‎Tucci, Stanley‎
‎Taste‎

‎Taste and the Antique The Lure of Classical Sculpture: 1500-1900. Revised and Amplified Edition. 3 vols‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2024 hardcovers, 3 vols, 1684 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:186 b/w, 1592 col. Language(s): English .*NEW* ISBN 9781909400252.‎

‎For several hundred years, until about 1900, a limited number of antique sculptures were as much admired as are the Mona Lisa, Botticelli's Birth of Venus or Michelangelo's David today. They were reproduced in marble, bronze and lead, as plaster casts in academies and art schools, as porcelain figurines for chimneypieces and as cameos for bracelets and snuffboxes. They were celebrated by poets from Du Bellay and Marino to Byron and D?Annunzio, and memorably evoked by novelists as diverse as Marcel Proust and Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot and Charles Dickens. Copies of some of these statues can be seen at Pavlosk and Madrid, at Stourhead, Charlottenburg, Malibu and Versailles, and in countless gardens, houses and museums throughout the world. How and when did these particular sculptures achieve such a special status? Who were the collectors, restorers, dealers, artists, dilettanti, scholars and archaeologists who created their reputations? Under what names (often wildly fanciful) did they first become famous? How were they interpreted, and how and when and why did their glamour begin to wane? These are some of the problems that are confronted in Taste and the Antique. Taste and the Antique has become a classic of art history since its original publication in 1981. This revised and amplified edition significantly updates the information based on new research undertaken in the last several decades, as well as expanding examples of the reception and influence of these works by artists and collectors from the Renaissance through to contemporary art. The original edition has been expanded into three volumes: Volume 1 is a revised and amplified version of the 1981 edition. Fifteen chapters trace in narrative form, with the support of a wide variety of plates, the rise and decline of this highly important episode in the history of taste. These chapters are followed by catalogue entries for 95 of the most celebrated sculptures, all of them illustrated, which provide information on when and where they were discovered, changes of ownership and nomenclature, as well as a record of varying critical fortunes designed to complement the more general discussion in the earlier chapters. Volume 2 contains especially commissioned new photography of over 90 statues catalogued in Volume 1. Volume 3 is entirely devoted to a visual survey of the full range of replicas and adaptations of the works catalogued and illustrated in the previous volumes. The book is indispensable for historians of taste, and to art historians concerned with the debt owed by numerous artists from the Renaissance onwards to the art of ancient Greece and Rome; and it is also of great value to students and collectors of the many surviving copies of the sculptures discussed. TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume I: Text Preface to the Revised and Amplified Edition An Updated Note on the Presentation of the Essay and Catalogue Introduction I. ?A New Rome? II. The Public and Private Collections of Rome III. Plaster Casts and Prints IV. Control and Codification V. Casts and Copies in Seventeenth-Century Courts VI. ?Tout ce qu?il y a de beau en Italie? VII. Erudite Interests VIII. Florence: The Impact of the Tribuna IX. Museums in Eighteenth-Century Rome X. The New Importance of Naples XI. The Proliferation of Casts and Copies XII. New Fashions in the Copying of Antiquities XIII. Reinterpretations of Antiquity XIV. The Last Dispersals XV. Epilogue Notes to the Text Updated Bibliography Catalogue Appendix Bibliography Index Volume II: Originals Volume III:Replicas and Adaptations‎

‎A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture - Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations‎

‎zu Racknitz, Joseph Friedrich, and Simon Swynfen Jervis: A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture - Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations. 2019. 368 pages, profusely illustrated in colour. Hardback. 27 x 25cms. Full translation of Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's four volumes on the global history of design and ornament, published between 1796 and 1799. With reproductions of the original color plates and essays on Racknitz's biography, his publications and the larger German Enlightenment context that influenced it. The treatsie includes chapters on ancient and modern European taste as well as on Persian, Chinese, Mexican, Indian and Tahitian amongst others.‎

‎Full translation of Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's four volumes on the global history of design and ornament, published between 1796 and 1799. With reproductions of the original color plates and essays on Racknitz's biography, his publications and the larger German Enlightenment context that influenced it. The treatsie includes chapters on ancient and modern European taste as well as on Persian, Chinese, Mexican, Indian and Tahitian amongst others. Text in English‎

‎ELEONORE DE LA TASTE : GOUACHE ORIGINALE SUR PAPIER. (30x38cm). Datée (1996) et signée au crayon.‎

‎ Papier gris contrecollé sur fort papier à grain. Bel état. Provient de la Galerie Alain Veinstein. ‎

‎Stankevich Jan. Facebook with the taste of Lubyanka. (Facebook book with the t‎

‎Stankevich Jan. Facebook with the taste of Lubyanka. (Facebook book with the taste of Lubyanka). In Russian /Stankevich Yan. Feysbuk s privkusom Lubyanki. (Feysbook s privkusom Lubyanki). SeriaInformation war. Design by Andrei Saukov. Executive Editor A. Dyshev. Moscow. Expo. 2014. 288 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb06a103e296534cb9.‎

‎Trade in Good Taste. Relations in Architecture and Culture between the Dutch Republic and the Baltic World in the Seventeenth Century, ‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2005 Paperback, XII+219 pages ., 67 b/w ill., 220 x 280 mm. ISBN 9782503514895.‎

‎During the seventeenth century Dutch influence on the Baltic region, both economic and aesthetic, was unrivaled. In the wake of the Dutch monopoly on Baltic trade, cultural contacts between the Dutch Republic and the Baltic world flourished. The Dutch Republic was even to fulfil an exemplary function in the Baltic world (particularly in the Swedish Empire, the dominating power in the region), not solely limited to the commerce of commodities but extending to the domain of architecture and art as well. In this intensive cultural traffic, an important role was set aside for Dutch immigrants, architects, artists, and their agents. Apart from their regular activities as diplomats or news correspondents, agents mediated in cultural affairs for patrons in the North. As such, they occupied a key role in the relations between the Baltic world and the Dutch Republic. The pivotal element in these networks, they negotiated between Baltic commissioners and Dutch architects, artists, and suppliers of luxury items, including sculptures, tapestries, paintings, as well as a wide range of books and prints - all of which were available on the Amsterdam market. These extensive networks mark the Dutch Republic as a major centre of architecture, art, and information, crucial to the cultural development of northern Europe. The history of this lively trade in good taste is told on the basis of rich archival material, including drawings, book and art collection inventories, correspondence, travel journals, and diaries. New.‎