Author: Perrin SteinPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870998927
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Eighteenth-century French Drawings in New York Collections
Author: Perrin SteinPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870998927
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Your Humble Servant
Author: Hans CoolsPublisher: Uitgeverij Verloren
ISBN: 9065509089
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Catalogue d'estampes anciennes principalement de l'école française du XVIIIe siècle, eaux-fortes modernes, dessins et livres, gravures en lots...
Author: Gustave Courbet
Author: Georges RiatPublisher: Parkstone Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Child of materialism and positivism, Courbet was without a doubt one of the most complex painters of the nineteenth century. Symbolising the rejection of traditions, Courbet did not hesitate to confront the public with the truth by liberating painting of conventional rules. He became from then on the leader of pictorial realism.
Catalogue d'estampes anciennes principalement de l'école française du XVIIIe siècle, portraits, vignettes, adresses, ornements et dessins, gravures en lots [Delestre, 1888].
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Author: The Work of Rubens
Author: Adolf RosenbergArt Auctions and Dealers
Author: Dries LynaPublisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This collection of essays presents a status quaestionis concerning the dissemination of Flemish and Dutch art during the period 1400-1800, and highlights the role art auctions and dealers have played in this process. Auctions emerged as the primary channel for art sales at the end of the seventeenth century in the Low Countries and during the eighteenth century, countless local art collections were broken up and put up for auction. Especially (old master) paintings exchanged hands in great numbers at these public sales, and the finest pieces frequently ended up in foreign holdings. The activities of the professional art dealer form the focus of several essays. These intermediaries played an instrumental role in the commercialization and expansion of the art trade in early modern Europe. They had a profound impact on the history of collecting as they mediated and even influenced taste. Naturally, the role of art dealers changed over time. Therefore, the historians, art historians and economists who contributed to this volume have approached this phenomenon in an interdisciplinary fashion in order to properly understand how art markets functioned. In doing so, these essays explore the various ways in which art dealers helped shape markets for art, and how they facilitated the increasing volume of exports of Netherlandish art from the sixteenth century onwards. Hans Vlieghe is professor emeritus at the University of Leuven. He has published extensively on Flemish art of the 17th century, especially on Rubens and his circle. Filip Vermeylen is assistant professor of Cultural Economics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. His current research focuses on the history of art markets. Dries Lyna works at the Center for Urban History (University of Antwerp), where he is currently preparing a Ph.D. thesis on art auctions in eighteenth-century Antwerp and Brussels.
Catalogue d'estampes anciennes du XVIIIe siècle des écoles française et anglaise imprimées en noir et en couleurs..., gravures en couleurs modernes...
Author: Paul RoblinMetamorphoses
Author: Emanuele CocciaPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509545689
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
We are all fascinated by the mystery of metamorphosis – of the caterpillar that transforms itself into a butterfly. Their bodies have almost nothing in common. They don’t share the same world: one crawls on the ground and the other flutters its wings in the air. And yet they are one and the same life. Emanuele Coccia argues that metamorphosis – the phenomenon that allows the same life to subsist in disparate bodies – is the relationship that binds all species together and unites the living with the non-living. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, plants, animals: they are all one and the same life. Each species, including the human species, is the metamorphosis of all those that preceded it – the same life, cobbling together a new body and a new form in order to exist differently. And there is no opposition between the living and the non-living: life is always the reincarnation of the non-living, a carnival of the telluric substance of a planet – the Earth – that continually draws new faces and new ways of being out of even the smallest particle of its disparate body. By highlighting what joins humans together with other forms of life, Coccia’s brilliant reflection on metamorphosis encourages us to abandon our view of the human species as static and independent and to recognize instead that we are part of a much larger and interconnected form of life.
How to Form a Library
Author: Henry Benjamin WheatleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description