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Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Author: Arie Wallert
Publisher: 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.

Author: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870991213
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Author: J. Paul Getty Museum
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Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: Timothy J. Newbery
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870995871
Category : Picture frames and framing
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June to September 1990. Includes a catalogue, an introductory essay, and a glossary without pronunciations. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Jacob Simon
Publisher: Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Published to accompany exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 8/11/96 - 9/2/97.

Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher: Lucia Marquand
ISBN: 9781555953614
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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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.

Author: Rena Lavery
Publisher: Unicorn
ISBN: 9781910787014
Category : Art, Soviet
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This will be the resource book for art historians, galleries, auctioneers and students of Soviet art history.

Author: Marjorie B. Cohn
Publisher: 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.

Author: Charissa Bremer-David
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892364556
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from Gobelins and Beauvais, bronze firedogs from Fontainebleau, and a lathe-turned ivory goblet of astonishing complexity from Saxony are among the other highlights of this handsome volume.