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Two Catalogues of Pictures in the National Gallery and a Catalogue of Pictures at Cleveland House
Author: The Gallery at Cleveland House
Author: Anne Nellis RichterPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350372749
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
In 1806, the Marquess and Marchioness of Stafford opened a gallery at Cleveland House, London, to display their internationally-renowned collection of Old Master paintings to the public. A ticket to the gallery's Wednesday afternoon openings was a sought-after prize, granting access to the collection and the house's dazzling interior in the company of artists, celebrities, and Britain's elite. This book explores the gallery's interior through the lens of its abundant material culture, including paintings in gilded frames, furniture, silver oil lamps, flower arrangements, and the numerous printed catalogues and guidebooks that made the gallery visible to those who might never cross its threshold. Through detailed analysis of these objects and a wide range of other visual, material, textual and archival sources, the book presents the gallery at Cleveland House as a methodological case study on how the display of art in the 19th century was shaped by notions about public and private space, domesticity, and the role art galleries played in the formation of national culture. In doing so, the book also explains how and why magnificent private galleries and the artworks and objects they contained gripped the public imagination during a critical period of political and cultural transformation during and after the Napoleonic Wars. Combining historical, cultural and material analysis, the book will make essential reading for researchers in British art in the Regency period, museum studies, collecting studies, social history, and the histories of interior decoration and design in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University
Author: Avery LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The general library. Additions from 1843-1852. An index of subjects. An index of authors and books
Author: London Institution. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
A catalogue of the library of the London institution [by W. Upcott, R. Thomson and E.W. Brayley].
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Author: William UpcottBookseller's catalogues
Author: Charles Davies (bookseller, of Coleman st.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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A Catalogue of Pictures at Cleveland House
Author: Cleveland House, afterwards Bridgewater House (LONDON)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 12
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The United States Catalog
Author: Mary BurnhamPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
Book Description
The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs
Author: The Brothers Le Nain
Author: Esther Susan BellPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300218885
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
A beautiful volume that brings to light the forgotten Le Nain brothers, a trio of 17th-century French master painters who specialized in portraiture, religious subjects, and scenes of everyday peasant life In France in the 17th century, the brothers Antoine (c. 1598-1648), Louis (c. 1600/1605-1648), and Mathieu (1607-1677) Le Nain painted images of everyday life for which they became posthumously famous. They are celebrated for their depictions of middle-class leisure activities, and particularly for their representations of peasant families, who gaze out at the viewer. The uncompromising naturalism of these compositions, along with their oddly suspended action, imparts a sense of dignity to their subjects. Featuring more than sixty paintings highlighting the artists' full range of production, including altarpieces, private devotional paintings, portraits, and the poignant images of peasants for which the brothers are best known, this generously illustrated volume presents new research concerning the authorship, dating, and meaning of the works by well-known scholars in the field. Also groundbreaking are the results of a technical study of the paintings, which constitutes a major contribution to the scholarship on the Le Nain brothers.