Download or read book Sir Joshua Reynolds written by Martin Postle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-23 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Joshua Reynolds' reputation today rests principally on his portraits, his theoretical writings on art and his role as President of the Royal Academy. Yet in his own day Reynolds' subject pictures were among the most widely discussed British paintings of the century. This is the first book to concentrate on this important aspect of Reynolds' work. Covering the period from 1760 to 1830, it shows the way in which these pictures were inextricably linked to Reynolds' aims and practices as a painter, and to the way in which he was perceived by his peers.

Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds written by Joseph Farington and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of Pictures Principally of the Italian Schools the Property of a Gentleman i e Francis Grant Now Exhibiting for Sale in the Calton Convening room the Last Building on the Left Hand Side of Waterloo Bridge With Plates written by Catalogues and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Seven Discourses on Art written by Sir Joshua Reynolds and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past, the distinctions between art and science weren't as clear-cut as they are today, and philosophers, researchers, and artists often shared insights and ideas. It was in that heady atmosphere that Sir Joshua Reynolds first rose to prominence, initially through his "Grand Style" paintings, but later for his work as a promoter of scientific research and the president and co-founder of the famed Royal Society. This text outlines some of Reynolds' most groundbreaking ideas about art, scholarship, and the intersection between the two.

Download or read book A Catalogue Raisonn of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds P R A from 1755 1822 written by Edward Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Essay on the Theory of Painting written by Jonathan Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1725 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds P R A written by Algernon Graves and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds written by Sir Joshua Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Portrait Gallery Mid Georgian Portraits 1760 1790 written by John Ingamells and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue includes such famous figures as David Garrick and Dr Samuel Johnson, Sarah Siddons and Emma Hamilton, and the work of such artists as Gainsborough, Reynolds and Romney. It has been compiled by one of the leading authorities on 18th-century English portraiture, John Ingamells.

Download or read book A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds P R A written by Algernon Graves and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt written by John Barrell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the function of painting in a commercial society? This text describes how British artists of the late-18th and early-19th centuries attempted to answer this question.

Download or read book Joshua Reynolds in the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection written by Alexandra Gent and published by National Gallery London. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The painting techniques of the great society painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), first president of the Royal Academy, are notorious for their unstable mixtures of materials, particularly in his paint media. Reynolds’s spirited response to his critics – and some disappointed clients – that ‘all good pictures crack’ reveals a problematic technique that manifested itself during his lifetime. The legacy of Reynolds’s unsound painting practice is a challenge to conservators who use great caution in treating these vulnerable paintings. This special issue of the National Gallery Technical Bulletin is the first thorough account of Reynolds’s painting materials and techniques, resulting from a multidisciplinary research collaboration between the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection. The publication of this Technical Bulletin anticipates the exhibition Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in Paint to be held at the Wallace Collection, London (12 March–7 June 2015)."--Publisher's description.

Download or read book Reynolds written by Mark Hallett and published by Paul Mellon Centre. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply researched and elegantly written study on Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)--Georgian England's most celebrated portraitist and the first president of the British Royal Academy of Arts--this lavishly illustrated volume explores all aspects of Reynolds's portraiture. Mark Hallett provides detailed, compelling readings of Reynolds's most celebrated and striking works, investigating the ways in which they were appreciated and understood in his own lifetime. Recovering the artist's dynamic interaction with his sitters and patrons, and revealing the dramatic impact of his portraits within the burgeoning exhibition culture of late-18th-century London, Hallett also unearths the intimate relationship between Reynolds's paintings and graphic art. Reynolds: Portraiture in Action offers a new understanding of the artist's career within the extremely competitive London art world and takes readers into the engrossing debates and controversies that captivated the city and its artists. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Download or read book A catalogue of a collection of upwards of twenty six thousand ancient and modern tracts and pamphlets collected and arranged by John Russell Smith On sale written by Alfred Russell Smith and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Catalogue of a Unique Collection of Upwards of Twenty six Thousand Ancient and Modern Tracts and Pamphlets Collected and Arranged by J R Smith written by John Russell Smith and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Joshua Reynolds written by Sir Joshua Reynolds and published by Tate. This book was released on 2005-06-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, 13 February - 1 May 2005, Tate Britain, London, 26 May - 18 September 2005.

Download or read book Dilettanti written by Bruce Redford and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2008-08-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.