Author : Jill Dunkerton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300095333
"The authors look closely at a variety of types of painting - including large altarpieces, small domestic, devotional images, diplomatic gifts, furniture, decorations and both intimate and full-length portraits - as well as frescoes, drawings and prints. They provide insights into the meanings of individual pictures and into the purposes they were originally intended to serve, and they explore the social position of the artist in the 1500s.
Author : Cynthia Saltzman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0374710392
One of The Christian Science Monitor's Ten Best Books of May "A highly original work of history . . . [Saltzman] has written a distinctive study that transcends both art and history and forces us to explore the connections between the two.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Wall Street Journal A captivatingstudy of Napoleon’s plundering of Europe’s art for the Louvre, told through the story of a Renaissance masterpiece seized from Venice Cynthia Saltzman’s Plunder recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana, a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of the young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797. Painted in 1563 during the Renaissance, the picture was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Veronese had filled the scene with some 130 figures, lavishing color on the canvas to build the illusion that the viewers’ space opened onto a biblical banquet taking place on a terrace in sixteenth-century Venice. Once pulled from the wall, the Venetian canvas crossed the Mediterranean rolled on a cylinder; soon after, artworks commandeered from Venice and Rome were triumphantly brought into Paris. In 1801, the Veronese went on exhibition at the Louvre, the new public art museum founded during the Revolution in the former palace of the French kings. As Saltzman tells the larger story of Napoleon’s looting of Italian art and its role in the creation of the Louvre, she reveals the contradictions of his character: his thirst for greatness—to carry forward the finest aspects of civilization—and his ruthlessness in getting whatever he sought. After Napoleon’s 1815 defeat at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington and the Allies forced the French to return many of the Louvre’s plundered paintings and sculptures. Nevertheless, The Wedding Feast at Cana remains in Paris to this day, hanging directly across from the Mona Lisa. Expertly researched and deftly told, Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history, one that sheds light on a seminal historical figure and the complex origins of one of the great museums of the world.
Author : Richard Cocke
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Art
ISBN :
"Enriched with over 325 illustrations of the drawings and paintings, this sumptuous volume will attract anyone interested in Veronese, in the art of the sixteenth century, and in the history of drawing." --Page [2] of cover.
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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
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Author : William R. Rearick
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Paolo Veronese
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 1801700389
One of the principle painters of the sixteenth century Venetian school, Paolo Veronese produced monumental works, portraying allegorical, biblical and historical subjects in splendid colour, set against the backdrop of Renaissance architecture. A master of colour, Veronese also excelled at illusionary compositions that extend the eye beyond the actual confines of the room. After an early period of Mannerism, he developed a naturalist style of painting, which was influenced by Titian and would go on to inspire the masters of the Baroque and later eras. His works are celebrated for their chromatic brilliance, sensibility of brushwork, aristocratic elegance and the sheer magnificence of spectacle. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Veronese’s complete paintings in beautiful detail, with concise introductions, hundreds of high quality images and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * The complete paintings of Paolo Veronese – over 500 images, fully indexed and arranged in chronological and alphabetical order * Includes reproductions of rare works * Features a special ‘Highlights’ section, with concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information * Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore Veronese’s celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional art books * Hundreds of images in colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smartphones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the paintings * Easily locate the artworks you wish to view * Features two biographies, including Vasari’s original ‘Life’ Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting e-Art books CONTENTS: The Highlights Conversion of Mary Magdalene (1547) Enthroned Madonna and Child, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Louis of Toulouse and Donors (1548) Portrait of Iseppo da Porto and his son Adriano (1551) The Pala Giustinian (1551) Jupiter Hurling Thunderbolts and the Vices (1556) La Bella Nani (c. 1556) Ceiling of the Sala dell’Olimpo, Villa Barbaro (1560) The Wedding Feast at Cana (1563) The Family of Darius before Alexander (c. 1565) Portrait of Daniele Barbaro (1567) Feast at the House of Simon (1570) The Feast in the House of Levi (1573) Adoration of the Magi (1573) The Dream of Saint Helena (1578) Venus and Adonis (1580) Miracle of Saint Pantaleon (1587) The Paintings The Complete Paintings Alphabetical List of Paintings The Biographies Life of Paolino (1568) by Giorgio Vasari Veronese by François Crastre Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to buy the whole Art series as a Super Set
Author : Anna Forlani Tempesti
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870996061
Perhaps more than any other collector of his generation in the United States, Robert Lehman was interested in acquiring early drawings. He made a great effort to add drawings to the collection of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, glass, and other objects that his father, Philip Lehman, had begun assembling. The 116 Italian drawings analyzed and discussed in this volume are among the more than 2,000 works of art from the collection now housed in the Robert Lehman Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert Lehman's collection demonstrates the variety of drawings produced in Italy from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, a period when the purposes and techniques of drawings, as well as the aims and abilities of the artist who made them, became increasingly sophisticated. The volume includes an elaborate design for an equestrian monument by Antonio Pollaiuolo, a magnificent study of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci, a cartoon by Luca Signorelli, a study for a vault fresco by Taddeo Zuccaro, and many other drawings that are among the best Italian examples to have survived from that era. Most types of drawings, in a wide variety of techniques, are represented—figure studies, grand compositions, landscapes, cartoons, modelli, and even sculptors' studies. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author : Frederick Ilchman
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN :
"For nearly four decades in the sixteenth century, the careers of Renaissance Venice's three greatest painters - Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese - overlapped, encouraging mutual influences and bitter rivalries that changed the course of art history. Venice was then among Europe's richest cities, and its plentiful commissions fostered an exceptionally fertile and innovative climate. In this environment, the three artists - brilliant, ambitious, and fiercely competitive - vied with each other for primacy, deploying the new combination of oil on canvas, with its unique expressive possibilities, and such new approaches as a personal and identifiable signature touch. They also pioneered the use of easel painting, a newly portable format that allowed for unprecedented fame in their lifetimes. With more than 160 stunning examples by the three masters and their contemporaries, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese elucidates the technical and aesthetic innovations that helped define the "Venetian style"--Characterized by loose technique. rich coloring, and often sensual subject matter - as well as the social, political, and economic context in which it flourished. Essays range from examinations of new approaches to studies of such crucial institutions as state commissions and the private patronage system. Most of all, by concentrating on the lives and careers of Venice's three greatest painters, the volume presents a vibrant human portrait - one brimming with intense competition, one-upmanship, humor, and passion."--Jacket.
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Painters
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Author : Xavier F. Salomon
Publisher : National Gallery London
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Painting
ISBN : 9781857095531
Catalog of the exhibition "Veronese: magnificence in Renaissance Venice" held March 19-June 15, 2014 at the National Gallery, London.
