Main entry:

Praz, Mario, 1896-1982.

Title & Author:

An illustrated history of interior decoration : from Pompeii to art nouveau / Mario Praz ; [translated from the Italian La filosofia dell'arredamento by William Weaver].

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1982, ©1981.

Description:

396 pages : 400 illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Illustrations and commentary -- Greek and Roman furnishings -- The Medieval house -- Late Medieval interiors -- Late Gothic furniture -- 15th century Italian interiors -- Interiors in the paintings of Vittore Carpaccio -- Interiors in Florentine Renaissance painting -- The Scholar's cell -- 16th century interiors in the engravings of van der Straet -- 17th century Flemish interiors in the paintings of Frans Franken -- Dutch interiors in 17th century emblem books -- Opulent Flemish interiors in the paintings of van Bassen -- Louis XIII interiors in the engravings of Abraham Bosse -- Interiors in 17th century Dutch painting -- Wunderkammern and Patrician galleries -- Gothic taste in 18th century England -- Louis XV interiors : Innovations in furniture and the distribution of apartments -- The classical influence and the development of the Louis XVI style -- An interest in humble interiors and precious furniture -- Early neoclassical interiors -- Interiors by Percier and Fontaine : the "Bible of empire style" -- Archeological trends in England : interiors and furniture by Thomas Hope -- Empire interiors.
The album of Queen Sophia of Holland -- Innovations : the Pouf -- Character of the furnishing-character of the owner -- Children and flowers -- Around the table -- The world outside -- Influence of the great exhibition of 1851 -- Residences of foreigners in Italy -- Watercolor interiors by Fernand Pelez -- Exaltation of the stuffed chair -- The tyle Louis XVI-imperatrice -- The Chateau de Ferrieratrice -- The twilight of the Biedermeier spirit : a comparison between interiors of the 1840's and 1860's -- The styleless interior -- The clutter of bric-a-brac and junk : the Makart-Bukett -- The Japanese vogue and the eclecticism of the 19th century -- The intimism of interiors by Vuillard -- Art Nouveau interiors.
Water color interiors by Garnerey -- Empire interiors in Naples -- From Empire to Biedermeier -- The timelessness of humble interiors -- The Biedermeier Stimmung in the paintings of Georg Friedrich Kersting -- Interior views as portraits of famous persons -- The Bonapartes in exile-the round table of Queen Hortense -- Early 19th century Florentine interiors -- Biedermeier interiors of the Bourbons in Naples -- Biedermeier interiors of the court of Marie-Louise at Parma -- Bourgeois interiors and the sense of intimacy -- 19th century kitchens -- American and English interiors of the early 19th century -- The Brighton pavilion -- The home and museum of Sir John Soane -- Sovereigns' studies of the early 19th century -- Interiors of the German Royal palaces in the early 19th century : Interiors by Karl Friedrich Schinkel ; The Zimmerlaube ; Neo-Gothic taste and ornament ; Wallpaper, curtains and tile stoves ; The mode of Raphael ; The empire style in German palaces : the Munich Residenz ; Interiors of the Tegernsee cstle : empire-Biedermeier -- Russian interiors, 1820's-1850's -- Danish interiors of about 1830 -- Cafes, osterie, and gathering places -- Artists' studios -- The Chigi album -- Dutch interiors, 1830-1840.

Summary:

Paintings, watercolors, and sketches show the interiors of Greek and Roman, medieval, Renaissance, and Victorian homes in England and Europe.

ISBN:

0500233586
9780500233580

Subject:

Interior decoration History.
Décoration intérieure Histoire.
Interior decoration

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 18550
Call No.: 0002707 W13943; ID:87-B5857
Status: Available