American Portrait Miniatures In The Manney Collection
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American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection
Author | : Dale T. Johnson |
Publsiher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Portrait miniatures |
ISBN | : 9780870995972 |
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American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author | : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Carrie Rebora Barratt,Lori Zabar |
Publsiher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781588393579 |
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American Portrait Miniatures
Author | : Worcester Art Museum,Susan E. Strickler,Marianne E. Gibson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : UOM:39015039873966 |
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Modern Masters of Miniature Art in America
Author | : Wes Siegrist |
Publsiher | : Wes Siegrist |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2010-10-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780982127834 |
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Once We Were Slaves
Author | : Laura Arnold Leibman |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2021-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780197530498 |
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An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother's maternal line. Using family heirlooms to unlock the mystery of Moses's ancestors, Once We Were Slaves overturns the reclusive heiress's assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor Christian slaves in Barbados. Tracing the siblings' extraordinary journey throughout the Atlantic World, Leibman examines artifacts they left behind in Barbados, Suriname, London, Philadelphia, and, finally, New York, to show how Sarah and Isaac were able to transform themselves and their lives, becoming free, wealthy, Jewish, and--at times--white. While their affluence made them unusual, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten population of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in which the siblings lived, and sheds new light on the fluidity of race--as well as on the role of religion in racial shift--in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Perfect Likeness
Author | : Cincinnati Art Museum,Julie Aronson,Marjorie E. Wieseman,Cynthia Amnéus,Columbia Museum of Art |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780300115802 |
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Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewelry, fashion, hairstyles, and the decorative arts. Unlike many other genres, miniatures have a tradition in which amateurs and professionals have operated in parallel and women artists have flourished as professionals. This richly illustrated book presents approximately 180 portrait miniatures selected from the holdings of the Cincinnati Art Museum, the largest and most diverse collection of its kind in North America. The book stresses the continuity of stylistic tradition across Europe and America as well as the vitality of the portrait miniature format through more than four centuries. A detailed catalogue entry, as well as a concise artist biography, appears for each object. Essays examine various aspects of miniature painting, of the depiction of costume in miniatures, and of the allied art of hair work.
Love Entwined
Author | : Helen Sheumaker |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2007-05-29 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 0812203402 |
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Using a wide array of evidence drawn from poetry, fiction, diaries, letters, and examples of hairwork, Love Entwined traces the widespread popularity of the craft from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
Love and Loss
Author | : Robin Jaffee Frank,New Haven Yale University |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300087241 |
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"Most often, portrait miniatures were painted in watercolor on thin disks of ivory. They were sometimes worn as jewelry, sometimes framed to be viewed privately. Many were painted by specialists, although renowned easel artists - including Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, and Charles Willson Peale - also created them to commemorate births, engagements, marriages, deaths, and other joinings or separations. The book traces the development of this exquisite art form, revealing the close ties between the history of the miniature and the history of American private life."--BOOK JACKET.