European Drawings 1
European Drawings 1

Author: George R. Goldner

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1988-04-01

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0892360925

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Within a short time the Department of Drawings has acquired impressive holdings of European works on paper. This volume, the first in a series intended to keep scholars apprised of acquisitions, contains 149 entries on Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch, and other works ranging in date from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. Artists represented include Rembrandt, Cezanne, Blake, Goya, Dürer, Savery, Rubens, Millet, Veronese, Caravaggio, Raphael, and numerous others. All drawings are illustrated at full-page size.

Wonder of the Age
Wonder of the Age

Author: John Guy

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1588394301

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Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 28, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012.

Worshiping the Ancestors
Worshiping the Ancestors

Author: Jan Stuart

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780804742627

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Despite their powerful presence and exquisite quality, Chinese ancestor portraits have never been studied as a genre. This illustrated text explores the artistic, historical, and religious significance of these paintings and places them in context with other types of commemorative portraiture. During the late Ming (1368-1644) and Quing (1644-1911) dynasties, full-length portraits of individual men and women came into vogue. These ancestor portraits were important objects of veneration, and the practice continued into the 20th century, when paintings were gradually replaced by photographs. The authors explore the works in depth, presenting a fascinating glimpse of Chinese life and culture and providing biographies of the sitters. Worshiping the Ancestors should appeal to connoisseurs of Chinese art and to all those interested in social history, portraiture, and devotional art.

Slavery and the British Country House
Slavery and the British Country House

Author: Madge Dresser

Publisher: Historic England Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781848020641

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The British country house has long been regarded as the jewel in the nation's heritage crown. But the country house is also an expression of wealth and power, and as scholars reconsider the nation's colonial past, new questions are being posed about these great houses and their links to Atlantic slavery.This book, authored by a range of academics and heritage professionals, grew out of a 2009 conference on 'Slavery and the British Country house: mapping the current research' organised by English Heritage in partnership with the University of the West of England, the National Trust and the Economic History Society. It asks what links might be established between the wealth derived from slavery and the British country house and what implications such links should have for the way such properties are represented to the public today.Lavishly illustrated and based on the latest scholarship, this wide-ranging and innovative volume provides in-depth examinations of individual houses, regional studies and critical reconsiderations of existing heritage sites, including two studies specially commissioned by English Heritage and one sponsored by the National Trust.

Interpreting Objects and Collections
Interpreting Objects and Collections

Author: Susan M. Pearce

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0415112885

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Bringing together the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections, this volume examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things.