Anthony Van Dyck and the Art of Portraiture

2021-03-09

Author : Christopher White
Release : 2021-03-09
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 794/5 ( reviews)

Book Synopsis Anthony Van Dyck and the Art of Portraiture by : Christopher White

Download or read book Anthony Van Dyck and the Art of Portraiture written by Christopher White. This book was released on 2021-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful, lively tour through the portraits of one of the most celebrated painters of 17th century Europe In this sumptuously illustrated volume, eminent art historian Sir Christopher White places the portraiture of renowned Flemish painter Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) in context among the work of his contemporaries working in and around the courts of seventeenth-century Europe. Van Dyck's artistic development is charted through his travels, beginning in his native Antwerp, then to England, Italy, Brussels, the Hague, and back again. Combining historical insights with a discerning appreciation of the work, White brings Van Dyck's paintings to life, showing how the virtuoso not only admired his artistic predecessors and rivals but refashioned what he learned from them into new kind of portraiture. Beautifully produced and a pleasure to read, this book is an important contribution to the literature on a celebrated painter.

Van Dyck

2016-01-01 Art

Author : Stijn Alsteens
Release : 2016-01-01
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 054/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Van Dyck by : Stijn Alsteens

Download or read book Van Dyck written by Stijn Alsteens. This book was released on 2016-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major examination of Anthony van Dyck's work as a portraitist and an essential resource on this aspect of his illustrious career This landmark volume is a comprehensive survey of the portrait drawings, paintings, and prints of Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), one of the most celebrated portraitists of all time. His supremely elegant style and ability to convey a sense of a sitter's inner life made him a favored portraitist among high-ranking figures and royalty across Europe, as well as among his fellow artists and art enthusiasts. Showcasing the full range of Van Dyck's fascinating international career with more than 100 works, this catalogue celebrates the artist's versatility, inventiveness, and influential approach to portraiture. Works include preparatory drawings and oil sketches that shed light on Van Dyck's working process, prints that allowed his work to reach a wider audience, and grand painted portraits. Some of the masterpieces are drawn from the exceptional holdings of The Frick Collection, while other works are presented here for the first time. Also included are drawings by some of Van Dyck's contemporaries--including his teacher Peter Paul Rubens--that illuminate the lineage of his working method. With insightful contributions by a team of international scholars, this unparalleled study of Van Dyck offers a compelling case for the distinctiveness and importance of the artist's work.

Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) and the Representation of Dress in Seventeenth-century Portraiture

2001 Clothing and dress in art

Author : Emilie E. S. Gordenker
Release : 2001
Genre : Clothing and dress in art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 801/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) and the Representation of Dress in Seventeenth-century Portraiture by : Emilie E. S. Gordenker

Download or read book Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) and the Representation of Dress in Seventeenth-century Portraiture written by Emilie E. S. Gordenker. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) introduced a new type of costume in his portraits during his second English period (1632-1641), one that blurred the margins of fact and fancy. He used costume to forge a complex and memorable image of his English patrons, the Caroline courtiers, one that captured their ideals and yet had resonance for many years after his death. Van Dyck established new conventions for the representation of dress in portraits that held sway until the end of the seventeenth century. Later generations of English, Dutch, and French painters, used Van Dyck's innovations as a touchstone for a new manner of dressing sitters, one that was partially fictional, and much more casual and unbuttoned than had ever been represented before. This book shows that an understanding of dress can offer a new way of revealing the associations and ideals that a portait mayhave projected, and that the history of costume provides a unique set of tools with which to analyze the creativity and contributions of Van Dyck.

The Mirror and the Palette

2021-10-05 Art

Author : Jennifer Higgie
Release : 2021-10-05
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 049/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis The Mirror and the Palette by : Jennifer Higgie

Download or read book The Mirror and the Palette written by Jennifer Higgie. This book was released on 2021-10-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzlingly original and ambitious book on the history of female self-portraiture by one of today's most well-respected art critics. Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede. She's haunting museums in her paint-stained dress, scrutinising how El Greco or Titian or Van Dyck or Cézanne solved the problems that she too is facing. She's railing against her corsets, her chaperones, her husband and her brothers; she's hammering on doors, dreaming in her bedroom, working day and night in her studio. Despite the immense hurdles that have been placed in her way, she sits at her easel, picks up a mirror and paints a self-portrait because, as a subject, she is always available. Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws and religion to the pressures of family and public disapproval. In The Mirror and the Palette, Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embody the fact that there is more than one way to understand our planet, more than one way to live in it and more than one way to make art about it. Spanning 500 years, biography and cultural history intertwine in a narrative packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great resilience, creativity and bravery.

Anthony Van Dyck

1990 Art

Author : Arthur K. Wheelock
Release : 1990
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Anthony Van Dyck by : Arthur K. Wheelock

Download or read book Anthony Van Dyck written by Arthur K. Wheelock. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated: The Margaret A. Bailey Art Collection.

Popular eBooks

Anthony Van Dyck and the Art of Portraiture

Van Dyck

Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) and the Representation of Dress in Seventeenth-century Portraiture

The Mirror and the Palette

Anthony Van Dyck

You may also like...