Author: Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antique auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The Vitale Collection of Highly Important European Clocks
Author: Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antique auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antique auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The Vitale Collection of Highly
Author: Christie's (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antique auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antique auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Christie's Review of the Year
Author: Terence Rodrigues
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780903432498
Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780903432498
Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
European Clocks and Watches in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Clare Vincent
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395790
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Among the world's greatest technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works. It showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms. Among these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars; an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day; and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Created by the best craftsmen in Austria, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, these magnificent timepieces have been selected for their remarkable beauty and design, as well as their sophisticated mechanics. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395790
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Among the world's greatest technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works. It showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms. Among these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars; an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day; and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Created by the best craftsmen in Austria, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, these magnificent timepieces have been selected for their remarkable beauty and design, as well as their sophisticated mechanics. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels.
European Clocks in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Author: Gillian Wilson
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892362545
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Among the finest examples of European craftsmanship are the clocks produced for the luxury trade in the eighteenth century. The J. Paul Getty Museum is fortunate to have in its decorative arts collection twenty clocks dating from around 1680 to 1798: eighteen produced in France and two in Germany. They demonstrate the extraordinary workmanship that went into both the design and execution of the cases and the intricate movements by which the clocks operated. In this handsome volume, each clock is pictured and discussed in detail, and each movement diagrammed and described. In addition, biographies of the clockmakers and enamelers are included, as are indexes of the names of the makers, previous owners, and locations.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892362545
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Among the finest examples of European craftsmanship are the clocks produced for the luxury trade in the eighteenth century. The J. Paul Getty Museum is fortunate to have in its decorative arts collection twenty clocks dating from around 1680 to 1798: eighteen produced in France and two in Germany. They demonstrate the extraordinary workmanship that went into both the design and execution of the cases and the intricate movements by which the clocks operated. In this handsome volume, each clock is pictured and discussed in detail, and each movement diagrammed and described. In addition, biographies of the clockmakers and enamelers are included, as are indexes of the names of the makers, previous owners, and locations.
European Clocks
Author: Libuše Urešová
Publisher: Book Sales
ISBN: 9781850520283
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Describes the history of time pieces from the primitive sundial to the modern watch, focusing on the wheel work clock and its development from the ornate clock of seventeenth-century France to the alarm clocks of the 1900s
Publisher: Book Sales
ISBN: 9781850520283
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Describes the history of time pieces from the primitive sundial to the modern watch, focusing on the wheel work clock and its development from the ornate clock of seventeenth-century France to the alarm clocks of the 1900s
European Clocks and Watches in the Near East
Author: Otto Kurz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
French Clocks in North American Collections
Author: Winthrop Edey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780912114118
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780912114118
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
European Clocks in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Author: J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description