French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes: Baroque and Regence, Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (872 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0892368748 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Paul Getty Museum and the authors are to be congratulated on a sumptuous catalogue of a magnificent collection, a splendid contribution to the literature on French furniture.”—The Burlington Magazine . “The J
Design Book Addict said The Finest Furniture Catalog Ever Created!. What the Getty has done for furniture scholarship, by publishing this book, is amazing!This book makes every other book about fine furniture look useless and obsolete!Of course, it includes the usual photos of each piece of furniture in detail, a list of the provenance, a complete description by a curator, an also, a curator written comm
The exceptional collection of French decorative arts in the J. With its painstaking attention to detail, this sumptuous volume is the definitive catalogue of the J. The selection includes richly veneered cabinets, commodes, and desks; carved tables and chairs; and gilt-bronze light fixtures and firedogs that exemplify the superior craftsmanship and elaborate design characteristic of the Baroque style. Each object is described and analyzed in terms of its style, use, provenance and published history, as well as its construction and alterations, materials, and conservation. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of French Baroque furniture and will be of interest to scholars, conservators, and all students of the French decorative arts. . Paul Getty Museum contains more than four hundred objects, most of them dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This gorgeously illustrated volume brings together forty-four objects from the Baroque and Régence periods, roughly corresponding to the reign of Louis XIV and the years immediately following his death in 1715