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Conundrum Puzzles in the Grotesques Tapestry Series

Bremer-David Charissa

ISBN: HB: 9781606064535, Getty Publications, December 2015
64 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

The whimsical imagery of four tapestries in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum and currently on display at the Getty Center is perplexing. Created in France at the Beauvais manufactory between 1690 and 1730, these charming hangings,...

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Woven Gold Tapestries of Louis XIV

Bremer-David Charissa

ISBN: HB: 9781606064610, Getty Publications, December 2015
136 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Meticulously woven by hand with wool, silk, and gilt-metal thread, the tapestry collection of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, represents the highest achievements of the art form. Intended to enhance the king'sreputation by visualizing his manifest...

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Decorative Arts

Paris Life and Luxury in Eighteenth Century

Bremer-David Charissa

ISBN: HB: 9781606060520, Getty Publications, April 2011
168 pp., 28.9x23.8 cm, 79 colour illus., 77 black&white illus.

This title provides a superbly illustrated and fascinating look at world of luxury objects in 18th-century Paris. Luxury items from centuries past are most often seen within museum settings, devoid of their original contexts and connotations. This gr...

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Decorative Arts

European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago

Brosens Koenraad, Bertrand Pascal-Francois, Bremer-David Charissa, Cleland Elizabeth, Delmarcel Guy, Forti Grazzini Nello, Mayer Thurman Christa C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300119602, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2008
450 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 200 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

This lavishly illustrated book presents a rich variety of European tapestries from the Art Institute of Chicago. These exquisite tapestries include medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque examples, manufactured at almost all the major centres of productio...

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History of Art

French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes Baroque and Regence

Wilson Gillian, Bremer-David Charissa, Weaver Jeffrey, Considine Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780892368747, Getty Publications, May 2008
464 pp., 30.4x22.4 cm, 105 colour illus., 432 black&white illus.

The exceptional collection of French decorative arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum contains more than 400 pieces, most of them dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This exquisitely illustrated volume brings together forty-four objects...

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French Tapestries and Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Bremer-David Charissa

ISBN: HB: 9780892363797, Getty Publications, March 2006
208 pp., 30.6x23.6 cm, 55 colour illus.,146 black&white illus.

This lavishly-illustrated book is a survey of the Getty Museum's seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French textiles – one of the world's finest collections. Featuring twenty-five extraordinary tapestries woven at the Gobelins and Beauvais manufactur...

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