AL MOMENTO ESAURITO
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521597811
ISBN-139780521597814
eBay Product ID (ePID)342758
Product Key Features
Number of Pages114 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBritish Portrait Miniatures
Publication Year1998
SubjectMuseums, Tours, Points of Interest, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Travel
AuthorGraham Reynolds
SeriesFitzwilliam Museum Handbooks Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight13.8 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN97-005756
Reviews"...provides an introduction to the history of portrait miniatures and gives a compact, comprehensive survey of their development, from Henry VIII, who imported them from France, to 1900." Antique Review
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal757/.7/094107442659
SynopsisThe collection of portrait miniatures in the Fitzwilliam Museum gives a compact and comprehensive survey of the development of this art form. It illustrates its progress through the work of almost every major master in the genre, with works of the highest quality. This book provides an introduction to the history of portrait miniatures, a glossary, and a bibliography; ninety-six items from the collection are described, and each item is illustrated in full color, to bring out the subtlety and intimacy of this delicate art form., For over three hundred years, from the early fifteenth century until the mid-Victorian era, there was a continuously growing demand for portrait miniatures, and an ever expanding number of artists qualified to satisfy that demand. The collection of miniatures in the Fitzwilliam Museum gives a compact and comprehensive survey of the development of this national art. It illustrates the course of its progress through the work of almost every major master in the genre, with works of the highest excellence. This book provides an introduction to the history of portrait miniatures: ninety-six items from the collection are described, and each item is illustrated in full colour, to bring out the subtlety and intimacy of this delicate art form., An introduction to the history of portrait miniatures, containing a description of nearly a hundred items from the Fitzwilliam Museum. Sixty-four stunning colour plates bring out the subtlety and intimacy of this delicate art form.
LC Classification NumberND1337.G72 R492 1998
