Rua de Santo Antônio, Belém, Pará, Brasil
Belém - PA
Fotografia - Cartão Postal
segunda-feira, 28 de junho de 2021
Propaganda "Perfeição Integral Garantida Pela Qualidade", Caminhão Mercedes Benz LPK 331 S, Mercedes Benz, Brasil
Propaganda "Perfeição Integral Garantida Pela Qualidade", Caminhão Mercedes Benz LPK 331 S, Mercedes Benz, Brasil
Propaganda
Propaganda "Escola Mecânica Ford", Ford, Brasil
Propaganda "Escola Mecânica Ford", Ford, Brasil
Propaganda
Jarro de Leite e Açucareiro Sèvres, Circa 1780, França
Jarro de Leite e Açucareiro Sèvres, Circa 1780, França
Fotografia
Vaso Azul Sèvres, Circa 1775, França
Vaso Azul Sèvres, Circa 1775, França
Fotografia
Sir Walter Rockcliffe Farquhar was a senior partner at Herries, Farquhar & Co., a private bank that pioneered the use of circular notes (the forerunner of traveller's cheques) and became one of the leading financiers of the aristocracy and gentry. After the Napoleonic wars, the bank acquired French bonds and apparently came into contact with Napoleon III. According to family tradition, the deposed Emperor was accommodated by the Farquhar family either at the London family home in Eaton Square or at Polesden Lacey, which had been acquired in 1853. By tradition, Napoleon III was unable to repay a loan by conventional means and so gave Sir Walter valuables from French royal palaces that has been transported to the channel in bullock carts and brought to the U.K.
This vase was exhibited from 1929 at the Bethnal Green Museum, which had been founded in 1872 as a branch museum of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Among many other disparate collections, much of Sir Richard Wallace's collection was displayed at the museum between 1872 and 1875 while Hertford House was being converted to receive it.
The drawing for the model of the present lot, Vase Boizot bouc, is at the Cité de la cèramique, Sèvres, inventory number 2011.3.416. Not many examples of this shape are currently known. A pair of vases Boizot à têtes de boucs with additionally moulded borders were sold at Sotheby's New York, 19 October 2017, lot 232. Another undecorated and unglazed pair with applied vine wreaths is in the collection of the Château de Fontainebleau (F2005-25-1, F2005-25-1).
The subject of History's Victory over Time, here exemplified by the winged Angel as history leaning on the shoulders of time proved a popular iconographical source in the second half of the 18th century. It was reprised perhaps most notably by Anton Raphael Mengs (1727-1779) in the ceiling frescoes for the Camera dei Papiri in the Vatican Library in 1772. The subject of the Triumph of History over Time on this vase shows a departure from the more rococo subjects into fashionable neoclassical subjects on Sèvres porcelain.
Obras na Fachada da Catedral de Santa Maria del Fiore / Duomo / Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florença, Itália
Obras na Fachada da Catedral de Santa Maria del Fiore / Duomo / Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florença, Itália
Florença - Itália
Fotografia
Non tutti sanno che l'attuale facciata del Duomo di Firenze, inaugurata nel 1887 su progetto dell'architetto Emilio De Fabris è risultato di lunghe e violente polemiche. Il progetto originale del De Fabris era di una facciata tricuspidata, sul modello di quella del duomo di Orvieto, ma questa soluzione non piacque a molti e lo stesso De Fabris ne propose un'altra, di tipo basilicale, senza le cuspidi. La polemica si trascinò per anni, sino a quando, compiuta ormai tutta la facciata, ne rimaneva da costruire solo la sommità. Per arrivare ad una decisione il lato sinistro fu elevato a cuspide, mentre il destro fu lasciato piano, come documentano alcune fotografie dell'epoca: fu indetto un referendum che finalmente portò alla versione senza le cuspidi, quella che attualmente vediamo oggi.
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