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Author: Paul Atterbury
Publisher: Richard Dennis Publications Di
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780903685832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines and illustrates these highly collectible wares.
Author: Suzanne Staubach
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2013-09-03
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1611685044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than a third of the houses in the world are made of clay. Clay vessels were instrumental in the invention of cooking, wine and beer making, and international trade. Our toilets are made of clay. The first spark plugs were thrown on the potter’s wheel. Clay has played a vital role in the health and beauty fields. Indeed, this humble material was key to many advances in civilization, including the development of agriculture and the invention of baking, architecture, religion, and even the space program. In Clay, Suzanne Staubach takes a lively look at the startling history of the mud beneath our feet. Told with verve and erudition, this story will ensure you won’t see the world around you in quite the same way after reading the book.
Author: Jennie J. Young
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Published: 1878
Total Pages: 528
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Calvin Smith Brown
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 398
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alan Myatt
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2019-04-15
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 1445652145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guided tour of the historic town of Trentham, showing how the areas you know and love have changed over the centuries.
Author: Ann Eatwell
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definative guide to the work of this highly respected, contemporary ceramic designer. The major achievements from her prolific career are discussed. Includes sixteen comprehensive authoritative.
Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
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.
Author: Kate Beavis
Publisher: David & Charles
Published: 2013-08-02
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 1446366820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive, photo-filled guide to giving your home a distinctive retro look down to the last detail. Style Your Modern Vintage Home is an inspirational book for all vintage enthusiasts. It encompasses everything vintage lovers want in one place: every vintage decade and every practical tip for buying, styling, and restoring your vintage homewares to achieve your perfectly styled home. With real houses, real people, and real affordable items, this book shows how you can achieve a stylish vintage/modern home too. Discover how these must-have items and styles work in your own home and how to integrate vintage with modern. Each chapter covers a decade from the 1920s to the 1990s, introducing fascinating social history from each period and revealing how what was going on in the world influenced the home interiors of that time. There are practical styling, restoration, and cleaning tips and useful watch-out advice for buying vintage pieces. Additionally, although chapters are separated by decade, styles from different eras may be used alongside one another, as reflected in useful cross-references to other chapters. Also included is an accessible directory of the best vintage traders, both in the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as further reading should you wish to learn more.
Author: David A. Scott
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 1992-01-02
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0892361956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid A. Scott provides a detailed introduction to the structure and morphology of ancient and historic metallic materials. Much of the scientific research on this important topic has been inaccessible, scattered throughout the international literature, or unpublished; this volume, although not exhaustive in its coverage, fills an important need by assembling much of this information in a single source. Jointly published by the GCI and the J. Paul Getty Museum, the book deals with many practical matters relating to the mounting, preparation, etching, polishing, and microscopy of metallic samples and includes an account of the way in which phase diagrams can be used to assist in structural interpretation. The text is supplemented by an extensive number of microstructural studies carried out in the laboratory on ancient and historic metals. The student beginning the study of metallic materials and the conservation scientist who wishes to carry out structural studies of metallic objects of art will find this publication quite useful.
