Author: Illustrated London News
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Matthias Range
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783270926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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The first in-depth study of the ceremonial and music performed at British royal and state funerals over the past 400 years.

Author: Liliuokalani (Queen of Hawaii)
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Author: Hugo Vickers
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099476622
Category : Queens
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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An authoritative and affectionate biography of the Queen Mother by a highly respected Royal biographer.

Author: William Apess
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Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 898

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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: George Croly
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Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Author: Edward Rodolphus Lambert
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Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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