Furniture of John Henry Belter and the Rococo Revival An Inquiry into Nineteenth-Century Furniture Design Through a Study of the Gloria and Richard Manney Collection

Marvin D. Schwartz, a noted scholar, author and preservationist, has dedicated his life to uniting the worlds of painting, sculpture, architecture and the decorative arts into one integrated view of the world of art. He has tirelessly pursued this goal through an illustrious career that includes work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, and the Brooklyn Museum Ed Stanek has a doctorate in physics from Iowa State University. He is the CEO of the Iowa Lottery and the inventor of the Powerball lottery game. Ed has been director of several state agencies and serves on numerous boards and commissions. He is on the board of directors of the Vintage Mutual Funds and is a member of the Curatorial Committee for Terrace Hill, the Iowa Governor's mansion and historic property. He has also been president of the organization that finances the mansion's collections and has been president of the Victorian Society Foundation Douglas K. True is Vice President and Treasurer of the University of Iowa and serves on a number of University and national boards engaged in the advancement of higher education. For over 25 years he has studied and collected 19th century furniture and decorative artsSchwartz, Marvin D. is the author of 'Furniture of John Henry Belter and the Rococo Revival An Inquiry into Nineteenth-Century Furniture Design Through a Study of the Gloria and Richard Manney Collection' with ISBN 9780970222206 and ISBN 0970222203.