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Summary:

This book accompanies the opening of the V & A's newly redesigned Europe gallery, which features spectacular paintings, sculpture, furniture, and decorative arts-textiles, fashion, ceramics, glass, metalwork, prints, and books-created by Europe's finest artists and craftsmen of the 17th and 18th centuries for the period's most important tastemakers, among them Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette, and Catherine the Great. Outstanding art and domestic objects are discussed within their original contexts to highlight the rhythms and rituals of life during this period. Lavishly illustrated, the book includes essays explaining the grandeur of court interiors-for which the larger and more elaborate art objects were made-as well as discussion of more-humble period rooms and intimate interiors.

Table of Contents:

• Religion and state
• Exploring and classifying the world
• Architecture, interiors and gardens
• Social and cultural life
• Fashion and dress.

Contributors:

Miller, Elizabeth, 1958- , editor

Young, Hilary , editor

Victoria and Albert Museum

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Victoria and Albert Museum — Catalogs

Art objects — England — London — Catalogs

Arts, European — Catalogs

Victoria and Albert Museum

Art objects

Arts, European

England — London

Genres:

Catalogs

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-203) and index.

Physical Description:

208 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Call Numbers:

NK480.L7 A78 2016

ISBNs:

9781851778072 (hardback)
1851778071 (hardback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2014932333

OCLC Numbers:

923898865