The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts

The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts
Title The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts PDF eBook
Author Detroit Institute of Arts
Publisher
Pages 280
Release 1996
Genre Art
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Anna Thomson Dodge, heiress to the automotive fortune, built a great home and decorated it with one of the finest groups of 18th-century French decorative arts in America. Here are more than 130 pieces of furniture, sculpture, metalwork, tapestries, Sevres porcelain, and paintings, many from royal collections.

Fonthill Recovered

Fonthill Recovered
Title Fonthill Recovered PDF eBook
Author Caroline Dakers
Publisher UCL Press
Pages 430
Release 2018-05-16
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1787350460

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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.

National Union Catalog

National Union Catalog
Title National Union Catalog PDF eBook
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Pages 620
Release 1978
Genre Union catalogs
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The Connoisseur

The Connoisseur
Title The Connoisseur PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 632
Release 1971
Genre Antiques
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European Clocks and Watches in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

European Clocks and Watches in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title European Clocks and Watches in The Metropolitan Museum of Art PDF eBook
Author Clare Vincent
Publisher Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pages 292
Release 2015-11-25
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN 1588395790

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Among the world's greatest technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works. It showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms. Among these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars; an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day; and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Created by the best craftsmen in Austria, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, these magnificent timepieces have been selected for their remarkable beauty and design, as well as their sophisticated mechanics. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels.

Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum

Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum
Title Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum PDF eBook
Author Harvard University. Fine Arts Library
Publisher Macmillan Reference USA
Pages 700
Release 1971
Genre Art
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V.1-9, No.7; Mar. 1961-Sept. 1969, International Art Market

V.1-9, No.7; Mar. 1961-Sept. 1969, International Art Market
Title V.1-9, No.7; Mar. 1961-Sept. 1969, International Art Market PDF eBook
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Pages 554
Release 1971
Genre Art
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