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Book The Age of Rembrandt

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roland E. Fleischer
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 1988-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780915773022
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book The Age of Rembrandt written by Roland E. Fleischer and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of seventeenth-century Dutch painting.

Book A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Bruyn
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-05-14
  • ISBN : 9400908113
  • Pages : 815 pages

Download or read book A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings written by J. Bruyn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the second half of the last century art historians, realizing that the image of Rembrandt’s work had become blurred with time, have attempted to redefine the artist’s significance both as a source of inspiration to other artists and as a great artist in his own right. In order to carry on the work started by previous generations, a group of leading Dutch art historians from the university and museum world joined forces in the late 1960s in order to study afresh the paintings usually ascribed to the artist. The researchers came together in the Rembrandt Research Project which was established to provide the art world with a new standard reference work which would serve the community of art historians for the nearby and long future. They examined the originals of all works attributed to Rembrandt taking full advantage of today’s sophisticated techniques including radiography, neutron activation autoradiography, dendrochronology and paint sample analysis — thereby gaining valuable insight into the genesis and condition of the paintings. The result of this meticulous research is laid down chronologically in the following Volumes: A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, Volume I, which deals with works from Rembrandt’s early years in Leiden(1629-1631), published in 1982. A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, Volume II, covering his first years in Amsterdam (1631-1634), published in 1986. THIS VOLUME: A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, Volume III, goes into his later years of reputation (1635-1642), published in 1990. Each Volume consists of a number of Introductory Chapters as well as the full Catalogue of all paintings from the given time period attributed to Rembrandt. In this catalogue each painting is discussed and examined in a detailed way, comprising a descriptive, an interpretative and a documentary section. For the authenticity evaluation of the paintings three different categories are used to divide the works in: A. Paintings by Rembrandt, B. Paintings of which Rembrandt’s authorship cannot be positively either accepted or rejected, and C. Paintings of which Rembrandt’s authorship cannot be accepted. This volume (Volume III) contains 820 pages, starting of with three introductory chapters and discussing 86 paintings. In clear and accessible explanatory text all different paintings are discussed, larded with immaculate images of each painting. Details are shown where possible, as well as the results of modern day technical imaging. In this volume important paintings including the Night Watch are discussed.

Book British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response

Download or read book British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response written by Dr Inge Reist and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fourteen essays by distinguished art and cultural historians examine points of similarity and difference in British and American art collecting. Half the essays examine the trends that dominated the British art collecting scene of the nineteenth century. Others focus on American collectors, using biographical sketches and case studies to demonstrate how collectors in the United States embellished the British model to develop their own, often philanthropic approach to art collecting.

Book Rick Steves Tour  Rijksmuseum  Amsterdam

Download or read book Rick Steves Tour Rijksmuseum Amsterdam written by Rick Steves and published by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick Steves Tours eBooks are straightforward, self-guided tours of some of Europe's most popular museums, ancient buildings, and other points of interest, designed for easy reference on your mobile device or eReader. In Rick Steves Tour: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam-for less than the price of a cappuccino-Rick shares his candid advice on how to get the most out of a visit to the Rijksmuseum, including when to go, how much it costs, and what's worth your time once you're there. With Rick's knowledgeable, humorous writing in hand, you'll also learn some interesting historical facts about the museum along the way. Packed with indispensable tips and recommendations from America's expert on Europe, Rick Steves Tour: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam is a tour guide in your pocket-and on your smartphone.

Book Rick Steves Pocket Amsterdam

Download or read book Rick Steves Pocket Amsterdam written by Rick Steves and published by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves! This colorful, compact guidebook is perfect for spending a week or less in Amsterdam: City walks and tours: Six detailed tours and walks showcase Amsterdam's essential sights, including the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, and the Anne Frank House, plus neighborhood walks through the Red Light District, Jordaan, and the historic city center Rick's strategic advice on what experiences are worth your time and money What to eat and where to stay: Sample pickled herring and friets with mayonnaise, chat with locals over a pint of pils, and cozy up in a canalside hotel Day-by-day itineraries to help you prioritize your time A detailed, detachable fold-out map, plus museum and city maps throughout Full-color, portable, and slim for exploring on-the-go Trip-planning practicalities like when to go, how to get around, basic Dutch phrases, and more Lightweight yet packed with valuable insight into Amsterdam's history and culture, Rick Steves Pocket Amsterdam truly is a tour guide in your pocket. Expanding your trip? Try Rick Steves Amsterdam & the Netherlands!

Book To Whom it May Concern

Download or read book To Whom it May Concern written by Frederik Swennen and published by ASP / VUBPRESS / UPA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report of the seminar: 'public private partnerships on cultural heritage' on 21 december 2010 in Antwerp, in the form of an essay. With reflections on the basis of the introductions and interventions by the participants. With the economic and legal aspects of cultural heritage; the possible fields of application of public private partnerships on cultural heritage and the legal and tax techniques.

Book Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart

Download or read book Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart written by Elizabeth T. Groppe and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era in which the internet has made pornography readily accessible, Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart offers a theological critique of pornography and retrieves from the Christian tradition an alternative visual culture. This visual culture is constituted by both the character of the images we behold and the manner in which we see. Contributors include psychologists William M. Struthers and Jill Manning, who address the neurological effects of pornography and its influences on personal, familial, and social life. Their professional analysis is complemented by the testimony of a young man in recovery from pornography addiction. In an exposition of Christian visual culture, Orthodox iconographer Randi Sider-Rose describes the spiritual discipline of icon writing, Danielle M. Peters, S.T.D., surveys the iconography and art of Marian traditions, and art historian Dianne Phillips elucidates the meaning of divine desire as evident in Catholic visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods. Catholic theologians Ann W. Astell, Nathanial Peters, Boyd Taylor Coolman, and Nicolas Ogle discuss specific practices and dimensions of the Catholic tradition that can contribute to the cultivation of sacramental vision, and David W. Fagerberg, Kimberly Hope Belcher, Jennifer Newsome Martin, and John C. Cavadini offer reflections on sacramental imagination and the healing of vision. Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart is a work of scholarship composed with pastoral care and concern, and it will be serviceable to both classroom teachers and pastoral ministers. A special feature of the book is an inset of seventy-two full-color plates featuring both classic and contemporary works of Christian iconography and art. The essays and images invite readers to behold in beauty the truth that we are created by the triune God not for sexual objectification but with a sacramental vocation to deification through Christ and the Holy Spirit of love.

Book Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age

Download or read book Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age written by Arthur Weststeijn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive study of the radical political thought of the brothers Johan and Pieter de la Court, two eminent theorists from the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic who played a pivotal role in the rise of commercial republicanism.

Book New Serial Titles

Download or read book New Serial Titles written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Book Rome

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rabun Taylor
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2016-09-07
  • ISBN : 1316679373
  • Pages : 451 pages

Download or read book Rome written by Rabun Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from Iron Age village to modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism. Three thousand years old and counting, Rome has thrived almost from the start on self-reference, supplementing the everyday concerns of urban management and planning by projecting its own past onto the city of the moment. This is a study of the urban processes by which Rome's people and leaders, both as custodians of its illustrious past and as agents of its expansive power, have shaped and conditioned its urban fabric by manipulating geography and organizing space; planning infrastructure; designing and presiding over mythmaking, ritual, and stagecraft; controlling resident and transient populations; and exploiting Rome's standing as a seat of global power and a religious capital.

Book Dali  Third   World of Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dawn Ades
  • Publisher : Thames & Hudson
  • Release : 2022-06-07
  • ISBN : 050077630X
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Dali Third World of Art written by Dawn Ades and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative account of the life and work of Salvador Dalí, one of the most recognizable artists of the twentieth century, is revised and updated with color illustrations throughout. In this revised and updated edition of art historian Dawn Ades’s seminal study of Salvador Dalí, based on interviews with the artist, Ades examines what accounts for Dalí’s popularity, exploring such issues as the accessibility of his imagery and his talent as a self-publicist. This book reconsiders the Dali´ phenomenon, from his early years and the development of his technique and style to his relationship with the Surrealists, his exploitation of Freudian ideas, and the image that he created of himself as the mad genius artist. This new edition of Dalí is an accessible and vibrantly illustrated introduction to one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century.

Book Dawn of the Golden Age

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wouter T. Kloek
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1993-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300060165
  • Pages : 732 pages

Download or read book Dawn of the Golden Age written by Wouter T. Kloek and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a catalogue for an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in 1994, this offers a survey of the paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and applied art produced 1580-1620. The book contains five essays followed by a catalogue which reproduces work from the era along with data on the artists.

Book Asia in Amsterdam

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rijksmuseum (Netherlands)
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2015-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300212879
  • Pages : 357 pages

Download or read book Asia in Amsterdam written by Rijksmuseum (Netherlands) and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the Asian luxury goods that were imported into the Netherlands during the 17th century and demonstrates the overwhelming impact these works of art had on Dutch life and art during the Golden Age

Book Discover Her Art

Download or read book Discover Her Art written by Jean Leibowitz and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discover Her Art is a brilliant guide to understanding how a painting does what it does." —Emily Eveleth, painter Discover Her Art invites young art lovers and artists to learn about painting through the lives and masterpieces of 24 women from the 16th to the 20th century. In each chapter, readers arrive at a masterwork, explore it with an artist's eye, and learn about the painter's remarkable life and the inspirations behind her work. Young artists will discover how these 24 amazing women used composition, color, value, shape, and line in paintings that range from highly realistic to fully abstract. Hands-on exercises encourage readers to create their own art! Whether you love to make art or just look at it, you will enjoy discovering the great work of these women artists.

Book Pleasure and Piety

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Clifton
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2015-03-22
  • ISBN : 0691166064
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Pleasure and Piety written by James Clifton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-22 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The exhibition is organized by the Centraal Museum Utrecht; the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation."--Title page verso.

Book The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius  1511 1575

Download or read book The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius 1511 1575 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575) is generally regarded as the greatest humanist in the Northern Netherlands between the death of Erasmus in 1536 and the foundation of Leiden University in 1575. For both literary authors and professional philologists of the Golden Age, Junius remained the only significant point of reference on Dutch soil in the second and third quarters of the sixteenth century. As physician, lexicographer, historiographer, emblematist, poet, mycologist, chronologer and philologist, he was a prolific editor (and translator) of Latin and Greek texts. Yet we still know little about the kind of scholarship this stuttering polymath pursued, and about the connections between his numerous works. The chapters in this book analyse Junius’ most important works, some of which have never been studied before. All chapters contextualise his works in light of the tradition of humanism so familiar to Junius.

Book Touching Parchment  How Medieval Users Rubbed  Handled  and Kissed Their Manuscripts

Download or read book Touching Parchment How Medieval Users Rubbed Handled and Kissed Their Manuscripts written by Kathryn M. Rudy and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late middle ages (ca. 1200-1520), both religious and secular people used manuscripts, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of their use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, public reading, and memorializing the dead, is the subject of Kathryn Rudy’s research in Touching Parchment. This second volume, Social Encounters with the Book, delves into the physical interaction with books in various social settings, including education, courtly assemblies, and confraternal gatherings. Looking at acts such as pointing, scratching, and ‘wet-touching’, the author zooms in on smudges and abrasions on medieval manuscripts as testimonials of readers’ interaction with the book and its contents. In so doing, she dissects the function of books in oaths, confraternal groups, education, and courtly settings, illuminating how books were used as teaching aids and tools for conveying political messages. The narrative paints a vivid picture of medieval reading, emphasizing bodily engagement, from page-turning to the intimate act of kissing pages. Overall, this text offers a captivating exploration of the tactile and social dimensions of book use in late medieval Europe broadening our perspective on the role of objects in rituals during the middle ages. Social Encounters with the Book provides a fundamental resource to anybody interested in medieval history and book materiality more widely.