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Book The Drawings of Raymond Lafage

Download or read book The Drawings of Raymond Lafage written by Nathan T. Whitman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of Illustrations xiii The Life I The Style 19 Contents The Drawings 40 Appraisal and Evaluation 64 Bibliography 79 Notes 82 Index 90 Illustrations vii The French seventeenth century remains at the present moment one of the few areas in the history of later western art which still needs intensive study. Even the work of Pous sin, its most outstanding painter and the object of a continu ous stream of encomiums stretching back to his own life time, has only recently begun to be explored with the full scholarly apparatus of contemporary art history, and a definitive monograph is probably still some years in the future. La Tour and the Le Nain brothers have been intro duced into the company of great artists only within the past Foreword quarter century, and with significant discoyeries still being made complete evaluations are as yet not even to be contem plated. After numerous casual encounters with the frequent ly handsome if astonishingly varied canvases of Bourdon, one becomes suspicious of the ever repeated dismissal of his work as merely eclectic and longs for a revealing analysis of his purposes and patronage. The harsh Latinity of Valentin, the sumptuous strangeness ofVignon, the audacious languor of Antoine Coypel, these are some of the many topics that still await careful investigation and evaluation.

Book The Drawings of Raymond Lafage

Download or read book The Drawings of Raymond Lafage written by Nathan T. Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Download or read book Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery written by Yale University (New Haven, Conn.). Art Gallery and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful and important book highlights the collection of European drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery, one of America's premier university museums. From intimate studies to exquisite finished compositions, this selection of works documents the history of European drawing practices beginning with late-medieval model books and progressing to the verge of the modern period. The accompanying text--written by a team of scholars--offers a unique introduction to various critical and technical aspects of the study of master drawings, brought to life through drawings from a range of national schools and in a variety of media. Among the drawings examined in this handsomely produced volume are an animated pen and ink sketch by Giulio Romano, a pastoral landscape by Claude Lorrain, a forceful and humorous caricature by Guercino, a scene from the epic poem Orlando Furioso by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and a delicate portrait by Edgar Degas.

Book Lectures on Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christian Michel
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2020-08-25
  • ISBN : 1606066463
  • Pages : 490 pages

Download or read book Lectures on Art written by Christian Michel and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, a critical selection of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture’s highly influential conférences is available in English. Between 1667 and 1792, the artists and amateurs of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris lectured on the Académie’s conférences, foundational documents in the theory and practice of art. These texts and the principles they embody guided artistic practice and art theory in France and throughout Europe for two centuries. In the 1800s, the Académie’s influence waned, and few of the 388 Académie lectures were translated into English. Eminent scholars Christian Michel and Jacqueline Lichtenstein have selected and annotated forty-two of the most representative lectures, creating the first authoritative collection of the conférences for readers of English. Essential to understanding French art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these lectures reveal what leading French artists looked for in a painting or sculpture, the problems they sought to resolve in their works, and how they viewed their own and others’ artistic practice.

Book Art and Architecture in France  1500 1700

Download or read book Art and Architecture in France 1500 1700 written by Anthony Blunt and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in France were an epoch of spectacular artistic activity, exemplified by the chateaux of the Loire valley, the palace of Versailles, the paintings of Poussin and Claude, and the sculpture of Coysevox, which echo the political and cultural importance of France and the "Sun King." Anthony Blunt presents major artists and their principal works chronologically, provides an overview of the main projects of the period and of the artistic personalities behind them, and clearly sets the historical context. This new edition, of one of the classics of the Pelican History of Art series, has been revised and updated with color illustrations and a new bibliography.

Book Bravura

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  • Author : Nicola Suthor
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2021-02-02
  • ISBN : 0691204586
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Bravura written by Nicola Suthor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major history of the bravura movement in European painting The painterly style known as bravura emerged in sixteenth-century Venice and spread throughout Europe during the seventeenth century. While earlier artistic movements presented a polished image of the artist by downplaying the creative process, bravura celebrated a painter’s distinct materials, virtuosic execution, and theatrical showmanship. This resulted in the further development of innovative techniques and a popular understanding of the artist as a weapon-wielding acrobat, impetuous wunderkind, and daring rebel. In Bravura, Nicola Suthor offers the first in-depth consideration of bravura as an artistic and cultural phenomenon. Through history, etymology, and in-depth analysis of works by such important painters as Franҫois Boucher, Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Frans Hals, Peter Paul Rubens, Tintoretto, and Diego Velázquez, Suthor explores the key elements defining bravura’s richness and power. Suthor delves into how bravura’s unique and groundbreaking methods—visible brushstrokes, sharp chiaroscuro, severe foreshortening of the body, and other forms of visual emphasis—cause viewers to feel intensely the artist’s touch. Examining bravura’s etymological history, she traces the term’s associations with courage, boldness, spontaneity, imperiousness, and arrogance, as well as its links to fencing, swordsmanship, henchmen, mercenaries, and street thugs. Suthor discusses the personality cult of the transgressive, self-taught, antisocial genius, and the ways in which bravura artists, through their stunning displays of skill, sought applause and admiration. Filled with captivating images by painters testing the traditional boundaries of aesthetic excellence, Bravura raises important questions about artistic performance and what it means to create art.

Book The Art Quarterly

Download or read book The Art Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Research News

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  • Author : University of Michigan. Office of Research Administration
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Research News written by University of Michigan. Office of Research Administration and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jacob Campo Weyerman and his Collection of Artists    Biographies

Download or read book Jacob Campo Weyerman and his Collection of Artists Biographies written by Lyckle de Vries and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weyerman’s collection of artists’ biographies (1729) is exceptional for three reasons. Firstly, he includes a great number of painters not mentioned elsewhere. Secondly, he does not limit his selection to good artists only; he also discusses failed painters and their abortive careers. Thirdly, he writes as an art critic who does not hesitate to pass judgments, sometimes severe, on his chosen subjects. In the process, Weyerman provides much information on the social and economic circumstances of art production. He found that a bohemian lifestyle was pernicious to a painter’s career, and argued that artists should live and think as merchants. In addition to analyzing Weyerman’s art critical terminology and his ideas on art theory, De Vries includes translations of two full chapters along with the original Dutch.

Book Caricature and Its Role in Graphic Satire

Download or read book Caricature and Its Role in Graphic Satire written by Brown University. Department of Art and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book University of Michigan Official Publication

Download or read book University of Michigan Official Publication written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1959 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library  the Fogg Art Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library the Fogg Art Museum written by Harvard University. Fine Arts Library and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theatre of Sexual Attraction and Psychological Destruction

Download or read book Theatre of Sexual Attraction and Psychological Destruction written by Karl A.E. Enenkel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-11-20 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the myth of Hercules and Omphale/Iole which became an important topic in the visual arts, 1500–1800. It offers an analysis of the iconography from the perspective of the history of emotions, classical and Neo-Latin philology, reception and gender studies. The early modern inventions of the myth excel in a skilful display of mixed and compound emotions, such as the male character's psychopathology, and of the theatrical performance of emotions by the female character.

Book Descriptive catalogue of the drawings by the old masters  forming the collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch

Download or read book Descriptive catalogue of the drawings by the old masters forming the collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch written by sir John Charles Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1956
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 28 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Los Angeles County Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jupiter s Loves and His Children

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  • Author : Frances Dodds Van Keuren
  • Publisher : University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book Jupiter s Loves and His Children written by Frances Dodds Van Keuren and published by University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art. This book was released on 1997 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dictionary of Art

Download or read book The Dictionary of Art written by Jane Turner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: