Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art

Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art
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Publisher : Hudson Hills
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 155595183X
ISBN-13 : 9781555951832
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Synopsis Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art by : Smith College. Museum of Art

This newest volume in Hudson Hills Press's acclaimed series about leading collections of master drawings presents sixty-eight great sheets, all reproduced in full-color, including many versos, from one of the finest college museums in America.

The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Volume IV: Oxford Essays and Notes 1863-1868

The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Volume IV: Oxford Essays and Notes 1863-1868
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 9780191515880
ISBN-13 : 0191515884
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Synopsis The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Volume IV: Oxford Essays and Notes 1863-1868 by : Lesley Higgins

The first of eight volumes of Hopkins's Collected Works to be published, Oxford Essays and Notes presents a remarkable cache of previously unpublished papers, including forty-five essays which Hopkins produced during his undergraduate career at Oxford (1863-1867), only seven of which were reproduced in the 1959 edition of Journals and Papers. Topics range from Platonic philosophy to theories of the imagination, from ancient history to then-contemporary politics and voting rights. Also included are notes from a commonplace book, a remarkable 'dialogue' about aesthetics (featuring a fictionalized John Ruskin figure), and the lecture notes Hopkins prepared in the winter of 1868 while teaching at John Henry Newman's Oratory School in Birmingham-writings in which he explores, for the first time, the theories of inscape and instress so central to his poetic practice. The edition is fully annotated and provides a detailed introduction that situates historically Hopkins's academic and creative efforts. The twelve notebooks represent Hopkins's intellectual and aesthetic development while studying with some of the greatest scholars of the era (Benjamin Jowett, Walter Pater, and T. H. Green), as well as the ethical and spiritual anxieties he wrestled with while deciding to convert to Catholicism (John Henry Newman received him into the Church in 1866). Hopkins never wrote to please his tutors or the university professors-he wrote vividly and searchingly in response to the challenges they presented. Whether evaluating Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, the role of 'neutral' England in the American civil war, or the comparative merits of classical sculpture, his first instinct was always to frame the difficult questions involved and work towards a 'counter' argument.

Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-century Drawings

Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-century Drawings
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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9780870996061
ISBN-13 : 0870996061
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Synopsis Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-century Drawings by : Anna Forlani Tempesti

Perhaps more than any other collector of his generation in the United States, Robert Lehman was interested in acquiring early drawings. He made a great effort to add drawings to the collection of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, glass, and other objects that his father, Philip Lehman, had begun assembling. The 116 Italian drawings analyzed and discussed in this volume are among the more than 2,000 works of art from the collection now housed in the Robert Lehman Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert Lehman's collection demonstrates the variety of drawings produced in Italy from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, a period when the purposes and techniques of drawings, as well as the aims and abilities of the artist who made them, became increasingly sophisticated. The volume includes an elaborate design for an equestrian monument by Antonio Pollaiuolo, a magnificent study of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci, a cartoon by Luca Signorelli, a study for a vault fresco by Taddeo Zuccaro, and many other drawings that are among the best Italian examples to have survived from that era. Most types of drawings, in a wide variety of techniques, are represented—figure studies, grand compositions, landscapes, cartoons, modelli, and even sculptors' studies. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Sixteenth-century Italian Drawings in New York Collections

Sixteenth-century Italian Drawings in New York Collections
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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9780870996887
ISBN-13 : 0870996886
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Synopsis Sixteenth-century Italian Drawings in New York Collections by : William Griswold

Focusing exclusively on examples from the 16th century, the great age of Italian drawing, this stunning volume, published to accompany an early-1994 exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, includes 124 prized works from The Metropolitan, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and some 20 private collections in New York. The catalogue is organized by school and, within each section, chronologically by artist. Each drawing is illustrated and presented with a discussion that places it in the context of the artist's career and explores the purpose for which it was made. Paper edition (unseen), $35. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Maggs Bros. Catalogues

Maggs Bros. Catalogues
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Total Pages : 980
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HNMRLA
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Synopsis Maggs Bros. Catalogues by : Maggs Bros

The Luminous Image

The Luminous Image
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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 9780870997488
ISBN-13 : 0870997483
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Synopsis The Luminous Image by : Timothy Husband

Published in conjunction with a 1995 exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, this catalog features extensive explication of a relatively unknown art, focusing on problems of style, workshop techniques, the dissemination of designs, iconographic variety, the functions of the diversity of drawings, details of specific patrons and commissions, and the leading centers of Lowlands stained-glass production--Ghent, Bruges, and Leiden. Includes 455 bandw and 22 color illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Drawings of Stefano Da Verona and His Circle and the Origins of Collecting in Italy

The Drawings of Stefano Da Verona and His Circle and the Origins of Collecting in Italy
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 0871692449
ISBN-13 : 9780871692443
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis The Drawings of Stefano Da Verona and His Circle and the Origins of Collecting in Italy by : Evelyn Karet

In this comprehensive catalogue of the work of the 15th-century painter and draftsman, Stefano da Verona (1375-ca. 1438), Karet reviews past scholarship and corrects old misunderstandings that produced an inconsistent, heterogeneous and misinformed corpus. Her attributions are based on stylistic arguments, technical analysis, and the relationship of the drawings to a limited number of secure paintings by this important Late Gothic North Italian painter. The restricted but sound body of works Stefano da Verona executed is compiled in rich catalogue entries that include discussions of style, iconography, patronage, paper and sketchbook analysis, important issues of workshop production and of the history of drawings and collectionism.