LIBER VERITATIS, OR A COLLECTION OF PRINTS, AFTER THE ORIGINAL DESIGNS OF CLAUDE LE LORRAIN,
Author: RICHARD. EARLOM
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Published: 2018
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Author: RICHARD. EARLOM
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Published: 2018
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Beckford
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Published: 1930
Total Pages: 220
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 298
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin Sonnabend
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781848220928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClaude Lorrain (1604-82) is known as the father of European landscape painting. This book sets out to re-appraise his work and look at it through fresh eyes. It unites in a single volume paintings, drawings, and prints from all periods of the artist's life.
Author: Richard Rand
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe great French artist Claude Lorrain (1600-1682)--for whom drawing was an integral part of the artistic process--spent most of his career in Italy, where he documented the beauty of the landscape and the splendor of classical ruins. This richly illustrated book examines the wide-ranging role the medium played throughout Claude's career. The book presents some of Claude’s most remarkable drawings, representing all aspects of his style and subject matter--from informal outdoor sketches of trees, rivers, and ruins to formal presentation drawings and elaborate compositional designs for paintings, many of which have never before been reproduced in color. A detailed and scholarly essay places them within the social and cultural contexts of their time and includes comparative illustrations of paintings and etchings to situate them within the artist's oeuvre. A selection of works from the Liber Veritatis (Book of Truth), a portfolio of highly finished drawings that the artist created to document his own painted compositions, is also included.
Author: Rudolf Wittkower
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2006-11-28
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781590172131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a “delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution.” Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot and Rudolf Wittkower explore the history of the familiar idea that artistic inspiration is a form of madness, a madness directly expressed in artists’ unhappy and eccentric lives. This idea of the alienated artist, the Wittkowers demonstrate, comes into its own in the Renaissance, as part of the new bid by visual artists to distinguish themselves from craftsmen, with whom they were then lumped together. Where the skilled artisan had worked under the sign of light-fingered Mercury, the ambitious artist identified himself with the mysterious and brooding Saturn. Alienation, in effect, was a rung by which artists sought to climb the social ladder. As to the reputed madness of artists—well, some have been as mad as hatters, some as tough-minded as the shrewdest businessmen, and many others wildly and willfully eccentric but hardly crazy. What is certain is that no book presents such a splendid compendium of information about artists’ lives, from the early Renaissance to the beginning of the Romantic era, as Born Under Saturn. The Wittkowers have read everything and have countless anecdotes to relate: about artists famous and infamous; about suicide, celibacy, wantonness, weird hobbies, and whatnot. These make Born Under Saturn a comprehensive, quirky, and endlessly diverting resource for students of history and lovers of the arts. “This book is fascinating to read because of the abundant quotations which bring to life so many remarkable individuals.”–The New York Review of Books
Author: John Smith
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Published: 1829
Total Pages: 600
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anna Swinbourne
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780870707520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdited by Anna Swinbourne. Text by Anna Swinbourne, Susan Canning, Michel Draguet, Robert Hoozee, Laurence Madeline, Jane Panetta, Herwig Todts.
Author: Bernard Quaritch
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Published: 1880
Total Pages: 588
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