Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
Title | Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur PDF eBook |
Author | University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology |
Publisher | UPenn Museum of Archaeology |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780924171550 |
This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts. Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time—jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs.
Art of the Royal Court
Title | Art of the Royal Court PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfram Koeppe |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Incrustation (Stone carving) |
ISBN | 1588392880 |
"In the royal and princely courts of Europe, artworks made of multicolored semiprecious stones were passionately coveted objects. Known as pietre dure, or hardstones, this type of artistic expression includes?paintings in stone,? which were composed of intricately cut separate pieces that were made into magnificent tabetops, cabinets, and wall decorations. Other works included vessels and ornaments carved with virtuosic skill from a single piece of rare and brilliant lapis lazuli, chalcedony, jasper, or similarly prized substance; exquisite objects such as boxes, clocks, and jewelry; and portraits of nobles sculpted in variously colored stones. Derived from ancient Roman decorative stonework, the art of pietre dure was developed in Renaissance Florence, where the manufacture of such objects was enthusiastically sponsored by Medici princes. Ideally suited for ostentatious display, the works sent an unmistakable message of wealth and political might that was understood in centers of power everywhere. From Italy the medium spread across Europeto Prague, Madrid, Naples, Paris, and later Saint Petersburg. Precious and fragile, pietre dure objects are rarely brought together in large numbers. This richly illustrated catalogue contains more than 150 masterworks from across Europe, dating from five centuries, including almost every artistic use of semiprecious stone during this time as well as some of the finest examples of the medium. Eight essays by European and American experts discuss the individualized development of pietre dure in every European region, the latest developments in scholarship, the interrelationships between art and dynastic politics and between cultures, and a variety of techniques used to produce these luxurious masterworks."--Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
The Royal City of Susa
Title | The Royal City of Susa PDF eBook |
Author | Musée du Louvre |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0870996517 |
A rich production followed of objects for daily use, ritual, and luxury living, finely carved in various materials or fashioned of clay. Monumental sculpture was made in stone or bronze, and dramatic friezes were composed of brilliantly glazed bricks. Among the discoveries are tiny, intricately carved cylinder seals and splendid jewelry. Clay balls marked with symbols offer fascinating testimony to the very beginnings of writing; clay tablets from later periods bearing inscriptions in cuneiform record political history, literature, business transactions, and mathematical calculations. A very important group of finds from Susa is made up of objects brought back as booty from conquests in Mesopotamia. These works, many of them the royal monuments of Akkadian and Babylonian monarchs - for instance, the great stele of Naram-Sin - are among the best known of all objects from the ancient Near East.
Royal Treasures from the Louvre
Title | Royal Treasures from the Louvre PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Bascou |
Publisher | Prestel Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Decorative arts |
ISBN | 9783791352732 |
This breathtaking survey of French royal patronage features full-color illustrations of more than 100 objects, many so precious that they rarely leave the Louvre. French decorative arts reached their pinnacle in craftsmanship and design between the reign of Louis XIV and the Revolution, beginning with the sumptuous works of art made at the Gobelins manufactory, which was established to furnish the royal palaces, and continuing with luxury pieces made in specialist workshops across Paris through the end of the ancient régime. This book reveals the story of patronage and collecting among the French kings and queens with some of the greatest works from the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris, alongside illuminating essays describing the history and background of these beautiful royal objects. Drawing from the Louvre's extraordinary Département des Objets d'Art, Royal Treasures from the Louvre examines the full breadth of decorative arts in 17th- and 18th-century France, offering readers a generous view into the splendor of the French court.
Richard II and the English Royal Treasure
Title | Richard II and the English Royal Treasure PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Stratford |
Publisher | Boydell Press |
Pages | 490 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1843833786 |
The remarkable treasure of gold and silver from England and France which Richard II had amassed by the end of his reign in 1399 is fully revealed for the first time in this richly illustrated book. The author explores the nature of the objects themselves, their provenance and later fate, and examines the crucial role the treasure played in diplomacy and in financing the Hundred Years War, especially at the time of Agincourt. --
Treasures of the Royal Courts
Title | Treasures of the Royal Courts PDF eBook |
Author | Tessa Murdoch |
Publisher | Victoria & Albert Museum |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-03-12 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9781851777310 |
Published to accompany the exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Royal Treasures
Title | Royal Treasures PDF eBook |
Author | Erich Steingräber |
Publisher | |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Art objects |
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