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Facing the Public - Portraiture in the Aftermath of the French Revolution (Hardcover): Tony Halliday Facing the Public - Portraiture in the Aftermath of the French Revolution (Hardcover)
Tony Halliday
R1,672 R1,369 Discovery Miles 13 690 Save R303 (18%) Out of stock

Portraits were the most widely commissioned paintings in 18th-century France, but most portraits were produced for private consumption, and were therefore seen as inferior to art designed for public exhibition. The French Revolution endowed private values with an unprecedented significance, and the way people responded to portraits changed as a result. This is an area which has largely been ignored by art historians, who have concentrated on art associated with the public events of the Revolution. Seen from the perspective of portrait production, the history of art during the Revolution looks very different, and the significance of the Revolution for attitudes to art and artists in the 19th century and beyond becomes clearer.

Antwerpse kunstinventarissen uit de zeventiende eeuw. Vol. 11: 1680-1689 (Dutch, Hardcover): E. Duverger Antwerpse kunstinventarissen uit de zeventiende eeuw. Vol. 11: 1680-1689 (Dutch, Hardcover)
E. Duverger
R2,481 Discovery Miles 24 810 Out of stock
Antwerpse kunstinventarissen uit de zeventiende eeuw. Vol. 12: 1690-1699 (Dutch, Hardcover): E. Duverger Antwerpse kunstinventarissen uit de zeventiende eeuw. Vol. 12: 1690-1699 (Dutch, Hardcover)
E. Duverger
R2,309 Discovery Miles 23 090 Out of stock
Sammeldarstellungen (German, Hardcover, 1., Aufl. ed.): Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich, Sabine Lutkemeyer, Hermann Walter Sammeldarstellungen (German, Hardcover, 1., Aufl. ed.)
Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich, Sabine Lutkemeyer, Hermann Walter
R1,757 Discovery Miles 17 570 Out of stock
The Image of Venice - Fialetti's View and Sir Henry Wotton (Hardcover): Deborah Howard, Henrietta McBurney The Image of Venice - Fialetti's View and Sir Henry Wotton (Hardcover)
Deborah Howard, Henrietta McBurney
R1,457 R1,209 Discovery Miles 12 090 Save R248 (17%) Out of stock

The city of Venice holds a special place in the global imagination. This book explores the creation of one of its largest surviving depictions, which has remained almost unknown to the wider public since its creation exactly four centuries ago. Singed and dated 1611, the painting is the work of the notable early seventeenth-century Bolognese artist Odoardo Fialetti. His huge birds-eye view of the watery townscape is enlivened by tiny vignettes of Venetian life. Eight square meters in size, this remarkable painting is a tour-de-force among depictions of cities. In 1636 the painting was given to Eton College by the former British ambassador to Venice, Sir Henry Wotton. Over the centuries it was known only to pupils and masters at the school, its surface obscured by layers of grime. Restored in 2010-11, Fialetti's view has emerged as a striking work of real artistic merit. Its prominent position in the British Museum's Shakespeare exhibition in the summer of 2012 brought it to the attention of the general public for the very first time. This book takes a closer look at the remarkable picture and the context in which it was created. What kind of artist was Odoardo Fialetti, a Bolognese immigrant hoping to fill the shoes of the recently deceased great masters of the Venetian Renaissance? What image does it present of Venice? What sort of a figure was Henry Wotton, and informed connoisseur and a passionate playing the European politics, though not as diplomatic as perhaps he should have been? This is a relatively neglected period of both in Venetian art history and in British culture, the Jacobean prelude to the enthusiasm for Venetian art of Charles I's court. This beautiful commemorative volume is interdisciplinary in scope, involving history of art, political history, cartography, architectural history and English literature and bibliophilia, as well as a story of restoration and its techniques, drawn together by one of the most distinctive views ever inspired by the townscape of Venice.

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