Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Title | Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1060 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Art |
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Art and Auctions
Title | Art and Auctions PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Art |
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Library Catalog
Title | Library Catalog PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1062 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Proust's Duchess
Title | Proust's Duchess PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Weber |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 754 |
Release | 2019-11-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0345803124 |
From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion--a brilliant look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe--these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber says, "transformed themselves, and were transformed by those around them, into living legends: paragons of elegance, nobility, and style." All well but unhappily married, these women sought freedom and fulfillment by reinventing themselves, between the 1870s and 1890s, as icons. At their fabled salons, they inspired the creativity of several generations of writers, visual artists, composers, designers, and journalists. Against a rich historical backdrop, Weber takes the reader into these women's daily lives of masked balls, hunts, dinners, court visits, nights at the opera or theater. But we see as well the loneliness, rigid social rules, and loveless, arranged marriages that constricted these women's lives. Proust, as a twenty-year-old law student in 1892, would worship them from afar, and later meet them and create his celebrated composite character for The Remembrance of Things Past.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Title | The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 712 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Catalogs, Union |
ISBN |
Index of Art Sales Catalogs, 1981-1985: Main index, January 5, 1981-October 6, 1984
Title | Index of Art Sales Catalogs, 1981-1985: Main index, January 5, 1981-October 6, 1984 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Macmillan Reference USA |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN |
Catalogues
Title | Catalogues PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Quaritch (Firm) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | Books |
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