Author: Sacheverell Sitwell
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473389313
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Originally published London, 1924. Contents Include: The Serenade at Caserta "Les Indes Galantes" The King and the Nightingale Biography etc. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Southern Baroque Art - Painting-Architecture and Music in Italy and Spain of the 17th & 18th Centuries
Author: Sacheverell Sitwell
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473389313
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Originally published London, 1924. Contents Include: The Serenade at Caserta "Les Indes Galantes" The King and the Nightingale Biography etc. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473389313
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Originally published London, 1924. Contents Include: The Serenade at Caserta "Les Indes Galantes" The King and the Nightingale Biography etc. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Southern Baroque Art
Author: Sacheverell Sitwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Southern Baroque Art
Author: Sacheverell Sitwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Baroque
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Baroque
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Buying Baroque
Author: Edgar Peters Bowron
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271079460
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Although Americans have shown interest in Italian Baroque art since the eighteenth century—Thomas Jefferson bought copies of works by Salvator Rosa and Guido Reni for his art gallery at Monticello, and the seventeenth-century Bolognese school was admired by painters Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley—a widespread appetite for it only took hold in the early to mid-twentieth century. Buying Baroque tells this history through the personalities involved and the culture of collecting in the United States. The distinguished contributors to this volume examine the dealers, auction houses, and commercial galleries that provided access to Baroque paintings, as well as the collectors, curators, and museum directors who acquired and shaped American perceptions about these works, including Charles Eliot Norton, John W. Ringling, A. Everett Austin Jr., and Samuel H. Kress. These essays explore aesthetic trends and influences to show why Americans developed an increasingly sophisticated taste for Baroque art between the late eighteenth century and the 1920s, and they trace the fervent peak of interest during the 1950s and 1960s. A wide-ranging, in-depth look at the collecting of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian paintings in America, this volume sheds new light on the cultural conditions that led collectors to value Baroque art and the significant effects of their efforts on America’s greatest museums and galleries. In addition to the editor, contributors include Andrea Bayer, Virginia Brilliant, Andria Derstine, Marco Grassi, Ian Kennedy, J. Patrice Marandel, Pablo Pérez d’Ors, Richard E. Spear, and Eric M. Zafran.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271079460
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Although Americans have shown interest in Italian Baroque art since the eighteenth century—Thomas Jefferson bought copies of works by Salvator Rosa and Guido Reni for his art gallery at Monticello, and the seventeenth-century Bolognese school was admired by painters Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley—a widespread appetite for it only took hold in the early to mid-twentieth century. Buying Baroque tells this history through the personalities involved and the culture of collecting in the United States. The distinguished contributors to this volume examine the dealers, auction houses, and commercial galleries that provided access to Baroque paintings, as well as the collectors, curators, and museum directors who acquired and shaped American perceptions about these works, including Charles Eliot Norton, John W. Ringling, A. Everett Austin Jr., and Samuel H. Kress. These essays explore aesthetic trends and influences to show why Americans developed an increasingly sophisticated taste for Baroque art between the late eighteenth century and the 1920s, and they trace the fervent peak of interest during the 1950s and 1960s. A wide-ranging, in-depth look at the collecting of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian paintings in America, this volume sheds new light on the cultural conditions that led collectors to value Baroque art and the significant effects of their efforts on America’s greatest museums and galleries. In addition to the editor, contributors include Andrea Bayer, Virginia Brilliant, Andria Derstine, Marco Grassi, Ian Kennedy, J. Patrice Marandel, Pablo Pérez d’Ors, Richard E. Spear, and Eric M. Zafran.
The Warm South
Author: Robert Holland
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300235925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to today Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the Mediterranean has had a significant pull for Britons--including many painters and poets--who sought from it the inspiration, beauty, and fulfillment that evaded them at home. Referred to as "Magick Land" by one traveler, dreams about the Mediterranean, and responses to it, went on to shape the culture of a nation. Written by one of the world's leading historians of the Mediterranean, this book charts how a new sensibility arose from British engagement with the Mediterranean, ancient and modern. Ranging from Byron's poetry to Damien Hirst's installations, Robert Holland shows that while idealized visions and aspirations often met with disillusionment and frustration, the Mediterranean also offered a notably insular society the chance to enrich itself through an imagined world of color, carnival, and sensual self-discovery.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300235925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to today Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the Mediterranean has had a significant pull for Britons--including many painters and poets--who sought from it the inspiration, beauty, and fulfillment that evaded them at home. Referred to as "Magick Land" by one traveler, dreams about the Mediterranean, and responses to it, went on to shape the culture of a nation. Written by one of the world's leading historians of the Mediterranean, this book charts how a new sensibility arose from British engagement with the Mediterranean, ancient and modern. Ranging from Byron's poetry to Damien Hirst's installations, Robert Holland shows that while idealized visions and aspirations often met with disillusionment and frustration, the Mediterranean also offered a notably insular society the chance to enrich itself through an imagined world of color, carnival, and sensual self-discovery.
The Popes and European Revolution
Author: Owen Chadwick
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198269196
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
This book describes the change from the Catholic Church of the ancien regime to the church of the early nineteenth century as it affected the institution of the Papacy and through it the Church at large.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198269196
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
This book describes the change from the Catholic Church of the ancien regime to the church of the early nineteenth century as it affected the institution of the Papacy and through it the Church at large.
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1584
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1584
Book Description
Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the British Museum Library
Author:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years ...
Author: British Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired 1881/1900-.
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description