460 products
Michael Marrinan
Getty, 2017
Gustave Caillebotte: Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872–1887 is the first book to study the life and artistic development of this painter in depth and in the context of the urban life and upper-class Paris that shaped the man and his work. Michael Marrinan’s ambitious study draws upon new documents and establishes compelling connections between Caillebotte’s painting and literature, commerce, and technology. It offers new ways of thinking about Paris and its changing development in the nineteenth century, exploring the cultural context of Parisian bachelor life and revealing layers of meaning in upscale privilege ranging from haute cuisine to sport and relaxation. Marrinan has written what is sure to be a central text for the study of nineteenth-century art and culture.
English - 400 Pages - 19.1 cm x 3.6 cm x 25.4 cm - 1.5 Kg
ISBN: 9781606065075
Tobias G. Natter
Taschen, 2017
Près d'un siècle après sa mort, l'artiste viennois Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) éblouit toujours par son érotisme décomplexé, ses surfaces éblouissantes et sa créativité expérimentale. Cette monographie rassemble toutes les oeuvres majeures de Klimt et des commentaires de sommités de l'histoire de l'art, ainsi que de rares documents issus des archives personnelles de Klimt. Grâce à des illustrations de la plus haute qualité et de nouvelles prises de vue de la célèbre frise du palais Stoclet, le livre raconte Klimt, figure majeure de la Sécession en 1897, ses représentations sans fard du corps féminin et sa lumineuse "période dorée", au cours de laquelle la feuille d'or vint apporter une texture et une tonalité chatoyantes à des oeuvres aussi célèbres que Le Baiser et le Portrait d'Adele Bloch Bauer I, surnommé le portrait de "la Dame en or".
French - 604 Pages - 26.5 cm x 5 cm x 35.1 cm - 4.3 Kg
ISBN: 9783836566605
David Alan Brown
Skira, 2019
An emblematic master painter of the Quattrocento, Giovanni Bellini remained active beyond that period and into the era now known as the High Renaissance. While his colleagues died or faded from view, Bellini, in the first decades of the 16th century, continued to be creatively vital: indeed, he flourished as never before. The six paintings Bellini made during his final years (1513–16) constitute a distinct group that differs significantly from his previous works in style, support, subject and mood. Their subjects were stipulated by his patrons, but in a period in which he relied more and more on assistants, Bellini's decision to undertake and personally conceive and execute them points to a special commitment on his part to their creation. The Feast of the Godsat the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and other works that follow it, such as the Woman with a Mirror in Vienna and the Drunkenness of Noah in Bensançon , display a greatly expanded range of subject matter and a new degree of inventiveness. New technical investigations have played a key role in grasping the novelty of Bellini's last works. Recent scientific investigation at the National Gallery of Art marks a major advance in the technical analysis of works of art. And it literally sheds new light on The Feast of the Gods, allowing us to see more clearly than ever before images or motifs hidden below the paint surface. With an abundance of color plates, this book is the fruit of this research, and provides a deep dive into Bellini's greatest, final, triumphant phase.
English - 400 Pages - 24.9 cm x 3.8 cm x 28.7 cm - 2.5 Kg
ISBN: 9788857239965
Roland Giotto - Lorenzo Capellini
Umberto Allemandi & C., 2002
The restoration of Giotto's wall paintings in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua lasted eight months, ending in March 2002: an opportunity that Lorenzo Capellini did not miss to portray the faces and hands in the frescoes in close-up, using the same scaffolding as the restorers. The book accompanies the visitor in an exciting "impossible" reading, guiding him to the discovery of details of the characters painted by Giotto otherwise almost unreadable, because either too far away or too damaged. Capellini thus makes possible a moving, intimate encounter with one of the greatest pictorial cycles of Italian art, an ideal identification with the artist himself while the gestures, looks and physiognomies represent the essence of the characters and their stories
Italian - 120 Pages - - 1.2 Kg
ISBN: 9788842211365
Michel Hilaire, Kimberly Jones, Paul Perrin
Flammarion, 2017
The paintings of Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870) were rediscovered after the turn of the nineteenth-century by art critics and curators who credited the artist as an important pioneer in the development of Impressionism. Tracing his artistic career from its inception—including his links to Manet, Monet, Renoir, and Cézanne—this book unveils Bazille’s complete painted works. Organized both thematically and chronologically, this monograph also features facsimiles of the artist’s personal letters interspersed throughout the book on special paper inserts, and it is completed with a comprehensive bibliography, a list of works, and maps detailing his life in Montpellier and Paris. The book accompanies an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. from April 9 to July 9, 2017.
English - 334 Pages - 23.1 cm x 3.1 cm x 31 cm - 1.8 Kg
ISBN: 9782080202857