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Orchestrating Elegance: Alma-Tadema and the Marquand Music Room
Alexis Goodin
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Description for Orchestrating Elegance: Alma-Tadema and the Marquand Music Room
Hardback. Editor(s): Goodin, Alexix; Morris, Kathleen M. Num Pages: 240 pages, 190 color + b/w illus. BIC Classification: AGC; AKR; AMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203. .
During the 19th century, New York City's grand mansions on Fifth and Madison Avenues boasted sumptuous interiors, often with each room decorated in a different historic style. Financier, art collector, and philanthropist Henry Gurdon Marquand famously commissioned eminent British painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) to create the Greco-Pompeian music room for his home. This beautiful publication documents and examines the celebrated design, which included an elaborately decorated Steinway grand piano, a large suite of matching furniture, and an embroidery scheme for the upholstery and coordinated curtains. Alma-Tadema secured Frederic Leighton to create a major painting for the room's ceiling and ... Read more
During the 19th century, New York City's grand mansions on Fifth and Madison Avenues boasted sumptuous interiors, often with each room decorated in a different historic style. Financier, art collector, and philanthropist Henry Gurdon Marquand famously commissioned eminent British painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) to create the Greco-Pompeian music room for his home. This beautiful publication documents and examines the celebrated design, which included an elaborately decorated Steinway grand piano, a large suite of matching furniture, and an embroidery scheme for the upholstery and coordinated curtains. Alma-Tadema secured Frederic Leighton to create a major painting for the room's ceiling and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300226676
SKU
V9780300226676
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About Alexis Goodin
Alexis Goodin is curatorial research associate at the Clark Art Institute. Kathleen M. Morris is Sylvia and Leonard Marx Director of Collections and Exhibitions and curator of decorative arts at the Clark Art Institute.
Reviews for Orchestrating Elegance: Alma-Tadema and the Marquand Music Room
Minutely researched and generously illustrated publication. -Charlotte Gere, The Burlington Magazine