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Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, The Fogg Art Museum
Author | : Harvard University. Fine Arts Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting
Author | : Richard Offner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Art and religion |
ISBN | : |
Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt
Author | : William W. Robinson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2016-08-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300208049 |
This superb book presents 100 notable examples from the Harvard Art Museums’ distinguished collection of Dutch, Flemish, and Netherlandish drawings from the 16th to 18th century. Featuring such masters as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, and Rembrandt van Rijn, the volume showcases beautiful color illustrations accompanied by insightful commentary on prevalent styles and techniques. Genres that define this artistic period—landscape, scenes of everyday life, portraiture, and still life—are explored in detail. The book also presents the results of new conservation and technical study, including infrared analysis and scientific examinations of drawing materials. This revelatory new research has allowed previously illegible underdrawings and inscriptions in many of the artworks to surface for the first time, shedding light on longstanding mysteries of production and provenance.
Fonthill Recovered
Author | : Caroline Dakers |
Publisher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2018-05-16 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1787350460 |
Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.