Author: Christie, Manson & WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Collection of Approximately 1,350 Catalogues
Author: Christie, Manson & WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: The Illustrated London News
Author: English Painters
Author: Harry John Wilmot-BuxtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Dilettanti
Author: Bruce RedfordPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892369248
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettani. Elegantly and wittily he dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the groundwork for the Neoclassical revival and for the scholarly study of Graeco-Roman antiquity. After the foundation of the society in 1732, the Dilettani commissioned portraits of the members. Including a striking group of mock-classical and mock-religious representations, these portraits were painted by George Knapton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. During the second half of the century, the society’s expeditions to the Levant yielded a series of pioneering architectural folios, beginning with the first volume The Antiquities of Athens in 1762. These monumental volumes aspired to empirical exactitude in text and image alike. They prepared the way for Specimens of Antient Sculpture (1809), which combines the didactic (detailed investigations into technique, condition, restoration, and provenance) with the connoisseurial (plates that bring the illustration of ancient sculpture to new artistic heights). The Society of Dilettanti’s projects and publications exemplify the Enlightenment ideal of the gentleman amateur, which is linked in turn to a culture of wide-ranging curiosity.
The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Author: Sir Joshua ReynoldsA History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.
Author: Algernon GravesPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 483
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Reynolds
Author: Mark HallettPublisher: Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN: 9780300196979
Category : Portrait painting, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A deeply researched and elegantly written study on Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)--Georgian England's most celebrated portraitist and the first president of the British Royal Academy of Arts--this lavishly illustrated volume explores all aspects of Reynolds's portraiture. Mark Hallett provides detailed, compelling readings of Reynolds's most celebrated and striking works, investigating the ways in which they were appreciated and understood in his own lifetime. Recovering the artist's dynamic interaction with his sitters and patrons, and revealing the dramatic impact of his portraits within the burgeoning exhibition culture of late-18th-century London, Hallett also unearths the intimate relationship between Reynolds's paintings and graphic art. Reynolds: Portraiture in Action offers a new understanding of the artist's career within the extremely competitive London art world and takes readers into the engrossing debates and controversies that captivated the city and its artists. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art