Beauty's Legacy

Gilded Age Portraits in America

von Barbara Dayer Gallati

184 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

- Features paintings of famous society men and women like Mrs William Waldorf Astor, Emma Thursby, Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, Mary Barrett Wendell, Reverend Henry Codman Potter, and Mary Gardiner Thompson done by such American artists as John Singer Sargent, James Carroll Beckwith, George Peter Alexander Healy, Daniel Huntington, Eastman Johnson, and Benjamin Curtis Porter- Includes period photographs of the sitters' opulent residences, costume balls and society weddings, as well as advertisements for fashions and cosmetics popular among the belles of New York society- Features 25 miniature portraits of reigning social celebrities from contemporary socialite Peter Marié's Gallery of Beauty - Includes an essay by leading fashion historian Valerie Steele, Chief Curator and Director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York