Author: Anne W. Lowenthal
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892363045
Category : Mars (Roman deity)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Dutch history painter Joachim Wtewael is widely admired for his astonishing small paintings on copper. The Getty Museum's Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan is one of his finest works in this unusually demanding medium. Though only eight inches high, this Mannerist painting contains eleven figures in three different spaces, captured in a dramatically charged moment from the famous story told by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. The author's detailed analysis of Wtewael's painting also serves as a fine introduction to Dutch art of the Golden Age. Illustrated with seventy reproductions of paintings, drawings, etchings, and decorative objects, Anne W. Lowenthal's study ranges over the broad historical and cultural context in which Mars and Venus was created.
Joachim Wtewael
Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard
Author: Svetlana Alpers
Publisher: Harvey Miller
ISBN: 9780199210152
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shortly before November 1636, Rubens received the commission from Philip IV of Spain to supply more than sixty paintings with mythological subjects for his new hunting lodge, the Torre de la Parada. In about one and a half years, the enormous task was completed. The pictures had been painted partly by Rubens himself, partly from his designs by a number of collaborators, among them Cornelis de Vos, Jacob Jordaens, Theodoor van Thulden and Erasmus Quellinus. Today, forty of these paintings, more than fifty of Rubens's brilliant sketches and a few preparatory drawings survive. Together with three never previously published eighteenth-century inventories of the Torre de La Parada, they have provided the material for the new analysis of the series.
Publisher: Harvey Miller
ISBN: 9780199210152
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shortly before November 1636, Rubens received the commission from Philip IV of Spain to supply more than sixty paintings with mythological subjects for his new hunting lodge, the Torre de la Parada. In about one and a half years, the enormous task was completed. The pictures had been painted partly by Rubens himself, partly from his designs by a number of collaborators, among them Cornelis de Vos, Jacob Jordaens, Theodoor van Thulden and Erasmus Quellinus. Today, forty of these paintings, more than fifty of Rubens's brilliant sketches and a few preparatory drawings survive. Together with three never previously published eighteenth-century inventories of the Torre de La Parada, they have provided the material for the new analysis of the series.
Hans Memling
Author: Barbara G. Lane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781905375196
Category : Painting, Flemish
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hans Memling was the leading painter in Bruges during the last quarter of the fifteenth century, receiving commissions from patrons in England, Germany and Italy as well as Flanders itself. For the Romantics of the nineteenth century, he ranked even above Jan van Eyck as the greatest of the Flemish primitives. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, his exalted reputation had declined sharply under the shadow of his presumed teacher, Rogier van der Weyden. In 1953, Panofsky labelled Memling a major minor master, leading subsequent writers to consider him unworthy of serious study. It was only in 1994, the five-hundredth anniversary of his death, that the major exhibition on Memling in Bruges launched a veritable flood of publications on his life and work, finally granting him the recognition he deserves.This book contributes to the ongoing reappraisal of Memling by addressing some of the tantalizing problems that remain unresolved despite much recent study of his work. Beginning with the question of his training, the text follows him on his Wanderjahre from his native Germany to Bruges, where he became a citizen in 1465. It then considers his activities as a master painter in Bruges, concentrating on the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, including the work of such major artists as Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781905375196
Category : Painting, Flemish
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hans Memling was the leading painter in Bruges during the last quarter of the fifteenth century, receiving commissions from patrons in England, Germany and Italy as well as Flanders itself. For the Romantics of the nineteenth century, he ranked even above Jan van Eyck as the greatest of the Flemish primitives. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, his exalted reputation had declined sharply under the shadow of his presumed teacher, Rogier van der Weyden. In 1953, Panofsky labelled Memling a major minor master, leading subsequent writers to consider him unworthy of serious study. It was only in 1994, the five-hundredth anniversary of his death, that the major exhibition on Memling in Bruges launched a veritable flood of publications on his life and work, finally granting him the recognition he deserves.This book contributes to the ongoing reappraisal of Memling by addressing some of the tantalizing problems that remain unresolved despite much recent study of his work. Beginning with the question of his training, the text follows him on his Wanderjahre from his native Germany to Bruges, where he became a citizen in 1465. It then considers his activities as a master painter in Bruges, concentrating on the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, including the work of such major artists as Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael.
Leonaert Bramer, 1596-1674
Author: Frima Fox Hofrichter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Night in art
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Night in art
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Dürer's Cities: Nuremberg and Venice
Simon Pietersz Verelst
Author: Simon Pietersz Verelst
Publisher: Humanities Press International
ISBN:
Category : Flowers in art
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher: Humanities Press International
ISBN:
Category : Flowers in art
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Cavalier Pietro Tempesta and His Time
Author: Marcel Roethlisberger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This study deals with a hitherto almost unknown aspect of late seventeenth-century painting. Its core is a monograph of Cavalier Pietro Tempesta, illustrious painter of marines, landscapes, and animal gentre. Tempesta's importance can be summed up as follows: he is the leading landscape painter in northern Italy between 1670-1700.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This study deals with a hitherto almost unknown aspect of late seventeenth-century painting. Its core is a monograph of Cavalier Pietro Tempesta, illustrious painter of marines, landscapes, and animal gentre. Tempesta's importance can be summed up as follows: he is the leading landscape painter in northern Italy between 1670-1700.
Gustav Klimt
Author: Christian Michael Nebehay
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500092439
Category : Art nouveau
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This lavish volume, available again after some years out of print, is the definitive presentation of the best of Klimts exotic, ornate paintings, his dramatic and spontaneous sketches, and of the extraordinary milieu which fostered his gift. The author, who knew Klimt in his last years and is a noted Klimt scholar, uses original sources and a wealth of personal photographs to place Klimt in the context of the society which he both shocked and delighted.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500092439
Category : Art nouveau
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This lavish volume, available again after some years out of print, is the definitive presentation of the best of Klimts exotic, ornate paintings, his dramatic and spontaneous sketches, and of the extraordinary milieu which fostered his gift. The author, who knew Klimt in his last years and is a noted Klimt scholar, uses original sources and a wealth of personal photographs to place Klimt in the context of the society which he both shocked and delighted.
The Paintings of Jacob Ochtervelt, 1634-1682
Author: Susan Donahue Kuretsky
Publisher: Allanheld & Schram
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher: Allanheld & Schram
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Vermeer and Painting in Delft
Author: Axel Rüger
Publisher: National Gallery Publications Limited
ISBN: 9780300091892
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
During the first seventy years of the seventeenth century the Dutch town of Delft emerged as one of the most important artistic centers in the Netherlands. Although famous as the birthplace of the painter Johannes Vermeer, Delft was also home to an extended community of masters that included among many others Pieter de Hooch and Carel Fabritius. In this introduction to the key Delft artists, Axel Rüger places Vermeer’s masterpieces within their historical and artistic context. This book, accompanying a major loan exhibition at the National Gallery, London, reveals how artistic and cultural developments of the early seventeenth century paved the way for the flowering of art in the city, culminating in the master works of the 1650s and 1660s. Investigating the artistic production of the city genre by genre, the author builds a picture of the so-called Delft School and its influences. Although painting from this time is probably best known for Vermeer’s serene scenes of everyday life, his contemporaries chose many different subjects. From Vermeer's world-famous masterpieces to the less familiar works of the period, all these refined paintings reflect a powerful sensibility to the visual aspects of the world as their makers perceived it.
Publisher: National Gallery Publications Limited
ISBN: 9780300091892
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
During the first seventy years of the seventeenth century the Dutch town of Delft emerged as one of the most important artistic centers in the Netherlands. Although famous as the birthplace of the painter Johannes Vermeer, Delft was also home to an extended community of masters that included among many others Pieter de Hooch and Carel Fabritius. In this introduction to the key Delft artists, Axel Rüger places Vermeer’s masterpieces within their historical and artistic context. This book, accompanying a major loan exhibition at the National Gallery, London, reveals how artistic and cultural developments of the early seventeenth century paved the way for the flowering of art in the city, culminating in the master works of the 1650s and 1660s. Investigating the artistic production of the city genre by genre, the author builds a picture of the so-called Delft School and its influences. Although painting from this time is probably best known for Vermeer’s serene scenes of everyday life, his contemporaries chose many different subjects. From Vermeer's world-famous masterpieces to the less familiar works of the period, all these refined paintings reflect a powerful sensibility to the visual aspects of the world as their makers perceived it.