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Book Albrecht Altdorfer

Download or read book Albrecht Altdorfer written by Albrecht Altdorfer and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the National Gallery of Canada

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the National Gallery of Canada written by National Gallery of Canada. Library and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book European Elites and Ideas of Empire  1917 1957

Download or read book European Elites and Ideas of Empire 1917 1957 written by Dina Gusejnova and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores European civilisation as a concept of twentieth-century political practice and the project of a transnational network of European elites. This title is available as Open Access.

Book The World in Miniature

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  • Author : Patricia A. Emison
  • Publisher : Spencer Museum of Art University of Kansas
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The World in Miniature written by Patricia A. Emison and published by Spencer Museum of Art University of Kansas. This book was released on 1988 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engravings by German Renaissance artists with descriptive notes and essays.

Book Max Ernst

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  • Author : Max Ernst
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 0300107188
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Max Ernst written by Max Ernst and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2005 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at the life and work of a pioneering 20th-century artist

Book Roman Baroque Painting

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  • Author : Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse
  • Publisher : Phaidon Press
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Roman Baroque Painting written by Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Issues in the Conservation of Paintings

Download or read book Issues in the Conservation of Paintings written by David Bomford and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume will be of interest to teachers and students of conservation and art history, as well as to practicing conservators and museum curators, professionals in related disciplines, and others interested in art history and paintings conservation."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Paintings of Lucas Van Leyden

Download or read book The Paintings of Lucas Van Leyden written by Elise Lawton Smith and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lucas van Leyden (1494?-1533) was a remarkably versatile artist. His art, noted for its realism, dramatic power, and careful execution, ranges from the small half-length narratives of his youth to the carefully constructed, multifigured representations of his later years." "Until quite recently Lucas's oeuvre was inflated with inferior copies or stylistically unrelated works, leading one scholar to describe his painting career as inconsistent and illogical. Within the last fifteen years, however, his production and development as a painter have been redefined. Despite this renewed interest, The Paintings of Lucas van Leyden is the first comprehensive appraisal of Lucas's paintings." "Smith's survey of the biographical data focuses on Lucas's disputed birth date, his artistic training, and his travels to the southern Netherlands, which brought him into contact with two of the most significant northern artists of the early sixteenth century, Albrecht Durer and Jan Gossaert. Smith reveals the influence of their work, along with the prints of Marcantonio Raimondi, on Lucas's stylistic development. His paintings are also examined with reference to recurring thematic motifs. The early allegorical genre panels - with depictions of gaming, fortune-telling, and betrothal scenes - constitute an important transition in the movement of Netherlandish art away from its roots in the medieval church, providing Lucas with themes that reappeared in his later years. Most significant, the underlying topos of the Power of Women, with its corollary warning against the temptations of the flesh, was repeated in certain of his Old Testament paintings." "The catalogue raisonne contains entries on the extant originals as well as the numerous sixteenth- and seventeenth-century copies after lost works. These inclusions double the number of compositions firmly in Lucas's oeuvre, providing us with a richer understanding of his accomplishments as a painter." "This book will be an important addition to the history of Netherlandish art, as well as an aid to students of Flemish, German, and Italian art. In addition, it should appeal to cultural historians who are concerned with issues such as the representation of women, allegories of gaming, and artistic responses to the Reformation."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Tapestry in the Renaissance

Download or read book Tapestry in the Renaissance written by Thomas P. Campbell and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2002 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tapestries--the art form of kings--were a principal tool used by powerful Renaissance rulers to convey their wealth and might. From 1460 to 1560, courts and churches lavished vast sums on costly weavings in silk and gold thread from designs by leading artists. In this lavishly illustrated book, the first major survey of tapestry production of this period, contributors analyze some of these & beautiful tapestries, examine the stylistic and technical development of tapestry production in the Low Countries, France, and Italy during the Renaissance, and discuss the contribution that the medium made to art, liturgy, and propaganda of the day.

Book Painted Prints

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  • Author : Susan Dackerman
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780271022352
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Painted Prints written by Susan Dackerman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betr. u.a. Hans Holbeins Totentanz in den "Simulachres & historiées faces de la mort", Lyon 1538 (S. 176-179).

Book Illuminating the Renaissance

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  • Author : Thomas Kren
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2003-07-01
  • ISBN : 0892367040
  • Pages : 593 pages

Download or read book Illuminating the Renaissance written by Thomas Kren and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and richly illustrated catalogue focuses on the finest illustrated manuscripts produced in Europe during the great epoch in Flemish illumination. During this aesthetically fertile period – beginning in 1467 with the reign of the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold and ending in 1561 with the death of the artist Simon Bening – the art of book painting was raised to a new level of sophistication. Sharing inspiration with the celebrated panel painters of the time, illuminators achieved astonishing innovations in the handling of color, light, texture, and space, creating a naturalistic style that would dominate tastes throughout Europe for nearly a century. Centering on the notable artists of the period – Simon Marmion, the Vienna Master of Mary of Burgundy, Gerard David, Gerard Horenbout, Bening, and others – the catalogue examines both devotional and secular manuscript illumination within a broad context: the place of illuminators within the visual arts, including artistic exchange between book painters and panel painters; the role of court patronage and the emergence of personal libraries; and the international appeal of the new Flemish illumination style. Contributors to the catalogue include Maryan W. Ainsworth, curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; independent scholar Catherine Reynolds; and Elizabeth Morrison, assistant curator of manuscripts at the Getty Museum. Illuminating the Renaissance is published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Getty Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and the British Library to be held at the Getty Museum from June 17 to September 7, 2003, and at the Royal Academy of Arts from November 25, 2003 to February 22, 2004.

Book Jacob Van Ruisdael

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  • Author : Seymour Slive
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300089724
  • Pages : 797 pages

Download or read book Jacob Van Ruisdael written by Seymour Slive and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you know the 26 letters of the alphabet and can count to 99 -- or are just learning -- you'll love Tana Hoban's brilliant creation. This innovative concept book is two books in one!

Book One way Song

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  • Author : Wyndham Lewis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book One way Song written by Wyndham Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journey to the Abyss

Download or read book Journey to the Abyss written by Harry Kessler and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler’s immersion in the new art and literature of Paris, London, and Berlin unfolds in the first part of the diaries. This refined world gives way to vivid descriptions of the horrific fighting on the Eastern and Western fronts of World War I, the intriguing private discussions among the German political and military elite about the progress of the war, as well as Kessler’s account of his role as a diplomat with a secret mission in Switzerland. Profoundly modern and often prescient, Kessler was an erudite cultural impresario and catalyst who as a cofounder of the avant-garde journal Pan met and contributed articles about many of the leading artists and writers of the day. In 1903 he became director of the Grand Ducal Museum of Arts and Crafts in Weimar, determined to make it a center of aesthetic modernism together with his friend the architect Henry van de Velde, whose school of design would eventually become the Bauhaus. When a public scandal forced his resignation in 1906, Kessler turned to other projects, including collaborating with the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the German composer Richard Strauss on the opera Der Rosenkavalier and the ballet The Legend of Joseph, which was performed in 1914 by the Ballets Russes in London and Paris. In 1913 he founded the Cranach-Presse in Weimar, one of the most important private presses of the twentieth century. The diaries present brilliant, sharply etched, and often richly comical descriptions of his encounters, conversations, and creative collaborations with some of the most celebrated people of his time: Otto von Bismarck, Paul von Hindenburg, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsky, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Sarah Bernhardt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Marie Rilke, Paul Verlaine, Gordon Craig, George Bernard Shaw, Harley Granville-Barker, Max Klinger, Arnold Böcklin, Max Beckmann, Aristide Maillol, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Éduard Vuillard, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Ida Rubinstein, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Pierre Bonnard, and Walther Rathenau, among others. Remarkably insightful, poignant, and cinematic in their scope, Kessler’s diaries are an invaluable record of one of the most volatile and seminal moments in modern Western history.

Book Art and Life

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  • Author : Thomas Sturge Moore
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1910
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Art and Life written by Thomas Sturge Moore and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inspired by Italy

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  • Author : Laurie B. Harwood
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Inspired by Italy written by Laurie B. Harwood and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dutch Italianate painting is an important as well as appealing strand of landscape painting in the 17th century. This work takes a detailed look at this particular type of landscape painting and the artists who practised it.

Book The European Geographical Imagination

Download or read book The European Geographical Imagination written by Michael J. Heffernan and published by Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Geographical Imagination considers the implicit and explicit geographies that have shaped what the author calls the �European debate' - the search for a set of core values and principles that might define what it means to be European. This is a long-standing debate, to be sure, and can be traced back at least as far as the 17th century. The European debate has waxed and waned ever since and has been associated with different geographies and different conceptions of European space. In three substantive essays and an introductory statement, the author reviews some of the foundational narratives that have shaped the European debate from its origins to the present day, provides a detailed assessment of French and British contributions during the 1920s and 1930s, and discusses the latest phase in this debate as revealed by recent arguments for a new and independent European political culture and foreign policy for the 21st century.