Great Bird Paintings of the World: The Eighteenth Century
Author: Christine Elisabeth Jackson
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Published: 1993
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ISBN-13: 9781851491780
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Author: Christine Elisabeth Jackson
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Published: 1993
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ISBN-13: 9781851491780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christine Elisabeth Jackson
Publisher: ACC Distribution
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first volume of Great Bird Paintings includes pictures painted in oils or water-colours before 1699. For centuries, Western art was tied to the discipline of the Roman Catholic Church. Symbolic birds appeared in many renaissance religious paintings. Delicate preparatory water-colour sketches were made for these. Artists who wished to paint birds, shrewdly chose scenes of the animals entering Noah's Ark and the Garden of Eden, which gave them the legitimate excuse to introduce birds. By the end of the sixteenth century, the artists had altered the balance and relegated the biblical scene to the background, with the birds claiming full attention in the foreground. In the mid-seventeenth century they were free of clerical demands and in the Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish painting they produced hundreds of very fine canvases full of delightful birds. At long last, they could fully indulge their delight in painting the beauty of colour and form of the birds that gave them so much pleasure.
Author: Christine Elisabeth Jackson
Publisher: ACC Distribution
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this second volume of a five-part series Christine Jackson illustrates works by major artists of the period, including Pieter Casteels, Marmaduke Cradock, Willem Frederick van Royen, Tobias Stranover, Jakob Bogdani and Abraham Bisschop. She not only discusses the artists and their frequent use of symbolism in the paintings, but also gives us many fascinating glimpses into bird behaviour. The combination of the author's scholarly research and ornithological knowledge has cast new light on this subject and the result is a book which will appeal to everyone interested in art and ornithology.
Author: Christine E. Jackson
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John James Audubon
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 476
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500. The original configurations were altered so that there is only one species per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839).
Author: Angus Hyland
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Published: 2016-05-31
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781780677507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Book of the Bird celebrates the bird in art with an elegant, international collection of paintings, illustrations, and photographs, featuring all kinds of birds from the smallest tits and wrens to colourful exotics. Interspersed though the illustrations are short texts giving background to the pictures and information on bird species. This is the perfect gift for all bird lovers.
Author: Larry Barth
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2015-12-01
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0811762491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLegendary bird carver Larry Barth has created a stunning retrospective of his life's work, including sculptures from museum exhibits and rarely seen pieces from private collections. This is a must-have book for every bird lover, carver, and anyone who appreciates fine sculptural art.
Author: Christine Elisabeth Jackson
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 143
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roger J. Lederer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2019-09-25
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 022667519X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe human history of depicting birds dates to as many as 40,000 years ago, when Paleolithic artists took to cave walls to capture winged and other beasts. But the art form has reached its peak in the last four hundred years. In The Art of the Bird, devout birder and ornithologist Roger J. Lederer celebrates this heyday of avian illustration in forty artists’ profiles, beginning with the work of Flemish painter Frans Snyders in the early 1600s and continuing through to contemporary artists like Elizabeth Butterworth, famed for her portraits of macaws. Stretching its wings across time, taxa, geography, and artistic style—from the celebrated realism of American conservation icon John James Audubon, to Elizabeth Gould’s nineteenth-century renderings of museum specimens from the Himalayas, to Swedish artist and ornithologist Lars Jonsson’s ethereal watercolors—this book is feathered with art and artists as diverse and beautiful as their subjects. A soaring exploration of our fascination with the avian form, The Art of the Bird is a testament to the ways in which the intense observation inherent in both art and science reveals the mysteries of the natural world.
Author: Norman Arlott
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 72
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