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  • The Palace and Park

    by Edward Forbes; R. G. Latham; Richard Owen; Samuel Phillips; George Scharf; F. K. J. Shenton ...
    "The Palace and Park" is a captivating exploration of the intricate relationship between royal residences and their surrounding landscapes. The authors, including Edward Forbes and Richard Owen, delve into the architectural and natural beauty of these spaces, highlighting how they reflect the power and prestige of the monarchy. Through vivid descriptions and insightful analysis, the book invites ... Read more

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  • The Palace and Park

    Its Natural History, and Its Portrait Gallery, Together with a Description of the Pompeian Court

    by R. G. Latham, Richard Owen, F. K. J. Shenton, George Scharf, Edward Forbes, Samuel Phillips ...
    The Palace and Park is an evocative collection that intricately weaves together diverse literary styles, from poetic musings to insightful essays, all centered around the cultural and historical grandeur of regal spaces. As readers traverse its pages, they are invited to explore not only the physical opulence of these royal settings but also the philosophical and artistic reflections they inspire. ... Read more

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  • The Parthenon Marbles

    The Case for Reunification

    by Christopher Hitchens, Charalamabos Bouras, Robert Browning, Nadine Gordimer ...
    A fascinating history of an art world scandal—the seizure and sale of Ancient Greek sculptures to the British Museum—and a passionate cry for their return to the Parthenon in Athens.The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin, then ambassador to the ... Read more

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  • The Elgin Affair

    The True Story of the Greatest Theft in History

    by Theodore Vrettos ...
    Almost two hundred years after they were purchased” from Greece, the finest and most famous marbles of antiquity still remain a burning issue. This compelling, controversial story of the Elgin marbles re-creates in full and colorful detail the greatest art theft in history,” a steamy tale of obsession, intrigue, adultery, and ruin. As the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople, ... Read more

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  • The Diary of John Evelyn (Complete)

    by John Evelyn ...
    The two chief diarists of the age of Charles the Second are, mutatis mutandis, not ill characterized by the remark of a wicked wit upon the brothers Austin. "John Austin," it was said, "served God and died poor: Charles Austin served the devil, and died rich. Both were clever fellows. Charles was much the cleverer of the two." Thus John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys, the former a perfect model of ... Read more

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  • The Grammar of Ornament

    A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts - The complete and unabridged full-color edition

    by Owen Jones ...
    A complete and unabridged full-color edition of the classic sourcebook on ornamental designFirst published in 1856, The Grammar of Ornament remains a design classic. Its inspiration came from pioneering British architect and designer Owen Jones (1809–1874), who produced a comprehensive design treatise for the machine age, lavishly illustrated in vivid chromolithographic color. Jones made detailed ... Read more

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  • Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages: A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance

    by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison ...
    The very general and keen interest in the revival of arts and crafts in America is a sign full of promise and pleasure to those who are working among the so-called minor arts. One reads at every turn how greatly Ruskin and Morris have influenced handicraft: how much these men and their co-workers have modified the appearance of our streets and houses, our materials, textiles, utensils, and all ... Read more

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  • Ischia in the gulf of Naples

    by Raffaele Castagna ...
    Ischia is the largest island in the Bay of Naples. The Castle, built by Alphonso V of Aragon in the fifteenth century, is distant 16 miles from the Punta di Posillipo, and 20 miles from the Mole of Naples; it is famous in Italian annals for its long association with the noble poetess Vittoria Colonna, Marchioness of Pescara. Mount Epomeo, the Epopos of the Greeks, the Epopeus of the Latin poets, ... Read more

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  • Art Work In Gold In Silver

    by Henry B. Wheatley ...
    The chief aim of this series of handbooks of practical art is to bring to the notice of students and anatcuss of art, as well as all Iovers of the highest excellence in workmanship, numerous examples, both ancient and modern, of the application of beautiful design to articles of every-day use and to the various objects which are frequently employed for purposes of decoration. The Handbook will ... Read more

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  • Letters of an Architect, From France, Italy, and Greece (Complete)

    by Joseph Woods ...
    It is a great advantage to me that I can address letters on architecture to a person for whose taste and judgment I have so much esteem, but who at the same time is not an architect. Being obliged to avoid a great many technical phrases and forms of speech, which often serve as a convenient shelter for ignorance or superficial knowledge, I shall find it necessary to study the subject myself more ... Read more

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  • Val D'Arno

    by John Ruskin ...
    Val D'Arno by the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy,John Ruskin.Ruskin's views on art, wrote Kenneth Clark, "cannot be made to form a logical system, and perhaps ... Read more

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