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.
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17th, 18th and 19th century decorative arts
MING: PORCELAIN FOR A GLOBALISED TRADE...
WILLIAM MORRIS: TEXTILES...
L'ÂGE D'OR DU VERRE EN FRANCE, 1800-1830
VER...
MIROIRS DANS LE GRAND DÉCOR EN EUROPE
XVIIe - XVIIIe SI...