Author: Kunsthaus ZürichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Paintings of the Betty and David M. Koetser Foundation
Author: Kunsthaus ZürichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Vexations of Art
Author: Svetlana AlpersPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300126136
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Now available in paperback A major art historian reflects on a great tradition of European painting. "The Vexations of Art is an engrossing, passionate attempt to re-engage with painting as a mode of thought at a time when 'it is not clear in what form the resource of painting?for surely painting has been a singular resource of the greater European culture?will continue."?Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times "[A] fascinating book that will surely generate discussion for some time to come."?Mindy Nancarrow, Renaissance Quarterly
The New Palaces of Medieval Venice
Author: Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271048369
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The medieval palaces of Venice are unlike those from anywhere else and they also survive in this equally unique city in far greater numbers. This well-presented study argues, however, that contrary to other opinions, the architecture of Venice was developed from that of northern and western Europe and not from that of Byzantium and Late Antiquity.
Pieter de Hooch
Author: Wayne E. FranitsPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892368446
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
In the hush of early morning, a dutiful mother butters bread for her young son, who patiently stands at her side. This splendid painting captures a trivial moment in a family's daily routine and makes it almost sacrosanct. A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy was executed by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684) between 1661 and 1663. The J. Paul Getty Museum's canvas is one of the artist's many pictures depicting women and children engaged in daily activities. This book examines the painting in relation to the artist's life and work, exploring his stylistic development and his complex relationship to other painters in the Dutch Republic. The author places the subject matter of the painting within the broader context of seventeenth-century Dutch concepts of domesticity and child rearing and ties it to social and cultural developments in the Netherlands during the second half of the seventeenth century.
Jan van der Heyden
Author: Peter C. SuttonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300119704
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A remarkably versatile man, Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712) was the preeminent painter of cityscapes in the Netherlands and the first artist to capture all the beauty of the urban scene. Notwithstanding his achievements as an artist, Van der Heyden was even more famous in his own time as an inventor and engineer: he invented firefighting equipment that set the standard throughout Europe for two centuries, and he perfected the streetlamp. This is the first book in English devoted to Van der Heyden. It includes recent discoveries about his fascinating life and offers an introduction to his ravishing art. The book includes a general discussion of Van der Heyden’s work, entries on 40 of his paintings, illustrations of about 100 of his paintings, as well as supplemental drawings and prints. Focusing mainly on the bustling city of Amsterdam, he also recorded other Dutch, Flemish, and German cities with a brilliant palette and exceptionally detailed technique. Often innovative in his composition, he was the first artist to create imaginary scenes by rearranging existing city views and known buildings.
Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Beginning in the 1920s, Kress and his foundation assembled, first in New York, and later in Washington, the nation's most inclusive collection of Italian art. In 1938 he decided to donate the collection to the National Gallery of Art, and when it opened in 1941, 375 paintings and 18 works of sculpture from the Kress gift were installed in the West Building. The Gallery's holdings of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian paintings have been enriched by gifts from P.A.B. Widener and Paul Mellon, and more recently from purchases. This catalogue is the first of four volumes to document the National Gallery's great collection of Italian paintings.
The World's Master Paintings
Author: Early Netherlandish Painting (1400-1500)
Author: Hélène MundPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A Noble Collection
Author: Marjorie B. CohnPublisher: Harvard Art Museum (Acc)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
From 3,500 prints in albums assembled in Paris 300 years ago. Complete works of major printmakers.
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.