Florence Overly. July 29 (calendar Day, August 14), 1935. -- Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Claims
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Published: 1935
Total Pages: 7
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Claims
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Published: 1935
Total Pages: 7
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Published: 1936
Total Pages: 1884
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Published: 1935-07
Total Pages: 830
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: 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: Joseph Gill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-03
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9780521176279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1959 book provides a detailed study of the Council of Florence (originally known as the Council of Basel).
Author: Gregory Clark
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 0892367121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClark examines the book of hours in the context of medieval culture, the book trade in Paris, and the role of Paris as an international center of illumination. 64 illustrations, 40 in color.
Author: John M. Curran
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Florence Nightingale
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780912670553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world knows Florence Nightingale as "the lady with the lamp"--the revered founder of nursing as a respectable profession for women. But few people are aware that Nightingale's career began only after years of struggle to free herself from her suffocating Victorian family. In this surprisingly passionate feminist essay (a "brilliant polemic," states Martha Vicinus), Nightingale denounces the lives of idleness she and other women of her class were forced to lead.
Author: E. H. Gombrich
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-10-01
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0300213972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKE. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text suggests illustrations on every page. This illustrated edition of the Little History brings together the pellucid humanity of his narrative with the images that may well have been in his mind's eye as he wrote the book. The two hundred illustrations—most of them in full color—are not simple embellishments, though they are beautiful. They emerge from the text, enrich the author's intention, and deepen the pleasure of reading this remarkable work. For this edition the text is reset in a spacious format, flowing around illustrations that range from paintings to line drawings, emblems, motifs, and symbols. The book incorporates freshly drawn maps, a revised preface, and a new index. Blending high-grade design, fine paper, and classic binding, this is both a sumptuous gift book and an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history.
Author: David Leroy Yarnell
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Published: 1935
Total Pages: 72
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