Author: Hispanic Society of America. Library
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Category : Brazilian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 985
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Hispanic Society of America. Library
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Category : Brazilian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 985
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Category : Brazilian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 985
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European Clocks and Watches in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Clare Vincent
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395790
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Among the world's greatest technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works. It showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms. Among these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars; an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day; and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Created by the best craftsmen in Austria, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, these magnificent timepieces have been selected for their remarkable beauty and design, as well as their sophisticated mechanics. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395790
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Among the world's greatest technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works. It showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms. Among these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars; an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day; and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Created by the best craftsmen in Austria, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, these magnificent timepieces have been selected for their remarkable beauty and design, as well as their sophisticated mechanics. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels.
Catalogue
Author: Warburg Institute. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts
Author: Detroit Institute of Arts
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Anna Thomson Dodge, heiress to the automotive fortune, built a great home and decorated it with one of the finest groups of 18th-century French decorative arts in America. Here are more than 130 pieces of furniture, sculpture, metalwork, tapestries, Sevres porcelain, and paintings, many from royal collections.
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Anna Thomson Dodge, heiress to the automotive fortune, built a great home and decorated it with one of the finest groups of 18th-century French decorative arts in America. Here are more than 130 pieces of furniture, sculpture, metalwork, tapestries, Sevres porcelain, and paintings, many from royal collections.
Catalogue of the Library
Author: Hispanic Society of America. Library
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Category : Civilization, Hispanic
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Category : Civilization, Hispanic
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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The Winterthur Museum Libraries Collection of Printed Books and Periodicals: Rare book catalog. Auction catalogs. Shaker collection
Author: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. Libraries
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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The Athenaeum
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The National union catalog, 1968-1972
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Pedigree and Panache
Author: Shireen Huda
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921313722
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"Art auctions have long captured the public imagination. They regularly make news headlines and have become synonymous with glamour, money and social distinction. The marketing of auction houses and the works they sell has resulted in firms attaining authoritative positions and the ability both to influence and reflect collecting tastes. Pedigree and panache is the first comprehensive history of the art auction in Australia. In this fascinating work, Shireen Huda investigates the construction of the glamorous reputation of art auctions and art auction houses. Featuring absorbing case studies of key art auctions and major art auction houses in Australia (including Christies, Sothebys and Deutscher-Menzies) the work provides an overview of the origin and international development of art auctions. The development of the Australian marketplace is then explored, detailing colonial inception and continuing until Christies' withdrawal of its saleroom presence in 2006."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921313722
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"Art auctions have long captured the public imagination. They regularly make news headlines and have become synonymous with glamour, money and social distinction. The marketing of auction houses and the works they sell has resulted in firms attaining authoritative positions and the ability both to influence and reflect collecting tastes. Pedigree and panache is the first comprehensive history of the art auction in Australia. In this fascinating work, Shireen Huda investigates the construction of the glamorous reputation of art auctions and art auction houses. Featuring absorbing case studies of key art auctions and major art auction houses in Australia (including Christies, Sothebys and Deutscher-Menzies) the work provides an overview of the origin and international development of art auctions. The development of the Australian marketplace is then explored, detailing colonial inception and continuing until Christies' withdrawal of its saleroom presence in 2006."--Provided by publisher.