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Engraving
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Engraving

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1886
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Fan Museum
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 96

The Fan Museum

This work tells the story of the privately owned Fan Museum in London, its aims and aspirations, and illustrates in detail over fifty of the most prestigious fans and fan leaves in its collection, ranging from a 1681 folding fan depicting Louis XIV and his family, to a Victorian fan with guards containing compartments which house a minute sewing kit with scissors, a mirror and a comb.

The Dancing Column
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 630

The Dancing Column

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Joseph Rykwert is one of the major architectural historians of this century. THE DANCING COLUMN is his most controversial and challenging work to date. A decade in preparation, it is a deeply erudite, clearly written, and wide-ranging deconstruction of the system of column and beam known as the "orders of architecture". Rykwert traces the analogy between columns and/or buildings and the human body. 315 illustrations.

The Geometry of an Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 837

The Geometry of an Art

This review of literature on perspective constructions from the Renaissance through the 18th century covers 175 authors, emphasizing Peiro della Francesca, Guidobaldo del Monte, Simon Stevin, Brook Taylor, and Johann Heinrich. It treats such topics as the various methods of constructing perspective, the development of theories underlying the constructions, and the communication between mathematicians and artisans in these developments.

A Treatise on Etching
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

A Treatise on Etching

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1880
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Visual Cultures of Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Visual Cultures of Science

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: UPNE

A new collection explores the complex role of visual representation in science.

The History of the European Family: Family life in early modern times (1500-1789)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

The History of the European Family: Family life in early modern times (1500-1789)

This opening volume of a three-part history of the family in Europe examines the material conditions of family life, housing, diet and domestic organisation, and the economic and social factors that influenced its development.

Consuming Splendor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 460

Consuming Splendor

A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. It reveals for the first time the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.

Marriage A-la-mode
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Marriage A-la-mode

  • Categories: Art

Studie over het werk van de Engelse schilder William Hogarth (1697-1764).

Prints and Printmaking
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Prints and Printmaking

  • Categories: Art

Introductory text that touches on the basics of various printmaking techniques and briefly describes the history of each.