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Book Raphael to Renoir

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  • Author : Stijn Alsteens
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 1588393070
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Raphael to Renoir written by Stijn Alsteens and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2009 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The works from the Bonna Collection are illustrated in color, and whenever possible, at their actual sizes. They are arranged chronologically by the artist's date of birth and are grouped according to the main artistic schools. This volume is introduced by an interview with Jean Bonna by George Goldner. Each drawing is then described in an entry, many of which have comparative illustrations that shed further light on individual works."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Raphael to Renoir

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  • Author : Stijn Alsteens
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book Raphael to Renoir written by Stijn Alsteens and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pierre Auguste Renoir

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  • Author : Auguste Renoir
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Pierre Auguste Renoir written by Auguste Renoir and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains forty colorplates with commentary and thirty black-and-white reproductions.

Book Pierre Auguste Renoir and artworks

Download or read book Pierre Auguste Renoir and artworks written by Natalia Brodskaya and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges on 25 February 1841. In 1854, the boy’s parents took him from school and found a place for him in the Lévy brothers’ workshop, where he was to learn to paint porcelain. Renoir’s younger brother Edmond had this to say this about the move: “From what he drew in charcoal on the walls, they concluded that he had the ability for an artist’s profession. That was how our parents came to put him to learn the trade of porcelain painter.” One of the Lévys’ workers, Emile Laporte, painted in oils in his spare time. He suggested Renoir makes use of his canvases and paints. This offer resulted in the appearance of the first painting by the future impressionist. In 1862 Renoir passed the examinations and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and, simultaneously, one of the independent studios, where instruction was given by Charles Gleyre, a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. The second, perhaps even the first, great event of this period in Renoir’s life was his meeting, in Gleyre’s studio, with those who were to become his best friends for the rest of his days and who shared his ideas about art. Much later, when he was already a mature artist, Renoir had the opportunity to see works by Rembrandt in Holland, Velázquez, Goya and El Greco in Spain, and Raphael in Italy. However, Renoir lived and breathed ideas of a new kind of art. He always found his inspirations in the Louvre. “For me, in the Gleyre era, the Louvre was Delacroix,” he confessed to Jean. For Renoir, the First Impressionist Exhibition was the moment his vision of art and the artist was affirmed. This period in Renoir’s life was marked by one further significant event. In 1873 he moved to Montmartre, to the house at 35 Rue Saint-Georges, where he lived until 1884. Renoir remained loyal to Montmartre for the rest of his life. Here he found his “plein-air” subjects, his models and even his family. It was in the 1870s that Renoir acquired the friends who would stay with him for the remainder of his days. One of them was the art-dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, who began to buy his paintings in 1872. In summer, Renoir continued to paint a great deal outdoors together with Monet. He would travel out to Argenteuil, where Monet rented a house for his family. Edouard Manet sometimes worked with them too. In 1877, at the Third Impressionist Exhibition, Renoir presented a panorama of over twenty paintings. They included landscapes created in Paris, on the Seine, outside the city and in Claude Monet’s garden; studies of women’s heads and bouquets of flowers; portraits of Sisley, the actress Jeanne Samary, the writer Alphonse Daudet and the politician Spuller; and also The Swing and The Ball at the Moulin de la Galette. Finally, in the 1880s Renoir hit a “winning streak”. He was commissioned by rich financiers, the owner of the Grands Magasins du Louvre and Senator Goujon. His paintings were exhibited in London and Brussels, as well as at the Seventh International Exhibition held at Georges Petit’s in Paris in 1886. In a letter to Durand-Ruel, then in New York, Renoir wrote: “The Petit exhibition has opened and is not doing badly, so they say. After all, it’s so hard to judge about yourself. I think I have managed to take a step forward towards public respect. A small step, but even that is something.”

Book Renoir

Download or read book Renoir written by Colin Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every aspect and phase of Renoir's work is presented in this book with a magnificent collection of his paintings. the forty-eight colour plates clearly illustrate the potency and the energy, the fluency and the spontaneity which Renoir brought to bear on the creation of over 6,000 paintings, drawings and sculptures.

Book Renoir in the 20th Century

Download or read book Renoir in the 20th Century written by Auguste Renoir and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 2010 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a biography of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. This work dedicates itself to the final three decades of Renoir's career in which the painter turned away from Impressionism and toward a more decorative approach informed by his own idiosyncratic interpretation of art history. During this period, Renoir was initially looking at painters such as Rubens, Titian and Raphael, and dedicating himself to cheery subjects such as bathers, domestic idylls and landscapes that were influenced by both classical mythology and by his relocation to the South of France.

Book Renoir

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  • Author : François Fosca
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1924
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book Renoir written by François Fosca and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hidden Renoir

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  • Author : DTP/Companion Books
  • Publisher : Donald T Phillips
  • Release : 2010-07-05
  • ISBN : 0982848404
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book The Hidden Renoir written by DTP/Companion Books and published by Donald T Phillips. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Pompeii

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  • Author : Ingrid D. Rowland
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2014-03-24
  • ISBN : 067441652X
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book From Pompeii written by Ingrid D. Rowland and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The calamity that proved lethal for Pompeii inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman daily life that has captured the imagination of generations, including Renoir, Freud, Hirohito, Mozart, Dickens, Twain, Rossellini, and Ingrid Bergman. Interwoven is the thread of Ingrid Rowland's own impressions of Pompeii.

Book Renoir  An Intimate Biography

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  • Author : Barbara Ehrlich White
  • Publisher : Thames & Hudson
  • Release : 2017-11-07
  • ISBN : 050077403X
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Renoir An Intimate Biography written by Barbara Ehrlich White and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new biography of this enduringly popular artist by the world’s foremost scholar of his life and work Expertly researched and beautifully written by the world’s leading authority on Auguste Renoir’s life and work, Renoir fully reveals this most intriguing of Impressionist artists. The narrative is interspersed with more than 1,100 extracts from letters by, to, and about Renoir, 452 of which come from unpublished letters. Renoir became hugely popular despite great obstacles: thirty years of poverty followed by thirty years of progressive paralysis of his fingers. Despite these hardships, much of his work is optimistic, even joyful. Close friends who contributed money, contacts, and companionship enabled him to overcome these challenges to create more than 4,000 paintings. Renoir had intimate relationships with fellow artists (Caillebotte, Cézanne, Monet, and Morisot), with his dealers (Durand-Ruel, Bernheim, and Vollard) and with his models (Lise, Aline, Gabrielle, and Dédée). Barbara Ehrlich White’s lifetime of research informs this fascinating biography that challenges common misconceptions surrounding Renoir’s reputation. Since 1961 White has studied more than 3,000 letters relating to Renoir and gained unique insight into his personality and character. Renoir provides an unparalleled and intimate portrait of this complex artist through images of his own iconic paintings, his own words, and the words of his contemporaries. “Barbara White is a biographer of courage, seriousness and unrelenting honesty. She has read and dissected about 3,000 letters about Renoir written by him, his friends, his family, as well as the newspapers of the day. Practically every member of the Renoir family has entrusted their personal documents to her – a pledge of trust totally deserved. Whenever I am asked a question about Auguste, I write to Barbara to ask her opinion or call on her knowledge, since she has become an indisputable reference for me. She is always careful and verifies facts and contexts by every route possible. The Renoir family, and Auguste himself, are very lucky that Barbara is so passionate about her subject, and I feel personally lucky to know her. I thank her from the bottom of my heart for this work of a lifetime – a magnificent success. I am very pleased that her book has been edited by the quality editors at Thames & Hudson, as it will remain a point of reference for many generations to come.” – Sophie Renoir (great-granddaughter of Auguste Renoir, granddaughter of his eldest son Pierre, and daughter of Renoir’s grandson Claude Renoir, Jr.), June 7, 2017

Book Raphael and His Age

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  • Author : Paul Joannides
  • Publisher : Cleveland Museum of Art
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Raphael and His Age written by Paul Joannides and published by Cleveland Museum of Art. This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the purposes of this exhibition and its catalogue is to help familiarize North American audiences with a great French collection of Italian drawings that, famous for its remarkable holding of sheets by Raphael, remains otherwise insufficiently known. The point is to show Raphael in his context and, perhaps more significantly, the context in the light of Raphael. It aims to provide pleasure and excitement for the visitor in encountering some of the most incisive and intelligent drawings produced in a period universally acknowledged to be one of great draftsmanship, but also to demonstrate that even geniuses require soil in which to grow. Thus while works by Raphael form the exhibition's center, they are placed in dynamic relation with those by his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors. /

Book Renoir

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  • Author : William Gaunt
  • Publisher : Phaidon Press
  • Release : 2016-04-11
  • ISBN : 9780714869698
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Renoir written by William Gaunt and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates one of the giants of French Impressionism with luxurious, large-format images Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was one of the founders of Impressionism and a friend of Monet, Pissarro and Sisley. He worked side-by-side with Monet on the banks of the Seine, sharing his concern with light and colour, but landscape painting never displaced his enduring love of figure painting. Delighting in the ample curves of the nudes he painted increasingly frequently in his later years, Renoir was also a master at capturing the spirit of Parisian life. His art is filled with optimism - his lifelong philosophy was that he painted because it gave him pleasure, and he shares that pleasure with those who see his work. It is almost always summer in his pictures, and in paintings like Moulin de la Galette, The Dance at Bougival and The Luncheon of the Boating Party he gives us an enduring record of contemporaries relaxing and enjoying their leisure.

Book Renoir

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  • Author : Elizabeth Anne King
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 540 pages

Download or read book Renoir written by Elizabeth Anne King and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Renoir Drawings

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  • Author : Auguste Renoir
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1958
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Renoir Drawings written by Auguste Renoir and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Renoir to Picasso

Download or read book From Renoir to Picasso written by Michel Georges-Michel and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memoirs of a Millennium

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  • Author : Ted Pocock
  • Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
  • Release : 2016-01-18
  • ISBN : 1786237121
  • Pages : 1219 pages

Download or read book Memoirs of a Millennium written by Ted Pocock and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 1219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of a Millennium is an engaging and unconventional history of the last millennium, told through the lives of ten individuals across ten centuries. The characters and their compatriots are brought vividly to life by eyewitnesses both sympathetic and unsympathetic, and a colourful cast of subsequent commentators. In this insightful and entertaining book, Ted Pocock uncovers complex webs of humanity in a narrative that moves effortlessly from connection to connection across countries and continents, and from the past to the present and back again. The ten chapters explore the lives and times of the following individuals: 1000: Vladimir of Kiev (Russia) 1100: Godfrey of Bouillon (Palestine and the Holy Land) 1200: Jayavarman VII of Angkor (Cambodia) 1300: Devorguilla of Galloway (England and Scotland) 1400: Tamburlaine of Samarkand (Central Asia) 1500: Marcantonio Raimondi of Bologna (Italy) 1600: Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Osaka (Japan) 1700: Sophie Charlotte of Prussia (Germany) 1800: John Ledyard of Connecticut (USA) 1900: Yuan Shikai of Beijing (China) The scholarship is dazzling, the prose elegant and witty, the rich digressions into related themes irresistible. The successive eras come alive and the compelling text keeps the reader in thral.' Dr Helen Ibbitson Jessup

Book Renoir Drawings

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  • Author : John Rewald
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-05-01
  • ISBN : 9781258340858
  • Pages : 94 pages

Download or read book Renoir Drawings written by John Rewald and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: