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Author : Mrs. James de Rothschild
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126435812
Author : Dorothy de Rothschild
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1419340302
Author : Hannah Rothschild
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525654926
From the author of The Improbability of Love: a dazzling novel both satirical and moving, about an eccentric, dysfunctional family of English aristocrats, and their crumbling stately home that reminds us how the lives and hopes of women can still be shaped by the ties of family and love. For more than seven hundred years, the vast, rambling Trelawney Castle in Cornwall--turrets, follies, a room for every day of the year, four miles of corridors and 500,000 acres--was the magnificent and grand "three dimensional calling card" of the earls of Trelawney. By 2008, it is in a complete state of ruin due to the dulled ambition and the financial ineptitude of the twenty-four earls, two world wars, the Wall Street crash, and inheritance taxes. Still: the heir to all of it, Kitto, his wife, Jane, their three children, their dog, Kitto's ancient parents, and his aunt Tuffy Scott, an entomologist who studies fleas, all manage to live there and keep it going. Four women dominate the story: Jane; Kitto's sister, Blaze, who left Trelawney and made a killing in finance in London, the wildly beautiful, seductive, and long-ago banished Anastasia and her daughter, Ayesha. When Anastasia sends a letter announcing that her nineteen-year-old daughter, Ayesha, will be coming to stay, the long-estranged Blaze and Jane must band together to take charge of their new visitor--and save the house of Trelawney. But both Blaze and Jane are about to discover that the house itself is really only a very small part of what keeps the family together.
Author : Michael Hall
Publisher : Scala Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 1857596234
Waddesdon Manor is one of the most extraordinary houses in England. Over 125 years ago, Baron Ferdinand Rothschild transformed a barren hill in the countryside outside London into the setting for this breathtaking estate. Over the years, he assembled an
Author : Hannah Rothschild
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307961990
Beautiful, romantic and spirited, Pannonica, known as Nica, named after her father’s favorite moth, was born in 1913 to extraordinary, eccentric privilege and a storied history. The Rothschild family had, in only five generations, risen from the ghetto in Frankfurt to stately homes in England. As a child, Nica took her daily walks, dressed in white, with her two sisters and governess around the parkland of the vast house at Tring, Hertfordshire, among kangaroos, giant tortoises, emus and zebras, all part of the exotic menagerie collected by her uncle Walter. As a debutante, she was taught to fly by a saxophonist and introduced to jazz by her brother Victor; she married Baron Jules de Koenigswarter, settled in a château in France and had five children. When World War II broke out, Nica and her five children narrowly escaped back to England, but soon after, she set out to find her husband who was fighting with the Free French Army in Africa, where she helped the war effort by being a decoder, a driver and organizing supplies and equipment. In the early 1950s Nica heard “’Round Midnight” by the jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk and, as if under a powerful spell, abandoned her marriage and moved to New York to find him. She devoted herself to helping Monk and other musicians: she bailed them out of jail, paid their bills, took them to the hospital, even drove them to their gigs, and her convertible Bentley could always be seen parked outside downtown clubs or up in Harlem. Charlie Parker would notoriously die in her apartment in the Stanhope Hotel. But it was Monk who was the love of her life and whom she cared for until his death in 1982. Hannah Rothschild has drawn on archival material and her own interviews in this quest to find out who her great-aunt really was and how she fit into a family that, although passionate about music and entomology, was reactionary in always favoring men over women. Part musical odyssey, part love story, The Baroness is a fascinating portrait of a modern figure ahead of her time who dared to live as she wanted, finally, at the very center of New York’s jazz scene.
Author : Hannah Rothschild
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101872574
Finalist for the Baileys Women's Prize Annie McDee, thirty-one, lives in a shabby London flat, works as a chef, and is struggling to get by. Reeling from a sudden breakup, she’s taken on an unsuitable new lover and finds herself rummaging through a secondhand shop to buy him a birthday gift. A dusty, anonymous old painting catches her eye. After spending her meager savings on the artwork, Annie prepares an exquisite birthday dinner for two—only to be stood up. The painting becomes hers, and Annie begins to suspect that it may be more valuable than she’d thought. Soon she finds herself pursued by parties who would do anything to possess her picture: an exiled Russian oligarch, an avaricious sheikha, an unscrupulous art dealer. In her search for the painting’s identity, Annie will unwittingly discover some of the darkest secrets of European history—and the possibility of falling in love again.
Author : Dora Thornton
Publisher : British museum Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 0714123455
A sumptuously illustrated book presenting the highlights of Renaissance court treasures, bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, MP in 1898.
Author : L. M. J. Delaissé,James H. Marrow,John De Wit
Publisher : Unicorn Press (UK)
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Art
ISBN : UCBK:C031209236
Largely unknown and unpublished, many of the manuscripts at Waddesdon are among the best products of Flemish, French and Italian workshops of the later Middle Ages. Some are valuable for their texts, others for the richness of their illumination.
Author : Natalie Livingstone
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250280206
In The Women of Rothschild, Natalie Livingstone reveals the role of women in shaping the legacy of the famous Rothschild dynasty, synonymous with wealth and power. From the East End of London to the Eastern seaboard of the United States, from Spitalfields to Scottish castles, from Bletchley Park to Buchenwald, and from the Vatican to Palestine, Natalie Livingstone follows the extraordinary lives of the Rothschild women from the dawn of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twenty-first. As Jews in a Christian society and women in a deeply patriarchal family, they were outsiders. Excluded from the family bank, they forged their own distinct dynasty of daughters and nieces, mothers and aunts. They became influential hostesses and talented diplomats, choreographing electoral campaigns, advising prime ministers, advocating for social reform, and trading on the stock exchange. Misfits and conformists, conservatives and idealists, performers and introverts, they mixed with everyone from Queen Victoria to Chaim Weizmann, Rossini to Isaiah Berlin, and the Duke of Wellington to Alec Guinness, as well as with amphetamine-dealers, suffragists and avant-garde artists. Rothschild women helped bring down ghetto walls in early nineteenth-century Frankfurt, inspired some of the most remarkable cultural movements of the Victorian period, and in the mid-twentieth century burst into America, where they patronized Thelonious Monk and drag-raced through Manhattan with Miles Davis. Absorbing and compulsive, The Women of Rothschild gives voice to the complicated, privileged, and gifted women whose vision and tenacity shaped history.
Author : Julia Siemon
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781588396396
The twelve monumental silver-gilt standing cups known as the Aldobrandini Tazze constitute perhaps the most enigmatic masterpiece of Renaissance European metalwork. Topped with statuettes of the Twelve Caesars, the tazze are decorated with marvelously detailed scenes illustrating the lives of those ancient Roman rulers. The work’s origin is unknown, and the ensemble was divided in the nineteenth century and widely dispersed, greatly hampering study. This volume, inspired by a groundbreaking symposium at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, examines topics ranging from the tazze’s representation of the ancient world to their fate in the hands of nineteenth-century collectors, and presents newly discovered archival material and advanced scientific findings. The distinguished essayists propose answers to critical questions that have long surrounded the set and shed light on the stature of Renaissance goldsmiths’ work as an art form, establishing a new standard for the study of Renaissance silver.
Author : Rachel Boak
Publisher : Paul Holberton Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 0954731034
Introduction -- Catalogue -- Altar frontals -- Banners, cushions, hangings et pictures -- Furniture -- Fragments et accessories -- Image robes -- The collection of textiles at Waddesdon.
Author : Pippa Shirley,Dora Thornton
Publisher : British Museum Research Public
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0861592123
The Waddesdon Bequest is a collection of nearly 300 precious art objects from Renaissance Europe. It was bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, M.P., when he died in 1898. The Bequest is named after Waddesdon Manor, the mansion he built in Buckinghamshire, England, where the collection was housed during his lifetime. The collection was accumulated by Baron Ferdinand and by his father, Baron Anselm, and was intended to rival those put together by rulers and princes from the Renaissance onwards. It is mainly made up of small-scale, rare and precious pieces of the highest quality which were intended to inspire a sense of curiosity and wonder.
Author : Ivor Gurney,Norman Carr,Alice Trust
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Waddesdon (England)
ISBN : 0954731018
Author : Bruno Pons
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022320183
A scholarly account of the origins of Waddesdon Manor and a catalogue of the celebrated panelling, describing and analyzing the 385 individual elements.
Author : Mrs. James de Rothschild
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015008570189