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Author: Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780892367436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring how the discrediting of Boucher and his school intersected with cultural debates about gender and class, this account of Boucher's art should persuade critics and admirers alike to take another, more considered look.
Author: Marco Bussagli
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781402759253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn era of exuberant creativity is the focus of this magnificently illustrated, competitively priced new art book. Baroque art was characterized by unbridled emotion, intricate decorative flourishes, and a dramatic use of light, reaching its summit in works such as Bernini’s magnificent altarpiece, The Ecstasy of St. Theresa. Over time, this robust genre evolved into the more ornate and sensuously playful Rococo, a style epitomized by the opulent paintings of Watteau. This beautifully produced exploration of both movements guides the reader through more than a century of art history--exploring the lives and works of sculptors such as Bernini, painters such as Watteau, Boucher, Rubens, and Hogarth, and architects such as Christopher Wren.
Author: Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780892368259
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada (Ottawa)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0300099460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading scholars shed light on the development of genre painting in this heavily illustrated volume.
Author: Jessica Priebe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-11-30
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1000470385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile earlier studies have focused predominantly on artist François Boucher’s artistic style and identity, this book presents the first full-length interdisciplinary study of Boucher’s prolific collection of around 13,500 objects including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, porcelain, shells, minerals, and other imported curios. It discusses the types of objects he collected, the networks through which he acquired them, and their spectacular display in his custom-designed studio at the Louvre, where he lived and worked for nearly two decades. This book explores the role his collection played in the development of his art, his studio, his friendships, and the burgeoning market for luxury goods in mid-eighteenth-century France. In doing so, it sheds new light on the relationship between Boucher’s artistic and collecting practices, which attracted both praise and criticism from period observers. The book will appeal to scholars working in art history, museum studies, and French history.
Author: Jennifer D. Milam
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2011-04-18
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0810879522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical Dictionary of Rococo Art covers all aspects of Rococo art history through a chronology, an introductory essay, a review of the literature, an extensive bibliography, and over 350 cross-referenced dictionary entries on prominent Rococo painters, sculptors, decorative artists, architects, patrons, theorists, and critics, as well as major centers of artistic production. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Rococo art.
Author: Helmut Borsch-Supan
Publisher: H.F. Ullmann
Published: 2008-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780841600867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Levey
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 1985-02-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0500200505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichael Levey, former Director of the National Gallery in London, traces the major trends of European painting in the eighteenth century, taking as his theme the exciting evolution--and revolution--that took place in art from Watteau's birth to the death of Goya. 154 illus., 22 in color.
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This illustrated book, written by leading scholars and the result of years of research and technical analysis, catalogues nearly one hundred paintings, from works by Francois Clouet in the sixteenth century to paintings by Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun in the eighteenth. All these works are explored in detailed, readable entries that will appeal as much to the general art lover as to the specialist." --Book Jacket.
Author: Daniela Tarabra
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780892369218
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Art Through the Century series introduces readers to important visual vocabulary of Western art."--Back cover.
