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French Tapestries And Textiles In The J Paul Getty Museum
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Author : Charissa Bremer-David
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 1997-07-24
French Tapestries And Textiles In The J Paul Getty Museum written by Charissa Bremer-David and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-07-24 with Design categories.
French Tapestries and Textiles is a survey of the Getty Museum's seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French textiles—one of the world's finest collections. Featuring twenty-five extraordinary tapestries woven at the Gobelins and Beauvais manufactories, the catalogue also highlights three carpets, two knotted-pile screens, and two sets of embroidered bed hangings, one of which is the only complete lit à la duchesse surviving from the period. Among the magnificent textiles discussed in this lavish volume are the Emperor of China tapestry series, the whimsical Story of Don Quixote, and Boucher's cycle The Story of Psyche. A gatefold in the book opens to reveal a photograph of the stately twenty-nine-foot carpet commissioned for Louis XIV's Galerie du Bord de l'Eau at the Louvre, a piece never publicly displayed in this century. Each entry includes a listing of artists and weavers, date and place of manufacture, and materials and techniques used, followed by a complete description and a condition statement. The accompanying commentary provides information on the literary, historical, and visual source of design imagery as well as the context of the textile's commission and production. In addition, each textile shown has a complete provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography. For lovers of French decorative arts and connoisseurs of textiles, this book offers a study both of the art of tapestry- and textile-making and of the aesthetic tradition exemplified by these remarkable objects.
French Tapestries Textiles In The J Paul Getty Museum
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Author : J. Paul Getty Museum
language : en
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Release Date : 1997
French Tapestries Textiles In The J Paul Getty Museum written by J. Paul Getty Museum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Tapestry categories.
Woven Gold
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Author : Charissa Bremer-David
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2015-12-15
Woven Gold written by Charissa Bremer-David and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-15 with Art categories.
Meticulously woven by hand with wool, silk, and gilt-metal thread, the tapestry collection of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, represents the highest achievements of the art form. Intended to enhance the king’s reputation by visualizing his manifest glory and to promote the kingdom’s nascent mercantile economy, the royal collection of tapestries included antique and contemporary sets that followed the designs of the greatest artists of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, including Raphael, Giulio Romano, Rubens, Vouet, and Le Brun. Ranging in date from about 1540 to 1715 and coming from weaving workshops across northern Europe, these remarkable works portray scenes from the bible, history, and mythology. As treasured textiles, the works were traditionally displayed in the royal palaces when the court was in residence and in public on special occasions and feast days. They are still little known, even in France, as they are mostly reserved for the decoration of elite state residences and ministerial offices. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of fourteen marvelous examples of the former royal collection that will be displayed exclusively at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from December 15, 2015, to May 1, 2016. Lavishly illustrated, the volume presents for the first time in English the latest scholarship of the foremost authorities working in the field.
Conundrum
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Author : Charissa Bremer-David
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2015-12-15
Conundrum written by Charissa Bremer-David and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-15 with Art categories.
The whimsical imagery of four tapestries in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum and currently on display at the Getty Center is perplexing. Created in France at the Beauvais manufactory between 1690 and 1730, these charming hangings, unlike most French tapestries of the period, appear to be purely decorative, with no narrative thread, no theological moral, and no allegorical symbolism. They belong to a series called theGrotesques, inspired by ancient frescos discovered during the excavation of the Roman emperor Nero’s Domus Aurea, or Golden House, but the origins of their mysterious subject matter have long eluded art historians. Based on seven years of research, Conundrum: Puzzles in the Grotesques Tapestry Series reveals for the first time that the artist responsible for these designs, Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1636–1699), actually incorporated dozens of motifs and vignettes from a surprising range of sources: antique statuary, Renaissance prints, Mannerist tapestry, and Baroque art, as well as contemporary seventeenth century urban festivals, court spectacle, and theater. Conundrum illustrates the most interesting of these sources alongside full-color details and overall views of the four tapestries. The book’s informative and engaging essay identifies and decodes the tapestries’ intriguing visual puzzles, enlightening our understanding and appreciation of the series’ unexpectedly rich intellectual underpinnings.
Summary Catalogue Of European Decorative Arts In The J Paul Getty Museum
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Author : Gillian Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2002-03-07
Summary Catalogue Of European Decorative Arts In The J Paul Getty Museum written by Gillian Wilson and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-07 with Design categories.
J. Paul Getty had a passion for the exquisitely made furniture and decorative objects of eighteenth-century France, which he began collecting in the 1930s. Gillian Wilson, curator of decorative arts since 1971, has broadened and strengthened the collection, adding Boulle furniture, mounted oriental porcelain, tapestries, clocks, ceramics, and more. In the 1980s and 1990s the Museum continued to enlarge its decorative arts holdings, creating a European sculpture department in 1984 and adding glass, maiolica, goldsmiths’ work, pietre dure, and furniture from Italy and Northern Europe. This book is a revised and expanded edition of Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). In addition to more than forty recent acquisitions—among these four wall sconces from Versailles that once belonged to Marie Antoinette and an elaborate upholstered bed from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld—it includes the results of years of research. Designed for scholars, students, and devotees of the decorative arts, this volume provides a comprehensive look at the Getty's fine collection.
Tapestry In The Baroque
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Author : Thomas P. Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 2007
Tapestry In The Baroque written by Thomas P. Campbell and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Design categories.
Taking Shape
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Author : Martina Droth
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2009
Taking Shape written by Martina Droth and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.
"This exhibition challenges the reasons why sculpture is usually considered alone, in the gallery, and the decorative arts are considered as part of a period setting. It suggests that by breaking away from these conventional categories we can see how sculpture is also part of a spatial conversation, and how furniture and fittings can be appreciated as unique works." "With five original essays and forty complete catalogue entries, this publication both documents an exhibition and goes beyond it, opening our eyes to the fluidity of formal language in the 'long' eighteenth century, and to the ways in which objects can change according to whether they are seen together or apart, as mobile or fixed, as two- or three-dimensional, as ideal or as functional." --Book Jacket.
Printing The Grand Manner
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Author : Louis Marchesano
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2010
Printing The Grand Manner written by Louis Marchesano and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art categories.
By exploring the intense interaction between painting and printmaking between art theory and unbridled artistic ambition, Printing the Grand Manner breaks new ground in its analysis of both the reproductive prints and Le Brun's original compositions. --Book Jacket.
Looking At Textiles
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Author : Elena Phipps
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2011
Looking At Textiles written by Elena Phipps and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Art categories.
A guide to the fundamentals of the materials and techniques used to create textiles.
Interwoven Globe
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Author : Amy Elizabeth Bogansky
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 2013
Interwoven Globe written by Amy Elizabeth Bogansky and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Art categories.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 16, 2013-Jan. 5, 2014.