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Book Portrait Miniatures in Enamel

Download or read book Portrait Miniatures in Enamel written by Gilbert Collection and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 2000-07-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly, comprehensive study of the art of enamels in Europe, presenting examples from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. Demonstrates the extraordinary quality and scope of these exquisite works. This scholarly book contains comprehensive information on the art of enamels in Europe and England. It also examines the techniques and tools of enamelists and presents an overview of artists, patrons and sitters represented in this fine collection.

Book The Portrait Miniature in England

Download or read book The Portrait Miniature in England written by Katherine Coombs and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable account of the development of English miniature painting featuring masterpieces from the VandA's collection, which contains some of the finest examples in existence.

Book British Portrait Miniatures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Graham Reynolds
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1998-04-13
  • ISBN : 9780521592024
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book British Portrait Miniatures written by Graham Reynolds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of portrait miniatures in the Fitzwilliam Museum gives a compact and comprehensive survey of the development of this art form. It illustrates its progress through the work of almost every major master in the genre, with works of the highest quality. This book provides an introduction to the history of portrait miniatures, a glossary, and a bibliography; ninety-six items from the collection are described, and each item is illustrated in full color, to bring out the subtlety and intimacy of this delicate art form.

Book American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection

Download or read book American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection written by Dale T. Johnson and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1990 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Love and Loss

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robin Jaffee Frank
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300087246
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book Love and Loss written by Robin Jaffee Frank and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most often, portrait miniatures were painted in watercolor on thin disks of ivory. They were sometimes worn as jewelry, sometimes framed to be viewed privately. Many were painted by specialists, although renowned easel artists - including Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, and Charles Willson Peale - also created them to commemorate births, engagements, marriages, deaths, and other joinings or separations. The book traces the development of this exquisite art form, revealing the close ties between the history of the miniature and the history of American private life."--BOOK JACKET.

Book English Portrait Miniatures

Download or read book English Portrait Miniatures written by Graham Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of this general survey on the art of portrait miniatures, published by A & C Black in 1952, became the standard work on the subject and is referred to in all the subsequent literature. In this thoroughly revised edition, the author has entirely rewritten the early chapters to take account of recent research and has made corrections and revisions throughout.

Book Perfect Likeness

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  • Author : Cincinnati Art Museum
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300115806
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Perfect Likeness written by Cincinnati Art Museum and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewelry, fashion, hairstyles, and the decorative arts. Unlike many other genres, miniatures have a tradition in which amateurs and professionals have operated in parallel and women artists have flourished as professionals. This richly illustrated book presents approximately 180 portrait miniatures selected from the holdings of the Cincinnati Art Museum, the largest and most diverse collection of its kind in North America. The book stresses the continuity of stylistic tradition across Europe and America as well as the vitality of the portrait miniature format through more than four centuries. A detailed catalogue entry, as well as a concise artist biography, appears for each object. Essays examine various aspects of miniature painting, of the depiction of costume in miniatures, and of the allied art of hair work.

Book The History of Portrait Miniatures

Download or read book The History of Portrait Miniatures written by George Charles Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Miniature

Download or read book The English Miniature written by John Murdoch and published by New Haven : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Intimate Portrait

Download or read book The Intimate Portrait written by Stephen Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published ... to accompany the exhibition ... held at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, from 25 October 2008 to 1 February 2009 and at the British Museum from 5 March to 31 May 2009."--T.p. verso.

Book Richard Cosway  R A

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Charles Williamson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Richard Cosway R A written by George Charles Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treasuring the Gaze

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  • Author : Hanneke Grootenboer
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2013-02-05
  • ISBN : 0226309711
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Treasuring the Gaze written by Hanneke Grootenboer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more conventional mementoes, such as lockets containing a coil of a loved one’s hair. The fashion lasted only a few decades, and by the early 1800s eye miniatures had faded into oblivion. Unearthing these portraits in Treasuring the Gaze, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes that the rage for eye miniatures—and their abrupt disappearance—reveals a knot in the unfolding of the history of vision. Drawing on Alois Riegl, Jean-Luc Nancy, Marcia Pointon, Melanie Klein, and others, Grootenboer unravels this knot, discovering previously unseen patterns of looking and strategies for showing. She shows that eye miniatures portray the subject’s gaze rather than his or her eye, making the recipient of the keepsake an exclusive beholder who is perpetually watched. These treasured portraits always return the looks they receive and, as such, they create a reciprocal mode of viewing that Grootenboer calls intimate vision. Recounting stories about eye miniatures—including the role one played in the scandalous affair of Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Prince of Wales, a portrait of the mesmerizing eye of Lord Byron, and the loss and longing incorporated in crying eye miniatures—Grootenboer shows that intimate vision brings the gaze of another deep into the heart of private experience. With a host of fascinating imagery from this eccentric and mostly forgotten yet deeply private keepsake, Treasuring the Gaze provides new insights into the art of miniature painting and the genre of portraiture.

Book Elizabethan Treasures

Download or read book Elizabethan Treasures written by and published by National Portrait Gallery. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries there was one art form in which English artists excelled above all their continental European counterparts: the painting of miniatures. This fascinating book explores the genre with special reference to two of its most accomplished practitioners, Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, whose astounding skill brought them international fame and admiration. Four centuries ago, England was famous primarily for its literary culture - the dram a of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson and the works of the great lyrical and metaphysical poets. When it came to the production of visual art, the country was seen as something of a backwater. However, there was one art form for which English artists of this period were renowned: portrait miniature painting, or as it was known at the time, limning. Growing from roots in manuscript illumination, it was brought to astonishing heights of skill by two artists in particular: Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) and Isaac Oliver (c .1565-1617). In addition to exhibiting the exquisite technique of the artists, portrait miniatures express in a unique way many of the most distinctive and fascinating aspects of court life in this period: ostentatious secrecy, games of courtly love, arcane symbolism, a love of intricacy and decoration. Bedecked in elaborate lace, encrusted in jewellery and sprinkled with flowers, court ladies smile enigmatically at the viewer; their male counterparts rest on grassy banks or lean against trees, sighing over thwarted love, or more modestly express their hopes in Latin epigrams inscribed around their heads. Often set in richly enamelled and jewelled gold lockets, or beautifully turned ivory or ebony boxes, such miniatures could be concealed or revealed, exchanged or kept, as part of elaborate processes of friendship, love, patronage and diplomacy at the courts of Elizabeth I and James I /VI. This richly illustrated book, like the exhibition it accompanies, explores what the portrait miniature reveals about identity, society and visual culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

Book European Portrait Miniatures

Download or read book European Portrait Miniatures written by Bernd Pappe and published by Michael Imhof Verlag. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "European portrait miniatures of the 17th to 20th centuries – far too rarely the focus of art historians’ attention – are illuminated from various viewpoints in a series of essays by nineteen internationally recognized specialists. This volume brings together studies of the many and varied uses of miniature portraits, their functions in both private and public life, and significant yet little-known collections, along with various artists and special production techniques." -- Publisher's website

Book Portrait Miniatures

Download or read book Portrait Miniatures written by George Charles Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book European Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Download or read book European Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1996 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalog of the museum's collection of some 300 European portrait miniatures dating from the early 16th to the mid-19th centuries. Each piece is described in detail and illustrated with bandw and color photos. Includes an overview of the history of miniature painting, notes on artists, and indices of artists, collectors, makers, and sitters. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR