A Renaissance Treasury

Author : Laurie Winters
Publisher : Hudson Hills
ISBN 13 : 9781555951740
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Renaissance Treasury written by Laurie Winters and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 1999 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winters introduces Richard Flagg and Erma Flagg's collection of some hundred objects made during 1450 to 1900. Most of the beautifully crafted, highly decorative, yet functional pieces are examples of Renaissance and Baroque marvels; they include clocks (a particularly varied and sumptuaous collection), sculpture, inlaid boxes, china and glassware, tankards, metalwork, and furniture. Each of the 77 individual chefs-d'oeuvres documented in this catalog, celebrating the gift of the Flaggs to the Milwaukee Art Museum, are exceptional examples of artisty combined with technical achievement. Such is the case with a 15th-century Cassone from Florence replete with intarsia and coat of arms, signaling a marital alliance between the nobility. Another magnificent piece, highlighted through an individual entry in the catalog, is a 15th-century limestone tympanum, possibly from the Burgundy region of France, showing the enthroned Virgin and Child. The physical properties of this volume are as elaborate as the objects it defines; lavish full-page color plates illustrate the pieces, lengthy catalog entries provide detailed information, and the whole is supplemented with appendixes consisting of checklist and glossary. 69 colour & 29 b/w illustrations

Author : Fridolf Johnson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486234854
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treasury of Bookplates from the Renaissance to the Present written by Fridolf Johnson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of 761 miniature works of art representing 500 years of the bookplate from the first known example -- ca. 1450 -- to a wide range of fascinating 20th-century designs. Introduction.

Author : Hiram Collins Haydn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Renaissance Treasury written by Hiram Collins Haydn and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Orgel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812253272
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wit's Treasury written by Stephen Orgel and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wit's Treasury, Stephen Orgel, one of our foremost interpreters of Renaissance literature and culture, charts how the conflict between Christian principles and classical manners and morals yielded the rich creative tension out of which emerged an unprecedented flowering of English drama, lyric, and the arts.

Author : Carl Parrish
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486171450
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treasury of Early Music written by Carl Parrish and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features 50 compositions from early Middle Ages to mid-18th century, including a Gregorian hymn, English lute piece, operatic arias, instrumental and vocal motets; works by Vivaldi, Telemann, Scarlatti, and others. Features commentary.

Author : Thomas Craven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758138668
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treasury of Art Masterpieces, from the Renaissance to the Present Day written by Thomas Craven and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Craven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treasury of Art Masterpieses written by Thomas Craven and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486271269
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasury of Ironwork Designs written by Carol Belanger Grafton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elaborately wrought designs for gates, fences, finials, banisters, window grilles, bedsteads, cathedral screens, other architectural and decorative appointments, Gothic to Art Nouveau — meticulously rendered in black-and-white drawings reprinted from vintage publications.

Author : Tho Craven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book A Treasury of Art Masterpieces written by Tho Craven and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892367857
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Luxury Arts of the Renaissance written by Marina Belozerskaya and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.