1# Library to Find Best eBook for Read
Author : Harvard University. Fine Arts Library
Release : 1971
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum by : Harvard University. Fine Arts Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum written by Harvard University. Fine Arts Library. This book was released on 1971. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Release : 1995
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Petrus Christus in Renaissance Bruges by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book Petrus Christus in Renaissance Bruges written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past few decades, admirers of Petrus Christus have been astonishingly fortunate. Unknown or forgotten paintings in the style of Christus have turned up with surprising regularity: in the 1950s, the wonderful Kansas City Holy Family; in the 1960s the Birmingham Christ and the Bruges Isabella of Portugal Presented by Saint Elisabeth in the 1980s, the Cleveland Baptist and the problematic Bruges panels of the Annunciation and the Nativity. Nothing, of course, can compensate for the loss, during World War II, of the Dessau Crucifixion, and the Berlin wing panels of the Baptist and Saint Catherine. We had to wait until 1974 for the first monograph devoted to Christus, but since then two more books on Christus have been published and important discoveries have been made about his career in Bruges. Thanks to Maryan Ainsworth and her colleagues, we had a truly marvellous exhibition, where we had the privilige of studying more of Chrsitus' paintings than he himself can ever have seen gathered in one place. The exhibition itself initiated a new phase in Christus studies and it is the ideal beginning. If problems of attribution and chronology are ever to be settled, they had to be settled during the exhibition. This publication offers the papers of the 1994 Petrus Christus Symposium at The Metropolitan Museum in New York. L. Campbell, Approaches to Petrus Christus, W. Blockmans, The Creative Environment: Inventions and Functions of Bruges Art Production, C. Harbison, Fact, Symbol, Ideal, Roles for Realism in Early Netherlandish Painting, G.B. Canfield, The Reception of Flemish Art in Renaissance Florence and Naples, M.P.J. Martens, Discussion, J. Upton, PETRUS.XPI.ME.FECIT, The Transformation of a Legacy, S. Buck, Petrus Christus' Berlin Wings and the Metropolitan Museum's Eyckian Diptych, S. Jones, The Virgin of Nicholas van Maelbeke and the Followers of Jan Van Eyck, C. Eisler, Discussion, L. Gellman, Two Lost Portraits by Petrus Christus.
Author : Bruce Redford
Release : 2008-08-07
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 248/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dilettanti by : Bruce Redford
Download or read book Dilettanti written by Bruce Redford. This book was released on 2008-08-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettani. Elegantly and wittily he dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the groundwork for the Neoclassical revival and for the scholarly study of Graeco-Roman antiquity. After the foundation of the society in 1732, the Dilettani commissioned portraits of the members. Including a striking group of mock-classical and mock-religious representations, these portraits were painted by George Knapton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. During the second half of the century, the society’s expeditions to the Levant yielded a series of pioneering architectural folios, beginning with the first volume The Antiquities of Athens in 1762. These monumental volumes aspired to empirical exactitude in text and image alike. They prepared the way for Specimens of Antient Sculpture (1809), which combines the didactic (detailed investigations into technique, condition, restoration, and provenance) with the connoisseurial (plates that bring the illustration of ancient sculpture to new artistic heights). The Society of Dilettanti’s projects and publications exemplify the Enlightenment ideal of the gentleman amateur, which is linked in turn to a culture of wide-ranging curiosity.
Author : Library of Congress
Release : 1970
Genre : Catalogs, Union
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints by : Library of Congress
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olivier Berggruen
Release : 2011
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 625/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Writing of Art by : Olivier Berggruen
Download or read book The Writing of Art written by Olivier Berggruen. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivier Berggruen’s essays on aesthetics dissect some of the twentieth century’s greatest art.
