Author: Great Britain. Record Commission
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 778

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Author: Great Britain. Public Record Office
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: University of California (System). Institute of Library Research
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 880

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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ISBN: 9780371213414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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Author: Great Britain. Record Commission
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 762

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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: Sir Edward Coke
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: J. Paul Getty Museum
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Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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