Welcome to our book review site www.go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Fragile Diplomacy
While imported Chinese porcelain had become a valuable commodity in Europe in the seventeenth century, local attempts to produce porcelain long remained unsuccessful. At last the secret of hard-paste porcelain was uncovered, and in 1710 the first European porcelain was manufactured in Saxony. Meissen porcelain, still manufactured today, soon ranked in value with silver and gold. This thorough and lavishly illustrated volume explores the early years of Meissen porcelain and how the princes of Saxony came to use highly prized porcelain pieces as diplomatic gifts for presentation to foreign courts. An eminent team of international contributors examines the trade of Meissen with other nations, from England to Russia. They also investigate the cultural ambience of the Dresden Court, varying tastes of the markets, the wide range of porcelain objects, and their designers and makers. Individual chapters are devoted to gifts to Denmark, other German courts, the Holy Roman Empire, Italy, France, and other nations. For every Meissen collector or enthusiast, this book will be not only a treasured handbook but also a source of visual delight.
European Porcelain in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Porcelain imported from China was the most highly coveted new medium in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe. Its pure white color, translucency, and durability, as well as the delicacy of decoration, were impossible to achieve in European earthenware and stoneware. In response, European ceramic factories set out to discover the process of producing porcelain in the Chinese manner, with significant artistic, technical, and commercial ramifications for Britain and the Continent. Indeed, not only artisans, but kings, noble patrons, and entrepreneurs all joined in the quest, hoping to gain both prestige and profit from the enterprises they established. This beautifully illustrated ...
Catalogue of the University of Michigan
Announcements for the following year included in some vols.
Dairy Queens
In a lively narrative that spans more than two centuries, Meredith Martin tells the story of a royal and aristocratic building type that has been largely forgotten today: the pleasure dairy of early modern France. These garden structures—most famously the faux-rustic, white marble dairy built for Marie-Antoinette’s Hameau at Versailles—have long been dismissed as the trifling follies of a reckless elite. Martin challenges such assumptions and reveals the pivotal role that pleasure dairies played in cultural and political life, especially with respect to polarizing debates about nobility, femininity, and domesticity. Together with other forms of pastoral architecture such as model farms...
Samuel and Selma Schwartz Papers and Photographs
The Samuel and Selma Schwartz papers and photographs consist of correspondence, Samuel Schwartzs U. S. Army letter of discharge, photographs of Samuel Schwartz, and the couples marriage notices in Y.M. & W.H.A. Weekly and Jewish Criterion. Correspondence includes letters from friends on the occasion of their engagement, as well as letters exchanged by Samuel and Selma Schwartz shortly before their marriage in 1944. Also included are papers pertaining to Selma Schwartzs involvement as a member and organist of the Squirrel Hill Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star; three editions of The Playgoer, a program magazine for the Nixon Theatre in Pittsburgh, Pa.; and a menu from Childs Restaurant signed by friends of Selma Schwartz, for whom a pre-wedding dinner was held there in 1944. One oversize U.S. Army group photograph taken at Fort Myers, Virginia on January 27, 1944, is also included in the collection.
