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Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum) by Bremer-David С. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997. — 128 p. — ISBN-10 0892364548. 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 makers 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.

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Author
Bremer-David С.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
1997
Language
EN
ISBN
9780892364541
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Crafts & Hobbies, Art, Home & Lifestyle

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