The Athenaeum

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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 836

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The Athenaeum

The Athenaeum PDF Author:
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 836

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The Athenaeum

The Athenaeum PDF Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Languages : en
Pages : 856

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“The” Athenaeum

“The” Athenaeum PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 870

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Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle

Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 868

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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.

A Dictionary of Numismatic Names

A Dictionary of Numismatic Names PDF Author: Albert Romer Frey
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Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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The Ceramic Art

The Ceramic Art PDF Author: Jennie J. Young
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Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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The Pleasures of Collecting

The Pleasures of Collecting PDF Author: Gardner Callahan Teall
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Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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The Currencies of China

The Currencies of China PDF Author: Eduard Kann
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Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 684

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Rambles in Rome

Rambles in Rome PDF Author: Samuel Russell Forbes
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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