American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century
American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century

Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 454

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The 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Hill), are discussed from a new perspective, the result of information culled from letters, wills, and other previously unpublished documents.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.

Casta Painting
Casta Painting

Author: Ilona Katzew

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2005-06-21

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780300109719

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Casta painting is a distinctive Mexican genre that portrays racial mixing among the Indians, Spaniards & Africans who inhabited the colony, depicted in sets of consecutive images. Ilona Katzew places this art form in its social & historical context.

British Landscape Painting of the Eighteenth Century
British Landscape Painting of the Eighteenth Century

Author: Luke Herrmann

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 296

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Discusses the beginnings of landscape painting in Britain to the rise of the classical tradition under the Italian influence; the topographical tradition; landscape artists who drew inspiration from visits to Italy; the tradition of the Netherlands and the rise of the Picturesque.

French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century
French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Philip Conisbee

Publisher: Ngw-Stud Hist Art

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 328

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"Fifteen international scholars present their latest research into the contexts and meanings of French genre painting of the eighteenth century, from Jean-Antoine Watteau to Louis-Leopold Boilly. The essays represent a wide range of critical and historical perspectives, from traditional archival research to postructuralist criticism."--Page 4 de la couverture

Enlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art
Enlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art

Author: Sarah Cohen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-02-11

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1350203602

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How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question, which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers, also emerged as a key theme in depictions of animals in eighteenth-century art. This book examines the ways in which painters such as Chardin, as well as sculptors, porcelain modelers, and other decorative designers portrayed animals as sensing subjects who physically confirmed the value of material experience. The sensual style known today as the Rococo encouraged the proliferation of animals as exemplars of empirical inquiry, ranging from the popular subject of the monkey artist to the alchemical wonders of the life-sized porcelain animals created for the Saxon court. Examining writings on sensory knowledge by La Mettrie, Condillac, Diderot and other philosophers side by side with depictions of the animal in art, Cohen argues that artists promoted the animal as a sensory subject while also validating the material basis of their own professional practice.

Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century
Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Publisher: Philadelphia Museum (PA)

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 632

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"Caught between the Theatricality of the Baroque and the acute sensibility of Romanticism, art in Rome in the eighteenth century has long been a neglected area of study." "The grand scale and spectacular diversity of the period are comprehensively captured for the first time in this definitive history of the period, produced to accompany a major U.S. exhibition organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and documenting the work of over 150 artists. With over 450 illustrations, and texts by an outstanding array of experts from around the world, Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century provides a massively authoritative survey of a fascinating era."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Oudry's Painted Menagerie
Oudry's Painted Menagerie

Author: Mary Morton

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2007-06-25

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 0892368896

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In the 1720s and 1730s, Jean-Baptiste Oudry established himself as the preeminent painter in France of hunts, animals, still lifes, and landscapes. Oudry’s Painted Menagerie focuses on a suite of eleven life-size portraits of exotic animals from the royal menagerie at Versailles, painted by Oudry between 1739 and 1752. These paintings eventually found their way into the ducal collection in Schwerin, Germany. Among them is the magnificent portrait of Clara, an Indian rhinoceros who became a celebrity in mid-eighteenth-century Europe. Her portrait has been out of public view for more than a century, and it is presented here in its newly conserved state.