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Janina and Zygmunt Bauman4
Leeds Russian Archive1

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art27
art, cypriot15
chemistry, technical2
death2
democracy2
engraving2
gilding2
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porcelain2

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Cyprus15
Andover (England)1
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Cesnola, Luigi Palma DI (1832-1904)15
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)15
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3
Dossie, Robert (1777)2
Hoare, Prince (1755-1834)1
Museum of Art and Design, Zurich1
Nordic Institute For Contemporary Art1
Praxis Spa1
Rossiiska︠I︡A Akademi︠I︡A Nauk. Nauchnyi Sovet Po Istorii Mirovoi KulʹTury1
Sotheby'S Sussex1

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Pam︠i︡atniki kulʹtury : novye otkryti︠i︡a (1988)

Rossiĭska︠i︡a akademi︠i︡a nauk. Nauchnyĭ sovet po istorii mirovoĭ kulʹtury

At head of h.t.p.: Rossiĭska︠i︡a akademi︠i︡a nauk, Nauchnyĭ sovet po istorii mirovoĭ kulʹtury.

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Mar, 1997, Zurich

Sep 1996 - Mar 1997

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture and seminar as part of a project called "Interentionen 1997" for the Museum of Art and Design, Zurich. Lecture titled "Art, Death and D...

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University of Nottingham, Feb, 1997, Nottingham

Aug 1996 - Feb 1997

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's presentation of a paper on 12 February 1997 as part of a guest lecture series for the "Faculty of Arts Postgraduate School of Critical Theory" in conjunctio...

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Sep, 1997, Lofoten

Feb 1997- Sep 1997

Correspondence and programme concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture titled “On art, death and democracy - and what they have in common" on 14 September 1997, as part of the "Stopped the p...

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Feb, 2008, Bologna

Oct 2007 - Feb 2008

Correspondence inviting Zygmunt Bauman to take part in an international conference titled “The Liberty in Professions, Art and Enterprises” on 12-13 February 2008. (Praxis Spa)

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The handmaid to the arts,... . Teaching, I. A perfect knowledge of the materia pictoria: or the nature, use, preparation, and composition, of all the various substances employed in Painting; as well vehicles, dryers, &c. as colours: including those peculiar to enamel and painting on glass. II. The means of delineation, or the several Devices employed for the more easily and accurately making Designs From Nature, or Depicted Representations; either by off-tracing, calking, reduction, or other means: with the methods of taking casts, or impressions, from figures, busis, medals, leaves, &c. III. The various manners of gilding, silvering, and Bronzing, with the preparation of the genuine Gold and Silver powders, and imitations of them, as also of the fat oil, gold sizes, and other necessary compositions: -the art of Japanning, as applicable not only to the former purposes, but to coaches, snuffboxes, &c. in the manner lately introduced: - and the method of Staining Different Kinds Of Substances, with all the several colours. The whole being calculated, as well for conveying a more accurate and extensive knowledge of the matters treated of to profest artists; as to initiate those who are desirous to attempt these arts, into the method of preparing and using all the colours, and other substances employed in painting in oil, miniature, crayous, encaustic, enamel, varnish, distemper, and fresco; as also in gilding, &c (Vol 2)

Dossie, Robert (1777); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

MDCCLXIV. [1764]

Anonymous. By Robert Dossie. In this second edition in vol. 1 the eighth line of the title reads: "materia pictoria: or the", the second line of imprint reads: "printed for J. Nourse, bookseller in ...

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The handmaid to the arts,... . Teaching, I. A perfect knowledge of the materia pictoria: or the nature, use, preparation, and composition, of all the various substances employed in Painting; as well vehicles, dryers, &c. as colours: including those peculiar to enamel and painting on glass. II. The means of delineation, or the several Devices employed for the more easily and accurately making Designs From Nature, or Depicted Representations; either by off-tracing, calking, reduction, or other means: with the methods of taking casts, or impressions, from figures, busis, medals, leaves, &c. III. The various manners of gilding, silvering, and Bronzing, with the preparation of the genuine Gold and Silver powders, and imitations of them, as also of the fat oil, gold sizes, and other necessary compositions: -the art of Japanning, as applicable not only to the former purposes, but to coaches, snuffboxes, &c. in the manner lately introduced: - and the method of Staining Different Kinds Of Substances, with all the several colours. The whole being calculated, as well for conveying a more accurate and extensive knowledge of the matters treated of to profest artists; as to initiate those who are desirous to attempt these arts, into the method of preparing and using all the colours, and other substances employed in painting in oil, miniature, crayous, encaustic, enamel, varnish, distemper, and fresco; as also in gilding, &c (Vol 1)

Dossie, Robert (1777); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

MDCCLXIV. [1764]

Anonymous. By Robert Dossie. In this second edition in vol. 1 the eighth line of the title reads: "materia pictoria: or the", the second line of imprint reads: "printed for J. Nourse, bookseller in ...

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A descriptive atlas of the Cesnola collection of Cypriote antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (v.1, pt.1)

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di (1832-1904); Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

1885-1903

Editor varies. Vols. 2-3 have imprint: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1894-1903. Published in 15 parts. Includes bibliographical references.

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A descriptive atlas of the Cesnola collection of Cypriote antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (v.1, pt.2)

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di (1832-1904); Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

1885-1903

Editor varies. Vols. 2-3 have imprint: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1894-1903. Published in 15 parts. Includes bibliographical references.

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