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Josephine as patroness of the arts.(Empress of France's patronage civilized her husband's court)
The Magazine Antiques
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September 1, 2002|
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Josephine de Beauharnais (Pls. III, V), for thirteen years the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte (Pl. IV), is remembered in France and elsewhere as the graceful woman who presided with unfailing charm and finesse over the first court of Europe. That she was the consort of "the most extraordinary personality in human history," (1) would have been enough to establish her renown, but she was also a remarkable person in her own right. It was Josephine who, by her patrician heritage and courtly manners, attracted the aristocracy of the ancien regime to her husband's court, as he freely ...
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A bibliography of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; A Bibliography of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy. By JS. CROUCH.Delhi; INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE ARTS,2002.Pp. 430. Ananda Coomaraswamy died sixty years ago, in the summer of 1947. James Crouch...
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A date with ghosts of history
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...In his pioneering interpretation of the Chauri Chaura incident in 'Event, Memory and Metaphor,' - it won Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize in 1997 - Amin, a professor of history at Delhi University, combines "archival records with local...
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It's boomtime for Indian paintings.
Newspaper article from: Mail Today (New Delhi, India)
; ...water colour on paper was painted in Kangra or Guler around 1790 and has been sourced from the estate of Dr. Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), the pioneering historian and philosopher from Sri Lanka who laid the groundwork for scholarship...
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