Download or read book Sculpture Collections in Europe and the United States 1500 1930 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the various forms taken by sculpture collections, this volume presents new research on collectors, modes of display, and the aesthetics of viewing sculpture, making a notable addition to the literature on the history of sculpture and art collecting as a cultural phenomenon.
Download or read book The Kinsey Collection written by Khalil B. Kinsey ($e writer of added commentary) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wyvern Collection written by Paul Williamson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important collections of medieval sculpture and metalwork ever assembled, available to the public for the first time This is the definitive catalogue of one of the most important collections of medieval art that exists in private hands, not previously accessible to the public. Comprised of outstanding European sculptures of the medieval period, as well as some Late Antique and Byzantine pieces and related works of the post-medieval era, this stunning volume includes detailed descriptions of many items rarely or never before seen in print. The featured objects are made from wood, stone (including alabaster and marble), terra- cotta, and metal— mostly consisting of crucifix figures (corpora) and other functional metalware, such as aquamanilia (water vessels for the washing of hands) and candlesticks—all of which are beautifully showcased by specially commissioned photography.
Download or read book A Passion for Antiquities written by Marion True and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman of New York is one of the most important private collections of ancient Greek and Roman art in the United States and among the most important in the world. Composed of approximately three hundred objects from the Bronze Age to the Late Antique, it includes bronze statuettes, marble sculpture, vases, jewelry, lamps and candelabra, keys, weights, and silver bowls and utensils. The Fleischmans have a particular fascination with pieces associated with everyday life in antiquity, since these objects evoke a human connection to the past. They are also drawn to pieces that exemplify the human propensity to transform a functional object into a thing of beauty. Not only has their emotional response to an object’s aesthetic appeal or its historical significance guided them in their forty years of collecting, personal interests have been at work as well. The large number of pieces related to the theater or representing theatrical subjects reflects Barbara Fleischman’s lifelong love of that art. A Passion for Antiquities contains photographs and extensive catalogue entries on the objects included in the exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Eighteen contributors provide art historical and descriptive information about each piece. The objects not selected for the exhibition are detailed in a checklist that specifies their origins, dates, media, and sizes. This book is the first major reference on the entire collection, since most of the objects have never before been publicly shown. To facilitate finding specific objects or groups of objects, the book is organized first chronologically and then by medium. Bibliographic sources for each entry cite both publications where the specific work is discussed as well as references to related scholarship. Karol Wight provides a chronological overview of the collection, and Oliver Taplin relates selected pieces to the development of Greek theater. The exhibition of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman’s collection and this catalogue allow us to enter into their minds and emotions so that, for a time, we can share their passion for antiquities.
Download or read book The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum written by Boston, Mass. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book takes you through the collection gallery by gallery, illuminating the art and installations in each room"--From preface.
Download or read book The Secret Art of Dr Seuss written by Audrey Geisel and published by Random House. This book was released on 1995-10-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These fabulous, whimsical paintings, created for his own pleasure and never shown to the public, show Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) in a whole new light. Depicting outlandish creatures in otherworldly settings, the paintings use a dazzling rainbow of hues not seen in the primary-color palette of his books for children, and exhibit a sophisticated and often quite unrestrained side of the artist. 65 color illustrations.
Download or read book Art in the Frick Collection written by Frick Collection and published by Abrams. This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Frick Collection, housed in an elegant New York City mansion, is one of the most extraordinary small museums in the world. This lavishly illustrated survey of the Collection offers a dazzling array of great paintings as well as rarely published sculptural treasures and numerous masterpieces of the decorative arts. 198 illustrations, 178 in color.
Download or read book Heritage of Power written by Kristi Butterwick and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2004 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Diverse environments, from low-lying marshlands to naturally terraced hillsides to rugged mountains of pine and oak forest, afforded many opportunities for well-being to the inhabitants of what are now the modern Mexican states of Colima, Jalisco, and Nayarit. In the seven-hundred-year period between 300 B.C. and A.D. 400, local hierarchies flourished, power was concentrated in increasingly fewer hands, and the wealthier members of the communities established family lineages that remained intact for many generations." "The compelling importance of place and family is reflected in the size, locations, and contents of the major tombs of that period; often situated near or under dwellings, these were deeply buried shaft-and-chamber tombs. One set of conjoined tombs, excavated in 1993 at the site of Huitzilapa in the Magdalena basin of northern Jalisco, held six personages, five of whom were close family relatives. Well over one hundred ceramic works accompanied the interred, together with conch-shell trumpets, tens of thousands of shell beads, and objects of jade, obsidian, and quartz, testifying to the family's wealth. Many of the ceramic objects were vessels and bowls for food and drink, but there were large, three-dimensional human figures as well, among them one depicting a ballplayer." "The focus of Heritage of Power: Ancient Sculpture from West Mexico. The Andrall E. Pearson Family Collection consists of over forty of these artistically appealing figures, which represent all three of the major styles - and sub-styles - that make up the body of West Mexican ceramic sculpture, named for the states of Colima, Jalisco, and Nayarit." "Included are an introductory illustrated essay, catalogue entries that discuss each of the works in detail - all of them shown in color and, often, in multiple views - and a selected bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin written by Auguste Rodin and published by [Philadelphia] : Philadelphia Museum of Art. This book was released on 1976 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twentieth Century Sculpture Walker Art Center written by Walker Art Center and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sculpture in Place written by Sarah A. Clark-Langager and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The natural setting is breathtakingly beautiful, but the artistic expression that is the campus - the combination of art and architecture - makes this a true jewel in a magnificant setting.".
Download or read book Italian and Spanish Sculpture written by Peggy Fogelman and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2002-12-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The catalogue is abundantly illustrated, including multiple views of each sculpture."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Chinese Art The Impossible Collection written by Adrian Cheng and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While readers will come away from Chinese Art with a nuanced understanding of Chinese culture, the volume is also a work of art in its own right—a must-have collectible for any devotee of Chinese art and culture. Assouline’s Ultimate Collection is an homage to the art of luxury bookmaking—the oversized volume is hand-bound using traditional techniques, with several of the plates hand-tipped on art-quality paper and housed in a luxury silk clamshell.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection written by Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Robert Lehman Collection written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Lehman, one of the foremost art collectors of his generation, embraced traditional and modern masters. This work catalogues 130 nineteenth- and 20th-century paintings that are part of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum. It includes paintings by Ingres, Theodore Rousseau, and Corot among other early 19th-century artists. In addition to a group of early German drawings, this collection includes a Saint Paul from a series associated with Jan van Eyck and the famous Scupstoel from the circle of Rogier van der Weyden. It discusses all drawings, placing each in its art historical setting and complementing it with comparative illustrations of related works.
Download or read book The Tomb of Rekh mi R at Thebes written by Norman de Garis Davies and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Marble Quarry written by Henry Nichols Blake Clark and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the opening of the permanent installation of the Ricau Collection at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia.
