Author: Malcolm Charles SalamanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Color prints
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
French Colour-prints of the XVIII Century
Author: Malcolm Charles SalamanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Color prints
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A Kingdom of Images
Author: Peter FuhringPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606064509
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Once considered the golden age of French printmaking, Louis XIV’s reign saw Paris become a powerhouse of print production. During this time, the king aimed to make fine and decorative arts into signs of French taste and skill and, by extension, into markers of his imperialist glory. Prints were ideal for achieving these goals; reproducible and transportable, they fueled the sophisticated propaganda machine circulating images of Louis as both a man of war and a man of culture. This richly illustrated catalogue features more than one hundred prints from the Getty Research Institute and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, whose print collection Louis XIV established in 1667. An esteemed international group of contributors investigates the ways that cultural policies affected printmaking; explains what constitutes a print; describes how one became a printmaker; studies how prints were collected; and considers their reception in the ensuing centuries. A Kingdom of Images is published to coincide with an exhibition on view at the Getty Research Institute from June 18 through September 6, 2015, and at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris from November 2, 2015, through January 31, 2016.
French Paintings of the Fifteenth Through the Eighteenth Century
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
"This illustrated book, written by leading scholars and the result of years of research and technical analysis, catalogues nearly one hundred paintings, from works by Francois Clouet in the sixteenth century to paintings by Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun in the eighteenth. All these works are explored in detailed, readable entries that will appeal as much to the general art lover as to the specialist." --Book Jacket.
Artists and Amateurs
Author: Perrin SteinPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300197004
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 1, 2013-January 5, 2014.
Colorful Impressions
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"An indispensable addition to the literature, this informative publication is not only one of very few books available in English on the subject, but it also reproduces for the first time all the featured prints in full colour. Authors examine the history, marketing, and collecting of these prints, as well as the tools, techniques, and papers used in making them."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Old French Colour-prints
Author: Campbell DodgsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Color prints
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Philip ConisbeePublisher: Ngw-Stud Hist Art
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
"Fifteen international scholars present their latest research into the contexts and meanings of French genre painting of the eighteenth century, from Jean-Antoine Watteau to Louis-Leopold Boilly. The essays represent a wide range of critical and historical perspectives, from traditional archival research to postructuralist criticism."--Page 4 de la couverture
Ordering Colours in 18th and Early 19th Century Europe
Author: Tanja C. KleinwächterPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031349563
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This book describes the international effort to give order to colours and thus facilitate communication about it, two topics deemed essential to a modernising world that were also recognizably complex. Expert essays will enhance readers' understanding of the struggle to coordinate nature with art at a time when approaches to both were undergoing rapid change. Ordering Colours shows how such seemingly trivial concerns as identifying the basic colours and disseminating appropriate colour diagrams had to meet philosophical, scientific and professional needs across Europe. Contributors detail the many schemes for colour systematization and their real-world applications; questions of concern to both academic- and manufacturing-focused investigators throughout the long 18th century. They bring together original research and new thinking about landmark early modern studies to address important developments as well as neglected historical contributions of European arts, sciences, and economies. This collection is an important addition to the libraries of all who are interested in public culture and manufacturing developments in the early modern period and is aimed at historians of art, technology, philosophy and physics.
French Art of the Eighteenth Century at the Huntington
Author: Shelley M. BennettPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300135947
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The themes that emerge from the study of The Huntington collection contribute to a nuanced understanding of French eighteenth-century domestic and cultural life and of the changing interpretations and continued popularity of French art among later collectors in America."--BOOK JACKET.
Eighteenth-Century French Fashion Plates in Full Color
Author: Stella BlumPublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486163245
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
The Galerie des Modes has been called the "most beautiful collection in existence on the fashions of the 18th century." Here are 64 of the finest plates, reproduced by costume historian Stella Blum.