The Connoisseur

The Connoisseur PDF Author:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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The Connoisseur

The Connoisseur PDF Author:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Auction

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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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Country Life

Country Life PDF Author:
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 1444

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Arts of Asia

Arts of Asia PDF Author:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Art & Auction

Art & Auction PDF Author:
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Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Sotheby's Newsletter

Sotheby's Newsletter PDF Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Catalogues of Sale

Catalogues of Sale PDF Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Art in America

Art in America PDF Author: Frank Jewett Mather
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1018

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The Illustrated London News

The Illustrated London News PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance PDF Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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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.