Author:
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 085728682X
Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Anthem Guide to the Art Galleries and Museums of Europe
Author:
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 085728682X
Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 085728682X
Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
The Rough Guide to Europe 2004
Author: David Abram
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 9781843531081
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
European authors bring travelers the hidden highlights others miss, including the best values across the continent and insights into Europe's cultural, political, and contemporary life. of color photos. 103 maps.
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 9781843531081
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
European authors bring travelers the hidden highlights others miss, including the best values across the continent and insights into Europe's cultural, political, and contemporary life. of color photos. 103 maps.
Anthem Guide to the Art Galleries and Museums of Europe
Author:
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1843312735
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
This guide is a unique resource for art lovers and tourists alike. Europe's foremost art galleries and museums are presented here in a comprehensive, accessible and attractive collection.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1843312735
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
This guide is a unique resource for art lovers and tourists alike. Europe's foremost art galleries and museums are presented here in a comprehensive, accessible and attractive collection.
A Museum Guide to Washington, D.C.
Author: Betty Ross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Guide to Southern Africa
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
The Guide to South Africa
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Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1648
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1648
Book Description
The Year Book and Guide to Southern Africa
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Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Author:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The South and East African Year Book & Guide
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Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 1644
Book Description
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Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 1644
Book Description
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.