Author: William BuchananPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Memoirs of Painting
Author: William BuchananPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Memoirs of Painting, with a Chronological History of the Importation of Pictures by the Great Masters Into England Since the French Revolution
Author: W ..... BuchananThe Restoration of Paintings in Paris, 1750-1815
Author: Noémie ÉtiennePublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606065165
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The decades following the 1973 publication of Alessandro Conti’s Storia del Restauro have seen considerable scholarly interest in the development of restoration in France in the second half of the eighteenth century. A number of technical treatises and biographies of restorers have offered insight into restoration practice. The Restoration of Paintings in Paris, 1750–1815, however, is the first book to situate this work within the broader historical and philosophical contexts of the time. Drawing on previously unpublished primary material from archives in Paris, Berlin, Rome, and Venice, Noémie Étienne combines art history with anthropology and sociology to survey the waning decades of the Ancien Régime and early post– Revolution France. Initial chapters present the diversity of restoration practice, encompassing not only royal institutions and the Louvre museum but also private art dealers, artists, and craftsmen, and examine questions of trade secrecy and the changing role of the restorer. Following chapters address the influence of restoration and exhibition on the aesthetic understanding of paintings as material objects. The book closes with a discussion of the institutional and political uses of restoration, along with an art historical consideration of such key concepts as authenticity, originality, and stability of artworks, emphasizing the multilayered dimension of paintings by such important artists as Titian and Raphael. There is also a useful dictionary of the main restorers active in France between 1750 and 1815.
Pictures-within-Pictures in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Catherine RoachPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351554190
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Repainting the work of another into one?s own canvas is a deliberate and often highly fraught act of reuse. This book examines the creation, display, and reception of such images. Artists working in nineteenth-century London were in a peculiar position: based in an imperial metropole, yet undervalued by their competitors in continental Europe. Many claimed that Britain had yet to produce a viable national school of art. Using pictures-within-pictures, British painters challenged these claims and asserted their role in an ongoing visual tradition. By transforming pre-existing works of art, they also asserted their own painterly abilities. Recognizing these statements provided viewers with pleasure, in the form of a witty visual puzzle solved, and with prestige, in the form of cultural knowledge demonstrated. At stake for both artist and audience in such exchanges was status: the status of the painter relative to other artists, and the status of the viewer relative to other audience members. By considering these issues, this book demonstrates a new approach to images of historic displays. Through examinations of works by J.M.W. Turner, John Everett Millais, John Scarlett Davis, Emma Brownlow King, and William Powell Frith, this book reveals how these small passages of paint conveyed both personal and national meanings.
A catalogue of a valuable collection of books
Author: John Russell SmithPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368121227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Catalogue of the Hoare Library at Stourhead, Co. Wilts
Author: Sir Richard Colt HoarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Britannia’s Palette
Author: Nicholas TracyPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773575855
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Britannia's Palette looks at the lives of British artists who witnessed the naval war against the French Republic and Empire between 1793 and 1815. This band of brothers, through their artistic and entrepreneurial efforts, established the images of the war at sea that were central to the understanding their contemporaries had of events - images that endure to this day. In this unprecedented book, Nicholas Tracy reveals the importance of the self-employed artist to the study of a nation at war. He includes lively accounts of serving officers, retired sailors, and academy-trained artists who, often under the threat of debtor's prison, struggled to balance the standards of art with the public desire for heroic, reassuring images. Containing over eighty illustrations, Britannia's Palette explores a varied and exciting collection of paintings that reveal the poignancy of the human experience of war.
The bonds of family
Author: Katie DoningtonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526129507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Moving between Britain and Jamaica this book reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery. Transatlantic slavery was both shaping of and shaped by the dynamic networks of family that established Britain’s Caribbean empire. Tracing the activities of a single extended family – the Hibberts – this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of Britain. It is a history of trade, colonisation, enrichment and the tangled web of relations that gave meaning to the transatlantic world. The Hibberts’s trans-generational story imbricates the personal and the political, the private and the public, the local and the global. It is both the intimate narrative of a family and an analytical frame through which to explore Britain’s history and legacies of slavery.
The Valuable Collections of H.A. Smythe Martin, L. Crist Delmonico, & J.H. Koch...Ichabod T. Williams & Rudolf Sackel...
Author: American Art AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Gerard Ter Borch
Author: K. Jr Wheelock ArthurPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300106398
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Gerard ter Borch (1617-1681) was unequalled among his Dutch peers for capturing the elegance & grace of wealthy Dutch society in his portraiture. A major influence on Vermeer, ter Borch has not received the attention he deserves & this is the first major English language text about his work.