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Book Pr  cieuse collection de tableaux  et d objets rares et curieux

Download or read book Pr cieuse collection de tableaux et d objets rares et curieux written by J.B.P. Le Brun and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pr  cieuse collection de tableaux  et d objets rares et curieux

Download or read book Pr cieuse collection de tableaux et d objets rares et curieux written by J.B.P. Le Brun (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue d objets rares et curieux du plus beau choix  de tableaux des   coles d Italie  de Flandres  de Hollande  d Allemagne et de France   de dessins    Provenant du Cabinet de M  Le Brun  La vente s en fera le lundi 11 avril 1791

Download or read book Catalogue d objets rares et curieux du plus beau choix de tableaux des coles d Italie de Flandres de Hollande d Allemagne et de France de dessins Provenant du Cabinet de M Le Brun La vente s en fera le lundi 11 avril 1791 written by Le Brun and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Restoration of Paintings in Paris  1750 1815

Download or read book The Restoration of Paintings in Paris 1750 1815 written by Noémie Étienne and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decades following the 1973 publication of Alessandro Conti’s Storia del Restauro have seen considerable scholarly interest in the development of restoration in France in the second half of the eighteenth century. A number of technical treatises and biographies of restorers have offered insight into restoration practice. The Restoration of Paintings in Paris, 1750–1815, however, is the first book to situate this work within the broader historical and philosophical contexts of the time. Drawing on previously unpublished primary material from archives in Paris, Berlin, Rome, and Venice, Noémie Étienne combines art history with anthropology and sociology to survey the waning decades of the Ancien Régime and early post– Revolution France. Initial chapters present the diversity of restoration practice, encompassing not only royal institutions and the Louvre museum but also private art dealers, artists, and craftsmen, and examine questions of trade secrecy and the changing role of the restorer. Following chapters address the influence of restoration and exhibition on the aesthetic understanding of paintings as material objects. The book closes with a discussion of the institutional and political uses of restoration, along with an art historical consideration of such key concepts as authenticity, originality, and stability of artworks, emphasizing the multilayered dimension of paintings by such important artists as Titian and Raphael. There is also a useful dictionary of the main restorers active in France between 1750 and 1815.

Book Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art

Download or read book Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art written by Darius A. Spieth and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings were aesthetic, intellectual, and economic touchstones in the Parisian art world of the Revolutionary era, but their importance within this framework, while frequently acknowledged, never attracted much subsequent attention. Darius A. Spieth’s inquiry into Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art reveals the dominance of “Golden Age” pictures in the artistic discourse and sales transactions before, during, and after the French Revolution. A broadly based statistical investigation, undertaken as part of this study, shows that the upheaval reduced prices for Netherlandish paintings by about 55% compared to the Old Regime, and that it took until after the July Revolution of 1830 for art prices to return where they stood before 1789.

Book Watteau at Work

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  • Author : Emily A. Beeny
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2021-12-07
  • ISBN : 1606067362
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book Watteau at Work written by Emily A. Beeny and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Jean Antoine Watteau’s death, this publication takes a close, revealing look at his recently rediscovered painting La Surprise. The painting La Surprise by Jean Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) belongs to a new genre of painting invented by the artist himself—the fête galante. These works, which show graceful open-air gatherings filled with scenes of courtship, music and dance, strolling lovers, and actors, do not so much tell a story as set a mood: one of playful, wistful, nostalgic reverie. Esteemed by collectors in Watteau’s day as a work that showed the artist at the height of his skill and success, La Surprise vanished from public view in 1848, not to reemerge for more than a century and a half. Acquired by the Getty Museum in 2017, it has never before been the subject of a dedicated publication. Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Watteau’s death, this book considers La Surprise within the context of the artist’s oeuvre and discusses the surprising history of collecting Watteau in Los Angeles. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from November 23, 2021, to February 20, 2022.

Book Catalogue of the art library  South Kensington museum

Download or read book Catalogue of the art library South Kensington museum written by sir John Charles Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue d objets rares et curieux du plus beau choix  de tableaux des   coles d Italie  de Flandres  de Hollande  d Allemagne  de France  provenant de son cabinet

Download or read book Catalogue d objets rares et curieux du plus beau choix de tableaux des coles d Italie de Flandres de Hollande d Allemagne de France provenant de son cabinet written by and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Purchase of the Past

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  • Author : Tom Stammers
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-06-25
  • ISBN : 1108807224
  • Pages : 375 pages

Download or read book The Purchase of the Past written by Tom Stammers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a broad and vivid survey of the culture of collecting from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, The Purchase of the Past explores how material things became a central means of accessing and imagining the past in nineteenth-century France. By subverting the monarchical establishment, the French Revolution not only heralded the dawn of the museum age, it also threw an unprecedented quantity of artworks into commercial circulation, allowing private individuals to pose as custodians and saviours of the endangered cultural inheritance. Through their common itineraries, erudition and sociability, an early generation of scavengers established their own form of 'private patrimony', independent from state control. Over a century of Parisian history, Tom Stammers explores collectors' investments – not just financial but also emotional and imaginative – in historical artefacts, as well as their uncomfortable relationship with public institutions. In so doing, he argues that private collections were a critical site for salvaging and interpreting the past in a post-revolutionary society, accelerating but also complicating the development of a shared national heritage.

Book Patriotic Taste

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  • Author : Colin B. Bailey
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2002-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300089868
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Patriotic Taste written by Colin B. Bailey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the final decades of the ancient regime, prominent collectors in Paris commissioned and collected French paintings of the period, works by Greuze, Fragonard, David and others that together comprised 'l'Ecole Francoise' - the French School. In this book, an art historian discusses six of these collectors and the collections they assembled, showing that private patronage in this period was revitalized by this patriotic desire to collect contemporary art. Colin B. Bailey explains why a taste for modern art emerged at this time and how it was encouraged and fostered. Examining the relationship between artist and patron, he discusses the degree of influence these enlightened patrons and collectors expected to exercise when new works were being commissioned. Bailey shows that collectors of eighteenth-century French painting seem not to have made rigid distinctions between the various genres or styles of the Academy's practitioners. Instead, history paintings and genre paintings - both rococo and neo-classical - were exhibited proudly on their walls as superb examples of the French School.

Book A Delicate Matter

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  • Author : Oliver Wunsch
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2024-02-22
  • ISBN : 0271096683
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book A Delicate Matter written by Oliver Wunsch and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century France witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of materially unstable art, from oil paintings that cracked within years of their creation to enormous pastel portraits vulnerable to the slightest touch or vibration. In A Delicate Matter, Oliver Wunsch traces these artistic practices to the economic and social conditions that enabled them: an ascendant class of art collectors who embraced fragile objects as a means of showcasing their disposable wealth. While studies of Rococo art have traditionally focused on style and subject matter, this book reveals how the physical construction of paintings and sculptures was central to the period’s reconceptualization of art. Drawing on sources ranging from eighteenth-century artists’ writings to twenty-first-century laboratory analyses, Wunsch demonstrates how the technical practices of eighteenth-century painters and sculptors provoked a broad transformation in the relationship between art, time, and money. Delicacy, which began the eighteenth century as a commodified extension of courtly sociability, was by century’s end reimagined as the irreducible essence of art’s autonomous value. Innovative and original, A Delicate Matter is an important intervention in the growing body of scholarship on durability and conservation in eighteenth-century French art. It challenges the art historical tendency to see decay as little more than an impediment to research, instead showing how physical instability played a critical role in establishing art’s meaning and purpose.

Book Gazette des beaux arts

Download or read book Gazette des beaux arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1947-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Picture Titles

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  • Author : Ruth Bernard Yeazell
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2015-09-29
  • ISBN : 0691165270
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Picture Titles written by Ruth Bernard Yeazell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the practice of titling paintings has shaped their reception throughout modern history A picture's title is often our first guide to understanding the image. Yet paintings didn’t always have titles, and many canvases acquired their names from curators, dealers, and printmakers—not the artists. Taking an original, historical look at how Western paintings were named, Picture Titles shows how the practice developed in response to the conditions of the modern art world and how titles have shaped the reception of artwork from the time of Bruegel and Rembrandt to the present. Ruth Bernard Yeazell begins the story with the decline of patronage and the rise of the art market in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as the increasing circulation of pictures and the democratization of the viewing public generated the need for a shorthand by which to identify works at a far remove from their creation. The spread of literacy both encouraged the practice of titling pictures and aroused new anxieties about relations between word and image, including fears that reading was taking the place of looking. Yeazell demonstrates that most titles composed before the nineteenth century were the work of middlemen, and even today many artists rely on others to name their pictures. A painter who wants a title to stick, Yeazell argues, must engage in an act of aggressive authorship. She investigates prominent cases, such as David’s Oath of the Horatii and works by Turner, Courbet, Whistler, Magritte, and Jasper Johns. Examining Western painting from the Renaissance to the present day, Picture Titles sheds new light on the ways that we interpret and appreciate visual art.

Book Rares ic  nes  tableaux  meubles et objets d art

Download or read book Rares ic nes tableaux meubles et objets d art written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue d une collection pr  cieuse de tableaux anciens et modernes des trois   coles et d objets curieux d antiquit  s rares  tels que bas reliefs en marbre  tombeau  vases canopes  bronzes   gyptiens  Grecs et Indiens  verreries antiques d une dimension rare  torches fun  raires  manuscrits sur payprus    trusques  ivoire et autres curiosit  s  composant le cabinet d un amateur distingu   du Midi de la France  1829

Download or read book Catalogue d une collection pr cieuse de tableaux anciens et modernes des trois coles et d objets curieux d antiquit s rares tels que bas reliefs en marbre tombeau vases canopes bronzes gyptiens Grecs et Indiens verreries antiques d une dimension rare torches fun raires manuscrits sur payprus trusques ivoire et autres curiosit s composant le cabinet d un amateur distingu du Midi de la France 1829 written by and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: