Author: Catherine BelangerPublisher:
ISBN: 9783901753091
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Key works of painting were selected in the Musée du Louvre to illustrate the fascinating art of depicting nudity. ,
Le Louvre Nu Peintures-Paintings
Author: Catherine BelangerPublisher:
ISBN: 9783901753091
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Key works of painting were selected in the Musée du Louvre to illustrate the fascinating art of depicting nudity. ,
Modern French Painters
Author: Maurice RaynalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dadaism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
National Art Library Catalogue, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Guide Through the Galleries of Paintings of the Imperial Museum of the Louvre
Author: Musée du Louvre. Département des peintures, des dessins et de la chalcographiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery with Biographical Notices of the Painters
Author: BurtonThe Painter's Touch
Author: Ewa Lajer-BurcharthPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691170126
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A new interpretation of the development of artistic modernity in eighteenth-century France What can be gained from considering a painting not only as an image but also a material object? How does the painter’s own experience of the process of making matter for our understanding of both the painting and its maker? The Painter’s Touch addresses these questions to offer a radical reinterpretation of three paradigmatic French painters of the eighteenth century. In this beautifully illustrated book, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth provides close readings of the works of François Boucher, Jean-Siméon Chardin, and Jean-Honoré Fragonard, entirely recasting our understanding of these painters’ practice. Using the notion of touch, she examines the implications of their strategic investment in materiality and sheds light on the distinct contribution of painting to the culture of the Enlightenment. Lajer-Burcharth traces how the distinct logic of these painters’ work—the operation of surface in Boucher, the deep materiality of Chardin, and the dynamic morphological structure in Fragonard—contributed to the formation of artistic identity. Through the notion of touch, she repositions these painters in the artistic culture of their time, shifting attention from institutions such as the academy and the Salon to the realms of the market, the medium, and the body. Lajer-Burcharth analyzes Boucher’s commercial tact, Chardin’s interiorized craft, and Fragonard’s materialization of eros. Foregrounding the question of experience—that of the painters and of the people they represent—she shows how painting as a medium contributed to the Enlightenment’s discourse on the self in both its individual and social functions. By examining what paintings actually “say” in brushstrokes, texture, and paint, The Painter’s Touch transforms our understanding of the role of painting in the emergence of modernity and provides new readings of some of the most important and beloved works of art of the era.
France in the Golden Age
Author: Pierre RosenbergPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870992953
Category : Classicism in art
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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.
Fragonard
Author: Pierre RosenbergPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870995162
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870993704
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A catalogue of 373 masterpieces from the Linsky's collection of European paintings, medieval and Renaissance objets d'art, sculpture, jewelry, furniture, carpets, clocks, gilt bronzes, and porcelains. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.