Author: Samuel Hudson Chapman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385307090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Catalogue of The Fine Collection of Foreign Coins and Medals; Collection of Mr. A. Galpin; To be Sold at Auction, 05/01/1883
Author: Samuel Hudson Chapman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385307090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385307090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Catalogue of the Fine Collection of Foreign Coins and Medals of Mr. A. Galpin; 05/01/1883
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385307082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385307082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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The Athenaeum
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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The Authorship of 'Robinson Crusoe.'
Author: William Laidlaw Purves
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Languages : en
Pages : 70
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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.
History of Berlin, Connecticut
Author: Catharine Melinda North
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Category : Berlin (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Category : Berlin (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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The Athenian Decadrachm
Author: Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780897223843
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The first monograph in over 35 years in any language to study the coinage of classical Athens. It collects for the first time the evidence for the largest denomination ever produced by the Athenian state, the ten-drachma piece, and situates the coinage within its social, political and economic background. This book represents a huge advance on the previous study of the material, Chester Starr's Athenian coinage, 480-449 B.C. (Oxford, 1970). Fischer-Bossert has collected more than three times as many specimens as were known to Starr, and has provided a full account of the known forgeries drawn from the photo-files of major dealers, scholars and museums. A die-study of forty genuine Athenian decadrachms in public and private collections is provided, together with a catalogue of more than ninety modern forgeries. Almost all are illustrated. This will be an indispensable work for all interested in the coinage and history of 5th-century Athens. In addition, its judicious discussion of the history of the forgery of these remarkable coins will make this volume a handbook for all serious collectors of ancient Greek coinage.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780897223843
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The first monograph in over 35 years in any language to study the coinage of classical Athens. It collects for the first time the evidence for the largest denomination ever produced by the Athenian state, the ten-drachma piece, and situates the coinage within its social, political and economic background. This book represents a huge advance on the previous study of the material, Chester Starr's Athenian coinage, 480-449 B.C. (Oxford, 1970). Fischer-Bossert has collected more than three times as many specimens as were known to Starr, and has provided a full account of the known forgeries drawn from the photo-files of major dealers, scholars and museums. A die-study of forty genuine Athenian decadrachms in public and private collections is provided, together with a catalogue of more than ninety modern forgeries. Almost all are illustrated. This will be an indispensable work for all interested in the coinage and history of 5th-century Athens. In addition, its judicious discussion of the history of the forgery of these remarkable coins will make this volume a handbook for all serious collectors of ancient Greek coinage.
Provenance
Author: Hermione Waterfield
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"The purpose of this volume of essays is to introduce a dozen colectors of ethnography, active between 1770 and 1990 in Britain. The stories here concern those collectors who left documentary records, and created and developed a taste for ethnographica in others. These men were rarely field collectors, and only occasional travellers. ... They were hand-on collectors for whom the pursuit, handling and possession of such objects was what mattered."--Introduction.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"The purpose of this volume of essays is to introduce a dozen colectors of ethnography, active between 1770 and 1990 in Britain. The stories here concern those collectors who left documentary records, and created and developed a taste for ethnographica in others. These men were rarely field collectors, and only occasional travellers. ... They were hand-on collectors for whom the pursuit, handling and possession of such objects was what mattered."--Introduction.
All about Battersea
Author: Henry S. Simmonds
Publisher:
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Category : Battersea (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Battersea (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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