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Book La Luministe

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  • Author : Paula Butterfield
  • Publisher : Regal House Publishing
  • Release : 2019-03-15
  • ISBN : 9781947548022
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book La Luministe written by Paula Butterfield and published by Regal House Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional novel that focuses upon the turbulent life and times of one of the founders of the Impressionist movement: Berthe Morisot. This novel was awarded a first prize in historical fiction from the Chanticleer Reviews writing contest.

Book A Light of Her Own

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  • Author : Carrie Callaghan
  • Publisher : Amberjack Publishing
  • Release : 2019-01-01
  • ISBN : 1944995919
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book A Light of Her Own written by Carrie Callaghan and published by Amberjack Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Holland 1633, a woman’s ambition has no place. Judith is a painter, dodging the law and whispers of murder to try to become the first woman admitted to the Haarlem painters guild. Maria is a Catholic in a country where the faith is banned, hoping to absolve her sins by recovering a lost saint’s relic. Both women’s destinies will be shaped by their ambitions, running counter to the city’s most powerful men, whose own plans spell disaster. A vivid portrait of a remarkable artist, A Light of Her Own is a richly-woven story of grit against the backdrop of Rembrandt and an uncompromising religion. Story behind the story . . . The trail of Judith Leyster’s career was so faint that only years after her death in 1660, collectors began attributing her few surviving paintings to other artists. She signed her work with only a beautiful, stylized monogram. Credit went to Frans Hals, Jan Miense Molenaer, and others. She would remain lost to history until 1893.

Book Dictionnaire Critique Et Documentaire Des Peintres  Sculpteurs  Dessinateurs   Graveurs de Tous Les Temps Et de Tous Les Pays  A C

Download or read book Dictionnaire Critique Et Documentaire Des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs Graveurs de Tous Les Temps Et de Tous Les Pays A C written by Emmanuel Bénézit and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Flemish   Belgian Art  1300 1900

Download or read book Flemish Belgian Art 1300 1900 written by Anglo-Belgian Union and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Greenest Branch

Download or read book The Greenest Branch written by P. K. Adams and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 1115 young Hildegard arrives at the Abbey of St. Disibod dreaming of becoming a physician. But she soon finds out that as a girl she cannot attend the abbey school; instead, she must live in seclusion at the affiliated women's convent. Yet Hildegard refuses to be sidelined. Against fierce opposition from the head of the monks' cloister, she secures an apprenticeship with the abbey infirmary. As Hildegard's reputation as a healer begins to spread the prior's hostility escalates, but that is not the only challenge she must grapple with. She has also developed feelings for a fellow Benedictine that force her to re-examine the fundamental assumptions she has made about her life. Is the practice of medicine within the confines of the cloister her true calling? Or is a quiet existence of domestic contentment more desirable? With the pressures mounting and threatening to derail her carefully-laid plans, Hildegard becomes locked in a struggle that will either earn her an unprecedented freedom or relegate her to irrevocable oblivion. The Greenest Branch is the first in a two-book series based on the true story of Hildegard of Bingen, Germany's first female physician. Set against the backdrop of the oak forests and sparkling rivers of the Rhineland, it is a tale of courage, sacrifice, and love that will appeal to fans of Ken Follett, Elizabeth Chadwick, Umberto Eco, Margaret Frazer, and Conn Iggulden.

Book Victorine

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  • Author : Drema Drudge
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-12
  • ISBN : 9780996012034
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book Victorine written by Drema Drudge and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1863, civil war is raging in the United States. Victorine Meurent is posing nude, in Paris, for paintings that will be heralded as the beginning of modern art: Manet's Olympia and Picnic on the Grass. However, Victorine's persistent desire is not to be a model but to be a painter herself. In order to live authentically, she finds the strength to flout the expectations of her parents, bourgeois society, and the dominant male artists (whom she knows personally) while never losing her capacity for affection, kindness, and loyalty. Possessing both the incisive mind of a critic and the intuitive and unconventional impulses of an artist, Victorine and her survival instincts are tested in 1870, when the Prussian army lays siege to Paris and rat becomes a culinary delicacy. Drēma Drudge's powerful first novel Victorine not only gives this determined and gifted artist back to us but also recreates an era of important transition into the modern world.

Book Art Et Architecture Au Canada

Download or read book Art Et Architecture Au Canada written by Loren Ruth Lerner and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 1646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.

Book The Private Lives of the Impressionists

Download or read book The Private Lives of the Impressionists written by Sue Roe and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-12-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller “Anyone who has ever lost themselves in Monet’s color-saturated gardens or swooned over Degas’s dancers will enjoy this revealing group portrait of the artists who founded the Impressionist movement. . . . For the armchair dilettante, as well as the art-history student, this is lively, required reading.” — People The first book to offer an intimate and lively biography of the world’s most popular group of artists, including Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot, and Mary Cassatt. Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, today astonishing sums are paid for their paintings. Their dazzling works are familiar to even the most casual art lovers—but how well does the world know the Impressionists as people? Sue Roe's colorful, lively, poignant, and superbly researched biography, The Private Lives of the Impressionists, follows an extraordinary group of artists into their Paris studios, down the rural lanes of Montmartre, and into the rowdy riverside bars of a city undergoing monumental change. Vivid and unforgettable, it casts a brilliant, revealing light on this unparalleled society of genius colleagues who lived and worked together for twenty years and transformed the art world forever with their breathtaking depictions of ordinary life.

Book Cross and neo impressionism

Download or read book Cross and neo impressionism written by Henri Edmond Cross and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exhibition offers a chance to discover first of the finest works of Cross (34 paintings) but which has never been demonstrated, its influence on Matisse, who in turn will open new fields in the color. Unlike Signac, he rejoices that Matisse is one of the painters who "will deepen the laws of optical mixing, not to surrender to them, but to break away. " If Cross was instrumental in helping Matisse explored the contribution of neo-impressionism, in turn, prompted Matisse Cross to open up to other issues, including that of the line and dare the color tones in bold. This exhibition follows on the Matisse-Derain, Collioure, 1905, was a fawn, the Matisse Museum in 2005-2006 was organized with the Museum of Ceret.

Book Broad Strokes

Download or read book Broad Strokes written by Bridget Quinn and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 female artists from around the globe in text that's smart, feisty, educational, and an enjoyable read. Replete with beautiful reproductions of the artists' works and contemporary portraits of each artist by renowned illustrator Lisa Congdon, this is art history from the Renaissance to Abstract Expressionism for the modern art lover, reader, and feminist.

Book 14 18     Rupture or Continuity

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  • Author : Inga Rossi-Schrimpf
  • Publisher : Leuven University Press
  • Release : 2018-10-04
  • ISBN : 9462701369
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book 14 18 Rupture or Continuity written by Inga Rossi-Schrimpf and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of the Great War and its aftermath on Belgian artistic life World War I had a major effect on Belgian visual arts. German occupation, the horror at the battlefield and the experience of exile led to multiple narratives and artistic expressions by Belgian artists during and after the war. Belgian interbellum art is extremely vibrant and diverse. 14/18 – Rupture or Continuity takes a look at Belgian artistic life in the years around the First World War and how it was affected by this event. The Great War was a catalyst of artistic oppositions, leading on the one hand to a Belgian avant-garde that explored new forms and styles, while continuing to uphold a more traditional and established art on the other. Whereas the war experience consolidated an already present style for some artists, for others it constituted a revolution leading to new artistic adventures. The collection of essays in the present book highlights these contrasting facets of Belgian art in its rich historical context during the early 20th century.

Book The Studio

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1903
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book The Studio written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Belgian Art in Exile

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  • Author : Ligue des artistes belges
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Belgian Art in Exile written by Ligue des artistes belges and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Belgium  the Golden Decades  1880 1914

Download or read book Belgium the Golden Decades 1880 1914 written by Jane Block and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belgium: The Golden Decades, 1880-1914, a collaboration between Belgian and American scholars, weaves together six stimulating essays that investigate the fin-de-siècle renaissance in architecture, painting, decorative arts, and literature. The period coincides with the tenures of the famous exhibition societies, Les XX (1884-1893), and its successor, La Libre Esthétique (1894-1914).

Book The Judgment of Paris

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ross King
  • Publisher : Anchor Canada
  • Release : 2012-01-11
  • ISBN : 0307374963
  • Pages : 690 pages

Download or read book The Judgment of Paris written by Ross King and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another fascinating book by the author of Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling: a saga of artistic rivalry and cultural upheaval in the decade leading to the birth of Impressionism. If there were two men who were absolutely central to artistic life in France in the second half of the nineteenth century, they were Edouard Manet and Ernest Meissonier. While the former has been labelled the “Father of Impressionism” and is today a household name, the latter has sunk into obscurity. It is difficult now to believe that in 1864, when this story begins, it was Meissonier who was considered the greatest French artist alive and who received astronomical sums for his work, while Manet was derided for his messy paintings of ordinary people and had great difficulty getting any of his work accepted at the all-important annual Paris Salon. Manet and Meissonier were the Mozart and Salieri of their day, one a dangerous challenge to the establishment, the other beloved by rulers and the public alike for his painstakingly meticulous oil paintings of historical subjects. Out of the fascinating story of their parallel careers, Ross King creates a lens through which to view the political tensions that dogged Louis-Napoleon during the Second Empire, his ignominious downfall, and the bloody Paris Commune of 1871. At the same time, King paints a wonderfully detailed and vivid portrait of life in an era of radical social change. When Manet painted Dejeuner sur l’herbe or Olympia, he shocked not only with his casual brushstrokes but with his subject matter: top-hatted white-collar workers (and their mistresses) were not considered suitable subjects for ‘Art.’ Ross King shows how, benign as they might seem today, these paintings changed the course of history. The struggle between Meissonier and Manet to see their paintings achieve pride of place at the Salon was not just about artistic competitiveness, it was about how to see the world. Full of fantastic tidbits of information and a colourful cast of characters that includes Baudelaire, Courbet and Zola, with walk-on parts for Monet, Renoir, Degas and Cezanne, The Judgment of Paris casts new light on the birth of Impressionism and takes us to the heart of a time in which the modern French identity was being forged.