Orchestrating elegance : Alma-Tadema and the Marquand music room / edited by Kathleen M. Morris and Alexis Goodin ; with contributions by Kathleen M. Morris, Alexis Goodin, Melody Barnett Deusner, and Hugh Glover.

"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...

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Corporate Author: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Organizer, Host institution)
Other Authors: Morris, Kathleen M., 1959- (Editor)
Goodin, Alexis (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Williamstown, Massachusetts : Clark Art Institute, 2017.
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Physical Description:ix, 219 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Format: Book
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"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 Sir Edward Poynter to paint the piano’s fallboard. One of Alma-Tadema’s most famous paintings A Reading from Homer, was painted for this room."--Page two of cover.
Note:"Published by the Clark Art Institute on the occasion of the exhibition Orchestrating Elegance: Alma-Tadema and Design, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, June 4-September 4, 2017"--Colophon.
Call Number:NK942.A46 A4 2017
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781935998280 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1935998285 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780300226676 (Yale University Press)
0300226675 (Yale University Press)