and public sculpture

53 color and 200 b/w illustrations

who portrayed her great-aunt as a vivacious woman full of talent

and few of the 388 Académie lectures were translated into English

—ARTnews

A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture: Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations cups & mugs and public sculptureJoseph Friedrich zu Racknitz Edited and translated by Simon Swynfen Jervis Baron Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitzs pioneering Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations in Relation to the Interior Decoration of Rooms and to Architecture (Darstellung und Geschichte des Geschmacks der vorzuglichsten Vlker in Beziehung auf die innere Auszierung der Zimmer und auf die Baukunst) is little known today. Racknitz, a German aristocrat, traced an