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Raphael
The selection of drawings demonstrates how Raphael created a specific mode of visual invention and persuasive communication through drawing. He used drawing both as conceptual art (including brainstorming sheets) and as a practice based on attentive observation (such as drawing from the posed model). Yet Raphael's drawings also reveal how the process of drawing in itself, with its gestural rhythms and spontaneity, can be a form of thought, generating new ideas. The Oxford exhibition will present drawings that span Raphael's entire career, encompassing many of his major projects and exploring his visual language from inventive ideas to full compositions. The extraordinary range of drawings by Raphael in the Ashmolean and the Albertina, enhanced by appropriate loans, will enable this exhibition to cast new light on this familiar artist, transforming our understanding of Raphael's art.
Opulence and Devotion
From the late 16th to the end of the 18th centuries, when Brazil was a Portuguese colony, painting and sculpture was almost entirely religious in nature. Fired with zeal for the conversion of the indigenous peoples of Brazil, Jesuit, Franciscan and Benedictine missionaries exploited the sensory impact of painting, sculpture, music and drama to promote the faith there. The opulent, majestic and theatrical Catholicism that gradually took root appealed to the imagination and to the senses -- as did the Baroque art of Counter-Reformation Europe. This book has been published to mark the first exhibition in Britain of Brazilian Baroque Art. Edited and largely compiled by Dr Catherine Whistler, the book also contains an art-historical survey by Dr Cristina Avila, of The Federal University of Minas Gerais, and an essay on Patronage and Expressions of the Baroque by Professor A J R Russell-Wood of The Johns Hopkins University. The colour plates demonstrate the vitality and virtuosity of the individual sculptures, domestic altarpieces, and pieces of liturgical silver loaned to the exhibition from private collections and Museums in Brazil.
Impressionist and Modern
Fritz Gross, architect, designer, and artist is as well known for his own work, as he is for collecting the works of many of the great Impressionist and modern masters. This outstanding catalogue presents sixty-four paintings, prints, and drawings from Gross's private collection, including works by Degas, Picasso, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Gauguin, in addition to his own critically-acclaimed architectural and design patterns. In setting illustrations of Gross's own work side by side with those of the Impressionist and modern masters, the volume demonstrates not only Gross's taste as a collector but his position as an artist.
The Forest Fire by Piero Di Cosimo
Piero di Cosimo's Forest Fire is one of the best-known early Renaissance paintings in Britain. The authors discuss the subject and technique of the painting, its context and the artist's patron. The illustrations include x-rays and infrared photographs
The Ashmolean Museum
For the first time ever, all paintings in the Department of Western Art in the Ashmolean Museum have been brought together in one volume. Every picture is illustrated and almost all are represented in colour. Biographies of all known artists in the collection are also included, making this catalogue an invaluable reference work for specialist libraries, collectors and general readers alike.
Turner, Whistler, Monet
Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 12 June - 12 September 2004, the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 12 October 2004 - 17 January 2005, and Tate Britain, London, 10 February - 15 May 2005.
Museum Masterpieces, Book 2
In Museum Masterpieces, Book 2, composer Catherine Rollin has created musical expressions of some of the great works of art found in museums throughout the world. The paintings that inspired these pieces are beautifully displayed on a four-page color insert at the center of the book, along with historical notes about each painting. Titles: *Car and Hunting Fox (Umberto Boccioni) *La charmeuse de serpents (The Snake Charmer) (Henri Rousseau) *Cirque (Circus) (Georges Seurat) *The Girl with a Pearl Earring (Johannes Vermeer) *Jeunes filles au piano (Young Girls at the Piano) (Pierre-Auguste Renoir) *Noah's Ark: Genesis (Charles McGee) *Nocturne in Black and Gold---The Falling Rocket (James Abbott McNeill Whistler) *Primavera (Sandro Botticelli) *Sunrise on the Matterhorn (Albert Bierstadt) *Washington Crossing the Delaware (Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze)
Rising Up from Indian Country
In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children. After traveling only a mile and a half, they were attacked by five hundred Potawatomi warriors. In under an hour, fifty-two members of Heald’s party were killed, and the rest were taken prisoner; the Potawatomi then burned Fort Dearborn before returning to their villages. These events are now seen as a foundational moment in Chicago’s storied past. With Rising up from Indian Country, noted historian Ann Durkin Keating richly recount...
Guercino
Why is a cross-eyed man from the small town of Cento in northern Italy now regarded as one of the greatest draftsmen of the seventeenth century? Featuring important Guercino drawings from the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, this volume looks deeply into the nature of the artist’s extraordinary talent for drawing.
An Italian Journey
Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 12-Aug 15, 2010.
