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Book Review
A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture: Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz’s ‘Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations’
08/2020 | 1409 | 162
Pages: 718-719
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Reviewer:
Koot, Geert-Jan (Koot, Geert-Jan)
Subjects
artists:
Racknitz, Joseph Friedrich zu
patrons:
Friedrich August III, Elector of Saxony
places:
Dresden
subjects:
Interiors / German architecture / Taste (aesthetics)
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subjects:
A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture: Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz’s ‘Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations’ Edited and translated by Simon Swynfen Jervis. 368 pp. incl. 59 col. + 58 b. & w. ills. (Getty Publications, Los Angeles, 2020), £65. ISBN 978–1–60606–624–9. | :
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Attributed works:
5. Arabesque taste, from J.F. zu Racknitz: Darstellung und Geschichte des Geschmacks der vorzüglichsten Völker , Leipzig 1796–99. Coloured engraving, 34 by 45 cm.