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Book Paintings from the Samuel H  Kress Collection  Italian Schools  XVI XVIII century

Download or read book Paintings from the Samuel H Kress Collection Italian Schools XVI XVIII century written by Fern Rusk Shapley and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paintings from the Samuel H  Kress Collection

Download or read book Paintings from the Samuel H Kress Collection written by Fern Rusk Shapley and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paintings from the Samuel H  Kress Collection  Italian Schools  XIII XV century

Download or read book Paintings from the Samuel H Kress Collection Italian Schools XIII XV century written by Fern Rusk Shapley and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Samuel H  Kress Study Collection at the University of Missouri

Download or read book The Samuel H Kress Study Collection at the University of Missouri written by University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land, Burton Dunbar, Judith Mann, Marjorie Och, and William E. Wallace."--BOOK JACKET. "This catalog will be accessible to both the art historian and the general reader."--Jacket.

Book Paintings from the Samuel H  Kress Collection

Download or read book Paintings from the Samuel H Kress Collection written by F. R. Shapley and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phaidon.

Book Paintings from the Samuel H  Kress Collection

Download or read book Paintings from the Samuel H Kress Collection written by Fern Rusk Shapley and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Samuel H  Kress Collection of Italian Paintings and Sculptures

Download or read book Catalogue of the Samuel H Kress Collection of Italian Paintings and Sculptures written by William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paintings from the Samuel H  Kress Collection  Italian Schools  XV XVI century

Download or read book Paintings from the Samuel H Kress Collection Italian Schools XV XVI century written by Fern Rusk Shapley and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Medici  Portraits and Politics 1512   1570

Download or read book The Medici Portraits and Politics 1512 1570 written by Keith Christiansen and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1512 and 1570, Florence underwent dramatic political transformations. As citizens jockeyed for prominence, portraits became an essential means not only of recording a likeness but also of conveying a sitter’s character, social position, and cultural ambitions. This fascinating book explores the ways that painters (including Jacopo Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, and Francesco Salviati), sculptors (such as Benvenuto Cellini), and artists in other media endowed their works with an erudite and self-consciously stylish character that made Florentine portraiture distinctive. The Medici family had ruled Florence without interruption between 1434 and 1494. Following their return to power in 1512, Cosimo I de’ Medici, who became the second Duke of Florence in 1537, demonstrated a particularly shrewd ability to wield culture as a political tool in order to transform Florence into a dynastic duchy and give Florentine art the central position it has held ever since. Featuring more than ninety remarkable paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and medals, this volume is written by a team of leading international authors and presents a sweeping, penetrating exploration of a crucial and vibrant period in Italian art.

Book Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe

Download or read book Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe written by Bernardo Bellotto and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernardo Bellotto is considered to be one of the greatest topographical and landscape painters of the eighteenth century. Trained as a painter of cityscapes, he produced vivid and memorable images of many of the greatest cities of Europe, including Venice, Florence, Rome, Dresden, Munich, Vienna, and Warsaw. He also ventured successfully into genre, portraiture, allegory, and history painting. This beautiful book, written by leading specialists on Bellotto, examines his career and artistic development, places his work in the context of the political needs of central European monarchs, and presents a selection of his major paintings from each of his principal periods and genres. Bellotto began as a painter of conventional views of Venice in the manner of his more famous uncle, Canaletto. However, his quest for new subject matter led him to visit half a dozen cities in northern and central Italy in the early 1740s, and at twenty-five he left Italy for northern Europe, where he spent the rest of his life working for royal and aristocratic patrons. In Dresden he was engaged in the service of Augustus III, where he created many glorious canvases and was awarded the title of Court Painter. He then moved to Vienna and recorded its attractions for Empress Maria Theresa. He ended his career as Court Painter in Warsaw, and his detailed paintings of the city played an important role in its reconstruction after the Second World War. The book demonstrates that in each of the places Bellotto lived, he was able to capture the particular light and life with sensitivity and imagination.

Book Art of the Italian Renaissance from the Samuel H  Kress Collection

Download or read book Art of the Italian Renaissance from the Samuel H Kress Collection written by Columbia Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Download or read book 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings 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 1982 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Agnolo Bronzino

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  • Author : Andrea M. Gáldy
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2014-08-26
  • ISBN : 1443866350
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Agnolo Bronzino written by Andrea M. Gáldy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572) has long been celebrated as the consummate court painter and his sumptuous portrayals of Duke Cosimo de’ Medici and Duchess Eleonora de Toledo have become icons of Italian Renaissance art. In this volume, an international assembly of scholars advances modern perceptions of Bronzino’s art by applying fresh research paradigms not only to the well-known portraits, but also to other painted subjects, frescoes, and tapestries within the context of ancient Roman precedents, Renaissance European court culture, and postmodernist theory. The seven essays supplement two recent Bronzino exhibitions in New York and Florence (2010) by addressing Bronzino’s portraiture, creative process, and tapestry production as well as past and present attitudes towards nudity, sexuality, landscapes, and poetic satire in Bronzino’s imagery.

Book Paintings from the Samuel H  Kress Collection

Download or read book Paintings from the Samuel H Kress Collection written by Colin T. Eisler and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the concluding volume of the catalogue of paintings in the Kress Collection and deals with some 320 works of the German, Early Netherlandish, Flemish and Dutch seventeenth-century, Spanish and French schools. . .Short biographical details on each artist are followed by extensive critical catalogue entries on his works, discussing technique, condition, subject-matter, chronology and other problems. There is also a précis of previous literature on each painting, and the author's views and findings are given at the end." /

Book Tintoretto

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Echols
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2018-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300230400
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Tintoretto written by Robert Echols and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Considered one of the three greatest painters of sixteenth-century Venice, along with Titian and Veronese, Tintoretto was a bold innovator. His free, expressive brushwork made his work look unfinished to contemporaries but is now recognized as a key step in the development of oil-on-canvas painting. Even today's audiences are astonished by the superhuman scale, painterly dynamism, and visionary qualities of his work. On the 500th anniversary of Tintoretto's birth, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of his career and achievement, with fifteen essays and reproductions of more than 140 paintings--many newly conserved--as well as a selection of his finest drawings. One special contribution is a focus on the artist's portraiture" -- Library of Congress.

Book Buying Baroque

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edgar Peters Bowron
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2017-03-01
  • ISBN : 0271079444
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Buying Baroque written by Edgar Peters Bowron and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Americans have shown interest in Italian Baroque art since the eighteenth century—Thomas Jefferson bought copies of works by Salvator Rosa and Guido Reni for his art gallery at Monticello, and the seventeenth-century Bolognese school was admired by painters Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley—a widespread appetite for it only took hold in the early to mid-twentieth century. Buying Baroque tells this history through the personalities involved and the culture of collecting in the United States. The distinguished contributors to this volume examine the dealers, auction houses, and commercial galleries that provided access to Baroque paintings, as well as the collectors, curators, and museum directors who acquired and shaped American perceptions about these works, including Charles Eliot Norton, John W. Ringling, A. Everett Austin Jr., and Samuel H. Kress. These essays explore aesthetic trends and influences to show why Americans developed an increasingly sophisticated taste for Baroque art between the late eighteenth century and the 1920s, and they trace the fervent peak of interest during the 1950s and 1960s. A wide-ranging, in-depth look at the collecting of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian paintings in America, this volume sheds new light on the cultural conditions that led collectors to value Baroque art and the significant effects of their efforts on America’s greatest museums and galleries. In addition to the editor, contributors include Andrea Bayer, Virginia Brilliant, Andria Derstine, Marco Grassi, Ian Kennedy, J. Patrice Marandel, Pablo Pérez d’Ors, Richard E. Spear, and Eric M. Zafran.

Book Michelangelo

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  • Author : Carmen C. Bambach
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2017-11-05
  • ISBN : 1588396371
  • Pages : 395 pages

Download or read book Michelangelo written by Carmen C. Bambach and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consummate painter, draftsman, sculptor, and architect, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) was celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing and conceptual design, which was considered in the Renaissance to be the foundation of all artistic disciplines. To his contemporary Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo was “the divine draftsman and designer” whose work embodied the unity of the arts. Beautifully illustrated with more than 350 drawings, paintings, sculptures, and architectural views, this book establishes the centrality of disegno to Michelangelo’s work. Carmen C. Bambach presents a comprehensive and engaging narrative of the artist’s long career in Florence and Rome, beginning with his training under the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio and the sculptor Bertoldo and ending with his seventeen-year appointment as chief architect of Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. The chapters relate Michelangelo’s compositional drawings, sketches, life studies, and full-scale cartoons to his major commissions—such as the ceiling frescoes and the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, the church of San Lorenzo and its New Sacristy (Medici Chapel) in Florence, and Saint Peter’s—offering fresh insights into his creative process. Also explored are Michelangelo’s influential role as a master and teacher of disegno, his literary and spiritual interests, and the virtuoso drawings he made as gifts for intimate friends, such as the nobleman Tommaso de’ Cavalieri and Vittoria Colonna, the marchesa of Pescara. Complementing Bambach’s text are thematic essays by leading authorities on the art of Michelangelo. Meticulously researched, compellingly argued, and richly illustrated, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of this timeless artist.