Book Review

European Decorative Arts, 1400-1600: An Annotated Bibliography (G K Hall Reference Books)

by Patrick M. De Winter

Hardcover: 543 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 9.75 x 1.50 x 6.50

Publisher: Gale Group; (February 1, 1988)

ASIN: 081618612X

 

 

I recently recieved this book via ILL and was pleasently surprised by the quality resource it is. An annotated bibliography is a listing of books and journal articles on a particular topic with a short review written about each one.  In this case Decorative Arts covers a WIDE subject matter, including armor, furniture, tablewear, tapestries, clothing, silverwear, basically anything tangible that could be decorated and they have it. It covers France, Germany, Italy, Spanish and quite a bit of Hungarian, Czech resources too.

 

Some of the gems that I gleaned from it, that I need to get via ILL are:

 

( Click here for the looong list )

Laziness is contagious

Its seems like the laziness is contagious and I've got it in a bad way!

I really need to get cracking and just finish things up for school, good thing this quarter is so less stressful than last quarter, I really needed this break from the insanity.

To Do's for the rest of today
-Finish content for website, Pouches page done. Jewelry and Class handout to go.

-Bake BBQ Brisket so Matt won't starve this week.

-Come up with clever usage for text indexing tool and write an insightful paper on it that will be worth all 45 points in the Information Retrieval class. The problem with this is that I know how to use the tool, love using this tool, but I think the instructor wants us to write a paper on how the tool works mathwise.I don't really understand the theoretical math behind it, just how it works from an technical standpoint. I could write one in C put I can't tell you the theory of why it works.

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