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Ship Decoration 1630-1780 (Hardcover)
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Ship Decoration 1630-1780 (Hardcover)
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This book is a detailed comparative study of the decorative work -
figurehead, topside ornamentation and stern gallery design -
carried by the ships of the major maritime states of Europe in the
zenith of the sailing era. It covers both warships and the most
prestigious merchant ships, the East Indiamen of the great
chartered companies. The work began life in the year 2000 when the
author was commissioned to carry out research for an ambitious
project to build a full-size replica of a Swedish East Indiaman,
which produced a corpus of information whose relevance stretched
way beyond the immediate requirements of accurately decorating the
replica. In tracking the artistic influences on European ship
decoration, it became clear that this was essentially the story of
the baroque style, its dissemination from France, and its gradual
transformation into distinct national variations in Britain, the
Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. It is an inherently visual subject
and the book illustrates developments with numerous photographs of
contemporary ship models, paintings and plans, as well as the
author's own interpretive illustrations of details. As the first
major work on the topic for nearly a century, it will be of obvious
appeal to ship modellers and historians, but with comparative
examples drawn from architecture and sculpture, it also makes a
broader contribution to the history of the applied arts.
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