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 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 |
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.
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 |
Eighteenth-century French Drawings in New York Collections
Title | Eighteenth-century French Drawings in New York Collections PDF eBook |
Author | Perrin Stein |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Drawing |
ISBN | 0870998927 |
Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Title | Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Meredith Martin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1351576070 |
Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors explores how a diverse, pan-European group of eighteenth-century patrons - among them bankers, bishops, bluestockings, and courtesans - used architectural space and décor to shape and express identity. Eighteenth-century European architects understood the client's instrumental role in giving form and meaning to architectural space. In a treatise published in 1745, the French architect Germain Boffrand determined that a visitor could "judge the character of the master for whom the house was built by the way in which it is planned, decorated and distributed." This interdisciplinary volume addresses two key interests of contemporary historians working in a range of disciplines: one, the broad question of identity formation, most notably as it relates to ideas of gender, class, and ethnicity; and two, the role played by different spatial environments in the production - not merely the reflection - of identity at defining historical and cultural moments. By combining contemporary critical analysis with a historically specific approach, the book's contributors situate ideas of space and the self within the visual and material remains of interiors in eighteenth-century Europe. In doing so, they offer compelling new insight not only into this historical period, but also into our own.
Making a Prince's Museum
Title | Making a Prince's Museum PDF eBook |
Author | Carole Paul |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780892365395 |
In 1775 Prince Marcantonio Borghese IV and the architect Antonio Asprucci embarked upon a decorative renovation of the Villa Borghese. Initially their attention focused on the Casino, the principal building at the villa, which had always been a semi-public museum. By 1625 it housed much of the Borghese's outstanding collection of sculpture. Integrating this statuary with vast baroque ceiling paintings and richly ornamented surfaces, Asprucci created a dazzling and unified homage to the Borghese family, portraying its legendary ancestors as well as its newly born heir. In this book, Carole Paul reads the inventive decorative program as a set of exemplary scenes for the education of the ideal Borghese prince. Her wide-ranging essay also situates the Villa Borghese among the sumptuous palaces and suburban villas of Rome's collectors of antiquities and outlines the renovated Casino's pivotal role in the historic transition from the princely collection to the public museum. Rounding out this volume is a catalog of the Getty Research Institute's fifty-nine drawings for the refurbishing of the Villa Borghese and Alberta Campitelli's discussion of sketches for the short-lived Museo di Gabii, the Villa's other antiquities museum.