Download or read book Gainsborough s Vision written by Amal Asfour and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Gainsborough, one of the most popular British painters, has been celebrated as a landscapist, a portrait painter, and a man of feeling whose impetuous character is revealed in his art, life and letters. This book reveals that the style, themes and ideas of Gainsborough’s paintings constitute purposeful expressions of an intellectual and visual culture whose importance in the development of eighteenth-century British art has gone unrecognized. "Amal Asfour and Paul Williamson have set out to make us look more knowledgeably at the paintings of Gainsborough... their treatment is richly informative."—George Steiner, The Observer "Asfour and Williamson display a profound knowledge of 18th-century aesthetics... a highly stimulating book."—The British Art Journal

Download or read book Gainsborough written by James Hamilton and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer ** 'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest [artists] vividly to life' Literary Review Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) lived as if electricity shot through his sinews and crackled at his finger ends. He was a gentle and empathetic family man, but had a shockingly loose, libidinous manner and a volatility that could lead him to slash his paintings. James Hamilton reveals the artist in his many contexts: the talented Suffolk lad, transported to the heights of fashion; the rake-on-the-make in London, learning his craft in the shadow of Hogarth; the society-portrait painter in Bath and London who earned huge sums by charming the right people into his studio. With fresh insights into original sources, Gainsborough: A Portrait transforms our understanding of this fascinating man, and enlightens the century that bore him.

Download or read book The Annotated Mona Lisa written by Carol Strickland and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.

Download or read book Gainsborough Reynolds written by Thomas Gainsborough and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reynolds and Gainsborough written by Homan Potterton and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Artistic Development of Reynolds Gainsborough written by Sir William Martin Conway and published by London Seeley 1886.. This book was released on 1886 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mentor written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Anecdote Lives of William Hogarth Sir Joshua Reynolds Thomas Gainsborough Henry Fuseli Sir Thomas Lawrence and J M W Turner written by John Timbs and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rousseau and Revolution written by Will Durant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 1323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Civilization, Volume X: winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the rest of Europe from 1715 to 1789.

Download or read book Life of Thomas Gainsborough written by George Williams Fulcher and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reference Catalogue of Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Life of Thomas Gainsborough R A written by George Williams Fulcher and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery written by National Gallery (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lives of Gainsborough written by Philip Thicknesse and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the contemporary texts about Thomas Gainsborough, a leading British portraitist and landscape painter in the eighteenth century. Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) was a leading English landscape and portrait painter, draftsman, and printmaker who is now considered one of the most important British artists of the eighteenth century. This volume illuminates his life, career, personality, and passions through three diverse character sketches by Philip Thicknesse, an eccentric British adventurer, businessman, and writer; William Jackson, an artist and close friend to Gainsborough; and Sir Joshua Reynolds, an English portrait painter and the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts. An obituary published shortly after Gainsborough’s death lends insight into the artist’s impact. An introduction by Anthony Mould, a British art dealer and independent scholar, offers an overview of Gainsborough’s life and career.