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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1600 to 1800 > Baroque art

The Baroque Technotext - Literature in a Digital Mediascape (Hardcover): Elise Takehana The Baroque Technotext - Literature in a Digital Mediascape (Hardcover)
Elise Takehana
R3,885 Discovery Miles 38 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

To date, most criticism of print and digital technotexts - literary objects that foreground the role of their media of inscription - has emphasized the avant-garde contexts of a text's production. The Baroque Technotext opens new perspectives on this important and innovative literary canon, analysing the role of baroque and neo-baroque aesthetics in the emergence and possible futures of technotexts. Combining the insights of poststructuralist theory of the baroque, postcolonial theory of the neobaroque, and insightful critique of the prevailing modernist approaches to technotexts, The Baroque Technotext reframes critical debate of contemporary experiments in literary practice in the late age of print. Analyses of works from authors including Jonathan Safran Foer, Chris Ware and David Clark are matched with reflections on other media texts - film, visual art and interface design - that have adopted baroque aesthetic tropes.

Baroque (Paperback, Us): John Rupert Martin Baroque (Paperback, Us)
John Rupert Martin
R1,875 Discovery Miles 18 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a nonchronological introduction to Baroque, one of the great periods of European art. John Martin's descriptions of the essential characteristics of the Baroque help one to gain an understanding of the style. His illustrations are informative and he has clearly looked with a fresh eye at the works of art themselves. In addition to the more than 200 illustrations, the volume contains an appendix of translated documents.

Vermeer - The Complete Works (Paperback): Arthur K. Wheelock Jr Vermeer - The Complete Works (Paperback)
Arthur K. Wheelock Jr
R607 R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Save R91 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), one of the great masters of the Dutch Golden Age, is among the world's best-loved artists. The poetry of Vermeer's painting, with its brilliant colors, exquisite textures, and pearly light effects, is as vivid to us today as it must have been to people of the artist's own time. This beautiful book illustrates every known work by Vermeer in full color. Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Curator of Northern Baroque Painting at the National Gallery of Art has written an illuminating essay on the artist and commentaries on the paintings.

The Haukohl Family Collection - Beyond the Medici (Hardcover): Beate Reifenscheid The Haukohl Family Collection - Beyond the Medici (Hardcover)
Beate Reifenscheid
R1,132 Discovery Miles 11 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Haukohl Family stands in the wake of a lasting tradition of European and American collecting practices for the benefit of future generations. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Luxembourg National Museum of Art, October 2018 to February 2019. For six generations the Haukohls have collected art, rare books, drawings, sculpture and textiles. It has been the fulfilling result of a Milwaukee-based American Midwestern family who has had equal determination and always with an eye towards acquiring fine art for the benefit of the future generations. This book presents masterworks of Italian painting and sculpture from the 16th through 18th centuries drawn from the largest private American collection of Florentine Baroque painting, featuring works by key artists such as Cesare Dandini, Jacopo da Empoli, and Francesco Furini.

Rubens - Picturing Antiquity (Hardcover): Davide Gasparotto, Jeffrey Spier, Anne T. Woolett Rubens - Picturing Antiquity (Hardcover)
Davide Gasparotto, Jeffrey Spier, Anne T. Woolett
R1,263 R1,150 Discovery Miles 11 500 Save R113 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The first study devoted to classical art's vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens. For the great Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the classical past afforded lifelong creative stimulus and the camaraderie of humanist friends. A formidable scholar, Rubens ingeniously transmitted the physical ideals of ancient sculptors, visualized the spectacle of imperial occasions, rendered the intricacies of mythological tales, and delineated the character of gods and heroes in his drawings, paintings, and designs for tapestries. His passion for antiquity profoundly informed every aspect of his art and life. Including more than 150 color illustrations, this volume addresses the creative impact of Rubens's remarkable knowledge of the art and literature of antiquity through the consideration of key themes. The book's lively interpretive essays explore the formal and thematic relationships between ancient sources and Baroque expressions: the significance of neo-Stoic philosophy, the compositional and iconographic inspiration provided by exquisite carved gems, Rubens's study of Roman marble sculpture, and his inventive translation of ancient sources into new subjects made vivid by his dynamic painting style. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa October 21, 2020, to January 11, 2021.

The Bold and the Beautiful - In Flemish Portraits (Hardcover): Katharina Cauteren, Nils Buttner, Matthias Ubl, Hildegard Velde The Bold and the Beautiful - In Flemish Portraits (Hardcover)
Katharina Cauteren, Nils Buttner, Matthias Ubl, Hildegard Velde
R1,401 Discovery Miles 14 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Men in stately black, women with huge ruffs, children with golden rattles, old women with wizened faces, and self-satisfied artists... These are the main players in just about every portrait ever painted in the Southern Netherlands. From the15th to the 17th centuries, the tract of land that we today call Flanders was the economic, cultural, intellectual and financial heart of Europe. And money flows - with everyone who could afford it investing in a portrait. Today, these cherished status symbols of the past have largely lost their original significance. But beyond their functional and emotional aspects, these portraits turn their subjects into gateways to the past. This book takes masterpieces from the collection of The Phoebus Foundation and outlines the broad context in which they came into being, peeling back levels of meaning like the layers of an onion. Whether captured in an impressive Rubens or Van Dyck, or an intimate portrait by a forgotten artist, the persons portrayed were once flesh and blood, each with their own peculiarities, hidden agendas and ambitions. Some portraits are very personal and hyper-individual. Others are a little dusty, the ladies and gentleman being children of their time. In most cases, however, their dreams and aspirations are surprisingly timeless and soberingly recognisable. The Bold and the Beautiful is an appointment with history: a meeting through portraiture with men and women from bygone centuries. But for those willing to look closely, the border between the present and the past is paper-thin. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Blind Date. Portretten met blikken en blozen, Autumn 2020, in Snijders&Rockoxhuis Antwerp, curated by Dr. Katharina Van Cauteren & Hildegard Van de Velde with a scenography by Walter Van Beirendonck.

Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europe (Paperback): Bernd Ebert, Liesbeth M. Helmus Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europe (Paperback)
Bernd Ebert, Liesbeth M. Helmus
R1,437 R1,140 Discovery Miles 11 400 Save R297 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What a shock it must have been for the Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen when they first encountered the breathtaking and unconventional paintings of Caravaggio in Rome. This volume shows impressively how the young artists individually explored this role model and thereby developed their own individual style. In around 1600 Rome was the centre of the world. Attracted by Caravaggio's spectacular success, young artists from all over Europe converged on the bus tling metropolis. The up-and-coming painters studied the same works, discussed matters with each other and used Caravaggio's style to develop their own individual pictorial language. Tracing the careers of the three most important Utrecht Caravaggists, the authors describe the atmosphere of this artistic mood of renewal. Only in a comparison with their European fellow artists does it become evident how strongly the Dutch tradition, with its love of merciless realism, influenced the creative work of the Utrecht painters.

Reframing Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Art - Archival Discoveries (Hardcover, 0): Babette Bohn, Morselli Reframing Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Art - Archival Discoveries (Hardcover, 0)
Babette Bohn, Morselli; Contributions by Elena Fumagalli, Joyce De, Roberta Piccinelli, …
R3,680 Discovery Miles 36 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

These ground-breaking essays, all based on original archival research, consider the evolving interest in Bolognese art in seventeenth-century Italy, particularly focusing on the period after the death of Guido Reni in 1642. Edited by Bolognese specialists Raffaella Morselli and Babette Bohn, the studies collected here focus on the taste for Bolognese art within Bologna itself and in other parts of the Italian peninsula, including Mantua, Ferrara, Rome, and Florence. Essays examine the roles of gender, class, and the social status of the artist in early modern Bologna; approaches to exhibiting artworks in noble Bolognese collections; the reputations of local women artists; the popularity of Bolognese quadratura painting; and the relative success of both contemporary and earlier Bolognese artists with Italian collectors.

Italian Baroque Art (Paperback): S M Dixon Italian Baroque Art (Paperback)
S M Dixon
R1,360 Discovery Miles 13 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This anthology presents classic and recent scholarship on Italian art from 1600-1750, highlighting the key debates with which art historians continue to grapple.
Explores themes including: style or the visuality of art; artistic practices and production; artistic communication as projected and experienced; and artists' interactions with the ancient world and with the new sciences
Examines the work of key painters, architects and sculptors from this period, including Caravaggio, Bernini, Guarini and Poussin
Published in the expanding "Blackwell Anthologies in Art History" series

The Versailles Effect - Objects, Lives, and Afterlives of the Domaine (Hardcover): Mark Ledbury, Robert Wellington The Versailles Effect - Objects, Lives, and Afterlives of the Domaine (Hardcover)
Mark Ledbury, Robert Wellington
R3,199 Discovery Miles 31 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The essays in this volume show that Versailles was not the static creation of one man, but a hugely complex cultural space; a centre of power, but also of life, love, anxiety, creation, and an enduring palimpsest of aspirations, desires, and ruptures. The splendour of the Château and the masterpieces of art and design that it contains mask a more complex and sometimes more sordid history of human struggle and achievement. The case studies presented by the contributors to this book cannot provide a comprehensive account of the Palace of Versailles and its domains, the life within its walls, its visitors, and the art and architecture that it has inspired from the seventeenth century to the present day: from the palace of the Sun King to the Penthouse of Donald Trump. However, this innovative collection will reshape—or even radically redefine—our understanding of the palace of Versailles and its posterity.

Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections - The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin (Hardcover):... Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections - The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin (Hardcover)
Shelley Perlove, George Keyes
R4,815 R1,879 Discovery Miles 18 790 Save R2,936 (61%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin" brings together more than one hundred treasures of the Baroque age from museum collections throughout the Midwest. The volume presents a fascinating and representative selection of Italian, Dutch, Flemish, and French drawings in Midwestern repositories, offering new insights on many of these works of art. Many are relatively unknown, and some have never before been published.
Authored by major scholars in the field, the catalogue presents each drawing along with a concise description with full scholarly apparatus. Four essays, written by Babette Bohn, George S. Keyes, Kristi A. Nelson, and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., respectively, introduce the Italian, Dutch, Flemish, and French schools. The catalogue's introductory essay, by Shelley Perlove, places these works within the historical, iconographic, and stylistic currents of seventeenth-century art. The catalogue is designed to have widespread appeal for art historians, curators, artists, collectors, students, and general readers interested in art and cultural history. Moreover, "Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections "highlights the surprising number of institutions throughout the Midwest that have acquired distinguished European drawings from the seventeenth century worthy of full recognition by collectors and connoisseurs.

Ottoman Baroque - The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul (Hardcover): UEnver Rustem Ottoman Baroque - The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul (Hardcover)
UEnver Rustem
R1,686 R1,577 Discovery Miles 15 770 Save R109 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its place in the world With its idiosyncratic yet unmistakable adaptation of European Baroque models, the eighteenth-century architecture of Istanbul has frequently been dismissed by modern observers as inauthentic and derivative, a view reflecting broader unease with notions of Western influence on Islamic cultures. In Ottoman Baroque-the first English-language book on the topic-UEnver Rustem provides a compelling reassessment of this building style and shows how between 1740 and 1800 the Ottomans consciously coopted European forms to craft a new, politically charged, and globally resonant image for their empire's capital. Rustem reclaims the label "Ottoman Baroque" as a productive framework for exploring the connectedness of Istanbul's eighteenth-century buildings to other traditions of the period. Using a wealth of primary sources, he demonstrates that this architecture was in its own day lauded by Ottomans and foreigners alike for its fresh, cosmopolitan effect. Purposefully and creatively assimilated, the style's cross-cultural borrowings were combined with Byzantine references that asserted the Ottomans' entitlement to the Classical artistic heritage of Europe. Such aesthetic rebranding was part of a larger endeavor to reaffirm the empire's power at a time of intensified East-West contact, taking its boldest shape in a series of imperial mosques built across the city as landmarks of a state-sponsored idiom. Copiously illustrated and drawing on previously unpublished documents, Ottoman Baroque breaks new ground in our understanding of Islamic visual culture in the modern era and offers a persuasive counterpoint to Eurocentric accounts of global art history.

Art, Honor and Success in The Dutch Republic - The Life and Career of Jacob van Loo (Hardcover, 0): Judith Noorman Art, Honor and Success in The Dutch Republic - The Life and Career of Jacob van Loo (Hardcover, 0)
Judith Noorman
R4,348 Discovery Miles 43 480 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Focusing on the interrelationship between Jacob van Loo's art, honor, and career, this book argues that Van Loo's lifelong success and unblemished reputation were by no means incompatible, as art historians have long assumed, with his specialization in painting nudes and his conviction for manslaughter. Van Loo's iconographic specialty - the nude - allowed his clientele to present themselves as judges of beauty and display their mastery of decorum, while his portraiture perfectly expressed his clients' social and political ambitions. Van Loo's honor explains why his success lasted a lifetime, whereas that of Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Vermeer did not. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book reinterprets the manslaughter case as a sign that Van Loo's elite patrons recognized him as a gentleman and highly-esteemed artist.

The Persistence of Presence - Emblem and Ritual in Baroque Spain (Paperback): Bradley J. Nelson The Persistence of Presence - Emblem and Ritual in Baroque Spain (Paperback)
Bradley J. Nelson
R916 Discovery Miles 9 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Persistence of Presence analyzes the relationship between emblem books, containing combinations of pictures and texts, and Spanish literature in the early modern period. As representations of ideas and ideals, emblems are allegories produced in a particular place and time, and their study can shed light on the central cultural and political activities of an era. Bradley J. Nelson argues that the emblem was a primary indicator of the social and political functions of diverse literary practices in early modern Spain, from theatre to epic prose. Furthermore, the disintegration of a unified medieval world view left many seeking the kinds of deep knowledge that could be accessed through symbolic pictures, increasing their cultural significance. In this detailed examination of emblem books, sacred and secular theatre, and Cervantes' critique of baroque allegory in Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, Nelson connects the early history of emblematics with the drive towards cultural and political hegemony in Counter-Reformation Spain.

2022-2023 Monthly Planner - 24 Months Calendar Calendar with Holidays 2 Years Daily Planner Appointment Calendar Weekly Planner... 2022-2023 Monthly Planner - 24 Months Calendar Calendar with Holidays 2 Years Daily Planner Appointment Calendar Weekly Planner 2 Years Agenda (Paperback)
James Howard
R353 R331 Discovery Miles 3 310 Save R22 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting - The World in the Workbench (Hardcover): Christopher R. Marshall Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting - The World in the Workbench (Hardcover)
Christopher R. Marshall
R1,817 Discovery Miles 18 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The second largest city in 17th-century Europe, Naples constituted a vital Mediterranean center in which the Spanish Habsburgs, the clergy, and Neapolitan aristocracy, together with the resident merchants, and other members of the growing professional classes jostled for space and prestige. Their competing programs of building and patronage created a booming art market and spurred painters such as Jusepe de Ribera, Massimo Stanzione, Salvator Rosa, and Luca Giordano as well as foreign artists such as Caravaggio, Domenichino, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Giovanni Lanfranco to extraordinary heights of achievement. This new reading of 17th-century Italian Baroque art explores the social, material, and economic history of painting, revealing how artists, agents, and the owners of artworks interacted to form a complex and mutually sustaining art world. Through such topics as artistic rivalry and anti-foreign labor agitation, art dealing and forgery, cultural diplomacy, and the rise of the independently arranged art exhibition, Christopher R. Marshall illuminates the rich interconnections between artistic practice and patronage, business considerations, and the spirit of entrepreneurialism in Baroque Italy.

Voces femeninas espanolas desde dentro - El discurso masculino reconfigurado por mujeres en El libro de romances y coplas del... Voces femeninas espanolas desde dentro - El discurso masculino reconfigurado por mujeres en El libro de romances y coplas del Carmelo de Valladolid [c. 1590-1609] (Spanish, Hardcover)
Rubi Ugofsky-Mendez
R1,945 Discovery Miles 19 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

El presente estudio explora El libro de romances y coplas del Carmelo de Valladolid [c. 1590-1609] escrito por las hermanas carmelitas descalzas del Convento de la Concepcion del Carmen en Valladolid Espana a finales del siglo XVI y principios del XVII. Por medio de esta monografia demostraremos de que manera estas mujeres utilizaban la poesia, escrita por hombres, que tenian a su alcance y entonces, reconfiguraban el discurso masculino, haciendolo propio y lo adaptaban a su delicada voz. Apuntaremos la forma en que estas mujeres describian a otras mujeres revistiendolas de carne y hueso, tan poderosas, tan hermosas y tan espirituales, difiriendo - en muchas ocasiones - del convencional modelo petrarquista de descripcion femenina en el que la mujer era representada como una estatua fria y rigida. Estas escritoras entonaban sus versos para su esposo espiritual con la misma intensidad que los mas atrevidos poetas decantaban sus corazones al exaltar a sus musas. Las poetisas del cancionero tomaron prestada la forma y el contenido de la lirica masculina pero los adaptaron a su amorosa, delicada y religiosa voz.

In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de Mura (Hardcover): Arthur R Blumenthal In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de Mura (Hardcover)
Arthur R Blumenthal; Contributions by Nicola Spinosa, Loredana Gazzara, Maria Grazia Leonetti Rodino
R1,050 R892 Discovery Miles 8 920 Save R158 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first-ever scholarly publication devoted to the art of Francesco de Mura (1696-1782), one of the greatest painters of the Golden Age of Naples. De Mura's refined and elegant compositions, with their exquisite light and coloring, heralded the rococo, and his later style was a precursor of Neo-Classicism. His ceiling frescoes at Monte Cassino, destoyed in World War II, rivalled those of his celebrated Venetian contemporary, Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Yet today, he lacks his proper place in the history of art. This volume demonstrates why it is now time to reevaluate this once-celebrated artist.

Tiepolo Pink (Paperback): Roberto Calasso Tiepolo Pink (Paperback)
Roberto Calasso; Translated by Alastair McEwen 1
R469 R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Save R39 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe' The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art, yet he remains shrouded in mystery. Who was he? And what was the significance of the dark, bizarre etchings depicting sacrifice and magic, which he created alongside his heavenly works? Roberto Calasso explores Tiepolo as the last artist of the ancien regime and at the same time the first example of the "painter of modern life" evoked by Baudelaire. He was the incarnation of that peculiar Italian virtue sprezzatura: the art of not seeming artful. Translated by Alastair McEwen 'A brilliant, eccentric, provocative . . . and thoroughly splendid celebration of a great painter' John Banville, The New Republic 'Calasso is a myth-maker ... a book that treats paintings as a kind of sorcery' Peter Conrad, Observer

Rubens in Repeat - The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America (Hardcover): Aaron M. Hyman Rubens in Repeat - The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America (Hardcover)
Aaron M. Hyman
R1,998 R1,805 Discovery Miles 18 050 Save R193 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the reception in Latin America of prints designed by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, showing how colonial artists used such designs to create all manner of artworks and, in the process, forged new frameworks for artistic creativity. Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. Prints made after the Flemish artist's designs were routinely sent from Europe to the Spanish Americas, where artists used them to make all manner of objects. Rubens in Repeat is the first comprehensive study of this transatlantic phenomenon, despite broad recognition that it was one of the most important forces to shape the artistic landscapes of the region. Copying, particularly in colonial contexts, has traditionally held negative implications that have discouraged its serious exploration. Yet analyzing the interpretation of printed sources and recontextualizing the resulting works within period discourse and their original spaces of display allow a new critical reassessment of this broad category of art produced in colonial Latin America-art that has all too easily been dismissed as derivative and thus unworthy of sustained interest and investigation. This book takes a new approach to the paradigms of artistic authorship that emerged alongside these complex creative responses, focusing on the viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues that the use of European prints was an essential component of the very framework in which colonial artists forged ideas about what it meant to be a creator."

Illuminations (Paperback): Benedict Leca Illuminations (Paperback)
Benedict Leca
R395 R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Save R35 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Italian Baroque painting is often discussed in terms of theatre and the creation of powerful visual spectacle through the dramatic use of light. Seventeenth-century painters pushed the limits of artistic expression to reshape the relationship between the illusionistic image and its audience with contrasting styles, new techniques, and by deploying extraordinary optical effects. Featuring some of Canada's foremost Baroque paintings, "Illuminations" examines how the functional and symbolic representation of light was the expression of a culture captivated by theatrical display. Set in the context of Italy's dynamic and international cultural capitals, "Illuminations" compares and contrasts religious, mythological, and popular imagery. Through a detailed examination of works by Nicolas Poussain, Luca Giordano, Orazio Gentileschi and Guido Reni amongst others, the book explores how 17th-century audiences were confronted with pictures that frequently broke conventions by manipulating the sources and meaning of light, while depicting all types of subjects; painters were able to transform light, controlling its role as a signifier of demeanour, emotion, or religious symbolism. The use of light coloured the historical legends and social mythologies of this extravagant world.

Rubens's Spirit - From Ingenuity to Genius (Hardcover): Alexander Marr Rubens's Spirit - From Ingenuity to Genius (Hardcover)
Alexander Marr
R565 R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Save R53 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Peter Paul Rubens was the most inventive and prolific northern European artist of his age. This book discusses his life and work in relation to three interrelated themes: spirit, ingenuity and genius. It argues that Rubens and his reception were pivotal in the transformation of early modern ingenuity into Romantic genius. Ranging across the artist's entire career, it explores Rubens's engagement with these themes in his art and biography. The book looks at Rubens's forays into altarpiece painting in Italy as well as his collaborations with fellow artists in his hometown of Antwerp, and his complex relationship with the spirit of pleasure. It concludes with his late landscapes in connection to genius loci, the spirit of the place.

Nicolaes Maes - Dutch Master of the Golden Age (Paperback): Bart Cornelis, Ariane van Suchtelen, Nina Cahill Nicolaes Maes - Dutch Master of the Golden Age (Paperback)
Bart Cornelis, Ariane van Suchtelen, Nina Cahill; Contributions by Marijn Schapelhouman
R635 R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Save R49 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An expert look at the life and captivating work of the Dutch painter Nicolaes Maes, Rembrandt's most famous pupil This book offers a close look at the art of Dutch Golden Age painter Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693). One of Rembrandt's most talented students, Maes began by painting biblical scenes in the style of his famous teacher. He later produced extraordinary genre pieces, in which the closely observed actions of the main figure, often a woman, have a hushed, almost monumental character. Maes also depicted mothers with children or older women praying or sleeping; such works have placed him among the most popular painters of the Dutch Golden Age. From around 1660, Maes turned exclusively to portraiture, and his elegant style attracted wealthy and eminent clients from Dordrecht and Amsterdam. This generously illustrated volume is the first in English to cover the full range of his repertoire. The authors-curators from the National Gallery, London, and the Mauritshuis, The Hague-bring extensive knowledge to bear for the benefit of specialists and the general public. Published by National Gallery Company in association with the Mauritshuis, The Hague, and Waanders Publishers, Zwolle/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: Mauritshuis (October 17, 2019-January 19, 2020) National Gallery, London (February 22-May 31, 2020)

Life Of The Wild - A Whimsical Adult Coloring Book: Stress Relieving Animal Designs: A Swear Word Coloring Book (Paperback):... Life Of The Wild - A Whimsical Adult Coloring Book: Stress Relieving Animal Designs: A Swear Word Coloring Book (Paperback)
Adult Coloring Books, Coloring Books For Adults Relaxation, Adult Colouring Books
R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lectures on Art - Selected Conferences from the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, 1667- 1772 (Paperback): Christian... Lectures on Art - Selected Conferences from the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, 1667- 1772 (Paperback)
Christian Michel, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Chris Miller
R1,944 Discovery Miles 19 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Between 1667 and 1792, the artists and amateurs of the Acade mie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris lectured on the Acade mie's 'confe rences', 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 Acade mie's influence waned, and few of the 388 Acade mie 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 'confe rences' 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.

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