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The Luminous Image
Published in conjunction with a 1995 exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, this catalog features extensive explication of a relatively unknown art, focusing on problems of style, workshop techniques, the dissemination of designs, iconographic variety, the functions of the diversity of drawings, details of specific patrons and commissions, and the leading centers of Lowlands stained-glass production--Ghent, Bruges, and Leiden. Includes 455 bandw and 22 color illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Oct. 5, 2010-Jan. 17, 2011, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Feb. 23-May 30, 2011, National Gallery, London (selected paintings only).
Prayers and Portraits
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The Jeweled Style
In The Jeweled Style, Michael Roberts offers a new approach to the Latin poetry of late antiquity, one centering on an aesthetic quality common to both the literature and the art of the period—the polychrome patterning of words and phrases or of colors and shapes. In Roberts's view, the writer or artist of this period works as a jeweler, carefully setting compositional units in a geometric framework, consistently demonstrating a preference for effects of patterning over realistic representation, and for a unity situated at a higher level than the literal, historical sequence of the narrative. Roberts's introductory chapter is followed by an anthology of representative narrative and descrip...
Anonymous Art at Auction
In Anonymous Art at Auction, Anne-Sophie V. Radermecker takes the opposing view of the superstar economy by examining contemporary sales of Early Flemish paintings with unknown authorship and the effects of various substitutes for real names on price formation.
Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1800: Tafeln
Das Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle besitzt eine der renommiertesten Sammlungen niederländischer Handzeichnungen aus der Zeit von 1450 bis 1850. Dieser hochwertige Bestand von 1400 Zeichnungen wird nun erstmals in seiner Gesamtheit dokumentiert. Der dreibändige Katalog präsentiert 400 Jahre niederländischer Zeichenkunst in ihrer ganzen thematischen, technischen und stilistischen Bandbreite. Schwerpunkt der Sammlung ist das holländische 17. Jahrhundert. Neben dem Schwerpunkt Landschaft und einer großen Anzahl von Seestücken enthält der Bestand biblische und allegorische Szenen, topographische Darstellungen, Bildnisse, Genrestücke und Stillleben sowie Figuren- und Tierstudien. Sämtliche im Bestandskatalog enthaltenen Werke werden ausführlich wissenschaftlich kommentiert und mit ihren jeweiligen Vorder- und Rückseiten abgebildet. 1. Katalog I: Van Aken - Murant 2. Katalog II: Van Musscher - Zegelaar 3. Tafeln
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A Companion to Medieval Art
A Companion to Medieval Art brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe. Brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe. Contains over 30 original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays by renowned and emergent scholars. Covers the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives. Features an international and ambitious range - from reception, Gregory the Great, collecting, and pilgrimage art, to gender, patronage, the marginal, spolia, and manuscript illumination.
Opening Doors
"A study of Netherlandish triptychs from the early fifteenth century through the early seventeenth century, covering works by Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hugo van der Goes, Hieronymus Bosch, and Peter Paul Rubens. Explores how the triptych format structures and generates meaning"--Provided by publisher.
