Author: Mary L. Myers
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870996258
Category : Architectural drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Mary L. Myers
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870996258
Category : Architectural drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870996258
Category : Architectural drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Mary L. Myers
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
ISBN: 9780870996269
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
ISBN: 9780870996269
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
French Architectural and Ornamental Drawings of the 18th Century
Author: Mary L. Myers
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 9780300086089
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A catalogue of 125 architectural and ornamental drawings from eighteenth-century France.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 9780300086089
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A catalogue of 125 architectural and ornamental drawings from eighteenth-century France.
Architectural and Ornament Drawings
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870991264
Category : Artists' preparatory studies
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870991264
Category : Artists' preparatory studies
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Making a Prince's Museum
Author: Carole Paul
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892365395
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
In 1775 Prince Marcantonio Borghese IV and the architect Antonio Asprucci embarked upon a decorative renovation of the Villa Borghese. Initially their attention focused on the Casino, the principal building at the villa, which had always been a semi-public museum. By 1625 it housed much of the Borghese's outstanding collection of sculpture. Integrating this statuary with vast baroque ceiling paintings and richly ornamented surfaces, Asprucci created a dazzling and unified homage to the Borghese family, portraying its legendary ancestors as well as its newly born heir. In this book, Carole Paul reads the inventive decorative program as a set of exemplary scenes for the education of the ideal Borghese prince. Her wide-ranging essay also situates the Villa Borghese among the sumptuous palaces and suburban villas of Rome's collectors of antiquities and outlines the renovated Casino's pivotal role in the historic transition from the princely collection to the public museum. Rounding out this volume is a catalog of the Getty Research Institute's fifty-nine drawings for the refurbishing of the Villa Borghese and Alberta Campitelli's discussion of sketches for the short-lived Museo di Gabii, the Villa's other antiquities museum.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892365395
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
In 1775 Prince Marcantonio Borghese IV and the architect Antonio Asprucci embarked upon a decorative renovation of the Villa Borghese. Initially their attention focused on the Casino, the principal building at the villa, which had always been a semi-public museum. By 1625 it housed much of the Borghese's outstanding collection of sculpture. Integrating this statuary with vast baroque ceiling paintings and richly ornamented surfaces, Asprucci created a dazzling and unified homage to the Borghese family, portraying its legendary ancestors as well as its newly born heir. In this book, Carole Paul reads the inventive decorative program as a set of exemplary scenes for the education of the ideal Borghese prince. Her wide-ranging essay also situates the Villa Borghese among the sumptuous palaces and suburban villas of Rome's collectors of antiquities and outlines the renovated Casino's pivotal role in the historic transition from the princely collection to the public museum. Rounding out this volume is a catalog of the Getty Research Institute's fifty-nine drawings for the refurbishing of the Villa Borghese and Alberta Campitelli's discussion of sketches for the short-lived Museo di Gabii, the Villa's other antiquities museum.
The Topkapi Scroll
Author: Gülru Necipoğlu
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892363355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892363355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.
French Baroque Ornament
Author: Jean Le Pautre
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486154114
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A rich assortment of Baroque imagery to use . . . and admire Meticulously reproduced from a valuable portfolio by a notable nineteenth-century French artist, 124 black-and-white illustrations capture the lavish devices and grand sweep of Louis IV-era Baroque design. A gorgeous population of elaborate architectural ornaments, decorative motifs, and border elements, this collection of royalty-free art will inspire ideas for — and immediately embellish — a host of craft, design, and graphics projects. An exhaustive reference for artists and Baroque design enthusiasts.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486154114
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A rich assortment of Baroque imagery to use . . . and admire Meticulously reproduced from a valuable portfolio by a notable nineteenth-century French artist, 124 black-and-white illustrations capture the lavish devices and grand sweep of Louis IV-era Baroque design. A gorgeous population of elaborate architectural ornaments, decorative motifs, and border elements, this collection of royalty-free art will inspire ideas for — and immediately embellish — a host of craft, design, and graphics projects. An exhaustive reference for artists and Baroque design enthusiasts.
Turin and the British in the Age of the Grand Tour
Author: Paola Bianchi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107147700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
This is an international publication exploring early modern cultural exchange between Britain and Savoy, including political, diplomatic, social, religious and artistic trends.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107147700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
This is an international publication exploring early modern cultural exchange between Britain and Savoy, including political, diplomatic, social, religious and artistic trends.
Eighteenth-century French Drawings in New York Collections
Author: Perrin Stein
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870998927
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870998927
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
From Stone to Paper
Author: Chanchal B. Dadlani
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300233175
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This groundbreaking volume examines how the Mughal Empire used architecture to refashion its identity and stage authority in the 18th century, as it struggled to maintain political power against both regional challenges and the encroaching British Empire.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300233175
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This groundbreaking volume examines how the Mughal Empire used architecture to refashion its identity and stage authority in the 18th century, as it struggled to maintain political power against both regional challenges and the encroaching British Empire.