Hesse
Subtitle: a princely German collection
By: Penelope Hunter-Stiebel ; with forewords by H.R.H. Moritz Landgraf of Hesse and John E. Buchanan, Jr.
Contributors: Portland Art Museum (Or.)
Publisher: Portland Art Museum
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Portland, Oregon, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 314
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Hess family -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.; Hess family -- History.; Art, European -- Exhibitions.; Royal houses -- Germany -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.; Art -- Private collections -- Germany -- Hesse -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Reformation and the rise of Hesse; title: 18th-century court life; title: Splendor; title: German romantic painting; title: Royal web; title: Russian connection; title: Postwar cultural recovery; title: Holbein's Madonna and Cranach's princes; title: Castles; title: Story of a German dynasty; title: Hesse family trees.