Author: Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Textiles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This is a catalogue of tapestries illustrating the history of tapestries in six countries.
Catalogue of Tapestries
Author: Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Textiles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This is a catalogue of tapestries illustrating the history of tapestries in six countries.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This is a catalogue of tapestries illustrating the history of tapestries in six countries.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collections of Tapestry and Embroidery in the South Kensington Museum
Author: South Kensington Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Author: Beatrice Pannequin
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300073380
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
The tumultuous years of the French Revolution left France’s prestigious decorative arts industries poised on the brink of ruin. It was not until after the fall of the monarchy and the ascendancy of the Consulat and Empire under Napoleon that they began to recover so that by the middle of the nineteenth century they stood at the pinnacle of their achievement. This book is the first in depth study of the renowned porcelain works at Sèvres during its virtual rebirth under the 47 year direction of the scientist, teacher, and administrator Alexandre Brongniart. Some 110 working drawings from the Sèvres Archive are reproduced here for the first time in color. They celebrate the high skill of the artists whose work often documented contemporary events in France. There are table services in the 'Egyptian' and 'Etruscan' taste as well as individual pieces that recall Napoleonic military campaigns. There are also exquisite Neoclassical decorations using motifs such as birds, butterflies, and insects that reflect the century’s early fascination with the natural sciences. The repertoire of nineteenth century eclecticism is evident in the output of Sèvres from the revival of Gothic and renaissance motifs to the outburst of naturalism. Eleven essays by leading authorities assess this dynamic period.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300073380
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
The tumultuous years of the French Revolution left France’s prestigious decorative arts industries poised on the brink of ruin. It was not until after the fall of the monarchy and the ascendancy of the Consulat and Empire under Napoleon that they began to recover so that by the middle of the nineteenth century they stood at the pinnacle of their achievement. This book is the first in depth study of the renowned porcelain works at Sèvres during its virtual rebirth under the 47 year direction of the scientist, teacher, and administrator Alexandre Brongniart. Some 110 working drawings from the Sèvres Archive are reproduced here for the first time in color. They celebrate the high skill of the artists whose work often documented contemporary events in France. There are table services in the 'Egyptian' and 'Etruscan' taste as well as individual pieces that recall Napoleonic military campaigns. There are also exquisite Neoclassical decorations using motifs such as birds, butterflies, and insects that reflect the century’s early fascination with the natural sciences. The repertoire of nineteenth century eclecticism is evident in the output of Sèvres from the revival of Gothic and renaissance motifs to the outburst of naturalism. Eleven essays by leading authorities assess this dynamic period.
Publication
Author: Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
French Tapestries and Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Author: Charissa Bremer-David
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892363797
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
French Tapestries and Textiles is a survey of the Getty Museum's seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French textiles—one of the world's finest collections. Featuring twenty-five extraordinary tapestries woven at the Gobelins and Beauvais manufactories, the catalogue also highlights three carpets, two knotted-pile screens, and two sets of embroidered bed hangings, one of which is the only complete lit à la duchesse surviving from the period. Among the magnificent textiles discussed in this lavish volume are the Emperor of China tapestry series, the whimsical Story of Don Quixote, and Boucher's cycle The Story of Psyche. A gatefold in the book opens to reveal a photograph of the stately twenty-nine-foot carpet commissioned for Louis XIV's Galerie du Bord de l'Eau at the Louvre, a piece never publicly displayed in this century. Each entry includes a listing of artists and weavers, date and place of manufacture, and materials and techniques used, followed by a complete description and a condition statement. The accompanying commentary provides information on the literary, historical, and visual source of design imagery as well as the context of the textile's commission and production. In addition, each textile shown has a complete provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography. For lovers of French decorative arts and connoisseurs of textiles, this book offers a study both of the art of tapestry- and textile-making and of the aesthetic tradition exemplified by these remarkable objects.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892363797
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
French Tapestries and Textiles is a survey of the Getty Museum's seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French textiles—one of the world's finest collections. Featuring twenty-five extraordinary tapestries woven at the Gobelins and Beauvais manufactories, the catalogue also highlights three carpets, two knotted-pile screens, and two sets of embroidered bed hangings, one of which is the only complete lit à la duchesse surviving from the period. Among the magnificent textiles discussed in this lavish volume are the Emperor of China tapestry series, the whimsical Story of Don Quixote, and Boucher's cycle The Story of Psyche. A gatefold in the book opens to reveal a photograph of the stately twenty-nine-foot carpet commissioned for Louis XIV's Galerie du Bord de l'Eau at the Louvre, a piece never publicly displayed in this century. Each entry includes a listing of artists and weavers, date and place of manufacture, and materials and techniques used, followed by a complete description and a condition statement. The accompanying commentary provides information on the literary, historical, and visual source of design imagery as well as the context of the textile's commission and production. In addition, each textile shown has a complete provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography. For lovers of French decorative arts and connoisseurs of textiles, this book offers a study both of the art of tapestry- and textile-making and of the aesthetic tradition exemplified by these remarkable objects.
List[s] of Books and Pamphlets in the National Art Library ...
Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
Book Description
Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries
Author: New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Standard Books
Author: Charles Frederick Tweney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
A List of Books and Pamphlets in the National Art Library, South Kensington Museum
Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lace and lace making
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lace and lace making
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Catalogue of Tapestries
Author: Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Textiles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description