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Italian Masters from Spain's Royal Court
This publication presents works by more than seventy artists, including Michelangelo, Raphael, Correggio, Titian, Tintoretto, the Carracci, Poussin and Tiepolo. Their inclusion reflects the taste of the Spanish Royal Court, whose kings, queens, princes and courtiers avidly collected Italian art. Many of these works are at the heart of the Prado's collection. Featuring essays by internationally respected curators and writers, Italian Masterpieces from Spain's Royal Court is a panoramic volume that traces the astounding stylistic development of Italian art across three centuries. Traces fascinating story of Italian art across three centuries. Features essays by international respected curators. Quality reproductions of works that are at the heart of Prado's collection. Published to coincide with the exhibition Italian Masterpieces from Spain's Royal Court, Museo del Prado to be held at NGV International, 16 May - 31 August 2014
Charles M. Russell
Charles M. Russell has long been recognized for his action-packed paintings, drawings, and sculpture of cowboys, fur trappers, Native American buffalo hunters and warriors, and other heroes of the Old West. Russell's best-known works capture the excitement and deadly risk of men battling nature and one another in a majestic landscape of mountains and plains. Less well known are Russell's hundreds of depictions of western women. As renowned author and art historian Ginger K. Renner observed thirty-five years ago, no other artist of the West devoted more of his time and talent to the portrayal of women. But few have followed Renner's lead--until now. Lavishly illustrated with full-color illust...
Classical Sculpture and the Culture of Collecting in Britain Since 1760
This is an illustrated study of the reception of classical sculptures in the early modern period. Viccy Coltman contrasts the culture of British 18th century collecting, which integrated sculpture into the domestic interior, with the focus upon individual specimens by archaeologists like Adolf Michaelis a century later.
Interwoven Journeys: the Michael Abbott Collections of Asian Art
Interwoven Journeys: The Michael Abbott Collections of Asian Art celebrates the generosity of one of Australia's leading patrons whose passion for the art and cultures of Asia has resulted in a deep and generative legacy at cultural institutions across Australia. Published by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Interwoven Journeys includes thirty-eight chapters written by thirty-one curators, scholars and artists from around the world, who examine a wealth of textiles, ceramics, sculptures, photographs and paintings included in the Michael Abbott collections. The essays included in Interwoven Journeys continue to prove the importance of his collections and the role they play in redefining our understanding of the art and cultures of South and Southeast Asia. From the oldest complete Javanese batik in the world to nineteenth century Indian photography Interwoven Journeys offers the reader an opportunity engage with a world of art.
Creator of Nightmares
A critical biography of the eighteenth-century painter. Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) was one of the eighteenth century’s most provocative and inventive artists. He is best known for his painting The Nightmare, which channeled a new form of gothic imagery for the Romantic age. This engaging study of the artist’s career unveils Fuseli’s complexities, navigating contradictions between literary and painted works, sacred and secular themes, and traditional patronage versus competitive exhibitions. Plotting Fuseli’s trajectory from Zurich to Paris, Rome, and ultimately London, Creator of Nightmares paints an image of Fuseli as an astute marketer and self-proclaimed genius who transformed himself from a priest to an Enlightenment writer, a mercurial force in the art world, and finally a revered teacher.
The Art of Art History
What is art history? Why, how and where did it originate, and how have its aims and methods changed over time? The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in Germany in the late eighteenth century,debates about art and its histories have intensified. Historians, philosophers, psychologists and anthropologists among others have changed our notions of what art history has been, is, and might be. This anthology is a guide to understanding art history through a critical reading of the field''s most innovative and influential texts over the past two centuries. Each section focuses on a key issue: aesthet...
Robert Russell
Robert Russell is known primarily as a surveyor and architect yet he was also a talented artist. His drawings and watercolours evocatively capture aspects of the physical development of the early years of the fledgling settlement of Melbourne. Despite his large body of work, few appear to have asked: who was Robert Russell? Russell held two official appointments in the Port Phillip District. The first was as Chief Surveyor which he commenced in September 1836; the second was as the first Clerk of Works from March 1838. Both appointments were brief and contentious. A controversy surrounding the claim that it was Russell rather than Robert Hoddle who drew the first map of the Melbourne settlem...
The Possessions of a Cardinal
A set of case studies exploring the tastes, passions, and possessions of cardinals in Renaissance and Baroque Rome.
Art History and Visual Studies in Europe
This book undertakes a critical survey of art history across Europe, examining the recent conceptual and methodological concerns informing the discipline as well as the political, social and ideological factors that have shaped its development in specific national contexts.
Sense and the Senses in Early Modern Art and Cultural Practice
Employing a wide range of approaches from various disciplines, contributors to this volume explore the diverse ways in which European art and cultural practice from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries confronted, interpreted, represented and evoked the realm of the sensual. Sense and the Senses in Early Modern Art and Cultural Practice investigates how the faculties of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell were made to perform in a range of guises in early modern cultural practice: as agents of indulgence and pleasure, as bearers of information on material reality, as mediators between the mind and the outer world, and even as intercessors between humans and the divine. The volume examines not only aspects of the arts of painting and sculpture but also extends into other spheres: philosophy, music and poetry, gardens, food, relics and rituals. Collectively, the essays gathered here form a survey of key debates and practices attached to the theme of the senses in Renaissance and Baroque art and cultural practice.
