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Author: John Walsh
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 1997-12-04
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0892364769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a history of the buildings that have housed the Getty Museum collections, overviews the collections themselves, and offers a biography of J. Paul Getty
Author: National Gallery (Great Britain)
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Jones
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780520070875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the methods used to make artistic, literary, documentary, and political forgeries and the recent scientific advances in their detection. Includes over 600 objects from the British Museum and many other major collections, from ancient Babylonia to the present day.
Author: Ayako Ono
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1136625038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJapan held a profound fascination for western artists in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the influence of Japonisme on western art was pervasive. Paradoxically, just as western artists were beginning to find inspiration in Japan and Japanese art, Japan was opening to the western world and beginning a process of thorough modernisation, some have said westernisation. The mastery of western art was included in the programme. This book examines the nineteenth century art world against this background and explores Japanese influences on four artists working in Britain in particular: the American James McNeill Whistler, the Australian Mortimer Menpes, and the 'Glasgow boys' George Henry and Edward Atkinson Hornel. Japonisme in Britian is richly illustrated throughout.
Author: Teresa Canepa
Publisher: Ad Ilissvm
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781912168163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book celebrates the most important collection of 17th-century Chinese porcelain in the world, assembled by the distinguished British diplomat Sir Michael Butler. His passion for porcelain is clearly reflected in the over eight hundred pieces he collected and lived with at his home and private museum in Dorset. The pots (as Sir Michael called them), many of extreme rarity or exquisite quality, give testimony to the incredible depth of knowledge he acquired over five decades and his outstanding contribution to research and education in this previously neglected field of study. This lavish and comprehensive collection covers most types of porcelain produced at Jingdezhen, in Jiangxi province, during the 17th century. The variety of the pieces carefully acquired by Sir Michael reflects the great innovative spirit of the highly skilled Jingdezhen potters and painters at a time when they were released from the controls of Imperial patronage, between the end of the reign of the Ming Emperor Wanli in 1620 and the re-establishment of the Imperial kilns by the Qing Emperor Kangxi in 1683. It is a study collection of porcelain unrivalled in its breath and rarity that demonstrates the stylistic and qualitative evolution which occurred in Chinese porcelain production during the 17th century. An introduction written by Katharine Butler tells the fascinating story of the circumstances that encouraged her father to acquire, collect and passionately study Chinese porcelain of the 17th century; how he found rare pieces with dates, interesting inscriptions, seal marksor narrative scenes; and how the collection and his scholarly publications came to be internationally renowned. The core of the book is composed of nine sections presenting the main categories of porcelains in the collection: Late Ming, High Transitional, Shunzhi, Early Kangxi, Mid-Late Kangxi, Monochromes and Famille Verte, as well as disputed pieces. Some of the highlights are the extremely rare High Transitional pieces painted only in overglaze enamels dating to the Chongzhen reign, c.1640-43; the first piece acquired by Sir Michael, a green enamel winepot, dating to the early Kangxi reign, c.1665-70; a group of rare dated Zhonghe Tang pieces painted in underglaze blue and red, and an early Kangxi basin finely painted in underglaze blue and red with a Master of the Rocks landscape, dating to c.1670-75. Leaping the Dragon Gate refers to the symbolic metamorphosis from a humble carp to a mighty dragon - the most powerful of the Four Divine Creatures - that a student would undergo on succeeding in the Jinshi or Imperial civil service examinations. Passing these examinations required years, sometimes decades, of enormous effort to acquire the requisite educational merit and success was very rare. It is a worthy metaphor for Sir Michael's scholarly achievement. This 384-page book with over 600 colour illustrations is a catalogue raisonné of almost his entire 17th century porcelain collection, including many previously unpublished pieces. In the spirit of keeping the family legacy of acquisition and scholarship alive, the authors have included a few important, recently purchased pieces and also have revised and expanded the list of all known dated pieces of 17th Century Chinese porcelain in the world that Sir Michael compiled in his 1992 USA exhibition catalogue.
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 698
ISBN-13: 9780521443012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of a series of systematic catalogues of the National Gallery of Art's collection, this comprehensive volume discusses in detail 310 objects that comprise one of the world's outstanding repositories of American naive paintings. Works by renowned folk artists such as Edward Hicks, Erastus Salisbury Field, and Ammi Phillips are represented in depth and placed in stylistic as well as historical context. This catalogue is an indispensable tool for historians of Amerian painting and folk art, and for students of American life and culture. Thorough documentation and commentary are provided for the first time on some of the most intriguing images produced in America in the past two hundred years.
Author: Ellen Callmann
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 454
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe energy and optimism of the new nation are abundantly apparent in this catalogue. It features some of the icons of American art, such as John Singleton Copley's The Copley Family and Gilbert Stuart's portraits of the first five presidents. Numerous paintings, including Benjamin West's Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill), are discussed from a new perspective, the result of information culled from letters, wills, and other previously unpublished documents. The author offers new interpretations of some works, among them Charles Willson Peale's portrait of the Baltimore couple Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming. The volume is richly illustrated, with carefully selected comparative illustrations.
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780894682117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHeda's Banquet Piece, Frans Hals' Willem Coymans, and Rembrandt's Lucretia. Paintings by these and other masters attracted the American collectors P. A. B. Widener, his son Joseph, and Andrew W. Mellon, whose bequests form the heart of the National Gallery's distinguished and remarkably cohesive collection of ninety-one Dutch paintings.
Author: Lisa Nilsen
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781909492172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe implications of globalization include the growing necessity for people everywhere to be working in a more global way. The growing international cooperation between professionals and clients in the field of Architectural Paint Research has highlighted the necessity of agreeing on standards in the way that samples are taken, analysed and recorded. The papers in this volume illustrate the problems involved in meeting this challenge. The importance of keeping up with present-day standards in the paint industry is also addressed. Contents: Introduction; A Walk around the Saharan Heritage: Searching for Architectural Paint Research Dr Amer Rghei; Baseline proficiencies for Architectural Paint Research: Replacing the Goldilocks Standard Helen Hughes; Promoting Architectural Paint Research in Sweden through accessibility of samples and results Kathrin Hinrichs Degerblad; Establishing Standards for Architectural Paint Research at Historic New England Benjamin Haavik; It's Open to Interpretation: A Study in Writing Paint Research Reports for the Entire Project Team Jennifer Cappeto; Tracing the making of the painted stone portal of Ryning palace, Stockholm Anna Henningsson and Alexandru Babos; Identification of zinc-based paints in cross-section: a comparative study of autofluorescent behavior, TSQ fluorochrome stain and elemental composition with SEM-EDS Kirsten Travers and Catherine Matsen; The use of fire retardant surface treatment in and on historic buildings Barbro Wedvik; Exterior colour schemes of dwellings in the historic centre of Visby 1860 1930: architectural paint research and the preservation of townscape Max Laserna; Architectural Paint Research - How to improve the interaction between client, commissioner and executor Jon Brænne; Facilitating awareness of a shared challenge Bernice Crijns; Architectural Paint Research: Exploring the architectural qualities of colour Angelique Friedrichs; Gunnebo House: Historic interiors research for conservation of architectural paint through an international, interdisciplinary collaboration following proposed APR standards Stephan Günther and Maria Höijer; Architectural Paint Research in the ceiling of the Gallery of Charles XI - what we learned - Kristin Fyrand; Twelve Years in Topeka: Struggles and Successes in a Phased Restoration Bryon Roesselet; How communication of research findings resulted in reconstruction of Chipolin painted surfaces at the Hermitage Castle in Denmark Line Bregnhøi; Old National Archives Johan Rittsel and Ewa Björdell; Addressing the Challenges of Modern Paint Materials: Paint Colour Quality Craig Oleszewski; Collaborating to Reveal, Interpret and Restore 1860s Decoration in Richard Upjohn's Grace Church (Brooklyn, New York) Amanda Stauffer Park; From Pauper to Prince: Re-interpreting St. John's Colonial Building through Decorative Finishes Stephanie M. Hoagland; Changing minds through sharing research: the preservation of historic Damascene 'ajami rooms Anke Scharrahs; Danish church interiors, research into colour change, and knowledge of colour history used as tools in the decision-making process toward preserving church cultural heritage Karin V. Kristiansen; Tartu Art College's role in Historic Interior Research in Estonia - Heli Tuksam; The Van Doesburg Rinsema project in Drachten and Amsterdam. An unorthodox consonant Mariël Polman, Danielle van Kempen, Arie Wallart and Luc Megens; The way forward.
