Download or read book The J Paul Getty Museum Journal written by The J. Paul Getty Museum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1989-11-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 16 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, and sculpture and works of art. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 16 includes articles written by Richard A. Gergel, Lee Johnson, Myra D. Orth, Barbra Anderson, Louise Lippincott, Leonard Amico, Peggy Fogelman, Peter Fusco, Gerd Spitzer, and Clare Le Corbeiller.
Download or read book Masterpieces of the J Paul Getty Museum European Sculpture written by Peter Fusco and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European sculpture featured in this volume ranges in date from the late fifteenth century to the very early twentieth and includes a wide variety of media: marble, bronze, alabaster, terracotta, plaster, wood, ivory, and gold. The earliest sculpture represented is the mysterious Saint Cyricus by Francesco Laurana; the latest is a shield-like portrait of Medusa by the eccentric Italian sculptor Vincenzo Gemito. Among the more than forty works included in this handsomely illustrated volume are sculptures by Antico (Bust of a Young Man); Cellini (a Satyr designed for Fontainebleau); Giambologna (a Female Figure that may represent Venus); Bernini (Boy with a Dragon); and Carpeaux (Bust of Jean-Léon Gérôme). Well represented here is the Museum’s splendid collection of Mannerist and early Baroque bronzes, including such masterpieces as Johann Gregor van der Schardt’s Mercury and two superb works by Adriaen de Vries: Juggling Man and Rearing Horse. These works are indicative of the extraordinary quality of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of post-Classical European sculpture.
Download or read book Masterpieces of the J Paul Getty Museum Paintings written by Denise Allen and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The J. Paul Getty Museum's paintings collection ranges from the fourteenth to the end of the nineteenth century. Among the finest examples of early Renaissance painting are the Madonna and Child by the Master of Saint Cecilia, Masaccio's Saint Andrew, and Gentile da Fabriano's richly painted Coronation of the Virgin. Typical of the High Renaissance are Andrea Mantegna's splendid Adoration of the Magi and Fra Bartolommeo's Rest on the Flight into Egypt. The art of the Netherlands in its Golden Age is represented by Jan Brueghel's much-loved painting The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark and by The Return from War, which he painted with Peter Paul Rubens, as well as a newly acquired and magnificent landscape by Hobbema, Rembrandt's Abduction of Europa, and Jan Steen's Drawing Lesson. Painting in France ranges from recently acquisitioned works by Poussin, Fragonard, and Lancret, through the Impressionism of Monet's seminal Sunrise and his Rouen Cathedral, while the modern age is exemplified by the Irises of Vincent van Gogh. Fernand Khnopff's Jeanne Kéfer, and Cézanne's Still Life with Apples.
Download or read book The Literary Digest written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Modern Italian Art written by Ashton Rollins Willard and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experience and Adventures of a Collector written by George Encil and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always, whenever George Encil acquired a new work of art, something completely ovbious, and yet very rare, then happened. He didn't just become the owner: rather he undertook a sponsorship. He has adopted a piece from the orphanage of the world's art supply and received it into his collection. In many cases, a deed was established which brought to the work an Interpretation which befitted it for the first time since the piece issued from the shaping hands of the artist. Each stage play, each performance of a piece of music, brings today nearly perfect expositions of its creator's intentions; only in the area of visual art, do people think it permissable to make a junk room out of the gallery, from which, in case of financial need, a piece can be thrown upon the slave block of the international art market. The author opposes this attitude wehemently. In the examples taken from the narrative of his experiences he demonstrates that with the acquisition of a work of art commences the duty of preserving it, of restoring it, finding the requisite frame, and alloting it a worthy place for itself. The exposition and proclamation of this conviction is the mission to which the author feels called. His report is an appeal for people to take an interest in the ever dwindling supply of works of art and he would prefer to see every collector become a godfather rather than a possessor; an interpreter rather than a beneficiary. This proclamation does not exempt public collections, in which, following exemplary interpretations, even stepchildren of art will be sheltered. A lifetime spent as a collector qualifies the author for this proclamation, and the presentation before us supports and explains this attitude.
Download or read book Italy of the Italians written by Helen Zimmern and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclop dia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who s who in Gay and Lesbian History written by Robert Aldrich and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 500 entries from more than 100 contributors, profiling gay and lesbians throughout history, ranging from Sappho to Andre Gide; most entries are accompanied by a bibliography.
Download or read book Literary Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The J Paul Getty Museum Journal written by J. Paul Getty Museum and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. include an "acquisitions supplement" listing the Museum's aquisitions for the preceeding year.
Download or read book From Realism to Art Nouveau written by Laura Lombardi and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking and superbly designed volume on the influential form of the Realist to Art Nouveau art movements. It lets you trace the roots of modern art, beginning with Realist paintings such as Courbet's The Stonebreakers and Millet's The Gleaners - works that shocked mid-19th-century Paris with their unblinking depiction of the lives of the poor. From Realism to Art Nouveau beautifully captures this turbulent era with an incisive text and breathtaking reproductions of works by Manet, Rossetti, Sargent, Monet, Seurat, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rodin, Klimt and others.
Download or read book Critical Writings written by F. T. Marinetti and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-07 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Futurist movement was founded and promoted by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, beginning in 1909 with the First Futurist Manifesto, in which he inveighed against the complacency of "cultural necrophiliacs" and sought to annihilate the values of the past, writing that "there is no longer any beauty except the struggle. Any work of art that lacks a sense of aggression can never be a masterpiece." In the years that followed, up until his death in 1944, Marinetti, through both his polemical writings and his political activities, sought to transform society in all its aspects. As Günter Berghaus writes in his introduction, "Futurism sought to bridge the gap between art and life and to bring aesthetic innovation into the real world. Life was to be changed through art, and art was to become a form of life." This volume includes more than seventy of Marinetti's most important writings—many of them translated into English for the first time—offering the reader a representative and still startling selection of texts concerned with Futurist art, literature, politics, and philosophy.
Download or read book Notturno written by Gabriele D'Annunzio and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed during a period of extended bed rest, Gabriele D'Annunzio's Notturno is a moving prose poem in which imagination, experience, and remembrance intertwine. The somber atmosphere of the poem reflects the circumstances of its creation. With his vision threatened and his eyes completely bandaged, D'Annunzio suffered months of near-total blindness and pain-wracked infirmity in 1921, and yet he managed to write on small strips of paper, each wide enough for a single line. When the poet eventually regained his sight, he put together these strips to create the lyrical and innovative Notturno. In Notturno D'Annunzio forges an original prose that merges aspects of formal poetry and autobiographical narrative. He fuses the darkness and penumbra of the present with the immediate past, haunted by war memories, death, and mourning, and also with the more distant past, revolving mainly around his mother and childhood. In this remarkable translation of the work, Stephen Sartarelli preserves the antiquated style of D'Annunzio's poetic prose and the tension of his rich and difficult harmonies, bringing to contemporary readers the full texture and complexity of a creation forged out of darkness.
Download or read book Art and the italians written by Marco Castracane and published by Armando Editore. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author addresses the complex and unsolved relationship that Italians live with their "Cultural Heritage", analyzing the issue of their management and administration.
Download or read book Italian Painting in the Age of Unification written by Laura L. Watts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian Painting in the Age of Unification reconstructs the artistic motivations and messaging of three artists—Tommaso Minardi, Francesco Hayez, and Gioacchino Toma—from three distinct regions in Italy prior to, during, and directly following political unification in 1861. Each artist, working in Rome, Milan, and Naples, respectively, adopted the visual narratives particular to his region, using style to communicate aspects of his political, religious, or social context. By focusing on these three figures, this study will introduce readers outside of Italy to their diversity of practice, and provide a means for understanding their place within the larger field of international nineteenth-century art, albeit a place largely distinct from the better-known French tradition. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, nationalism, Italian history, or Italian studies.
Download or read book A Complete Guide to Drawing written by Domingo Manera and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has spent many years in French art schools. At present, he is a renowned Master of drawing and a Professor at the "Scuola del Libro della Società Umanitaria". This volume contains mature experiences, stepped didactics and the clarity of concepts and lines that make it unique in the world of teaching, at all levels, of the most complex drawing techniques.
