Catalogue Of Objects Of Art And Clocks Fine English And Continental Furniture Textiles Eastern Rugs Carpets The Properties Of The Mquis Of Salisbury Lord Claud N Hamilton R Wilson Etc
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Catalogue Of Objects Of Art And Clocks Fine English And Continental Furniture Textiles Eastern Rugs Carpets The Properties Of The Mquis Of Salisbury Lord Claud N Hamilton R Wilson Etc
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language : en
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Release Date : 1957
Catalogue Of Objects Of Art And Clocks Fine English And Continental Furniture Textiles Eastern Rugs Carpets The Properties Of The Mquis Of Salisbury Lord Claud N Hamilton R Wilson Etc written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with categories.
Fonthill Recovered
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Author : Caroline Dakers
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2018-05-16
Fonthill Recovered written by Caroline Dakers and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-16 with Authors, English categories.
Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
Unravelled Dreams
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Author : Ben Marsh
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-23
Unravelled Dreams written by Ben Marsh and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-23 with Business & Economics categories.
Reveals how commodity failure, as much as success, can shed light on aspirations, environment, and economic life in colonial societies.
American Naive Paintings
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Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992
American Naive Paintings written by National Gallery of Art (U.S.) and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Art categories.
One of a series of systematic catalogues of the National Gallery of Art's collection, this comprehensive volume discusses in detail 310 objects that comprise one of the world's outstanding repositories of American naive paintings. Works by renowned folk artists such as Edward Hicks, Erastus Salisbury Field, and Ammi Phillips are represented in depth and placed in stylistic as well as historical context. This catalogue is an indispensable tool for historians of Amerian painting and folk art, and for students of American life and culture. Thorough documentation and commentary are provided for the first time on some of the most intriguing images produced in America in the past two hundred years.
American Paintings Of The Eighteenth Century
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Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1995
American Paintings Of The Eighteenth Century written by National Gallery of Art (U.S.) and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Art categories.
The energy and optimism of the new nation are apparent in this catalogue, which features John Singleton Copley's The Copley Family and Gilbert Stuart's portraits of the first five presidents. Previously unpublished documents and infrared reflectograms shed new light on Benjamin West's Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill), Copley's Watson and the Shark, and Edward Savage's Washington Family.
Strategic Imaginations
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Author : Anke Gilleir
language : en
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-15
Strategic Imaginations written by Anke Gilleir and has been published by Leuven University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-15 with Social Science categories.
Imaginations of female rule and the imaginative strategies of women rulers What is the gender of political power ? What happens to the history of sovereignty when we reconsider it from a gender perspective ? Political sovereignty has been a major theme in European thought from the very beginning of intellectual reflection on community. Philosophy and political theory, historiography, theology, and literature and the arts have, often in dialogue with one another, sought to represent or recalibrate notions of rule. Yet whatever covenant was imagined, sovereign rule has consistently been figured as a male prerogative While in-depth studies of historical women rulers have proliferated in the past decades, these have not systematically explored how all women rulers throughout the entirety of European culture have had to operate in a context that could not think power as female – except in grotesque terms. Strategic Imaginations demonstrates that this constitutive tension can only be brought out by studying women’s political rule in a comparative and longue durée manner. The book offers a collection of essays that brings together studies of female sovereignty from the Polish-Lithuanian to the British Commonwealth, and from the Middle Ages to the genesis of modern democracy. It addresses historical figures and takes stock of the rich yet unsettling imagination of female rule in philosophy, literature and art history. For all the variety of geographical, social, and historical contexts it engages, the book reveals surprising resonances between the strategies women rulers used and the images and practices they adopted in the context of an all-pervasive skepticism toward female rule.
Architects And Architecture Of London
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Author : Kenneth Allinson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-09-24
Architects And Architecture Of London written by Kenneth Allinson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-24 with Architecture categories.
Architects and Architecture of London is a visual, highly illustrated guide to London’s greatest historic buildings and the lives of the architects who designed them. Read about the architectural forefathers of London, such as Inigo Jones and Sir Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Robert Adam and John Nash, Butterfield and Street, Blomfield and Lutyens. Learn about those who, in the twentieth century, have helped to form the London we now know, right up to familiar names such as Rogers and Foster. And then there are the others who, in amongst the great and remembered architects, stand as the forgotten majority: talented architects such as Arthur Davis, who designed the Ritz hotel. In the constantly changing patterns of London’s architecture, why do some buildings stand as testament to their architect(s), while others obscure their names from history? The book is organised by architect, to provide an easy point of reference for today’s designers and students and all those interested in the architectural history of London. Architects and Architecture of London illuminates the city’s two thousand year architectural history, through the lives and works of historic architects who remain salient and significant in London’s contemporary architectural geography. What the press said about Ken Allinson's London's Contemporary Architecture: An Explorer's Guide: 'Highly recommended . . . the book is crammed with maps and colour pictures with clear explanations about the design of the buildings.' Evening Standard 'The perfect accompaniment to a walk around the capital.' Homes and Gardens
The Emergence Of The Antique And Curiosity Dealer In Britain 1815 1850
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Author : Mark Westgarth
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-04-07
The Emergence Of The Antique And Curiosity Dealer In Britain 1815 1850 written by Mark Westgarth and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-07 with Art categories.
Rather than the customary focus on the activities of individual collectors, The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 1815–1850: The Commodification of Historical Objects illuminates the less-studied roles played by dealers in the nineteenthcentury antique and curiosity markets. Set against the recent ‘art market turn’ in scholarly literature, this volume examines the role, activities, agency and influence of antique and curiosity dealers as they emerged in the opening decades of the nineteenth century. This study begins at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, when dealers began their wholesale importations of historical objects; it closes during the 1850s, after which the trade became increasingly specialised, reflecting the rise of historical museums such as the South Kensington Museum (V&A). Focusing on the archive of the early nineteenth-century London dealer John Coleman Isaac (c.1803–1887), as well as drawing on a wide range of other archival and contextual material, Mark Westgarth considers the emergence of the dealer in relation to a broad historical and cultural landscape. The emergence of the antique and curiosity dealer was part of the rapid economic, social, political and cultural change of early nineteenth-century Britain, centred around ideas of antiquarianism, the commercialisation of culture and a distinctive and evolving interest in historical objects. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, histories of collecting, museum and heritage studies and nineteenth-century culture.
Dutch Paintings Of The Seventeenth Century
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Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1995
Dutch Paintings Of The Seventeenth Century written by National Gallery of Art (U.S.) and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Painting categories.
Heda's Banquet Piece, Frans Hals' Willem Coymans, and Rembrandt's Lucretia. Paintings by these and other masters attracted the American collectors P. A. B. Widener, his son Joseph, and Andrew W. Mellon, whose bequests form the heart of the National Gallery's distinguished and remarkably cohesive collection of ninety-one Dutch paintings.
Picturesque London
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Author : Percy Fitzgerald
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-04
Picturesque London written by Percy Fitzgerald and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-04 with Travel categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Picturesque London" by Percy Fitzgerald. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.