Download or read book The National Gallery Companion Guide written by Erika Langmuir and published by National Gallery London. This book was released on 2006 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion Guide introduces art lovers to one of the richest and most representative collections of Western European paintings in the world, including famous works by the greatest painters -- Piero della Francesca, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velazquez, Ingres, Degas and many others and masterpieces by less familiar artists. Through her commentaries on 200 of the National Gallery's finest works of art, Erika Langmuir enables the visitor and reader to trace the history of European painting from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, to develop an eye for style, technique, imagery and genre, and to appreciate the talents of individual artists producing paintings for different locations and patrons, in a variety of artistic and cultural contexts.
Download or read book The National Gallery Companion Guide written by Erika Langmuir and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Gallery Companion Guide written by Erika Langmuir and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Gallery written by National Gallery (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Companion Guide to the National Gallery of Scotland written by National Gallery of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The National Gallery of Scotland is widely regarded as one of the finest smaller galleries in the world. The collection includes the greatest names in Western art such as Raphael, Titian, El Greco, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Rubens, Watteau, Tiepolo, Canova and many of the impressionists and post-impressionists. It also contains the most comprehensive collection of Scottish art with masterpieces by Ramsay, Raeburn and Wilkie, as well as a host of less familiar names who all made their own contributions to one of the most distinctive of the smaller national schools. This book offers a guide to the collection as well as an accessible and informative introduction to the history of art."--Back cover.
Download or read book A Companion Guide to Photography in the National Galleries of Scotland written by Sara Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the invention of photography in the 1840s, Scotland has been at the centre of the history and development of the medium. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, hold outstanding collections of photographic art. This book discusses these collections and offers an introduction to photography.
Download or read book A Companion Guide to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art written by Patrick Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded only in 1960, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh already boasts an outstanding collection of modern and contemporary art. The collection includes major works by artists such as Matisse, Picasso, Kirchner, Miro, Magritte, Giacometti, Moore, Lichtenstein and Baselitz, and an exceptional group of Scottish paintings. More than 230 of the finest paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings are illustrated here in colour, alongside descriptions of each work. The book offers a detailed guide to the collection as well as an accessible and informative introduction to modern art.
Download or read book National Gallery London written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the National Gallery in London, England. Notes that the National Gallery houses the national collection of Western European painting, and that it covers every European school of painting from about 1260 to 1900. Includes a listing of current exhibitions, and special events and offers currently available at the Gallery. Provides access to information on opening hours, guided tours of the collection, the location of the Gallery, and public transportation. Contains a topical search by keyword for the collection of the Gallery. Includes images. Posts contact information via mailing address and e-mail form.
Download or read book Colour written by David Bomford and published by National Gallery Publications Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of art / art & design styles.
Download or read book The Obama Portraits written by Taína Caragol and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unveiling the unconventional : Kehinde Wiley's portrait of Barack Obama / Taína Caragol -- "Radical empathy" : Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama / Dorothy Moss -- The Obama portraits, in art history and beyond / Richard J. Powell -- The Obama portraits and the National Portrait Gallery as a site of secular pilgrimage / Kim Sajet -- The presentation of the Obama portraits : a transcript of the unveiling ceremony.
Download or read book The Companion Guide to London written by David Piper and published by Companion Guides. This book was released on 2000 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the classic Companion Guides, this is devoted to the city of London. Each volume in the series aims to provide a travel companion in the person of the author, who knows intimately the places and people of which he or she writes.
Download or read book Art Museums Plus written by Traute M. Marshall and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging guide to over 150 art museums and more throughout New England
Download or read book The National Gallery London written by Uta Hasekamp and published by Koenemann. This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Gallery in London has been showing paintings owned by the British nation since 1824. Among the focal points of the collection are paintings from the late Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, and the Dutch Baroque, which, like British painting from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, are represented with top works in one of the world's most important galleries.
Download or read book Companion Guide to the National Art Gallery written by Marl L. Evans and published by . This book was released on 1997-07-31 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second, updated edition of the companion guide to the art collection of the NMGW, now re-displayed to a magnificent standard.
Download or read book Giotto to D rer written by Jill Dunkerton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides a survey of European painting between 1260 and 1510, in both northern and southern Europe, based largely on the National Gallery collection ... some 70 of the finest and best known paintings in the Gallery are examined in detail"--Cover.
Download or read book More More The Invisible Oceans written by Marina Zurkow and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More&More is an art and research project that explores the language and mechanics of global trade, container shipping, and the exchange of goods. It questions a mercantile structure that by necessity disallows the presence of ocean as a real space in order to flatten the world into a Pangaea of capital. The project is presented in two volumes, released in conjunction with an exhibition of Marina Zurkow's work (with collaborators Sarah Rothberg, Surya Mattu, and others) at bitforms gallery in New York City in February 2016.This book, More&More (The Invisible Oceans), is a catalog of the exhibition, featuring many full-color images of the art on display (including video stills, bespoke bathing suits, and fungal sculptures), as well as an introduction by Marina Zurkow and a conversation between Zurkow and international curator Kathleen Forde.
Download or read book A Companion Guide to the National Gallery of Scotland written by National Gallery of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
