Search Results - "Venus"

The hunt after Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour : patronage, politics, art, and the French Enlightenment / by Hooper-Hamersley, Rosamond, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The hunt for Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour : beyond the Toilet of Venus -- Pompadour at the Court of Versailles -- Pompadour and diplomacy -- Pompadour and artistic patronage -- Pompadour in a culture of enlightenment -- The Pompadour paradox.…”
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Before Victoria extraordinary women of the British Romantic era / by Denlinger, Elizabeth Campbell

Table of Contents: “…Mary Robinson, eighteeth-century romantic -- Exemplary women : Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, and their worlds -- Not quite good enough : three imperfect lives -- The modern Venus, or improper ladies, and others -- Strong passions of the mind : women in literature and the visual arts -- Rational dames and ladies on horseback : scientists and travelers -- The youngest romantics -- The Pforzheimer Collection and its female inhabitants : an afterword.…”
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Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790 by O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The agents of Mars and the Temples of Venus : John Burgoyne's remediated pleasures -- Out to America : performance and the politics of mediated space -- Regime Change. …”
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Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790 / by O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The agents of Mars and the Temples of Venus : John Burgoyne's remediated pleasures -- Out to America : performance and the politics of mediated space -- Regime Change. …”
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