Museum Of Art Institute In Chicago
March 11th, 2011
Art Institute of chicago
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The World Began At ILE-IFE: Meaning and Funtion in Yoruba Art ... |
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Miniature Rooms: The Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago $28.49 The Thorne Rooms, sixty-eight miniature models of European interiors from the sixteenth century on and American furnishings from the seventeenth century on, have entranced generations of visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago. This charming book showcases these rooms, featuring full-color views of each one as well as eight two-page spreads of some of the most spectacular interiors.The introducto... |
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The Sixty-Eight Rooms (The Sixty-Eight Rooms Adventures) $2.63 Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the Children’s Galleries of the Chicago Art Institute, they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms made in the 1930s by Mrs. James Ward Thorne. Each of the 68 rooms is designed in the style of a different historic period, and every detail is perfect, from the knobs on the doors to the candles... |
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European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750: Maps from the Collection of O.J. Sopranos (ORIENTAL INSTITUTE MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS) $44.95 This lavishly illustrated catalog of the exhibit European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750, explores how mapmakers sought to document a new geography of the Near East that reconciled classical ideas and theories with the information collected and brought back by travelers and voyagers. The text is accompanied by images of illuminated manuscript charts and atlases, the earliest printe... |