Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Publisher :
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Art
ISBN :
Cataloghi di collezioni d'arte nelle biblioteche fiorentine (1840-1940)
Author : Giovanna De Lorenzi
Publisher :
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
The Bader Collection
Author : David Albert De Witt
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Painting
ISBN : 9781553394013
Book Description
For many decades the Agnes Etherington Art Centre has received European paintings from the Bader Collection from a wide range of periods and schools, from the German Renaissance to the Italian Rococo. This book features the centre's substantial group of over 50 remarkable paintings from European schools, notably Italy, Germany, France and England.
European Post-medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author : Edith Appleton Standen
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Tapestry
ISBN : 0870994069
Book Description
Tapestry making flourished in the major centers of western Europe from the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Thousands of tapestries were woven as special commissions for church, crown, and nobility. This publication is a comprehensive catalogue of the Museum's collection of tapestries and allied works made after the Middle Ages.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Author : Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
"This extraordinary book is the first in a projected series of specialized catalogues documenting the permanent collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. The collection of Italian paintings, a total of sixty works, is a representative one for the years 1300-1800 with significant examples from all major schools." "Each catalogue entry, written by Eliot W. Rowlands, includes a thorough and lively biography on the artist; complete technical notes and a detailed description; a fully documented commentary with a discussion of attribution, date, subject, and function; an exacting list of references that also summarizes the critical history of each work; and a full account of exhibition history and provenance. All the Italian paintings in the Nelson-Atkins collection are reproduced in full color, and there are over 200 black-and-white comparative illustrations."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Byzantine Constantinople
Author : Nevra Necipoğlu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004116252
Book Description
This collection of papers on the city of Constantinople by a distinguished group of Byzantine historians, art historians, and archaeologists provides new perspectives as well as new evidence on the monuments, topography, social and economic life of the Byzantine imperial capital.
The Bader Collection
Author : David De Witt
Publisher : School of Policy Studies Queen's University
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
The Bader Collection stands among the great private collections of its kind in the world. For the past 40 years Dr. Alfred Bader of Milwaukee has donated works to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at his Canadian alma mater, Queens University, where the entire Bader Collection will be housed . This extraordinary collection demonstrates a rich interplay of interests and insights, at the same time drawing back the curtain on the motivations and principles behind these remarkable acquisitions, whose history dates back to 1950. This scholarly publication presents 200 Dutch and Flemish Baroque paintings that form the collections focus. Exhaustively researched, the richly illustrated entries present each painting in detail. An introductory essay explores the life of this remarkable collector and the motivations that drive his pursuit of the art of the Age of Rembrandt with such passion and insight.
Please Touch
Author : Janine A. Mileaf
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 1584659343
Book Description
Exploring the notion of tactility in dada and surrealism
Consuming the Past
Author : Elizabeth Emery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0429840640
Book Description
First published in 2003 Consuming the Past covers pilgrimages to popular festivals, from modern spectacles to advertising, from the work of avant-garde painters to the novels of Emile Zola, and explores the complexity of the fin-de-siècle French fascination with the Middle Ages. The authors map the cultural history of the period from the end of the Franco-Prussian war to the 1905 separation of Church and State illuminating the powerful appeal that the medieval past held for a society undergoing the rapid changes of industrialisation.
Musical Iconography
Author : Howard Mayer Brown
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 1972-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780674731738
