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Languages : en
Pages : 700

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Author: Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226080498
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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"There may not be any book on architecture so delightful to dip into; one wishes there were a pocket edition to take on an Italian vacation—not only for its information and vision but for such pleasant reminders as that the citizens of Treviso carried Tullio Lombardo's friezes through the town in triumph before they were attached to a building."—D. J. R. Bruckner, New York Times Book Review

Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 688

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Author: British Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 692

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Author: Chicago Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 650

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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.

Author: Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: Charles Scribner
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Category : Interior decoration
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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