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.

Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries
Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries

Author: Dept. of Special Collections of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2003-12-31

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 9781402016868

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The Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries aims at recording articles of scholarly value which relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and of the economic social and cultural environment, involved in its production, distribution, conservation and description.

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.

Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture in the Low Countries, 15th-17th Centuries
Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture in the Low Countries, 15th-17th Centuries

Author: Sophie Raux

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 9004358811

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Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture examines lotteries as devices for distributing images and art objects, and constructing their value in the former Low Countries. Alongside the fairs and before specialist auction sales were established, they were an atypical but popular and large-scale form of the art trade. As part of a growing entrepreneurial sensibility based on speculation and a sense of risk, they lay behind many innovations. This study looks at their actors, networks and strategies. It considers the objects at stake, their value, and the forms of visual communication intended to boost an appetite for ownership. Ultimately, it contemplates how the lottery culture impacted notions of Fortune and Vanitas in the visual arts.

Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400–1650
Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400–1650

Author: Ovanes Akopyan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-04-26

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9004459960

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This collection of essays presents new insights into what shaped and constituted the Renaissance and early modern views of fate and fortune. It argues that these ideas were emblematic of a more fundamental argument about the self, society, and the universe and shows that their influence was more widespread, both geographically and thematically, than hitherto assumed.