Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Author: Yale University (New Haven, Conn.). Art Gallery

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0300114338

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This beautiful and important book highlights the collection of European drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery, one of America's premier university museums. From intimate studies to exquisite finished compositions, this selection of works documents the history of European drawing practices beginning with late-medieval model books and progressing to the verge of the modern period. The accompanying text--written by a team of scholars--offers a unique introduction to various critical and technical aspects of the study of master drawings, brought to life through drawings from a range of national schools and in a variety of media. Among the drawings examined in this handsomely produced volume are an animated pen and ink sketch by Giulio Romano, a pastoral landscape by Claude Lorrain, a forceful and humorous caricature by Guercino, a scene from the epic poem Orlando Furioso by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and a delicate portrait by Edgar Degas.

European Drawings 2
European Drawings 2

Author: George R. Goldner

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1992-10-08

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0892362197

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The Getty Museum's collection of drawings was begun in 1981 with the purchase of a Rembrandt nude and has since become an important repository of European works from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. As in the first volume devoted to the collection (published in 1988 in English and Italian editions), the text is here organized first by national school, then alphabetically by artist, with individual works arranged chronologically. For each drawing, the authors provide a discussion of the work's style, dating, iconography, and relationship to other works, as well as provenance and a complete bibliography.

Text and Image in Modern European Culture
Text and Image in Modern European Culture

Author: Natasha Grigorian

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1557536287

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Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors shed new light on the relations between literature and the visual arts in Europe after 1850. Following tenets of comparative cultural studies, work presented in this volume explores international creative dialogues between writers and visual artists, ekphrasis in literature, literature and design (fashion, architecture), hybrid texts (visual poetry, surrealist pocket museums, poetic photo-texts), and text and image relations under the impact of modern technologies (avant-garde experiments, digital poetry). The discussion encompasses pivotal fin de siècle, modernist, and postmodernist works and movements in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, and Spain. A selected bibliography of work published in the field is also included. The volume will appeal to scholars of comparative literature, art history, and visual studies, and it includes contributions appropriate for supplementary reading in senior undergraduate and graduate seminars.

Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt
Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt

Author: William W. Robinson

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-08-02

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0300208049

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This superb book presents 100 notable examples from the Harvard Art Museums’ distinguished collection of Dutch, Flemish, and Netherlandish drawings from the 16th to 18th century. Featuring such masters as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, and Rembrandt van Rijn, the volume showcases beautiful color illustrations accompanied by insightful commentary on prevalent styles and techniques. Genres that define this artistic period—landscape, scenes of everyday life, portraiture, and still life—are explored in detail. The book also presents the results of new conservation and technical study, including infrared analysis and scientific examinations of drawing materials. This revelatory new research has allowed previously illegible underdrawings and inscriptions in many of the artworks to surface for the first time, shedding light on longstanding mysteries of production and provenance.

An Italian Journey
An Italian Journey

Author: Linda Wolk-Simon

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1588393798

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Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 12-Aug 15, 2010.

The Robert Lehman Collection
The Robert Lehman Collection

Author: James Byam Shaw

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 069104046X

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This volume, one of a series of sixteen, catalogues the eighteenth-century Italian drawings in The Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Tapestry in the Renaissance
Tapestry in the Renaissance

Author: Thomas P. Campbell

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 606

ISBN-13: 1588390225

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Tapestries--the art form of kings--were a principal tool used by powerful Renaissance rulers to convey their wealth and might. From 1460 to 1560, courts and churches lavished vast sums on costly weavings in silk and gold thread from designs by leading artists. In this lavishly illustrated book, the first major survey of tapestry production of this period, contributors analyze some of these & beautiful tapestries, examine the stylistic and technical development of tapestry production in the Low Countries, France, and Italy during the Renaissance, and discuss the contribution that the medium made to art, liturgy, and propaganda of the day.