Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this book showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms.
Among these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars; an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day; and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia.
Price (VAT incl.) : 60.00 €
17th, 18th and 19th century decorative arts
OBJETS D'ART
MÉLANGES EN L'HONNEUR DE DANIEL A...
VIVRE À L'ANTIQUE
DE MARIE-ANTOINETTE À NAPOLÉON IE...
JOSÉPHINE ET NAPOLÉON : L'HÔTEL DE LA RUE DE LA VICTOIR...
CABINETS DE CURIOSITÉS...