The Arts of Living : Europe 1600-1800
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1851778071
ISBN-13
9781851778072
Publisher
V & A Publishing
Imprint
V & A Publishing
Country of Manufacture
CN
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 1st, 2015
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
1,076 grams
Dimensions
25.70 x 23.20 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800
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The Arts of Living explores the range, depth and beauty of the V&A's European collections from 1600-1815, the period that laid the foundations for the world we know today. At the heart of the book is in investigation into the objects of everyday life, and the ways that art and design both reflected and changed how people lived.
This book accompanies the opening of the V&As newly redesigned Europe gallery, which features spectacular paintings, sculpture, furniture, and decorative artstextiles, fashion, ceramics, glass, metalwork, prints, and bookscreated by Europes finest artists and craftsmen of the 17th and 18th centuries for the periods most important tastemakers, among them Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette, and Catherine the Great. Outstanding art and domestic objects are discussed within their original contexts to highlight the rhythms and rituals of life during this period. Lavishly illustrated, the book includes essays explaining the grandeur of court interiorsfor which the larger and more elaborate art objects were madeas well as discussion of more-humble period rooms and intimate interiors.
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