Author: Dale T. JohnsonPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870995979
Category : Portrait miniatures
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection
Author: Dale T. JohnsonPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870995979
Category : Portrait miniatures
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
British Portrait Miniatures
Author: Cory KorkowPublisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781907804236
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A sumptuously illustrated new catalog on British portrait miniatures, all from the world-renowned collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Elizabethan Treasures
Author: Publisher: National Portrait Gallery
ISBN: 9781855147027
Category : Portrait miniatures, British
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries there was one art form in which English artists excelled above all their continental European counterparts: the painting of miniatures. This fascinating book explores the genre with special reference to two of its most accomplished practitioners, Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, whose astounding skill brought them international fame and admiration. Four centuries ago, England was famous primarily for its literary culture - the dram a of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson and the works of the great lyrical and metaphysical poets. When it came to the production of visual art, the country was seen as something of a backwater. However, there was one art form for which English artists of this period were renowned: portrait miniature painting, or as it was known at the time, limning. Growing from roots in manuscript illumination, it was brought to astonishing heights of skill by two artists in particular: Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) and Isaac Oliver (c .1565-1617). In addition to exhibiting the exquisite technique of the artists, portrait miniatures express in a unique way many of the most distinctive and fascinating aspects of court life in this period: ostentatious secrecy, games of courtly love, arcane symbolism, a love of intricacy and decoration. Bedecked in elaborate lace, encrusted in jewellery and sprinkled with flowers, court ladies smile enigmatically at the viewer; their male counterparts rest on grassy banks or lean against trees, sighing over thwarted love, or more modestly express their hopes in Latin epigrams inscribed around their heads. Often set in richly enamelled and jewelled gold lockets, or beautifully turned ivory or ebony boxes, such miniatures could be concealed or revealed, exchanged or kept, as part of elaborate processes of friendship, love, patronage and diplomacy at the courts of Elizabeth I and James I /VI. This richly illustrated book, like the exhibition it accompanies, explores what the portrait miniature reveals about identity, society and visual culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
Modern Masters of Miniature Art in America
Author: Wes SiegristPublisher: Wes Siegrist
ISBN: 0982127839
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
European Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870998080
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A catalog of the museum's collection of some 300 European portrait miniatures dating from the early 16th to the mid-19th centuries. Each piece is described in detail and illustrated with bandw and color photos. Includes an overview of the history of miniature painting, notes on artists, and indices of artists, collectors, makers, and sitters. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Portrait Miniatures
Author: George Charles WilliamsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Miniature painting
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Official Museum Directory, 1992
Author: Publisher: National Register Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 1582
Book Description
England and the Continental Renaissance
Author: Edward ChaneyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780851152707
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
This volume contains 23 essays which aim to shed new light on the evolution of English culture between the 15th and 18th centuries. Both the English cultural manifestation and its continental sources are discussed, and so, too, is the way in which these phenomena interacted.
Portrait Miniatures
Author: George Charles WilliamsonPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
"Portrait Miniatures" by George Charles Williamson Williamson was one of the most renowned artists of his time and was a major figure in etching and prints. In this book, he puts his expertise to good use by examining the portrait work done by other artists around the world. First introducing this art form, he goes on to showcase those he believed best exemplified the craft such as Queen Elizabeth by Nicholas Hilliard, The Duke of Buckingham by John Hoskins, and more.
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