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Book Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard

Download or read book Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard written by Svetlana Alpers and published by Harvey Miller. This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly before November 1636, Rubens received the commission from Philip IV of Spain to supply more than sixty paintings with mythological subjects for his new hunting lodge, the Torre de la Parada. In about one and a half years, the enormous task was completed. The pictures had been painted partly by Rubens himself, partly from his designs by a number of collaborators, among them Cornelis de Vos, Jacob Jordaens, Theodoor van Thulden and Erasmus Quellinus. Today, forty of these paintings, more than fifty of Rubens's brilliant sketches and a few preparatory drawings survive. Together with three never previously published eighteenth-century inventories of the Torre de La Parada, they have provided the material for the new analysis of the series.

Book Drama and Devotion

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  • Author : Anne T. Woollett
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1606061127
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Drama and Devotion written by Anne T. Woollett and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the efforts of the J Paul Getty Museum to preserve and expose a stunning 16th century triptych. This book documents the dramatic process of revealing the brilliance of a 16th-century masterpiece.

Book D  rer and Beyond

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  • Author : Stijn Alsteens
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1588394514
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book D rer and Beyond written by Stijn Alsteens and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This exhibition is the first to offer an extensive overview of the Museum's holdings of early Central European drawings, many of which were acquired in the last two decades. An emphasis on works by later sixteenth- and seventeenth-century artists is balanced by a selection of German drawings from the fifteenth and earlier sixteenth century, of which some of the most exceptional ones--including works by Albrecht Deurer--entered the Museum with The Robert Lehman Collection in 1975."--Publisher's website.

Book Spectacular Rubens

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alejandro Vergara
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2014-10-14
  • ISBN : 1606064304
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Spectacular Rubens written by Alejandro Vergara and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six glorious scenes that make up the Triumph of the Eucharist series by Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) are highlights of the Museo Nacional del Prado’s superb collection of Flemish paintings. Completed in 1626, these brilliantly detailed sketches were painted at the behest of the Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia in preparation for a series of monumental tapestries that are now considered among the finest made in Europe in the seventeenth century. Unfortunately, additions to the wooden supports, introduced after the paintings were created, made the panels considerably larger than Rubens intended and over time caused serious damage to the original sections. With the aid of the Getty Foundation’s Panel Paintings Initiative, the panels have been restored and returned to their original dimensions by the Prado, and the magnificent oil sketches can once again be placed on public view. This lushly illustrated and illuminating volume provides new insight into the history of the Eucharist series of paintings and tapestries and attests to Rubens’s exhilarating art. Spectacular Rubens is published on the occasion of an exhibition of the paintings, on view at the Museo Nacional del Prado from March 25 through June 29, 2014, and at the J. Paul Getty Museum from October 14, 2014, through January 4, 2015.

Book Imagining the Past in France

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  • Author : Elizabeth Morrison
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2010-12-07
  • ISBN : 1606060287
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book Imagining the Past in France written by Elizabeth Morrison and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exquisite volume beautifully reproduces and insightfully examines the most important illuminations found in French history manuscripts.

Book The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris

Download or read book The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris written by Susan Maxwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding new light on the relatively unknown art of the Wittelsbach dukes's sixteenth-century court, The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris represents the first monograph to focus on this Italian-trained Netherlandish artist. The volume incorporates original archival material, including letters and payment records into the analysis of Sustris's many projects that ranged from large fresco cycles to intimate luxury and devotional objects. Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria transformed Munich into a vital cultural crossroads between northern Europe and Italy. As Wilhelm's court artist and artistic director, Friedrich Sustris created a unified vision that broadcast Bavarian magnificence to princely courts across Europe. Although much of Sustris's work is lost, the remaining body of his drawings provides a unique window onto the reception of drawings by early modern elites within the context of their collecting practices.

Book Elegance and Refinement

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  • Author : Willem van Aelst
  • Publisher : Skira
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0847838218
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Elegance and Refinement written by Willem van Aelst and published by Skira. This book was released on 2012 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The paintings of Willem van Aelst are known for their remarkably fine finish, carefully balanced compositions and elegant subject matter. Each work featured in this monograph represents a phase of the artist's career"--Nielsen Book Data.

Book Masterpieces from Mount Stuart

Download or read book Masterpieces from Mount Stuart written by Christian Tico Seifert and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book presents old master paintings from the famous Bute Collection at

Book Celebrating in the Golden Age

Download or read book Celebrating in the Golden Age written by Frans Halsmuseum and published by Nai010 Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From peasant fairs and carnival celebrations to lavish al fresco parties, processions and civic guard banquets, the Netherlands in the seventeenth century was a golden age of partying. Celebrating the Golden Age provides a pageant of people making merry through the eyes of Dutch masters Esaias van de Velde, Dirck Hals, Willem Buytewech, Jan Miense Molenaar, Frans Hals and Jan Steen, who was perhaps the ultimate painter of these festivities. This volume brings to life the painted party, with scenes of celebration at weddings, elegant garden parties, carnivals, Twelfth Night and May festivities, masquerades and family gatherings on Saint Nicholas' Eve. A series of essays explicates these narrative scenes: their often sly and humorous views of the values of their time, the role of alcohol and bawdy humor, the ways in which painters persuaded their subjects to pose and what costumes and gestures can reveal when the seventeenth century lets its hair down.

Book Michiel Van Musscher  1645 1705

Download or read book Michiel Van Musscher 1645 1705 written by Robert E. Gerhardt and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exhibition on Michiel van Musscher does not only display his more famous paintings from Dutch collections and the museum itself, but also a significant number of paintings from foreign museums and national and international private collections, which are normally not accessible to the public. This exhibition does not only intend to increase appreciation of Van Musscher's work and of late 17th century Dutch painting, but also to adjust the perception of the later part of the Dutch Golden Age.00Exhibition: Museum van Loon, Amsterdam, Netherlands (9.3.-10.6.2012).

Book Rembrandt in America

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  • Author : George S. Keyes
  • Publisher : Skira
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780847836857
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Rembrandt in America written by George S. Keyes and published by Skira. This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Rembrandt in America, 30 October 2011-22 January 2012 at the North Carolina Museum of Art, 19 February-28 May 2012 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and 24 June-16 September 2012 at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts"--T.p. verso.

Book Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus

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  • Author : Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780300169577
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus written by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents and explores the seven known oil sketches of Christ on oak panels by Rembrandt, along with over 60 paintings, drawings and prints by him and his pupils.

Book The Steenwyck Family as Masters of Perspective

Download or read book The Steenwyck Family as Masters of Perspective written by Jeremy Howarth and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Steenwyck family - Hendrick the Elder and his son Hendrick the Younger, together with the latter's wife Susanna Gaspoel, represent a remarkable group of artists, successful and well regarded in their own time, but now somewhat overlooked. They were among the first artists to concentrate on making use of the science of perspective to produce idealised and meticulously painted architectural scenes, enhanced by elegant figures, sometimes executed by artists of the quality of Jan Brueghel I, as the basis of a new style of painting. Spanning the turbulent period from the late 16th to the mid 17th centuries they succeeded in producing a new art form that found favour with connoisseurs in much of Europe, including the court of King Charles I in London, where Steenwyck the Younger worked for over 20 years. This book, the first ever written on the Steenwycks, covers the work of this talented family and explores the social, economic and religious conditions which help to explain the appeal of this elegant new style to their patrons. The catalogue raisonne covers the known works of the artists and contains detailed provenances and bibliographic references. The book contains a number of illustrations, including a number which will be barely known except by specialists in the subject.

Book Van Eyck Studies

Download or read book Van Eyck Studies written by Christina Currie and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Paul Coreman's ground-breaking 'L'Agneau mystique au laboratoire' in 1953, the 'Ghent Altarpiece', masterwork of the Van Eyck brothers, has been a major focus of research at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA, Brussels). Some sixty years later, in the wake of a new conservation campaign in which KIK-IRPA is again playing the leading role, the art of Hubert and Jan van Eyck took centre stage at the Symposium XVIII for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting (Brussels, 19-21 September 2012). The event was organised by the KIK-IRPA and the Centre for the Study of the Flemish Primitives in collaboration with the Laboratoire d'étude des œuvres d'art par des méthodes scientifiques (Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve), and Illuminare - Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). This book captures the variety of thirty-seven papers presented at the symposium and provides state-of-the-art knowledge on one of the most significant painters of all time. It should be read in conjunction with the widely acclaimed website "Closer to Van Eyck", which offers the scientific imagery of the 'Ghent Altarpiece' in glorious high resolution.

Book Art and Alchemy

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  • Author : Sven Dupré
  • Publisher : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9783777422077
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Art and Alchemy written by Sven Dupré and published by Hirmer Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the relationship between alchemy and art, bringing together key artworks that take alchemy as their inspiration: from the enigmatic paintings of Jan Brueghel the Elder to contemporary works by Anish Kapoor. It includes recent studies by internationally renowned scientists.

Book Art  Music and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens

Download or read book Art Music and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens written by Anna C. Knaap and published by Harvey Miller Pub. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the triumphal entry of the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, brother of King Philip IV of Spain, into Antwerp in 1635, one of the largest and most spectacular festivals ever mounted in an early modern city. The outdoor festivities in honor of the city's new governor included a citywide procession, performances, fireworks, music, and political speeches. Along the processional route appeared nine richly ornamented stages and arches designed by Peter Paul Rubens and executed by a group of local painters and sculptors, including Jacob Jordaens, Theodoor van Thulden, and Jan van den Hoecke. A group of highly distinguished specialists from different disciplines will discuss the entry and Gevaerts' book from a myriad of viewpoints, including art, architecture, music, theater, history, politics, classical knowledge, and economic and intellectual networks. It is the first time that the entry will be examined from a truly interdisciplinary perspective.

Book Palazzo Rubens

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  • Author : Barbara Uppenkamp
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9789061531166
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Palazzo Rubens written by Barbara Uppenkamp and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fact that Rubens was a connoisseur of architecture is clear from his paintings. But he was additionally involved in high-profile Antwerp projects, like the extension of his spacious studio-residence and possibly also the building of the present-day St. Charles Borromeus church, considered by his contemporaries as 'the eight wonder of the world'. Rubens found inspiration in painter-architects such as Michelangelo and Guilio Romano and in Italian books devoted to architecture.