"No Equal in Any Land"

Author: Susie Nash

Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 220

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This catalogue accompanied an exhibition at the Groeninge Museum, Bruges, which celebrated one of the greatest European artists of the late fourteenth century, André Beauneveu, apparently born in Valenciennes c. 1335. Active throughout the Southern Netherlands, his reputation grew swiftly and in 1364 he was commissioned by the King of France, Charles V, to create a group of royal tombs at St Denis. In the 1370s he oversaw another ambitious funerary project, for Louis de Mâle, Count of Flanders, at Courtrai, whilst continuing to undertake major civic commissions at Ypres, Mechelen and his home town of Valenciennes. Beauneveu spent the last years of his career in Bourges working for the most celebrated royal patron of all, Jean, Duc de Berry.

Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet

Author: Georges Riat

Publisher: Parkstone Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 266

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Child of materialism and positivism, Courbet was without a doubt one of the most complex painters of the nineteenth century. Symbolising the rejection of traditions, Courbet did not hesitate to confront the public with the truth by liberating painting of conventional rules. He became from then on the leader of pictorial realism.

European Bronzes from the Quentin Collection
European Bronzes from the Quentin Collection

Author: Manfred Leithe-Jasper

Publisher: Maria Teresa Train Mtt Scala

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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A reference tool for universities, libraries, curators, collectors and dealers. The sculptures in the Quentin Collection reveal the extraordinary range of artistry, invention and technical refinement characteristic of works made when the tradition of the European statuette was at its height.

Rethinking Boucher
Rethinking Boucher

Author: Melissa Lee Hyde

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780892368259

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"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.

Engraved on Steel
Engraved on Steel

Author: Basil Hunnisett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-05

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0429859058

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First published in 1998, Engraved on Steel focuses on engraving and engravers, exploring the use of steel engraving in both the decorative arts and in printing, Basil Hunnisett also describes the context of the steel engraver’s work. The processes by which steel engraving became one of the most widely used forms of printing in the 19th century are described in detail as the developments in the print industry, paper manufacture and publishing that determined its history. The activities of print publishers are also examined, including those of art unions.