French Rococo Ébénisterie In The J Paul Getty Museum

Author : Gillian Wilson,Arlen Heginbotham
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 721 pages
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Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781606066324

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French Rococo Ébénisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Gillian Wilson,Arlen Heginbotham Pdf

The first comprehensive catalogue of the Getty Museum’s significant collection of French Rococo ébénisterie furniture. This catalogue focuses on French ébénisterie furniture in the Rococo style dating from 1735 to 1760. These splendid objects directly reflect the tastes of the Museum’s founder, J. Paul Getty, who started collecting in this area in 1938 and continued until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection is particularly rich in examples created by the most talented cabinet masters then active in Paris, including Bernard van Risenburgh II (after 1696–ca. 1766), Jacques Dubois (1694–1763), and Jean-François Oeben (1721–1763). Working for members of the French royal family and aristocracy, these craftsmen excelled at producing veneered and marquetried pieces of furniture (tables, cabinets, and chests of drawers) fashionable for their lavish surfaces, refined gilt-bronze mounts, and elaborate design. These objects were renowned throughout Europe at a time when Paris was considered the capital of good taste. The entry on each work comprises both a curatorial section, with description and commentary, and a conservation report, with construction diagrams. An introduction by Anne-Lise Desmas traces the collection’s acquisition history, and two technical essays by Arlen Heginbotham present methodologies and findings on the analysis of gilt-bronze mounts and lacquer. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu/publications/rococo/ and includes zoomable, high-resolution photography. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book, and JPG downloads of the main catalogue images.

Author : Gillian Wilson,Arlen Heginbotham
Publisher : J. Paul Getty Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Design
ISBN : 1606066307

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French Rococo Ébénisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Gillian Wilson,Arlen Heginbotham Pdf

The first comprehensive catalogue of the Getty Museum’s significant collection of French Rococo ébénisterie furniture. This catalogue focuses on French ébénisterie furniture in the Rococo style dating from 1735 to 1760. These splendid objects directly reflect the tastes of the Museum’s founder, J. Paul Getty, who started collecting in this area in 1938 and continued until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection is particularly rich in examples created by the most talented cabinet masters then active in Paris, including Bernard van Risenburgh II (after 1696–ca. 1766), Jacques Dubois (1694–1763), and Jean-François Oeben (1721–1763). Working for members of the French royal family and aristocracy, these craftsmen excelled at producing veneered and marquetried pieces of furniture (tables, cabinets, and chests of drawers) fashionable for their lavish surfaces, refined gilt-bronze mounts, and elaborate design. These objects were renowned throughout Europe at a time when Paris was considered the capital of good taste. The entry on each work comprises both a curatorial section, with description and commentary, and a conservation report, with construction diagrams. An introduction by Anne-Lise Desmas traces the collection’s acquisition history, and two technical essays by Arlen Heginbotham present methodologies and findings on the analysis of gilt-bronze mounts and lacquer. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu/publications/rococo/ and includes zoomable, high-resolution photography. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book, and JPG downloads of the main catalogue images.

Author : J Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 2021-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1606066315

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French Rococo Aebaenisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum by J Paul Getty Museum Pdf

Author : Gillian Wilson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780892360505

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Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Gillian Wilson Pdf

J. Paul Getty began to collect French decorative arts in the 1930s and continued to do so until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection has continued to grow since then at a rapid pace and contains over three hundred individual pieces at the time this book is published. This volume illustrates fifty of them. The selection represents a cross section of the collection, which covers the period from approximately 1660 to 1800. In the eighteenth century it became fashionable in Parisian society to decorate the interiors of houses with Far Eastern materials such as lacquer and porcelain. This taste was catered to by the marchands-merciers, members of a guild who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, the antique dealer, and the picture dealer. These men devised highly ingenious settings for Far Eastern porcelains to adapt their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. Information about them and their clientele has been used in cataloguing the Getty Museum’s collection of mounted oriental porcelain, which is large and of high quality. This book is not a catalogue, nor is it a mere picture book or checklist. Each piece has been chosen because it represents a particular aspect of the crafts involved in the production of objects that were made by Parisian craftsmen for the crown, the nobility, and the rich bourgeoisie. The pieces are arranged in chronological order. Translations of the French archival extracts, an index, and a concise bibliography have been provided.

Author : J. Paul Getty Museum,Gillian Wilson,Charissa Bremer-David,Jeffrey Weaver
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892368748

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French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes by J. Paul Getty Museum,Gillian Wilson,Charissa Bremer-David,Jeffrey Weaver Pdf

"Each object is described and analyzed in terms of its provenance and published history, as well as its construction, materials, and conservation. With its painstaking attention to detail, this volume is the definitive catalogue of the Getty Museum's collection of French Baroque furniture and will be of interest to scholars, conservators, and all students of French decorative arts."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892360185

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal by The J. Paul Getty Museum Pdf

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 6/7 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, paintings, sculpture, and works of art. This volume includes an editorial statement by the journal’s editors: Burton B. Fredericksen, curator of Paintings, Jiří Frel, curator of Antiquities, and Gillian Wilson, curator of Decorative Arts. Conservation problems are discussed along with articles written by K. Christiansen, B. B. Fredericksen, S. Holo, G. Wilson, B. L. Shifman, M. Shapiro, J. Frel, D. M. Brinkerhoff, C. C. Vermeule, G. Koch, S. Downey, l. Kilian-Dirlmeier, C. Cardon, F. Brommer, M. A. Del Chiaro, P. Visonà, J. Cody, R. Mellor, D. L. Thompson, E. Langlotz, P. Zazoff, S. Knudsen Morgan, M. Jentoft-Nilsen, and A. Manzoni.

Author : Charissa Bremer-David,Catherine Hess,Jeffrey W. Weaver,Gillian Wilson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892364558

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Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts by Charissa Bremer-David,Catherine Hess,Jeffrey W. Weaver,Gillian Wilson Pdf

This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from Gobelins and Beauvais, bronze firedogs from Fontainebleau, and a lathe-turned ivory goblet of astonishing complexity from Saxony are among the other highlights of this handsome volume.

Author : Gillian Wilson,David Harris Cohen,Jean Nérée Ronfort,Jean-Dominique Augarde,Peter Friess
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892362547

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European Clocks in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Gillian Wilson,David Harris Cohen,Jean Nérée Ronfort,Jean-Dominique Augarde,Peter Friess Pdf

Among the finest examples of European craftsmanship are the clocks produced for the luxury trade in the eighteenth century. The J. Paul Getty Museum is fortunate to have in its decorative arts collection twenty clocks dating from around 1680 to 1798: eighteen produced in France and two in Germany. They demonstrate the extraordinary workmanship that went into both the design and execution of the cases and the intricate movements by which the clocks operated. In this handsome volume, each clock is pictured and discussed in detail, and each movement diagrammed and described. In addition, biographies of the clockmakers and enamelers are included, as are indexes of the names of the makers, previous owners, and locations.

Author : Wolfram Koeppe
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781588394743

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Extravagant Inventions by Wolfram Koeppe Pdf

Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition "Extravagant Inventions: the Princely Furniture of the Roentgens" on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 30, 2102, through January 27, 2013.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide,Wolfram Koeppe,William Rieder
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : CD-ROMs
ISBN : UCSD:31822035621150

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European Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide,Wolfram Koeppe,William Rieder Pdf

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "358 color images and captions."--D.j.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide,Jeffrey H. Munger
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : 9781588393661

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The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide,Jeffrey H. Munger Pdf

The authors, Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide and Jeffrey Munger, are curators in the Metropolitan Museum's Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. They oversaw the recent reinstallation of the Wrightsman Galleries --Book Jacket.

Author : Victor Margolin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226505145

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Design Discourse by Victor Margolin Pdf

The editor has gathered together a body of writing in the emerging field of design studies. The contributors argue in different ways for a rethinking of design in the light of its cultural significance and its powerful position in today's society. The collection begins with a discussion of the various expressions of opposition to the modernists' purist approach toward design. Drawing on postmodernist theory and other critical strategies, the writers examine the relations among design, technology, and social organization to show how design has become a complex and multidisciplinary activity. The second section provides examples of new methods of interpreting and analysing design, ranging from rhetoric and semiotics to phenomenology, demonstrating how meaning is created visually. A final section related to design history shifts its emphasis to ideological frameworks such as capitalism and patriarchy that establish boundaries for the production and use of design.

Author : Helen Jacobsen,Rufus Bird,Mia Jackson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781781300909

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Jean-Henri Riesener by Helen Jacobsen,Rufus Bird,Mia Jackson Pdf

Jean-Henri Riesener (1734-1806) was one of the greatest French cabinetmakers of all time. From humble beginnings as a German immigrant in Paris, he found fame through the delivery of a magnificent roll-top desk to Louis XV in 1769 and went on to become Marie-Antoinette's favourite cabinetmaker, supplying the queen and the court of Louis XVI with sumptuous furniture of superb quality. Renowned for his exquisite marquetry and refined designs, his pieces were ornamented with spectacular gilt-bronze mounts made by some of the greatest metalworkers in Paris. In the nineteenth century, Riesener's name became associated with the very best of Louis XVI-period French furniture; his pieces continue to be highly sought after and are found in major museums worldwide. This first major monograph on Riesener traces his life and career, bringing new insights into his business practice, his designs and construction techniques. Based on the extensive collections of Riesener furniture in the Wallace Collection, Waddesdon Manor and the Royal Collection, the authors examine the objects and their history, and highlight the changing tastes of the nineteenth-century collectors who acquired so many former French royal pieces. The new illustrations and visual glossary add another important resource for art historians, decorative arts enthusiasts and furniture lovers.

Author : Bo Florin
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789089645043

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Transition and Transformation by Bo Florin Pdf

Victor Sjöström (1879-1960), or Victor Seastrom as he was known during his Hollywood career, was undoubtedly one of the most renowned silent film directors. Focusing on his masterpieces such as 'The Scarlet Letter' and 'The Wind', but also including films he had made in Sweden before moving to Hollywood, as well as film fragments and films considered lost, Florin analyses Sjöström's austere and naturalistic style and the transformations it underwent during his Hollywood years.

Author : Wolfram Koeppe
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : 9781588393685

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Vienna Circa 1780 by Wolfram Koeppe Pdf

Wolfram Koeppe is Curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. --Book Jacket.