Research Catalog

Title

Fads and fancies / Denys Sutton ; with an introduction by Kenneth Clark.

Author

Sutton, Denys

Publication

New York : Wittenborn, 1979.

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Holdings

Details

Subject

Arts

Genre/Form

Autobiographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Le bon ton and Le roast beef : does an English rococo exist? -- 'The faire majestic paradise of Stowe' : the historical and artistic background of a famous house -- The final flowering of the Medici : a little-known aspect of Italian patronage -- 'Magick land' : artists and travellers in eighteenth-century Rome -- Realms of enjoyment : the culture of eighteenty-century Bath -- The Black Swan of Bom Jesus : English travellers in eighteenth-century Portugal -- A silver age in Dutch art : the discovery of eighteenth-century Dutch art -- The paradoxes of neo-classicism : a reappraisal of a major artistic movement -- Il cavaliere Alberto : the life and times of Thorvaldsen, the Danish sculptor -- The incomparable Josephine : the Empress Josephine and her taste -- The prisoner : an assessment of Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Celtic and classical dreams : Burne-Jones and his world -- A long affair : the Bostonians and French art -- Munich : city of the arts : the major artistic role of Munich from 1800 to 1914 -- Wanderers and aesthetes : Russian art from the symbolists to the Revolution -- 'A rose's place among our memories' : Paris in the 1890s -- The sharp eye of Edith Wharton : the American novelist and her taste -- The singularity of Gino Severini : Italy's most original painter of the twentieth century.

ISBN

• 0815009038
• 9780815009030

LCCN

79064887

OCLC

• 6189560
• SCSB-2244610

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries