Peacock and Vine: Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work [Audiobook] download free by A. S. Byatt
- Listen audiobook: Peacock and Vine: Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work
- Author: A. S. Byatt
- Release date: 2016/12/18
- Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781784740801
- Rating: 9.76 of 10
- Votes: 697
- Review by: Nolan Link
- Review rating: 7.73 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/26
- Duration: 2H23M36S in 256 kbps (38.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-08
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MP3, MPEG4, ATRAC, WAV, FLAC (compression 7-ZIP, ZIP, TBZ2, CBR, TAR, AZW4, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 192
- Includes a PDF summary of 22 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 15M13S (4.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: This ravishing book opens a window onto the lives, designs, and passions of two charismatic artists. Born a generation apart, they were seeming opposites: Mariano Fortuny, a Spanish aristocrat thrilled by the sun-baked cultures of Crete and Knossos; William Morris, a British craftsman, in thrall to the myths of the North. Yet through their revolutionary inventions and textiles, both men inspired a new variety of art, as vibrant today as when it was first conceived. Acclaimed writer A.S. Byatt traces their genius right to the source.The Palazzo Pesaro Orfei in Venice is a warren of dark spaces leading to a workshop where Fortuny created his designs for pleated silks and shining velvets. Here he worked alongside the French model who became his wife and collaborator, including on the `Delphos' dress - a flowing gown evoking classical Greece.Morris's Red House, outside London, with its Gothic turrets and secret gardens, helped inspire his stunning floral and geometric patterns; it also represented a coming together of life and art. But it was Kelmscott Manor in the English countryside that he loved best - even when it became the setting for his wife's love affair with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Generously illustrated with the artists' beautiful designs - pomegranates and acanthus, peacock and vine - A.S. Byatt brings the visions and ideas of Fortuny and Morris dazzlingly to life.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Essays
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 20.57 USD
- Dimensions: 148x179x18mm
- Weight: 405g
- Printed by: CHATTO & WINDUS
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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