Nicolas Lancret
Title | Nicolas Lancret PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Tavener Holmes |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0892368322 |
In a garden glade before a grand fountain, surrounded by a musical party, an elegant woman in a lustrous white gown dances as part of a foursome, raising her eyes to the viewer as if extending an invitation to the dance. This is the enticing scene in the J. Paul Getty Museum's painting "Dance before a Fountain" by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743), an excellent example of the fete galante, a genre that was created and reached the peak of its popularity in France during the first half of the eighteenth century. This monograph seeks to familiarize American audiences with Lancret, a master of this genre, who was a revered painter in his own time, rivalling his contemporaries Antoine Watteau and Francois Boucher, and a favourite of crowned heads across Europe. Mary Tavener Holmes's engrossing text uses this painting as a springboard to reveal a remarkable amount about the painter, his mode of painting, Paris at the time this work was made, eighteenth-century dance, and the world of art patronage and collecting in France and elsewhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Lavishly illustrated with comparative paintings by artists such as Watteau, Boucher, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Francois De Troy, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and Hubert Robert, this fascinating peek into a bygone Parisian era is a treat for the eyes and the intellect alike.
French Book-plates
Title | French Book-plates PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Hamilton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Bookplates |
ISBN |
Channelling Mobilities
Title | Channelling Mobilities PDF eBook |
Author | Valeska Huber |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 381 |
Release | 2013-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107244986 |
The history of globalisation is usually told as a history of shortening distances and acceleration of the flows of people, goods and ideas. Channelling Mobilities refines this picture by looking at a wide variety of mobile people passing through the region of the Suez Canal, a global shortcut opened in 1869. As an empirical contribution to global history, the book asks how the passage between Europe and Asia and Africa was perceived, staged and controlled from the opening of the Canal to the First World War, arguing that this period was neither an era of unhampered acceleration, nor one of hardening borders and increasing controls. Instead, it was characterised by the channelling of mobilities through the differentiation, regulation and bureaucratisation of movement. Telling the stories of tourists, troops, workers, pilgrims, stowaways, caravans, dhow skippers and others, the book reveals the complicated entanglements of empires, internationalist initiatives and private companies.
The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age
Title | The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age PDF eBook |
Author | William David Davies |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 766 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780521219297 |
Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.
Economic Fallacies
Title | Economic Fallacies PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic Bastiat |
Publisher | Simon Publications |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001-08-16 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781931541022 |
This book, written by the celebrated nineteenth century French economist propagating free trade, reads as it was written yesterday.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Title | The Count of Monte Cristo PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandre Dumas |
Publisher | London : J.M. Dent and Company ; Boston : Little, Brown |
Pages | 602 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | France |
ISBN |
Salvator Rosa in French Literature
Title | Salvator Rosa in French Literature PDF eBook |
Author | James Patty |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2005-01-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813171938 |
" Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes Rosa’s tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Théophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa’s life and work in the world of French letters. James S. Patty, professor emeritus of French at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Dürer in French Letters . He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.