Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
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Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
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Western Decorative Arts: Volume 1
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0521470684
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This volume is one of several that examines the National Gallery of Art's distinguished collection of decorative arts. (The second volume will be published in 1996.) The group treated here is composed primarily of works acquired from the Widener Collection, and amplified by holdings acquired from the Kress family. Included are more than eighty Medieval, Renaissance, and later historic objects in a wide variety of media, encompassing metalwork, stained glass, enamels, ceramics, and jewels. Among the highlights are a Limoges reliquary chasse, a Mosan lion aquamanile, thirty-eight pieces in a remarkable cohesive group of Italian maiolica, three of the very rare pottery objects known as 'Saint-Porchaire', and, the centerpiece of the collection, the Suger chalice, an ancient sardonyx cup to which the Abbot Suger added a bejewelled golden setting in the twelfth century. Like other volumes in the Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art Collections,Western Decorative Arts includes a thoroughly researched entry for each object, together with an artist biography, up-to-date bibliography, and a technical analysis.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0521470684
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This volume is one of several that examines the National Gallery of Art's distinguished collection of decorative arts. (The second volume will be published in 1996.) The group treated here is composed primarily of works acquired from the Widener Collection, and amplified by holdings acquired from the Kress family. Included are more than eighty Medieval, Renaissance, and later historic objects in a wide variety of media, encompassing metalwork, stained glass, enamels, ceramics, and jewels. Among the highlights are a Limoges reliquary chasse, a Mosan lion aquamanile, thirty-eight pieces in a remarkable cohesive group of Italian maiolica, three of the very rare pottery objects known as 'Saint-Porchaire', and, the centerpiece of the collection, the Suger chalice, an ancient sardonyx cup to which the Abbot Suger added a bejewelled golden setting in the twelfth century. Like other volumes in the Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art Collections,Western Decorative Arts includes a thoroughly researched entry for each object, together with an artist biography, up-to-date bibliography, and a technical analysis.
Catalogue of the Avery Architectural Library
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Library of Manuscripts & Printed Books of His Excellency M. John Gennadius ... Sold ... the 28th of March, 1895, and Ten Days Following ...
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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A Catalogue of ... [books] ...
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
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Etruscan Art
Author: Otto Brendel
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300064462
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This volume--the first serious book in English on Etruscan art--was hailed for its broad scope, thorough knowledge, and clear exposition when it was published almost twenty years ago. Now brought back into print with an updated bibliography and bibliographical essay by Francesca R. Serra Ridgway, it remains an essential introduction for anyone interested in ancient art, history, and civilization. Otto Brendel's exploration of the art, culture, and society of Etruria takes us through its four main periods of creativity: the Villanovan and Orientalizing era, the Archaic era, the Classical era, and the Hellenistic era, when Etruscan art became extinct. According to Brendel, the Etruscans were deeply influenced by Greek styles but used Greek forms and concepts to further their own purposes. Etruscan art is a private art, aristocratic and luxurious but centered in the life of the family and a continuing life in the tomb. Many of the art forms and objects discussed--ceramics, metalware, jewelry, sculpture, and wall painting--are known to us through the discovery of tombs. Most of these objects had a clearly defined function but were also designed, with a high degree of quality and craftsmanship, to be decorative. The beautiful art of the Etruscans, illustrated and explained in this book, sheds much light on a people about whom we know little.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300064462
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This volume--the first serious book in English on Etruscan art--was hailed for its broad scope, thorough knowledge, and clear exposition when it was published almost twenty years ago. Now brought back into print with an updated bibliography and bibliographical essay by Francesca R. Serra Ridgway, it remains an essential introduction for anyone interested in ancient art, history, and civilization. Otto Brendel's exploration of the art, culture, and society of Etruria takes us through its four main periods of creativity: the Villanovan and Orientalizing era, the Archaic era, the Classical era, and the Hellenistic era, when Etruscan art became extinct. According to Brendel, the Etruscans were deeply influenced by Greek styles but used Greek forms and concepts to further their own purposes. Etruscan art is a private art, aristocratic and luxurious but centered in the life of the family and a continuing life in the tomb. Many of the art forms and objects discussed--ceramics, metalware, jewelry, sculpture, and wall painting--are known to us through the discovery of tombs. Most of these objects had a clearly defined function but were also designed, with a high degree of quality and craftsmanship, to be decorative. The beautiful art of the Etruscans, illustrated and explained in this book, sheds much light on a people about whom we know little.
CATALOGUE OF WORKS ON THE FINE ARTS
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Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Hand-list of Books on the Decorative Arts in the Reference Department ...
Author: Liverpool (England). Public Libraries, Museums, and Art Gallery. Library
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Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Catalogue of Works on the Fine Arts
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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A Catalogue of Rare and Valuable Books on the Fine Arts
Author: Bernard Quaritch
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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