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Book English Portrait Miniatures

Download or read book English Portrait Miniatures written by Graham Reynolds and published by London, Black. This book was released on 1952 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Portrait Miniatures

Download or read book British Portrait Miniatures written by Cory Korkow and published by Giles. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sumptuously illustrated new catalog on British portrait miniatures, all from the world-renowned collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art

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 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 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 Early English Portrait Miniatures in the Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch

Download or read book Early English Portrait Miniatures in the Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch written by H. A. Kennedy and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book EARLY ENGLISH PORTRAIT MINIATU

Download or read book EARLY ENGLISH PORTRAIT MINIATU written by Charles 1848-1923 Holme and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Download or read book American Portrait 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 2010 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Miniatures  Ancient and Modern

Download or read book Miniatures Ancient and Modern written by Cyril James H. Davenport and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Exhibition Illustrative of Early English Portraiture

Download or read book Exhibition Illustrative of Early English Portraiture written by Burlington Fine Arts Club and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Portrait Miniatures from the Thomson Collection

Download or read book British Portrait Miniatures from the Thomson Collection written by Susan Sloman and published by Ad Ilissvm. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of rare British portrait miniatures from a collection housed at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Portrait miniatures were highly prized in Europe for nearly four hundred years, with artists based in Britain as the acknowledged masters of this specialized field. Many of the best portrait painters are represented in British Portrait Miniatures from the Thomson Collection. Using the collection housed at the Art Gallery of Ontario as a case study, this book discusses the function of miniatures, their material presence, the circumstances in which they were made, and aspects of their later history. Part-likeness, part reliquary, and part-jewel, miniatures were frequently made as tokens of love or memorials of loved ones. Styles, techniques, and modes of presentation naturally evolved between 1560 (the date of the first miniature in the book) and around 1900. Some changes happened rapidly. In England, for example, the foundation of exhibiting societies in the 1760s created a demand for larger miniatures that could hang on the wall alongside full-sized portraits. The Thomson collection includes examples of the work of Nicholas Hilliard and John Smart, as well as portraits by less familiar names such as Jacob Van Doordt and James Scouler. It is apparent from the scope and character of his acquisitions that Ken Thomson never planned an encyclopedic collection; he developed a fondness over time for particular artists and had no qualms about omitting others altogether. The homes and studios of the most successful painters, as sumptuous as those occupied by oil painters, often passed from one generation to another: here, one key property in Covent Garden is described and illustrated. For the first time, several specialist artists' suppliers are also identified. The illicit practice within the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century art trade of duplicating old miniatures is addressed here as well. Miniatures are difficult to display in museums, but recently developed photographic methods are introducing a new audience to this multilayered subject. Eighteen years after Thomson's death, there could not be a more opportune moment to highlight his collection.

Book Artists of the Tudor Court

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roy C. Strong
  • Publisher : [London] : Victoria & Albert Museum
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book Artists of the Tudor Court written by Roy C. Strong and published by [London] : Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 1983 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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: