Author: Michiel JonkerPublisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781907804748
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A major new reference book on Dutch and Flemish art from a remarkable collection.
Dutch and Flemish Paintings
Author: Michiel JonkerPublisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781907804748
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A major new reference book on Dutch and Flemish art from a remarkable collection.
Masters of the Everyday
Author: Desmond Shawe-TaylorPublisher: Royal Collection Editions
ISBN: 9781909741195
Category : Art, Dutch
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
During the seventeenth century, Dutch artists were unparalleled in their dedication to depicting ordinary people doing everyday things. Genre painting was the preeminent expression of this dedication, offering candid glimpses into the peasant cottages and village courtyards of the Dutch Golden Age, each painting lit with the period's vibrant color palette and rich with radiant natural light. This superb collection by the curators of an accompanying exhibition focuses on a selection of works of Dutch genre painting from the Royal Collection's holdings. Johannes Vermeer, Jan Steen, Gerrit Dou, Gabriel Metsu, and Pieter de Hooch are among the masters whose works are finely reproduced here. While the subject matter may be ordinary--the preparation of food, the bustle of a busy market, the enjoyment of taverns and town festivities--the meticulously documented details often allude to a work's deeper meaning or to moral messages that would have been familiar to the contemporary viewer. The book explores these hidden moral messages, as well as the artists' penchant for clever visual puns. Readers interested in the Dutch Golden Age or seventeenth-century art will welcome this volume. Individual essays on each painting, close-up photography showing important details, and a selection of comparative images add to the book's richness and provide valuable context.
The English Cyclopædia
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ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
The English Cyclopaedia
Author: Charles KnightThe English Cyclopaedia
Author: Dutch and Flemish Painting
Author: Herwig GuratzschPublisher: Computer Science Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A general introduction to the subject of the great age of painting in the Low Countries, including succinct biographies and illustrations.
Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites
Author: Margaretta Frederick WatsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429855974
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
First published in 1997, and written by leading scholars of the day , these fifteen essays examine aspects of the reception and collecting of Pre-Raphaelite Art, the social and cultural context in which the work was favoured and acquired. Two major collections provide the focus for the investigation: that of the Birmingham city Museums and Art Gallery in the United Kingdom, and that of the American Samuel Bancroft Jr, now part of the Delaware Art Museum. The study of these two collections both formed in the late 1890’, places Pre-Raphaelite Art at nexus of contemporary cultural issues that touched the lives of both the city council, intent on establishing a public gallery of national importance, and a wealthy American businessman, indulging a private passion for the work of these artists. The contributors approach the issue in a variety of ways, These include the study of the ambitions and self-perception of collectors of the period, an analysis of the impact of John Ruskin’s campaign to establish Pre-Raphaelite painting as the ‘Art of England’ , and its impact on notions of civic and national identity ; the examination of individual painting in relation to such issues as the portrayal of women, the nude and of religious subjects ; and the study of the Victorian preoccupation with Renaissance Italy and the attempt by Ruskin, Charles Fairfax Murray , advisor to the two collections, and the Grosvenor Gallery, to proclaim the Pre-Raphaelite artists as the true inheritors of the ‘genius’ of Renaissance Italian artists.These essays were first presented at a symposium held at the Delaware Art Museum during the exhibition there of the paintings of Birmingham City Museums and Art Gallery.
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