Princely Splendor

Author : Dirk Syndram,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden,Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Publisher : Mondadori Electa
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015060887331

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Princely Splendor by Dirk Syndram,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden,Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Pdf

Il volume è il catalogo della mostra itinerante di Amburgo, (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 10 giugno - 26 settembre 2004), New York (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26 ottobre 2004 - 30 gennaio 2005), Roma (Palazzo Ruspoli, 2 marzo 25 aprile 2005), dedicata agli splendidi oggetti provenienti dalla Corte di Dresda, esposti per la prima volta dopo il restauro. Gli oggetti in mostra, databili tra il tardo Rinascimento e il primo Barocco, vanno dalle armi alle armature, alle sculture, ai preziosi scrigni in oro e avorio, agli abiti e ai ritratti. Il catalogo fornisce una documentazione completa di una delle più ricche collezioni di arte principesca.

Author : Dirk Syndram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art objects
ISBN : UIUC:30112073343870

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Princely Splendor by Dirk Syndram Pdf

Author : S. R. Urbino,Céline Fallet
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385355132

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The Princes of Art. Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers by S. R. Urbino,Céline Fallet Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Grace Greenwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Europe
ISBN : WISC:89098856198

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Europe: Its People and Princes.- Its Pleasures and Places by Grace Greenwood Pdf

Author : Alisha Rankin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226925387

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Panaceia's Daughters by Alisha Rankin Pdf

Panaceia’s Daughters provides the first book-length study of noblewomen’s healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicines and recommending them to patients, and many gained widespread fame for their remedies. Turning a common historical argument on its head, Rankin maintains that noblewomen’s pharmacy came to prominence not in spite of their gender but because of it. Rankin demonstrates the ways in which noblewomen’s pharmacy was bound up in notions of charity, class, religion, and household roles, as well as in expanding networks of knowledge and early forms of scientific experimentation. The opening chapters place noblewomen’s healing within the context of cultural exchange, experiential knowledge, and the widespread search for medicinal recipes in early modern Europe. Case studies of renowned healers Dorothea of Mansfeld and Anna of Saxony then demonstrate the value their pharmacy held in their respective roles as elderly widow and royal consort, while a study of the long-suffering Duchess Elisabeth of Rochlitz emphasizes the importance of experiential knowledge and medicinal remedies to the patient’s experience of illness.

Author : Elaine R. Sisman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400831821

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Haydn and His World by Elaine R. Sisman Pdf

Joseph Haydn's symphonies and string quartets are staples of the concert repertory, yet many aspects of this founding genius of the Viennese Classical style are only beginning to be explored. From local Kapellmeister to international icon, Haydn achieved success by developing a musical language aimed at both the connoisseurs and amateurs of the emerging musical public. In this volume, the first collection of essays in English devoted to this composer, a group of leading musicologists examines Haydn's works in relation to the aesthetic and cultural crosscurrents of his time. Haydn and His World opens with an examination of the contexts of the composer's late oratorios: James Webster connects the Creation with the sublime--the eighteenth-century term for artistic experience of overwhelming power--and Leon Botstein explores the reception of Haydn's Seasons in terms of the changing views of programmatic music in the nineteenth century. Essays on Haydn's instrumental music include Mary Hunter on London chamber music as models of private and public performance, fortepianist Tom Beghin on rhetorical aspects of the Piano Sonata in D Major, XVI:42, Mark Evan Bonds on the real meaning behind contemporary comparisons of symphonies to the Pindaric ode, and Elaine R. Sisman on Haydn's Shakespeare, Haydn as Shakespeare, and "originality." Finally, Rebecca Green draws on primary sources to place one of Haydn's Goldoni operas at the center of the Eszterháza operatic culture of the 1770s. The book also includes two extensive late-eighteenth-century discussions, translated into English for the first time, of music and musicians in Haydn's milieu, as well as a fascinating reconstruction of the contents of Haydn's library, which shows him fully conversant with the intellectual and artistic trends of the era.

Author : Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781606066249

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A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture by Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz Pdf

This volume translates and examines a rare conspectus of architectural and decorative taste published at the very end of the eighteenth century. Baron Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz’s pioneering Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations in Relation to the Interior Decoration of Rooms and to Architecture (Darstellung und Geschichte des Geschmacks der vorzüglichsten Völker in Beziehung auf die innere Auszierung der Zimmer und auf die Baukunst) is little known today. Racknitz, a German aristocrat, traced an early global history of design and ornament through discussions of what he distinguished as twenty-four regional historical tastes. He included a diverse group of ancient classical civilizations, European nations and peoples, Eastern civilizations, and more exotic reaches of the world. This sensitive and informed translation by Simon Swynfen Jervis includes reproductions of the original color plates and essays on Racknitz’s biography, his publication, and the deeper German Enlightenment context, making this an essential volume for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architecture, decorative arts, and garden design.

Author : James R. Houghton,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art museum directors
ISBN : 9781588393401

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Philippe de Montebello and the Metropolitan Museum of Art by James R. Houghton,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Jessica Keating
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271081496

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Animating Empire by Jessica Keating Pdf

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, German clockwork automata were collected, displayed, and given as gifts throughout the Holy Roman, Ottoman, and Mughal Empires. In Animating Empire, Jessica Keating recounts the lost history of six such objects and reveals the religious, social, and political meaning they held. The intricate gilt, silver, enameled, and bejeweled clockwork automata, almost exclusively crafted in the city of Augsburg, represented a variety of subjects in motion, from religious figures to animals. Their movements were driven by gears, wheels, and springs painstakingly assembled by clockmakers. Typically wound up and activated by someone in a position of power, these objects and the theological and political arguments they made were highly valued by German-speaking nobility. They were often given as gifts and as tribute payment, and they played remarkable roles in the Holy Roman Empire, particularly with regard to courtly notions about the important early modern issues of universal Christian monarchy, the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, the encroachment of the Ottoman Empire, and global trade. Demonstrating how automata produced in the Holy Roman Empire spoke to a convergence of historical, religious, and political circumstances, Animating Empire is a fascinating analysis of the animation of inanimate matter in the early modern period. It will appeal especially to art historians and historians of early modern Europe. E-book editions have been made possible through support of the Art History Publication Initiative (AHPI), a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Author : Anne J. Cruz,Maria Galli Stampino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317146919

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Early Modern Habsburg Women by Anne J. Cruz,Maria Galli Stampino Pdf

As the first comprehensive volume devoted entirely to women of both the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg royal dynasties spanning the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection illuminates their complex and often contradictory political functions and their interrelations across early modern national borders. The essays in this volume investigate the lives of six Habsburg women who, as queens consort and queen regent, duchesses, a vicereine, and a nun, left an indelible mark on the diplomatic and cultural map of early modern Europe. Contributors examine the national and transnational impact of these notable women through their biographies, and explore how they transferred their cultural, religious, and political traditions as the women moved from one court to another. Early Modern Habsburg Women investigates the complex lives of Philip II’s daughter, the Infanta Catalina Micaela (1567-1597); her daughter, Margherita of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal (1589-1655); and Maria Maddalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Florence (1589-1631). The second generation of Habsburg women that the volume addresses includes Philip IV’s first wife, Isabel of Borbón (1602-1644), who became a Habsburg by marriage; Rudolph II’s daughter, Sor Ana Dorotea (1611-1694), the only Habsburg nun in the collection; and Philip IV’s second wife, Mariana of Austria (1634-1696), queen regent and mother to the last Spanish Habsburg. Through archival documents, pictorial and historical accounts, literature, and correspondence, as well as cultural artifacts such as paintings, jewelry, and garments, this volume brings to light the impact of Habsburg women in the broader historical, political, and cultural contexts. The essays fill a scholarly need by covering various phases of the lives of early modern royal women, who often struggled to sustain their family loyalty while at the service of a foreign court, even when protecting and preparing their heirs for rule a

Author : David M. Whitford
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271091235

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Reformation and Early Modern Europe by David M. Whitford Pdf

Continuing the tradition of historiographic studies, this volume provides an update on research in Reformation and early modern Europe. Written by expert scholars in the field, these eighteen essays explore the fundamental points of Reformation and early modern history in religious studies, European regional studies, and social and cultural studies. Authors review the present state of research in the field, new trends, key issues scholars are working with, and fundamental works in their subject area, including the wide range of electronic resources now available to researchers. Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research is a valuable resource for students and scholars of early modern Europe.

Author : John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : PRNC:32101066158591

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The Empire of Russia by John Stevens Cabot Abbott Pdf

Author : Maureen Cassidy-Geiger
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0300126816

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Fragile Diplomacy by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger Pdf

While imported Chinese porcelain had become a valuable commodity in Europe in the seventeenth century, local attempts to produce porcelain long remained unsuccessful. At last the secret of hard-paste porcelain was uncovered, and in 1710 the first European porcelain was manufactured in Saxony. Meissen porcelain, still manufactured today, soon ranked in value with silver and gold. This thorough and lavishly illustrated volume explores the early years of Meissen porcelain and how the princes of Saxony came to use highly prized porcelain pieces as diplomatic gifts for presentation to foreign courts. An eminent team of international contributors examines the trade of Meissen with other nations, from England to Russia. They also investigate the cultural ambience of the Dresden Court, varying tastes of the markets, the wide range of porcelain objects, and their designers and makers. Individual chapters are devoted to gifts to Denmark, other German courts, the Holy Roman Empire, Italy, France, and other nations. For every Meissen collector or enthusiast, this book will be not only a treasured handbook but also a source of visual delight.

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Marriage
ISBN : OXFORD:590956555

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The Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg Pdf

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026975186

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The Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love: After which Follow the Pleasures of Insanity Concerning Scortatory Love. Translated from the Latin by Emanuel Swedenborg Pdf