written by Simon Jervis and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 1984 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wellington s Wars written by Huw J. Davies and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, lives on in popular memory as the "Invincible General," loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate--and controversial--new analysis of Wellington's remarkable military career. Unlike his nemesis Napoleon, Wellington was by no means a man of innate military talent, Huw J. Davies argues. Instead, the key to Wellington's military success was an exceptionally keen understanding of the relationship between politics and war.Drawing on extensive primary research, Davies discusses Wellington's military apprenticeship in India, where he learned through mistakes as well as successes how to plan campaigns, organize and use intelligence, and negotiate with allies. In India Wellington encountered the constant political machinations of indigenous powers, and it was there that he apprenticed in the crucial skill of balancing conflicting political priorities. In later campaigns and battles, including the Peninsular War and Waterloo, Wellington's genius for strategy, operations, and tactics emerged. For his success in the art of war, he came to rely on his art as a politician and tactician. This strikingly original book shows how Wellington made even unlikely victories possible--with a well-honed political brilliance that underpinned all of his military achievements.

Download or read book Beyond Caravaggio written by Letizia Treves and published by National Gallery London. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating examination of Caravaggio and others who adopted his dramatic style of painting The Italian painter known as Caravaggio (1571-1610) claims a place among the most revolutionary figures in the history of art. His intense naturalism, almost brutal realism, and dramatic use of light had a wide impact on European painters, including Orazio Gentileschi, Valentin de Boulogne, and Gerrit van Honthorst. Each of Caravaggio's followers absorbed something different from his work, propagating his stylistic legacy across Europe. In this extensively illustrated catalogue, Letizia Treves introduces the international Caravaggesque movement and traces the distinct artistic personalities of its leading players. Even now, Caravaggio's name overshadows the other talented artists who adopted his approach to narrative painting: the use of theatrical lighting to illuminate a story encapsulated in a single, dramatic moment. Treves explains the innovative and unifying features of these painters' work and how, despite resistance to their style and subject matter, many outstanding Caravaggesque pictures found their way into important collections. Published by the National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: National Gallery, London (10/12/16-01/15/17) National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin (02/11/17-05/14/17) Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (06/17/17-09/24/17)

Download or read book The Belles of Waterloo written by Alice Church and published by Universe. This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A Georgette Heyer novel for our time. * Based on letters sent from the Capels to a relative back in England, you can indulge in a romance novel knowing the facts are straight and the characters really lived.* Discover the personal sides to famous historical figures such as the Duke of Wellington, General Blücher and Lord Anglesey - the Capel sisters' uncle. * Aimed at women who love Pride & Prejudice, Downton Abbey, and Bridgerton.

Download or read book Portugal s Silver Service written by Angela Delaforce and published by Victoria & Albert Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated volume examines a major diplomatic gift made after the Peninsular War, and intended to honour the Portuguese Nation as well as the Duke of Wellington. The design and manufacture of the service is looked at in detail, as is its symbolism and subsequent use.

Download or read book Philips Wouwerman 1619 1668 written by Philips Wouwerman and published by Waanders Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life and work of Philips Wouwerman

Download or read book Titian written by Matthias Wivel and published by National Gallery London. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of one of the most important groups of Renaissance paintings

Download or read book Napoleon s Memoirs written by Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Apsley House Wellington Museum written by Simon Jervis and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revised edition of the standard to Apsley House, reopened in 1995 after major refurbishment. Highlights include the collection of paintings which contains many masterpieces of Spanish art and fine silver and porcelain.