Publication

2006-03-01 - HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Language

English

Word Count

87,000 words, Guess

Page Count

348 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780006531562
  • Open LibraryOL7259708M

Classifications

  • LCCNX700.P53 2005
  • LCCN5240 .P57 2005
  • DDC701.03094
and 1 more
  • LCCN5240 .P57 2004

Description

"Marks of Opulence is a magisterial survey of European art and artistic patronage from 1000 until the triumph of modernism. Tracing art history from the discovery of silver in the Harz mountains, through the catastrophic effects of plague in the fourteenth century, to the studied magnificence of papal and royal courts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Colin Platt shows how the great and the good have always used art to bolster political power and self-esteem."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Marks of Opulence: The Why, When and Where of Western Art 1000-1914HarperCollins Publishers Limited2006-03-01

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