Author: Pierre RosenbergPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture française des musées néerlandais, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles
Author: Pierre RosenbergPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture française des musées néerlandais, XVII-XVIIIème siècles
Author: CHEFS-D'OEUVRE DE LA PEINTURE FRANCAISE DES MUSEES NEERLANDAIS, ˜17-18œ (DIX-SEPTIEME AU DIX-HUITIEME) SIECLES
Author: Pierre RosenbergChefs-d'oeuvre de la Peinture Française des Musées Néerlandais
Author: Emmanuel StarckyThe Brothers Le Nain
Author: Esther Susan BellPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300218885
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
A beautiful volume that brings to light the forgotten Le Nain brothers, a trio of 17th-century French master painters who specialized in portraiture, religious subjects, and scenes of everyday peasant life In France in the 17th century, the brothers Antoine (c. 1598-1648), Louis (c. 1600/1605-1648), and Mathieu (1607-1677) Le Nain painted images of everyday life for which they became posthumously famous. They are celebrated for their depictions of middle-class leisure activities, and particularly for their representations of peasant families, who gaze out at the viewer. The uncompromising naturalism of these compositions, along with their oddly suspended action, imparts a sense of dignity to their subjects. Featuring more than sixty paintings highlighting the artists' full range of production, including altarpieces, private devotional paintings, portraits, and the poignant images of peasants for which the brothers are best known, this generously illustrated volume presents new research concerning the authorship, dating, and meaning of the works by well-known scholars in the field. Also groundbreaking are the results of a technical study of the paintings, which constitutes a major contribution to the scholarship on the Le Nain brothers.
The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard
Author: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada (Ottawa)Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300099460
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Leading scholars shed light on the development of genre painting in this heavily illustrated volume.
The Eighteenth Century French Paintings
Author: National Gallery (Great Britain)Publisher: National Gallery Catalogues
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The impressive collection of 18th-century French paintings at the National Gallery, London, includes important works by Boucher, Chardin, David, Fragonard, Watteau, and many others. This volume presents over seventy detailed and extensively illustrated entries that expand our understanding of these paintings. Comprehensive research uncovers new information on provenance and on the lives of identified portrait sitters. Humphrey Wine explains the social and political contexts of many of the paintings, and an introductory essay looks at the attitude of 18th-century Britons to the French, as well as the market for 18th-century French paintings then in London salerooms. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press
Fragonard
Author: Pierre RosenbergPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870995162
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
Poussin and Nature
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588392430
Category : Classicism in art
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"The work of the great French painter Nicolas Poussin (15941665) is most often associated with classically inspired settings and figures depicting solemn scenes from mythology or the Bible. Yet he also created some of the most influential landscapes in Western art, endowing them with a poetic quality that has been admired by artists as different as Constable, Turner, and Ce;zanne. As the British critic William Hazlitt noted in 1844, 'This great and learned man might be said to see nature through the glass of time'. This beautiful catalogue presents the first in-depth examination of Poussin's landscapes. Featured here are more than 40 paintings, ranging from the artist's early Venetian-inspired pastorals to his grandly structured and austere works, designed as metaphors or allegories for the processes of nature. Also included are approximately 60 drawings and essays by internationally renowned scholars who examine the painter's visual, literary, and philosophical influences as well as his relationships with his patrons and his place in the art-historical canon."--Publisher description.
Les Fauves
Author: Russell T. ClementPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313369550
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive scholarly bibliography/research guide/sourcebook on the major French Fauve painters (Henri Matisse and Georges Braque are treated in separate Greenwood bio-bibliographies). It includes information on 3,120 books and articles as well as chronologies, biographical sketches, and exhibition lists. Each artist receives a primary and secondary bibliography with many annotated entries. Secondary bibliographies include details about each artists' life and career, relationships with other artists, work in various media, iconography, and more. Designed for art historians, art students, museum and gallery curators, and art lovers alike, this volume organizes the vast literature surrounding this fascinating, revolutionary, 20th-century art group. Genuinely new art is always challenging, sometimes even shocking to those unprepared for it. In 1905, the paintings of Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck and their friends shocked conservative museum-goers; hence, the eventual popularity of art critic Louis Vauxcelles's tag les fauves, or wild beasts by which these artists became known. Although it lasted only three or four years, Fauvism is recognized as the first artistic revolution of international consequence in the 20th century. It was based on the glorification of pure saturated colors and the free expression of primitivism. It was a dynamic sensualism; an equilibrium of passion and order, fire and austerity that could not last. By the end of 1908, Fauvism collapsed in the face of Cubism, which, moreover, several Fauve artists helped to form.