A Companion Guide to the National Gallery of Scotland

A Companion Guide to the National Gallery of Scotland
Author: National Gallery of Scotland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"The National Gallery of Scotland is widely regarded as one of the finest smaller galleries in the world. The collection includes the greatest names in Western art such as Raphael, Titian, El Greco, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Rubens, Watteau, Tiepolo, Canova and many of the impressionists and post-impressionists. It also contains the most comprehensive collection of Scottish art with masterpieces by Ramsay, Raeburn and Wilkie, as well as a host of less familiar names who all made their own contributions to one of the most distinctive of the smaller national schools. This book offers a guide to the collection as well as an accessible and informative introduction to the history of art."--Back cover.

A Companion Guide to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

A Companion Guide to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Author: Patrick Elliott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1999
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Founded only in 1960, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh already boasts an outstanding collection of modern and contemporary art. The collection includes major works by artists such as Matisse, Picasso, Kirchner, Miro, Magritte, Giacometti, Moore, Lichtenstein and Baselitz, and an exceptional group of Scottish paintings. More than 230 of the finest paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings are illustrated here in colour, alongside descriptions of each work. The book offers a detailed guide to the collection as well as an accessible and informative introduction to modern art.

A Companion Guide to Photography in the National Galleries of Scotland

A Companion Guide to Photography in the National Galleries of Scotland
Author: Sara Stevenson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2009
Genre: Photography
ISBN:

Since the invention of photography in the 1840s, Scotland has been at the centre of the history and development of the medium. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, hold outstanding collections of photographic art. This book discusses these collections and offers an introduction to photography.

Pompeo Batoni

Pompeo Batoni
Author: Edgar Peters Bowron
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300126808

Inventive storytelling: the early subject pictures -- Batoni's British patrons and the grand tour -- Painter of princes and prince of painters -- Restorer of the Roman school: final years and reception -- Drawings, working methods, and studio practices.

Directory of Museums, Galleries and Buildings of Historic Interest in the UK

Directory of Museums, Galleries and Buildings of Historic Interest in the UK
Author: Keith W. Reynard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 3653
Release: 2004-03-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1135475458

This unique and important directory incorporates some 3,200 entries. It covers all types and sizes of museums; galleries of paintings, sculpture and photography; and buildings and sites of particular historic interest. It also provides an extensive index listing over 3,200 subjects. The directory covers national collections and major buildings, but also the more unusual, less well-known and local exhibits and sites. The Directory of Museums, Galleries and Buildings of Historic Interest in the United Kingdom is an indispensable reference source for any library, an ideal companion for researcher and enthusiast alike, and an essential purchase for anyone with an interest in the cultural and historical collections of the UK. Features include: * Alphabetically listed entries, which are also indexed by subject for ease of reference * Entries include the name and address of the organization, telephone and fax numbers, email and internet addresses, a point of contact, times of opening and facilities for visitors * A breakdown of the collections held by each organization, giving a broad overview of the main collection as a whole * Details of special collections are provided and include the period covered as well as the number of items held.

The Companion Guide to Edinburgh and the Borders

The Companion Guide to Edinburgh and the Borders
Author: A. J. Youngson
Publisher: Companion Guides
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2001
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781900639385

Long overdue: Revised, updated, freshly-illustrated Edinburgh joins the Companion Guide series, informative on Edinburgh's - and Scotland's - past and present. Edinburgh is one of Europe's most elegant and cosmopolitan cities, the Old Town rebuilt on the medieval street plan after being burned down by the English in 1544, and the eighteenth-century classical New Town more extensive thananything else of its kind in Europe. Edinburgh was the capital of an independent kingdom for more than two hundred and fifty years, and it has the air of a capital, with buildings where kings were born or where some of their moreprominent subjects were assassinated, streets once trodden by Mary Queen of Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie, and a rich artistic life that comes into exhilarating full flower in August with the Edinburgh Festival. Edinburgh is also the gateway to some of the most spectacularly beautiful country in Britain: lying southward is the romantic landscape of the Borders, where Alexander Youngson is an admirable guide to the ruined abbeys, the castles thathave withstood countless sieges, and the great houses still owned by families 'that the Flood could not wash away'. A.J. YOUNGSON is former chairman of the Fine Art Commission for Scotland.

A Companion Guide to the Welsh National Museum of Art

A Companion Guide to the Welsh National Museum of Art
Author: National Museum of Wales
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2011
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN:

A guide to the exhibits on show at the Welsh National Museum of Art, this book intersperses iconic works by Cezanne, Monet and Renoir with great Welsh artists such as Richard Wilson, Gwen John and Ceri Richards."

Photography of Victorian Scotland

Photography of Victorian Scotland
Author: Roddy Simpson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012-09-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 074865464X

This is the first book to provide a full and coherent introduction to the photography of Victorian Scotland. The material has been structured and the topics organised, with appropriate illustrations, as both a readable narrative and a foundation text for

Ben Nicholson and Winifred Nicholson

Ben Nicholson and Winifred Nicholson
Author: Jovan Nicholson
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2013-09-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1781300178

This book examines the artistic partnership of Ben Nicholson and Winifred Nicholson in the 1920s and their friendship and collaboration with Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, and the potter William Staite Murray. Inspired by each other, the Nicholsons experimented furiously and often painted the same subject, one as a colorist the other more interested in form. Winifred wrote of her time with Ben, 'All artists are unique and can only unite as complementaries not as similarities'. New research based on previously unpublished letters, photographs and other material draws out their fascinating connections. All the works, many of which are previously unpublished, are illustrated in full color, each with comments relating to the work by the artists and their critics.