Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum write by Gillian Wilson. This book was released on 1983. Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. J. Paul Getty began to collect French decorative arts in the 1930s and continued to do so until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection has continued to grow since then at a rapid pace and contains over three hundred individual pieces at the time this book is published. This volume illustrates fifty of them. The selection represents a cross section of the collection, which covers the period from approximately 1660 to 1800. In the eighteenth century it became fashionable in Parisian society to decorate the interiors of houses with Far Eastern materials such as lacquer and porcelain. This taste was catered to by the marchands-merciers, members of a guild who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, the antique dealer, and the picture dealer. These men devised highly ingenious settings for Far Eastern porcelains to adapt their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. Information about them and their clientele has been used in cataloguing the Getty Museum’s collection of mounted oriental porcelain, which is large and of high quality. This book is not a catalogue, nor is it a mere picture book or checklist. Each piece has been chosen because it represents a particular aspect of the crafts involved in the production of objects that were made by Parisian craftsmen for the crown, the nobility, and the rich bourgeoisie. The pieces are arranged in chronological order. Translations of the French archival extracts, an index, and a concise bibliography have been provided.
Decorative Arts
Decorative Arts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decorative Arts write by Charissa Bremer-David. This book was released on 1993-09-09. Decorative Arts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume includes concise, illustrated entries on the more than 450 examples of furniture, porcelain, and silver from the Museum's collection. New to this expanded edition are sections devoted to maiolica and glass. An index of previous owners and updated bibliographies are of particular help to the scholar.
Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum write by Gillian Wilson. This book was released on 2002-03-07. Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. J. Paul Getty had a passion for the exquisitely made furniture and decorative objects of eighteenth-century France, which he began collecting in the 1930s. Gillian Wilson, curator of decorative arts since 1971, has broadened and strengthened the collection, adding Boulle furniture, mounted oriental porcelain, tapestries, clocks, ceramics, and more. In the 1980s and 1990s the Museum continued to enlarge its decorative arts holdings, creating a European sculpture department in 1984 and adding glass, maiolica, goldsmiths’ work, pietre dure, and furniture from Italy and Northern Europe. This book is a revised and expanded edition of Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). In addition to more than forty recent acquisitions—among these four wall sconces from Versailles that once belonged to Marie Antoinette and an elaborate upholstered bed from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld—it includes the results of years of research. Designed for scholars, students, and devotees of the decorative arts, this volume provides a comprehensive look at the Getty's fine collection.
Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts
Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts write by Charissa Bremer-David. This book was released on 1997-11-13. Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from Gobelins and Beauvais, bronze firedogs from Fontainebleau, and a lathe-turned ivory goblet of astonishing complexity from Saxony are among the other highlights of this handsome volume.
The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections
The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections write by John Walsh. This book was released on 1997-12-04. The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides a history of the buildings that have housed the Getty Museum collections, overviews the collections themselves, and offers a biography of J. Paul Getty
