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Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Art & Auction
Author: European Drawings
Author: J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher:
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Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice
Author: Arie WallertPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892363223
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
Picturesque Ideas on the Flight Into Egypt
Author: Giovanni Domenico TiepoloPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870991213
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Francis Calley Gray and Art Collecting for America
Author: Marjorie B. CohnPublisher: Harvard Art Museums
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Francis Calley Gray (1790-1856) is remembered today primarily as the donor to Harvard of an exceptional collection of prints, which later formed the nucleus of the Fogg Art Museum collection. Yet he led one of the most cultivated and remarkable lives of early nineteenth-century America. Son of a wealthy merchant from Salem, Massachusetts, he was educated at Harvard, practiced law with Daniel Webster, and served as a state legislator. He was founder or board member of nearly every important cultural institution in Boston, including the Linnaean Society of New England, the Boston Athenaeum, and Harvard University. As a young man he spent two years in St. Petersburg as an assistant to John Quincy Adams (then ambassador to the Russian court), visited retired President Jefferson at Monticello, and later was a close friend of such Boston luminaries as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edward Everett, Nathaniel Bowditch, and Louis Agassiz. His polymathic mind led him to assemble a systematic collection of shells, to publish scholarly articles on economic theory, ancient Italian burial customs, and the "Gloucester sea serpent," to direct a major effort for American penal reform, and to become the nation's first great print connoisseur and collector. Gray's role as a print collector forms the centerpiece of this first biography of the archetypal Boston intellectual. In exploring Gray's vision for America and the role art was destined to play in it, Marjorie B. Cohn presents a vivid and fascinating picture of the developing ideas, tastes, and cultural aspirations of the young nation.
European Drawings 1
Author: George R. GoldnerPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892360925
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Within a short time the Department of Drawings has acquired impressive holdings of European works on paper. This volume, the first in a series intended to keep scholars apprised of acquisitions, contains 149 entries on Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch, and other works ranging in date from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. Artists represented include Rembrandt, Cezanne, Blake, Goya, Dürer, Savery, Rubens, Millet, Veronese, Caravaggio, Raphael, and numerous others. All drawings are illustrated at full-page size.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: Art-Union
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Vol. for 1867 includes Illustrated catalogue of the Paris Universal Exhibition.
The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Books, and Other Works on Paper
Author: Max SchweidlerPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368358
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Ever since its original publication in Germany in 1938, Max Schweidler's Die Instandetzung von Kupferstichen, Zeichnungen, Buchern usw has been recognized as a seminal modern text on the conservation and restoration of works on paper. To address what he saw as a woeful dearth of relevant literature and in order to assist those who have 'set themselves the goal of preserving cultural treasures, ' the noted German restorer composed a thorough technical manual covering a wide range of specific techniques, including detailed instructions on how to execute structural repairs and alterations that, if skilfully done, can be virtually undetectable. By the mid-twentieth century, curators and conservators of graphic arts, discovering a nearly invisible repair in an old master print or drawing, might comment that the object had been 'Schweidlerized.' This volume, based on the authoritative revised German edition of 1949, makes Schweidler's work available in English for the first time, in a meticulously edited and annotated critical edition. The editor's introduction places the work in its historical context and probes the philosophical issues the book raises, while some two hundred annotati
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