French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century
Title | French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Mary L. Myers |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Architectural drawing |
ISBN | 0870996258 |
French Architectural and Ornamental Drawings of the 18th Century
Title | French Architectural and Ornamental Drawings of the 18th Century PDF eBook |
Author | Mary L. Myers |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1991-09-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780300086089 |
A catalogue of 125 architectural and ornamental drawings from eighteenth-century France.
The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title | The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Decoration and ornament |
ISBN | 1588393666 |
The authors, Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide and Jeffrey Munger, are curators in the Metropolitan Museum's Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. They oversaw the recent reinstallation of the Wrightsman Galleries --Book Jacket.
Architectural and Ornament Drawings
Title | Architectural and Ornament Drawings PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Artists' preparatory studies |
ISBN | 0870991264 |
French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century
Title | French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Mary L. Myers |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art New York |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | Decoration and ornament |
ISBN | 9780870996269 |
Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century
Title | Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Wend Graf Kalnein |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0300060130 |
Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century Wend von Kalnein French architecture of the eighteenth century - which exhibited great technical ability and refined taste - influenced architectural style throughout Europe. This handsome book is a survey of the French architecture of the period. It begins with the origins of the 'style moderne' under the last years of Louis XIV, discusses the end of Rococo and the return to antiquity, and concludes with the Revolutionary architecture and the house of Madame Récamier. Kalnein describes the development of palace and hôtel architecture by the two great architects de Cotte and Boffrand, discussing such large urban projects as the reconstruction of Rennes and the Places Royales. He traces the return to antiquity (which began when the scholars of the Académie d'Architecture were sent to Rome), the revolutionary architecture with its grand, but never executed, projects, and the shift from neoclassicism to early romanticism. Kalnein also examines the decorative arts of the period, which became even more important than architecture in the Rococo period. Focusing on such architects as Boffrand, Gabriel, and Redoux, he shows how a study of their building decoration illuminates the evolution of 'style moderne,' the battle between Rococo and Neoclassicism, and the dissemination of French styles throughout Europe.
The French Interior in the Eighteenth Century
Title | The French Interior in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | John Whitehead |
Publisher | Penguin Putnam |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Architecture |
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