A Guide to Port Sunlight Village
A Guide to Port Sunlight Village

Author: Edward Hubbard

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 0853234558

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Port Sunlight was founded in 1888 by the industrialist Lord Leverhulme to house the workers from his prospering business—which would evolve into Unilever. Acclaimed for its planning and house design, Port Sunlight greatly influenced subsequent planned developments, as well as the garden city movement. This fully revised version of A Guide to Port Sunlight marries the practical details of a guidebook with historical information about Port Sunlight’s design and architecture, its place in the history of urban planning, and Leverhulme's role in the town’s creation. A wealth of illustrations helps make this the perfect book for armchair and actual travelers to this jewel of nineteenth-century town planning.

The Art Lover?s Pocket Guide
The Art Lover?s Pocket Guide

Author: Henry P. Traverso, PhD

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2013-07

Total Pages: 903

ISBN-13: 147599088X

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"Featuring diverse artists such as Joseph Albers, Picasso, Monet, Francisco de Zurbaran, and a host of others, this comprehensive handbook provides essential biographical information and historical context for more than 250 visual artists. It follows with an orderly list of each artist's works and where those works are located throughout the world, including museums, galleries, churches, monasteries, athanaeums, universities, parks, and libraries in the United States, Canada, and Europe." --Page [4] of cover.

The Pocket Guide to Victorian Artists & Their Models
The Pocket Guide to Victorian Artists & Their Models

Author: Russell James

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2011-06-13

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1844687309

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The Victorian era produced many famous artists and styles. John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti were part of the famous pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood whose willowy models were often seen in the works of several of the artists. One of the most famous was Elizabeth Siddall, an artist in her own right, who posed for Millais Ophelia, married to Rossetti, and posed for him, Holman Hunt and Walter Deverell. This fascinating book is a must for everyone interested in art and the Victorian era, and in the genres, styles and relationships between art and the events of the day. There are biographies of the artists and models, glimpses of their most famous pieces new insights into the vibrant Victorian art-world - the lives and loves, and the artists dealings with their patrons.Did you know?Rossetti tucked a book of his own poetry into Siddalls hair in her coffin and, later, arranged for her exhumation to reclaim it. After several years, the coffin had preserved her ethereal red hair.

The Palgrave Guide to English Literature and Its Contexts
The Palgrave Guide to English Literature and Its Contexts

Author: Peter Widdowson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0230000991

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This comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context of English literature covers the core periods of literature, and history, from the English Renaissance to the present. Peter Widdowson introduces and outlines key terms, concepts and developments and provides a series of timelines showing political, social, cultural and literary events for each year. Together, this indispensable reference work offers a concise history of Britain for literature students at all levels and provides readers with the context for any literary work from 1500 to 2000. The Palgrave Guide to English Literature and its Contexts, 1500-2000 - Overs a wide range of canonical British authors and works but also provides contextualising examples of works from other countries - Each chapter focuses on a key period in English Literature and History, gives a brief overview of that period, and defines the main terms and ideas of the age - Contains easy-to-follow timelines which may be viewed either horizontally or vertically, allowing readers to track a chronological history, or single out the developments and events of a specific year

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain

Author: Michael Leapman

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 722

ISBN-13: 1465408312

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Now available in PDF format. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain is your indispensable guide to England, Scotland, and Wales. This fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of key cities and towns. DK's insider tips and essential local information showcases the best of Great Britain. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel guide will help you to discover Great Britain region by region--whether you are most interested in local festivals and markets or day trips around the countryside. Detailed listings will guide you to the best hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops for all budgets, and detailed, practical information helps travelers get around by train, bus, or car. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain shows you what others only tell you.

British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections
British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections

Author: Christopher Wright

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 950

ISBN-13: 9780300117301

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This book sets a new standard as a work of reference. It covers British and Irish art in public collections from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, and it encompasses nearly 9,000 painters and 90,000 paintings in more than 1,700 separate collections. The book includes as well pictures that are now lost, some as a consequence of the Second World War and others because of de-accessioning, mostly from 1950 to about 1975 when Victorian art was out of fashion. By listing many tens of thousands of previously unpublished works, including around 13,000 which do not yet have any form of attribution, this book becomes a unique and indispensable work of reference, one that will transform the study of British and Irish painting.