The Eighteenth Century French Paintings

The Eighteenth Century French Paintings
Author: National Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher: National Gallery Catalogues
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2018
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The impressive collection of 18th-century French paintings at the National Gallery, London, includes important works by Boucher, Chardin, David, Fragonard, Watteau, and many others. This volume presents over seventy detailed and extensively illustrated entries that expand our understanding of these paintings. Comprehensive research uncovers new information on provenance and on the lives of identified portrait sitters. Humphrey Wine explains the social and political contexts of many of the paintings, and an introductory essay looks at the attitude of 18th-century Britons to the French, as well as the market for 18th-century French paintings then in London salerooms. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press

Masters of French Painting, 1290-1920

Masters of French Painting, 1290-1920
Author: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Publisher: Giles
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781904832935

Presents 138 works comprising the Wadsworth Atheneum's internationally recognized collection of French paintings and pastels.

Buying Baroque

Buying Baroque
Author: Edgar Peters Bowron
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2017-03-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0271079460

Although Americans have shown interest in Italian Baroque art since the eighteenth century—Thomas Jefferson bought copies of works by Salvator Rosa and Guido Reni for his art gallery at Monticello, and the seventeenth-century Bolognese school was admired by painters Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley—a widespread appetite for it only took hold in the early to mid-twentieth century. Buying Baroque tells this history through the personalities involved and the culture of collecting in the United States. The distinguished contributors to this volume examine the dealers, auction houses, and commercial galleries that provided access to Baroque paintings, as well as the collectors, curators, and museum directors who acquired and shaped American perceptions about these works, including Charles Eliot Norton, John W. Ringling, A. Everett Austin Jr., and Samuel H. Kress. These essays explore aesthetic trends and influences to show why Americans developed an increasingly sophisticated taste for Baroque art between the late eighteenth century and the 1920s, and they trace the fervent peak of interest during the 1950s and 1960s. A wide-ranging, in-depth look at the collecting of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian paintings in America, this volume sheds new light on the cultural conditions that led collectors to value Baroque art and the significant effects of their efforts on America’s greatest museums and galleries. In addition to the editor, contributors include Andrea Bayer, Virginia Brilliant, Andria Derstine, Marco Grassi, Ian Kennedy, J. Patrice Marandel, Pablo Pérez d’Ors, Richard E. Spear, and Eric M. Zafran.

The Brothers Le Nain

The Brothers Le Nain
Author: Esther Susan Bell
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300218885

A beautiful volume that brings to light the forgotten Le Nain brothers, a trio of 17th-century French master painters who specialized in portraiture, religious subjects, and scenes of everyday peasant life In France in the 17th century, the brothers Antoine (c. 1598-1648), Louis (c. 1600/1605-1648), and Mathieu (1607-1677) Le Nain painted images of everyday life for which they became posthumously famous. They are celebrated for their depictions of middle-class leisure activities, and particularly for their representations of peasant families, who gaze out at the viewer. The uncompromising naturalism of these compositions, along with their oddly suspended action, imparts a sense of dignity to their subjects. Featuring more than sixty paintings highlighting the artists' full range of production, including altarpieces, private devotional paintings, portraits, and the poignant images of peasants for which the brothers are best known, this generously illustrated volume presents new research concerning the authorship, dating, and meaning of the works by well-known scholars in the field. Also groundbreaking are the results of a technical study of the paintings, which constitutes a major contribution to the scholarship on the Le Nain brothers.

Unruly Nature

Unruly Nature
Author: Scott Allan
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1606064770

Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867), arguably the most important French landscape artist of the mid-nineteenth century and a leader of the so-called Barbizon School, occupies a crucial moment of transition from the idealizing effects of academic painting to the radically modern vision of the Impressionists. He was an experimental artist who rejected the traditional historical, biblical, or literary subject matter in favor of “unruly nature,” a Romantic naturalism that confounded his contemporaries with its “bizarre” compositional and coloristic innovations. Lavishly illustrated and thoroughly documented, this volume includes five essays by experts in the field. Scott Allan and Édouard Kopp alternately examine Rousseau’s diverse techniques and working procedures as a painter and as a draftsman, as well as his art’s mixed economic and critical fortunes on the art market and at the Salon. Line Clausen Pedersen’s essay focuses on Mont Blanc Seen from La Faucille, Storm Effect, an early touchstone for the artist and a spectacular example of the Romantic sublime in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek’s collection. This catalogue accompanies an eponymous exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from June 21 to September 11, 2016, and at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek from October 13, 2016, to January 8, 2017.

Kermes 94/95

Kermes 94/95
Author:
Publisher: Claudio Aita
Total Pages: 164
Release:
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Numero doppio, 160 pagine, cm21x29,7, brossura, illustrato a colori, anno 2015 Questo numero speciale di Kermes, nell’ambito delle celebrazioni per il 350° anniversario della morte di Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), esce in concomitanza con la mostra ‘Poussin et Dieu’ che il Musée du Louvre presenta nella primavera del 2015. Omaggio al ‘pittore-filosofo’, il volume si pone quale strumento scientifico di riferimento che riporta lo stato dell’arte a livello internazionale negli studi tecnici poussiniani e accompagna la mostra come adeguato complemento al catalogo per la comprensione scientifica delle tematiche. La pubblicazione è stata l’occasione per attivare un dibattito internazionale – quasi un convegno ideale con sede in Kermes – a cui hanno aderito con entusiasmo oltre venti autori, proponendo significativi ed estesi studi in una dimostrazione esemplare d’interazione fra ricerche storico artistiche e tecnico-scientifiche. … It is with great enthusiasm that Kermes supported this initiative hosting the studies, as though these were part of a conference, ‘ideal’ in that it never took place physically, but very much real in terms of the international plurality of its contributions, presented here thanks to lively exchange of information across frontiers … This publication is the fruit of a perfect and exemplary collaboration between curators, conservators and scientists brought together from all countries… The publication here before us provides a number of answers – let us be brave and use the word ‘definitive’ – to questions which have long been an issue of debate … Comme l’affirme ici même Sheila McTighe, toute vision plus large de la pratique de Poussin doit dorénavant prendre en compte et intégrer ces nouvelles données techniques. (Pierre Rosenberg de l’Académie française, Président-directeur honoraire du Musée du Louvre) This volume of the journal Kermes devoted to the meticulous technical analysis of several works by Nicolas Poussin, reveals the wealth of knowledge acquired through the implementation of new methods of physico-chemical analysis taken together with the detailed investigation of the handling and materials deployed during the process of creating the work of art. A number of different means have been employed in order to investigate in the greatest detail the nature of a particular pigment, its impurities, the effects of the addition of a medium as well as the effects created by mixtures … (Philippe Walter, Directeur du Laboratoire d’archéologie moléculaire et structurale, CNRS-UMR 8820, Université Pierre et Marie Curie) indice/Index: speciale – NICOLAS POUSSIN. TECHNIQUE, PRACTICE, CONSERVATION a cura di Helen Glanville, Claudio Seccaroni Helen Glanville, Claudio Seccaroni Nota introduttiva dei curatori / Editors’ Introductory Note Pierre Rosenberg Du progrès en histoire de l’art / On Developments in the History of Art Philippe Walter Combiner les regards sur les œuvres de Nicolas Poussin / A Combined Vision of the Works of Nicolas Poussin Sheila McTighe Poussin’s Practice: A New Plea for Poussin as a Painter Helen Glanville Nicolas Poussin: Creation and Perception Paolo Bensi Supporti e preparazioni: aspetti delle scelte esecutive di Poussin a confronto con le tecniche pittoriche dell’ambiente romano (1620-70) Chiara Merucci, Claudio Seccaroni Qualche osservazione sui Baccanali di putti della Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica in Palazzo Barberini Marcia Steele Transmitted Light Infrared Imaging of Two Paintings by Poussin at the Cleveland Museum of Art David Piurek The Cleveland Museum of Art Painting Conservation. Transmitted IR Photography Setup Sophia Plender, Aviva Burnstock Technical Examination and Conservation of The Triumph of David by Nicolas Poussin Laurie Benson, Carl Villis The Crossing of the Red Sea in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne John Twilley, Nicole Myers, Mary Schafer Poussin’s Materials and Techniques for The Triumph of Bacchus at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Jean Cadogan, Stephen Kornhauser, Patricia Sherwin Garland The Crucifixion by Nicolas Poussin in the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut Rikke Foulke The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Elizabeth Laurence de Viguerie, Philippe Walter, Helen Glanville Some Preliminary Remarks on Nicolas Poussin’s Painting Technique in L’Orage: Complementary X-ray Fluorescence and X-ray Diffraction Study Carol Woods Sawyer Discoveries Concerning Poussin’s Technique Made during the Examination and Treatment of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes Characteristics of the Canvases Used by Nicolas Poussin Bibliographic References Abstracts CULTURA PER I BENI CULTURALI CSRP-The Central Scientific Restoration Project Workshop – Moscow: I metodi di restauro dei monumenti architettonici di legno in russia ARI: Il tesoro sottratto di Roma SUPSI: Studio comparativo di metodi diagnostici per la valutazione dei distacchi degli intonaci e del loro trattamento AICRAB: “Digital Humanities” alla Biblioteca Capitolare di Vercelli OPD: Avanzamenti circa il restauro dell’ Adorazione dei Magi di Leonardo da Vinci MNEMOSYNE: Riprendere le proposte di Giovani Urbani per la cura dei contesti ambientali e condizione per la duratura conservazione anche delle singole opere d’arte CCR La Venaria Reale: Campagna di documentazione dello stato di conservazione dell’opera La Bella Principessa attribuita a Leonardo da Vinci Taccuino IG-IIC: Sostenibilità della conservazione, ma oltre le mode … LA RECENSIONE Licia Vlad Borrelli, La fucina di Vulcano. I metalli nel mondo antico: storia, tecnologia, conservazione Giorgio Bonsanti Giuseppina Perusini, Simon Horsin-Déon e il restauro in Francia alla metà del XIX secolo Paolo Bensi Christoph Schölzel, Gemäldegalerie Dresden: Bewahrung und Restaurierung der Kunstwerke von den Anfängen der Galerie bis 1876 Giorgio Bonsanti Antonio Sgamellotti, Brunetto G. Brunetti and Costanza Miliani (edited by), Science and Art. The Painted Surface Giorgio Bonsanti Elena Pecchioni, Fabio Fratini, Emma Cantisani, Atlante delle malte antiche in sezione sottile al microscopio ottico / Atlas of the ancient mortars in thin section under optical microscope Deodato Tapete Maria Beatrice Failla, Susanne Adina Meyer, Chiara Piva, Stefania Ventra (a cura di), La cultura del restauro. Modelli di ricezione per la museologia e la storia dell’arte Giorgio Bonsanti

The Orléans Collection

The Orléans Collection
Author: Vanessa I. Schmid
Publisher: GILES
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781911282280

A major new volume on the exceptional art collection of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, including masterpieces by Raphael, Titian, Veronese, Correggio, Poussin, Rubens, and Rembrandt.

Library of Congress Catalog

Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 608
Release: 1960
Genre: Catalogs, Subject
ISBN:

A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Warburg Institute. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 770
Release: 1967
Genre: Library catalogs
ISBN: