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

Art History 101... Without the Exams - Looking Closely at Objects from the History of Art (Paperback): Annie Montgomery Labatt Art History 101... Without the Exams - Looking Closely at Objects from the History of Art (Paperback)
Annie Montgomery Labatt
R787 R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Save R75 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Why is something a masterpiece? Art History 101 . . . Without the Exams is about revisiting famous works of art that we may have studied in an art history class or seen in a textbook. Each discussion delves into one great masterpiece and asks the questions that help us understand how it has shaped history. What is the piece about? How did the original owner look at this piece? Where was it originally placed? Why is it in this museum now? How did it get famous? From the sixth-century mosaics of Ravenna and the painted bulls of Altamira, Spain, dated 12,500 BCE, to an incense burner from twelfth-century Seljuk Iran, frescoes from a Late Byzantine funerary chapel, and masterworks by Botticelli, Caravaggio, Monet, and Sargent, this book shows readers how to look closely. It welcomes us to the joy of art history-but without the papers, notes, and exams.

Jacob Jordaens and Spain (Paperback): Matias Diaz Pardon Jacob Jordaens and Spain (Paperback)
Matias Diaz Pardon
R6,529 Discovery Miles 65 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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
R3,828 Discovery Miles 38 280 Ships in 9 - 15 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.

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
R1,760 Discovery Miles 17 600 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman (Paperback): John Marciari Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman (Paperback)
John Marciari
R478 R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Save R99 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Accompanying an exhibition of drawings by Guercino from the collection of the Morgan Library & Museum, Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman offers an overview of the artist's graphic work, ranging from his early genre studies and caricatures, to the dense and dynamic preparatory studies for his paintings, and on to highly finished chalk drawings and landscapes that were ends in themselves. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino (1591-1666), was arguably the most interesting and diverse draftsman of the Italian Baroque era, a natural virtuoso who created brilliant drawings in a broad range of media. The Morgan owns more than twenty-five works by the artist, and these are the subject of a focused exhibition, supplemented by a handful of loans from public and private New York collections, to be held at the Morgan in the autumn of 2019. This volume accompanies that exhibition. It includes an introductory essay on Guercino's work as a draftsman followed by entries on the Guercino drawings in the Morgan's collection. These include sheets from all moments of the artist's career. His early awareness of the work of the Carracci in Bologna is documented by figures drawn from everyday life as well as brilliant caricatures; two drawings for Guercino's own drawing manual are further testament to his interest in questions of academic practice. Following his career, a range of preparatory drawings includes studies made in connection with his earliest altarpieces as well as his mature masterpieces, including multiple studies for several projects, allowing the visitor to see Guercino's mind at work as he reconsidered his ideas. The Morgan's holdings also include studies for engravings as well as highly finished landscape and figure drawings that were independent works. Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman continues a series of exhibition catalogues focused on highlights from the Morgan's collection. Previous volumes include Power and Grace: Drawings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens and Thomas Gainsborough: Experiments in Drawing, also published by Paul Holberton. While some of the Morgan's Guercino drawings are well known, they have never been exhibited or published as a group, and the selection includes a number of new acquisitions.

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
R3,108 Discovery Miles 31 080 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

Baroque Pathways: The National Galleries Barberini Corsini in Rome (Hardcover): Baroque Pathways: The National Galleries Barberini Corsini in Rome (Hardcover)
R1,295 R852 Discovery Miles 8 520 Save R443 (34%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Featuring major works from Caravaggio and his circle and the Italian Baroque period, this lavishly illustrated book looks at Rome as the center of European culture in the 17th century. The National Galleries Barberini Corsini in Rome host one of the major collections of Italian Baroque paintings. This art has been admired all over Europe. The monarchs aimed to transfer the glamour of Roman Baroque to their courts. In the 18th century Frederick II of Prussia modeled the Palais Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, after the Barberini Palace in Rome. In January 2017 the newly founded Museum Barberini moved into the recently reconstructed Palais Barberini in Potsdam. This book accompanies an exhibition in Potsdam of splendid 17th century works from the National Galleries Barberini Corsini in Rome. It provides not only a fitting background to Museum Barberini's fascinating architectural history but also highlights the important role of the Barberini family and Pope Urban VIII as patrons and art collectors.

Vermeer's Mistress and Maid (Hardcover): James Ivory, Margaret Iacono Vermeer's Mistress and Maid (Hardcover)
James Ivory, Margaret Iacono
R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The subject of writing and receiving letters, which recurs frequently in the work of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), is given dramatic tension in this masterful painting of two women in a mysterious moment of crisis. The artist seldom, if ever, surpassed the subtly varied effects of light seen here as it gleams from the pearl jewellery, sparkles from the glass and silver objects on the table, and falls softly over the figures in their shadowy setting. The Frick Diptych series sparks a dialogue between creative spirits and art historians, promising new insights into some of the Frick's most famous masterpieces. The third volume, to be published in 2019, will have a contribution by author Edmund de Waal on a pair of porcelain and bronze candlesticks by the 18th-century French metalworker Pierre Gouthiere.

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
R155 Discovery Miles 1 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Titian - Lady in White (Paperback): Andreas Henning, Stephan Koja Titian - Lady in White (Paperback)
Andreas Henning, Stephan Koja
R756 R673 Discovery Miles 6 730 Save R83 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Poussin as a Painter - From Classicism to Abstraction (Hardcover): Richard Verdi Poussin as a Painter - From Classicism to Abstraction (Hardcover)
Richard Verdi
R1,258 Discovery Miles 12 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Universally regarded as the father of French painting, Nicolas Poussin is arguably the greatest of all painters of that school. Yet Poussin's reputation has been founded more on the intellectual and philosophical qualities of his art than its sheer visual beauty. In Poussin as a Painter: From Classicism to Abstraction, Richard Verdi redresses the balance, describing and analyzing Poussin's outstanding gifts as a pictorial storyteller, designer and colourist - in short, on the purely aesthetic (and often abstract) aspects of his art that have inspired so many later painters, from Cezanne to Picasso. The book features more than 220 fine illustrations, the majority in colour, and encompasses all aspects of Poussin's art from the mid 1620s to his death in 1665. This ground-breaking study gives new insight into Poussin, and is essential reading for all who admire this seminal French painter.

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
R1,882 Discovery Miles 18 820 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

Rembrandt. The Return of the Prodigal Son (Paperback): Sergei Daniel Rembrandt. The Return of the Prodigal Son (Paperback)
Sergei Daniel
R295 R216 Discovery Miles 2 160 Save R79 (27%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Each masterpiece of the series is a fascinating art-history novella and, at the same time, an invitation to the following tale, the next chapter in this never-ending cycle of astonishing stories, of which the museum has so many. This whole work is dominated by the idea of the victory of love, goodness and charity. The event is treated as the highest act of human wisdom and spiritual nobility, and it takes place in absolute silence and stillness. The drama and depth of feeling are expressed in the figures of both father and son, with all the emotional precision with which Rembrandt was endowed. This parable in Rembrandt's treatment is addressed to the heart of everyone.

Looking East - Rubens Encounter with Asia (Paperback): Schrader Looking East - Rubens Encounter with Asia (Paperback)
Schrader
R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a fascinating exploration of the mystery that surrounds of Ruben's most well-known and intriguing drawings. Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most talented and successful artists working in 17th-century Europe. During his illustrious career as a court painter and diplomat, Rubens expressed a fascination with exotic costumes and headdresses. With his masterful handling of black chalk and touches of red, Rubens executed a compelling drawing that features a figure wearing Asian costume - a depiction that has recently been identified as Man in Korean Costume. Despite the drawings renown - both during Ruben's own lifetime and in contemporary art scholarship - the reasons why it was made and whether it actually depicts a specific Asian person remain a mystery. The intriguing story that develops involves a shipwreck, an unusual hat, the earliest trade between Europe and Asia, the trafficking of Asian slave, and Jesuit missionaries.

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
R371 R309 Discovery Miles 3 090 Save R62 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
R1,355 Discovery Miles 13 550 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

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
R371 R309 Discovery Miles 3 090 Save R62 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Print Collection of Cassiano Dal Pozzo. II - Architecture, Topography and Military Maps (Hardcover): Mark McDonald The Print Collection of Cassiano Dal Pozzo. II - Architecture, Topography and Military Maps (Hardcover)
Mark McDonald
R6,273 Discovery Miles 62 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Felsina Pittrice - Volume IX: Life of Guido Reni (English, Italian, Hardcover): Elizabeth Cropper, Lorenzo Pericolo, Carlo... Felsina Pittrice - Volume IX: Life of Guido Reni (English, Italian, Hardcover)
Elizabeth Cropper, Lorenzo Pericolo, Carlo Cesare Malvasia
R9,825 Discovery Miles 98 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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 R856 Discovery Miles 8 560 Save R194 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 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.

Salvator Rosa, Friendship and the Free Artist in Seventeenth-Century Italy (English, Italian, Hardcover): Alexandra Hoare Salvator Rosa, Friendship and the Free Artist in Seventeenth-Century Italy (English, Italian, Hardcover)
Alexandra Hoare
R5,490 Discovery Miles 54 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Rubens's Spirit - From Ingenuity to Genius (Hardcover): Alexander Marr Rubens's Spirit - From Ingenuity to Genius (Hardcover)
Alexander Marr
R565 R465 Discovery Miles 4 650 Save R100 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 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.

Illuminations (Paperback): Benedict Leca Illuminations (Paperback)
Benedict Leca
R395 R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Save R71 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 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.

Guercino - Italian Master Drawings (Paperback): Giovanni Francesco Barbieri Guercino - Italian Master Drawings (Paperback)
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri; Burst Books
R691 Discovery Miles 6 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kunst, Klang, Musik - Die Festkultur Der Europäischen Mächte Im Barocken ROM (Hardcover): Tocias C Weißmann Kunst, Klang, Musik - Die Festkultur Der Europäischen Mächte Im Barocken ROM (Hardcover)
Tocias C Weißmann
R2,635 Discovery Miles 26 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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