Rubens and England

Rubens and England
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Publisher : Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
Total Pages : 188
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0300095066
ISBN-13 : 9780300095067
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Rubens and England by : Fiona Donovan

This intriguing book draws for the first time a complete picture of the artistic and political connections between Rubens and the Stuart court. Fiona Donovan examines the works the great Flemish artist created for English patrons, his relationships with English courtiers beginning in 1616, and his nine-month diplomatic mission to London in 1629–30. She focuses particular attention on the series of nine canvases that Rubens painted for the Banqueting House ceiling of Whitehall Palace—a project that is considered by many to be the most significant work of art ever commissioned by the English Crown. Rubens’s iconographic scheme for the Whitehall ceiling presented English courtiers with a complex pictorial language not seen before in Great Britain. Donovan explores the artist’s allegorical imagery and provides fresh insights into the role the work of Rubens and continental culture played in politics and society at the court of Charles I.

My Town

My Town
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 290
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780141993126
ISBN-13 : 014199312X
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis My Town by : David Gentleman

David Gentleman has lived in London for almost seventy years, most of it on the same street. This book is a record of a lifetime spent observing, drawing and getting to know the city, bringing together work from across his whole career, from his earliest sketches to watercolours painted just a few months ago. Here is London as it was, and as it is today: the Thames, Hampstead Heath; the streets, canals, markets and people of his home of Camden Town; and at the heart of it all, his studio and the tools of his work. Accompanied by reflections on the process of drawing and personal thoughts on the ever-changing city, this is a celebration of London, and the joy of noticing, looking and capturing the world. 'David has spent a lifetime depicting with wit and affection a London he has made his own' Alan Bennett 'He delivers a poetry of exultant concentration ... The surface fusion of the sensuous and the sharply modern is echoed by Gentleman's imagery' Guardian 'The artist and illustrator has been responsible for some of the most-seen public artworks in this country' The Times 'Perhaps the last of the great polymath designer-painters' Camden New Journal

The Making of England

The Making of England
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 320
Release :
ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822007686140
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis The Making of England by : Marion Archibald

The Art of Anglo-Saxon England

The Art of Anglo-Saxon England
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Publisher : Boydell Press
Total Pages : 350
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781843836285
ISBN-13 : 1843836289
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis The Art of Anglo-Saxon England by : Catherine E. Karkov

Providing a fresh appraisal of the art of Anglo-Saxon England, this text looks at its influence upon the creation of an identity as a nation.

The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914

The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 390
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0486269558
ISBN-13 : 9780486269559
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914 by : Gordon Norton Ray

Combines essays, bibliographical descriptions, and 295 illustrations to chronicle a golden era in the art of the illustrated book. Artists range from Blake, Turner, Rowlandson, and Morris to Caldecott, Greenaway, Beardsley, and Rackham.

Van Gogh in England

Van Gogh in England
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Publisher : ACC Distribution
Total Pages : 156
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015029257808
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Van Gogh in England by : Debora Silverman

Rediscoveries in Art

Rediscoveries in Art
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 266
Release :
ISBN-10 : UVA:X006193757
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Rediscoveries in Art by : Francis Haskell

The Reformation of Images

The Reformation of Images
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 227
Release :
ISBN-10 : OCLC:1014865758
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis The Reformation of Images by : John Phillips

The Development of the Art Market in England

The Development of the Art Market in England
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 280
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781317323839
ISBN-13 : 1317323831
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis The Development of the Art Market in England by : Thomas M Bayer

This book gives a comprehensive account of the history and underlying economics of the modern art market in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.

Copley and West in England 1775-1815

Copley and West in England 1775-1815
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Publisher : Burlington Press
Total Pages : 176
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1916237800
ISBN-13 : 9781916237803
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Copley and West in England 1775-1815 by : Allen Staley

This beautifully and thoroughly illustrated book, which constitutes the first serious investigation of the relationship between Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, will be of considerable interest to both British and American art historians, and appeal to art lovers from both countries.00The book begins with a brief prologue discussing the earliest of West?s depictions of recent historical events and of subjects set in America, painted prior to Copley?s arrival in England. It then follows the year-by-year evolution of Copley?s painting from 1775 to his death in 1815, with an underlying focus upon his ongoing give-and-take with West, and it ends with examination of hitherto little-known and unstudied major late paintings, from after 1800, by both artists.