A Checklist of American Newspaper Carrier's Addresses, 1720-1820
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Publisher: Worcester : American Antiquarian Society
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 200
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Publisher: Worcester : American Antiquarian Society
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lyman Horace Weeks
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 64
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Published: 1839
Total Pages: 228
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 216
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 575
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 726
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Published: 1843
Total Pages: 840
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marina Belozerskaya
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Published: 2005-10-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0892367857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday 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.