Author : Poul Vad
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300049565
Vilhelm Hammershoi was a leading Danish painter of his generation. In this illustrated book - winner of the Amelienborg Prize in its Danish version - the author examines the life and work of Hammershoi.
Author : Hanne Finsen
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 1983
Category :
ISBN : 9788787646499
Author : Vilhelm Hammershøi
Publisher : Royal Academy Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 2008-09
Category : Art
ISBN :
This comprehensive survey, published to coincide with a major exhibition, explores the work of the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammersh�i (1864-1916). In haunting interior scenes, Hammersh�i dispensed with anecdotal detail, transforming his apartment into a series of disturbingly empty spaces. The same strange stillness can be seen in his portraits, landscapes, and city views of his native Copenhagen and of London, in all of which the passage of time appears to have been inexplicably suspended. Expertly produced, Hammersh�i explores the singularity of the artist’s vision, placing his achievement in the context of ?n-de-si�cle Symbolist art and examining his links with Dutch masters of the seventeenth century. Widely revered in Europe during his lifetime, Hammersh�i is now ripe for rediscovery.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 2005
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ISBN : 9788788692426
Author : Sabine Rewald
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588394131
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 5-July 4, 2011.
Author : Christopher Masters
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Painting, European
ISBN : 9781858945545
A window provides access to two of life’s essentials, light and air, but it is more than just a means to an end. Windows also have symbolic, expressive and architectural qualities that have for centuries inspired some of the world’s greatest artists. In this engaging new study, Christopher Masters celebrates the multiple roles of the window in art through five key themes, from the window as a status symbol to its use as a provider of physical and spiritual illumination; from its employment as a literal window on the world outside the confines of a room to its function as a mirror, reflecting the emotions of the artist or the individuals depicted; and finally to the immense architectural variety of windows that animate interior and exterior scenes throughout Western painting. With superb reproductions of 90 works by major artists from Giotto to Banksy, and spirited analysis of the paintings’ meanings, this is a remarkable exploration of an important but hitherto neglected subject in art history.
Author : Rüdiger Klessmann
Publisher : Dulwich Picture Gallery
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781903470473
"Adam Elsheimer is first recorded in 1600 and by 1610 he was dead. But Elsheimer was influential on the coming century to a degree out of all proportion to his brief career and small output. Above all, he revolutionised the handling of light in landscapes and interiors, introducing novel ways of handling complex narratives as well as inventing new subject matter in painting." "Although his importance has always been recognised, appreciation of the artist has been hampered by a lack of good reproductions. This book offers for the first time a host of lavish colour details from his paintings that demonstrate Elsheimer's extraordinarily fine touch and feeling. This major study, the first to appear in English for nearly thirty years, accompanies a landmark exhibition being held at the Stadelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt, at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh and at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Leslie Hossack
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2021
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Author : Bente Lange
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art museum architecture
ISBN :
Author : Mary Webster
Publisher : Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300162783
Universally recognised as a brilliant and gifted eighteenth-century artist, Zoffany was regarded by Horace Walpole as one of the three greatest painters in England, along with his friends Reynolds and Gainsborough. He has remained without a detailed study of his life and works owing to the fascinating and complex vicissitudes of his career, now established from widely scattered sources. Starting out as a late-baroque painter at a German princely court, he moved to London in 1760 and soon became a leadingportraitist. A loyal patron was the great actor David Garrick through whom Zoffany became admired as the unrivalled interpreter of the Georgian stage. The delightful inventions of his conversation pieces proved, then as now, fashionably successful imagesof private lives and led to his swift rise into the royal patronage of George III and Queen Charlotte. Zoffany set foot in so many worlds that their contrast alone gives a constantly changing interest to the history of his life and work.
