French and English Furniture, Baby Grand Pianos, Fine Oil Paintings, Bronzes, Prints, Silver, Fine Porcelains, Chinaware, Glassware; Dining Room Furniture, Porcelain Plaques, Oriental Rugs
Title | French and English Furniture, Baby Grand Pianos, Fine Oil Paintings, Bronzes, Prints, Silver, Fine Porcelains, Chinaware, Glassware; Dining Room Furniture, Porcelain Plaques, Oriental Rugs PDF eBook |
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Release | 1967 |
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“The” Illustrated London News
Title | “The” Illustrated London News PDF eBook |
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Pages | 822 |
Release | 1851 |
Genre | London (England) |
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Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details
Title | Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Locke Eastlake |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2014-11-06 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1108075347 |
This highly illustrated 1868 work on interior design gives a fascinating insight into the late Victorian taste for the medieval.
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Title | Luxury Arts of the Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Marina Belozerskaya |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2005-10-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0892367857 |
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Los Angeles Magazine
Title | Los Angeles Magazine PDF eBook |
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Pages | 144 |
Release | 2000-04 |
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Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian.
Hints on Household Taste
Title | Hints on Household Taste PDF eBook |
Author | Charles L. Eastlake |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2013-01-24 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 048613671X |
Primary authority on what was proper, beautiful, efficient in all aspects of mid-19th-century interior design. Originally published in 1868. Over 100 illustrations.
Illustrated History of Furniture
Title | Illustrated History of Furniture PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Litchfield |
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Pages | 468 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Furniture |
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