Jacques Callot Prints & Related Drawings
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
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Printmakers of the Baroque
Author: Susan Dixon
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 0988999935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume complement the recent exhibition of Printmakers of the Baroque: 17th-Century Explorations of Space and Light at La Salle University Art Museum during winter 2013-2014. Co-curated by La Salle Associate Professor of Art History Dr. Susan Dixon, the exhibition also provided a foundation for a Baroque art history course taught in spring 2014. This catalogue includes essays and labels written by undergraduate students enrolled in the course, along with reproductions of all 40 artworks included in the exhibition.
Picturing the Lame in Italian Art from Antiquity to the Modern Era
Author: Livio Pestilli
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1351554115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe presence of the orthopedically impaired body in art is so pervasive that, paradoxically, it has failed to attract the attention of most art historians. In Picturing the Lame in Italian Art from Antiquity to the Modern Era, Livio Pestilli investigates the changing meaning that images of individuals with limited mobility acquired through the centuries. This study evinces that in distinct opposition to the practice of classical artists, who manifested a lack of interest in the subject of lameness since it was considered 'a defect or a deformity' and deformity a 'want of measure, which is always unsightly,' their Early Christian counterparts depicted them profusely, because images of the miraculous healing of the lame became the reassuring sign of universal acceptance and the promise of a more equitable existence in this life or the next. In the Middle Ages, instead, when voluntary poverty came to be associated with the necessary condition of faithfulness to Christ, the indigent lame, along with others who were forced to beg for a living, became the image of the alter Christus. This view was to change in the Renaissance and Baroque periods, when, with the resurgence of classical and Pauline ideals that condemned the idle, representations of the orthopedically impaired became associated with swindlers, freeloaders and parasites. This fascinating story came basically to an end in the Eighteenth century when, with the revival of the Greek ideal of the Beautiful, the lame gradually left center stage to be relegated again to the margins of the visual arts.
Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family
Author: Diane DeGrazia
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 560
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJacques Callot's Miseries of War
Author: Anne Bertrand-Dewsnap
Publisher:
Published: 2018-03-04
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ISBN-13: 9781388799724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr. Anne Bertrand-Dewsnap invites us to go on an enthralling journey: the discovery of a potential (and hidden in plain sight) treasure in an auction house in Hudson, NY. The time constraint of authenticating the art moments before the auction is set to begin ignites a suspenseful narrative that complements the drama which unfolds in Callot's most well-known series of etchings, the Miseries of War. The prints of the series are made vivid - we are presented with several interpretations of the artist's intentions in his realistic, sometimes gruesome portrayal of war in this period (an almost constant reality during his lifetime). From twenty-first century New York, we are taken back to seventeenth-century Europe, to examine the career of an Old Master, who comes to seem quite modern in his conceptions and innovations. We become acquainted with the realities of warfare in this period in France, the journeys of our artist, the process of making etchings (and Callot's innovations in the medium), and with the steps in authenticating old master prints; all the while being kept in suspense, as the hunt for the reality of a possible discovery unfolds...
Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-century European Drawings
Author: Egbert Haverkamp Begemann (Kunsthistoriker)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 0870999184
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Early European art was a consuming interest of both Robert Lehman and his father, Philip Lehman, an interest reflected in the remarkable number and quality of drawings they owned from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In addition to an important group of early German drawings, the collection includes a "Saint Paul" from a series associated with Jan van Eyck and the famous "Scupstoel" from the circle of Rogier van der Weyden, the only design for a decorative sculpture to survive from the fifteenth century. The great artists of the seventeenth century, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens, Claude Lorrain, and Rembrandt among them, are also represented, Rembrandt by seven drawings, including the large study of Leonardo's "Last Supper" that would stay in his mind all through his career. Drawings by Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Thomas Gainsborough, Paul Sandby, and George Romney are among the many from eighteenth-century France and England. The volume discusses all 153 drawings at length, placing each in its art historical setting and complementing the discussion with comparative illustrations of related works." This e-book on the MetPublications website is also accompanied by links to related works and under the "Additional resources"tab are links to Met works of art and Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History essays and timelines (viewed May 1, 2014).
15th-18th Century French Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0870994638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParody and Festivity in Early Modern Art
Author: DavidR. Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1351554980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDwelling on the rich interconnections between parody and festivity in humanist thought and popular culture alike, the essays in this volume delve into the nature and the meanings of festive laughter as it was conceived of in early modern art. The concept of 'carnival' supplies the main thread connecting these essays. Bound as festivity often is to popular culture, not all the topics fit the canons of high art, and some of the art is distinctly low-brow and occasionally ephemeral; themes include grobianism and the grotesque, scatology, popular proverbs with ironic twists, and a wide range of comic reversals, some quite profound. Many hinge on ideas of the world upside down. Though the chapters most often deal with Northern Renaissance and Baroque art, they spill over into other countries, times, and cultures, while maintaining the carnivalesque air suggested by the book's title.
Imagined Battles
Author: Peter Paret
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780807823569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor thousands of years, art has interpreted the experience of war_its methods, human costs, and moral ambiguities_and has offered historians a wealth of testimony that is only beginning to be systematically explored. In this wide-ranging study, Peter Paret discusses forty-seven paintings and prints as complex documents of war in Europe since the Renaissance and as examples of the artist's use of war as a metaphor for the human condition. The images include works by such major artists as Uccello, Géricault, and Dix as well as academic history paintings and popular prints. By setting each in its historical environment and analyzing it from the perspective of the wars of its time, illuminates the place of war in Western consciousness and expands our understanding of works that are too often approached with little concern for the reality they depict or symbolically transform. Perhaps the most significant of the themes he traces over five centuries is the gradual change from the prince or general to the common soldier and civilian victim as central figures in the interpretation of war in art.
Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe
Author: Tom Nichols
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1351555421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOthers and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe is the first book to focus directly on the visual representation of marginal and outcast people in early modern Europe. The volume offers a comprehensive and groundbreaking analysis of a wide range of images featuring Jews and Turks, roguish beggars, syphilitics and plague victims, the 'deserving poor', toothpullers, beggar philosophers, black slaves, itinerant actors and street hawkers. Its broad geographical and chronological scope allows the reader to build a wider picture of visual strategies and conventions for the depiction of the poor and the marginal as they developed in countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Britain and Ireland. While such types had often been depicted in earlier centuries, the essays show that they came to play a newly significant and formative role in European art between 1500 and 1750. Marking a clear departure from much previous scholarship on the subject - which has tended to view representations of poverty as passive by-products of non-visual forces - these essays place the image itself at the centre of the investigation. The studies show that many depictions of socially marginal people operated in essentially hegemonic fashion, as a way of controlling or fixing the social and moral identity of those living on the edge. At the same time, they also reveal the inventiveness and originality of many early modern artists in dealing with this subject matter, showing how the sophisticated visuality of their representations could render meaning ambiguous in relation to such controlling discourses.
