Author: Colin B. BaileyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780875981796
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Treasures from the Nationalmuseum of Sweden
Author: Colin B. BaileyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780875981796
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Highlights
Author: Nationalmuseum (Stockholm).Publisher:
ISBN: 9789171008503
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Nationalmuseum is Sweden’s leading art gallery and this volume presents a selection of its best-known masterpieces – paintings, sculptures and works of applied art – from the Renaissance to our own era. Nationalmuseum’s collections also contain numerous works of art that for different reasons have fallen into obscurity. A number of these are also highlighted: unique and fascinating works that have hitherto rarely been displayed but which really merit attention. 00Why do some works of art become more famous and popular than others? Words like “highlights”, “classics” and “masterpieces” are often used unreflectingly in catalogues and home pages produced by galleries, but what in fact is a “masterpiece”? Who gives it this label and how have attitudes to masterpieces shifted through the years? These are some of the questions posed in this volume. 00Highlights: Famous and Forgotten Art Treasures from Nationalmuseum also includes a special section on portraits. The role of portraits in today’s visual culture is discussed in the light of history. Starting from questions about self-images and identity, it probes the link between a number of historical portraits and “selfies” – our own period’s self-portraits taken at arm’s length with a mobile camera. 00Exhibition: Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden (15.05-31.08.2014).
Art Treasures from the Collections
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789171008824
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Nationalmuseum is one of Europe's oldest art museums, engendered by 18th-century enlightenment and the age of revolutions. It was founded in 1792, one year before the Louvre in Paris, and opened for the public two years later at the Royal Palace. The museum is based on the transfer of Gustav III's collection to public ownership and was at the same time established in memory of the dead king. The museum therefore houses major sections of the earlier royal collections and in this way differs, for example, from several large North American museums. Nationalmuseum's collections are incredibly rich. Over 700,000 objects offer many possibilities for everyone. In order to provide visitors with a clearer idea of the history of the collections and the riches they contain, this volume offers an introduction and examples. Its ambition is to give readers as representative and inspiring a selection as possible.
Dutch Drawings in Swedish Public Collections
Author: Börje MagnussonPublisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
ISBN: 9783775743259
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, holds the most extensive collection of Dutch master drawings in Sweden. It comprises important works by Rembrandt and his pupils, as well as drawings by Abraham Bloemart, Jan van Goyen, Herman Saftleven, Willem van de Velde and many other artists. Although trade contacts between the Netherlands and Sweden were lively in the seventeenth century, they account for only a small part of the collection. The bulk of the drawings was acquired by Swedish collectors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Foremost among them was Count Carl Gustaf Tessin, whose acquisitions at the 1741 Paris sale of the financier Pierre Crozat make up the core of the collection.This catalogue, the result of a long-term research project, includes almost 600 drawings, of which approximately 130 are previously unpublished. Besides the Nationalmuseum, it draws on the collections of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, The Gothenburg Museum of Art, the Uppsala University Library and other institutions.
Treasure Palaces
Author: The EconomistPublisher: The Economist
ISBN: 1610396812
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In this exuberant celebration of the world's museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Ali Smith, and more tell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, the Mus'e Rodin in Paris, and the Prado in Madrid. These essays, collected from the pages of The Economist's Intelligent Life magazine, reveal the special hold that some museums have over us all. Acclaimed novelist William Boyd visits the Leopold Museum in Vienna -- a shrine to his favorite artist, Egon Schiele, whom Boyd first discovered on a postcard as a University student. In front of her favorite Rodins, Allison Pearson recalls a traumatic episode she suffered at the hands of a schoolteacher following a trip to the Mus'e in Paris. Neil Gaiman admires the fantastic world depicted in British outsider artist Richard Dadd's "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke," a tiny painting that also decorated the foldout cover of a Queen album, housed in the Victorian room of Tate Britain's Pre-Raphaelite collection. Ann Patchett fondly revisits Harvard University's Museum of Natural History -- which she discovered at 19, while in the throes of summer romance with a biology student named Jack. Treasure Palaces is a treasure trove of wonders, a tribute to the diversity and power of the museums, the safe-keepers of our world's most extraordinary artifacts, and an intimate look into the deeply personal reveries we fall into when before great art.
Art treasures from Vienna
Author: Nils LindhagenTreasures of Swedish Art
Author: Gertrud SernerMasterpieces of the Swedish National Museum
Author: Nationalmuseum (Sweden)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Return of Cultural Treasures
Author: Jeanette GreenfieldPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521477468
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
New edition of Greenfield's pioneering study about the legal, political and historical aspects of cultural restitution.
Treasures of Swedish Art
Author: Pontus GratePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Scandinavian
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description