Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: The Spirit of the English Magazines
Author: “The” Athenaeum
Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art
Author: Corcoran Gallery of ArtPublisher: Lucia Marquand
ISBN: 9781555953614
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Dilettanti
Author: Bruce RedfordPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892369248
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettani. Elegantly and wittily he dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the groundwork for the Neoclassical revival and for the scholarly study of Graeco-Roman antiquity. After the foundation of the society in 1732, the Dilettani commissioned portraits of the members. Including a striking group of mock-classical and mock-religious representations, these portraits were painted by George Knapton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. During the second half of the century, the society’s expeditions to the Levant yielded a series of pioneering architectural folios, beginning with the first volume The Antiquities of Athens in 1762. These monumental volumes aspired to empirical exactitude in text and image alike. They prepared the way for Specimens of Antient Sculpture (1809), which combines the didactic (detailed investigations into technique, condition, restoration, and provenance) with the connoisseurial (plates that bring the illustration of ancient sculpture to new artistic heights). The Society of Dilettanti’s projects and publications exemplify the Enlightenment ideal of the gentleman amateur, which is linked in turn to a culture of wide-ranging curiosity.
Engravings and Their Value
Author: John Herbert SlaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engravers
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Quadrupeds
Author: William BingleyPublisher:
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Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Art in Reproduction
Author: Robert VerhoogtPublisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9053569138
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
This illuminating study examines the cultural meaning of artistic reproduction in a refreshingly new context through its consideration of how three artists managed the reproduction of their work.