Masters of Art

Masters of Art

Author: Charles Scribner

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 1989-05-25

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Traces the life and career of the Flemish artist, shows a selection of his paintings, and discusses their background.


Peter Paul Rubens, a Touch of Brilliance

Peter Paul Rubens, a Touch of Brilliance

Author: Peter Paul Rubens

Publisher: Prestel Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 132

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"Two celebrated and complementary collections of Rubens' sketches - in the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg - are brought together to form the basis of this study of the artist's work." "Often regarded as one of the most compelling and remarkable aspects of the artist's work, Rubens' oil sketches reveal the genesis of many of his most important commissions. This book, published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Hermitage Rooms, Courtauld Institute of Art, focuses on Rubens' projects where the Hermitage and Courtauld holdings are exceptionally rich, including the ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall, and the now lost ceiling of the Jesuit church in Antwerp. By bringing together preparatory material from a number of major commissions this book aims to provide a concentrated account of the role of the oil sketch in Rubens' work."--Jacket.


In His Milieu

In His Milieu

Author: Amy Golahny

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 9789053569337

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Gathered in honor of John Michael Montias (1928–2005), the foremost scholar on Johannes Vermeer and a pioneer in the study of the socioeconomic dimensions of art, the essays in In His Milieu are an essential contribution to the study of the social functions of making, collecting, displaying, and donating art. The nearly forty essays here by—all internationally recognized experts in the fields of art history and the economics of art—are especially revealing about the Renaissance and Baroque eras and present new material on such artists as Rembrandt, Van Eyck, Rubens, and da Vinci.


The Coming of Joachim Stiller (Valancourt International)

The Coming of Joachim Stiller (Valancourt International)

Author: Hubert Lampo

Publisher: Valancourt Books

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9781948405294

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Freek Groenevelt is a mild-mannered journalist who values his peace and quiet above all else. But his orderly life is suddenly upended by the intrusion of a mysterious figure calling himself Joachim Stiller, who seems in insidious ways to be controlling Freek's life and destiny. It starts with an enigmatic letter - impossibly postmarked before Freek was even born - and as a series of bizarre and possibly supernatural phenomena ensues, Freek becomes obsessed with the question: Who is Joachim Stiller? With the help of a beautiful mathematician and a dealer in occult books, Freek tries to solve the riddle, but none of them will be prepared for the final revelation of the shocking truth! One of the great classics of 20th-century Flemish literature and a founding text of Flemish magical realism, Hubert Lampo's internationally acclaimed The Coming of Joachim Stiller (1960) has been published in fifteen languages and is now available at last in an outstanding new English version by award-winning translator Paul Vincent.


The Fan

The Fan

Author: Octave Uzanne

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781016962131

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