An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration: From Pompeii to Art Nouveau

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“This prize e-book in relation to household ornament . . . enchantingly informs us concerning the evolution of style and luxury.” ―Art & Auction

The enchantment of this atypical e-book lies in its rapt obsession with the main points of the household inner, borne out in a perfectly wealthy choice of photos. Those fascinating art work and watercolors, most commonly relationship from 1770 to 1860 and coming from in all places Europe, Russia, and The united states, report with devoted accuracy the form of a room, the development of a carpet, the furnishings, photos, materials, and wall coverings, the dangle of the curtains and the autumn of the sunshine they admit.

The images to find their position in a whole survey of household―and a few extra palatial―interiors portrayed in artwork from the traditional global to the overdue 19th century, and together with works by means of Vermeer, Hogarth, Durer, Degas, and Vuillard. The textual content is going past scholarly remark to offer an evolving image of women and men in terms of household setting, filled with human pastime, wit, and huge-ranging cultural references.

Mario Praz (1896–1982) used to be Professor of English Language and Literature on the School of Rome. Probably the most celebrated of his many different books is The Romantic Agony. 400, 64 in colour
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