'Rienzi is the American Southwest's most important public collection of European decorative arts, presented in the former home of collectors Mr. and Mrs. Harris Masterson III. Three essays discuss the Mastersons and Rienzi's architecture and gardens. Catalogue entries present collection highlights, including paintings, furniture, silver, and 18th-century ceramics'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: The collection of Jacob and Joseph Rzhevsky is a truly priceless donation, for the two brothers were endowed with an equally remarkable talent - the ability to feel and understand art. Augmented by their passion for collecting, this innate sense of the fine helped them put together such an enormous collection, virtually unblemished by doubtful works...read more

Product Description: J. Paul Getty had a passion for the exquisitely made furniture and decorative objects of eighteenth-century France, which he began collecting in the 1930s. Gillian Wilson, curator of decorative arts since 1971, has broadened and strengthened the collection, adding Boulle furniture, mounted oriental porcelain, tapestries, clocks, ceramics, and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This new edition of CHEMISTRY: PRINCIPLES AND REACTIONS continues to provide students with the "core" material essential to understanding the principles of general chemistry. Appropriate for either a one- or two-semester course, CHEMISTRY: PRINCIPLES AND REACTIONS, Fourth Edition is three hundred pages shorter than most general chemistry texts and lives up to its long-standing reputation as THE student-oriented text...read more

Product Description: Hard cover in slip case. Gorgeous over sized book is a comprehensive reference for decorative arts.

Product Description: This new edition of CHEMISTRY: PRINCIPLES AND REACTIONS continues to provide students with the "core" material essential to understanding the principles of general chemistry. Appropriate for either a one- or two-semester course, CHEMISTRY: PRINCIPLES AND REACTIONS, Fourth Edition is three hundred pages shorter than most general chemistry texts and lives up to its long-standing reputation as THE student-oriented text...read more

Product Description: The first volume in a three-volume set devoted to the history of decorative arts from the 15th to the early 20th century. It is a massive, beautifully produced work, translated from the original French edition (1993, Editio-Editions Citadelles & Mazenod, Paris), and covering the period from about 1...read more