Author: Douglas Smith
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Set against the backdrop of imperial Russia, this tale of forbidden romance is the stuff of a great historical novel. It presents the account of the love between Count Nicholas Sheremetev, Russia's richest aristocrat, and Praskovia Kovalyova, his serf and the greatest opera diva of her time.
Author: David Albert De Witt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781553394013
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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For many decades the Agnes Etherington Art Centre has received European paintings from the Bader Collection from a wide range of periods and schools, from the German Renaissance to the Italian Rococo. This book features the centre's substantial group of over 50 remarkable paintings from European schools, notably Italy, Germany, France and England.
Author: Louis Finson
Publisher:
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Category : Four elements (Philosophy) in art
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Author: Marlene Dumas
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
ISBN: 194170199X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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The latest from the renowned painter—Marlene Dumas’s new works respond more than ever to the uncertainty and sensuality of the painting process itself. Allowing the structure of the canvases and the materiality of the paint greater freedom to inform the development of her compositions, the artist has likened the creation of these works to the act of falling in love: an unpredictable and open-ended process that is as filled with awkwardness and anxiety as it is with bliss and discovery. Myths & Mortals documents a selection of new paintings—debuted in the spring of 2018 at David Zwirner, New York—ranging from monumental nude figures to intimately scaled canvases that present details of bodily parts and facial features. Several nearly ten-foot-tall paintings focus on individual figures, including a number of male and female nudes and a seemingly solemn bride, whose expression is obscured behind a floor-length veil. Like the Greek gods and goddesses, the figures in these paintings are at once larger than life and overwhelmingly human. The smaller-scale paintings—referred to by the artist as “erotic landscapes”—present a variety of fragmentary images: eyes, lips, nipples, or lovers locked in a kiss. Evident across all of these works is the artist’s uniquely sensitive treatment of the human form and her constantly evolving experimentation with color and texture. Alongside these new paintings, Dumas presents an expansive series of thirty-two works on paper originally created for a Dutch translation of William Shakespeare’s narrative poem Venus & Adonis (1593) by Hafid Bouazza (2016). Myths & Mortals is accompanied by new scholarship on the artist by Claire Messud and a text by Dumas herself.
Author: Antoine Hermary
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395502
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 437
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Author: Smith College. Museum of Art
Publisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9781555951832
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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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.
Author: Koo Jin-Kyung
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788998604493
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Richard Offner
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Category : Art and religion
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Author: Richard Beresford
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Author: Daniele Benati
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers
ISBN: 9780853317647
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Widely regarded as one of the greatest draughtsmen of all time, Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) is celebrated for his naturalism. Born in a time when the elegant deformations and exaggerations of Italian mannerism were still in vogue, Carracci turned instead to nature as his principal inspiration. Much attuned to the everyday world around him, he took as much interest in studying a man bowling, a butcher weighing a piece of meat, or a street entertainer with his monkey as he did in the preparatory studies for his grand mythological and religious paintings. The fruit of this intensive study is abundantly evident in his magnificent drawings of the human figure - from his early works in Bologna to those made in preparation for his greatest commission, the decoration of the Farnese Gallery in Rome. This stunning publication brings together a plethora of Carracci's masterful drawings to provide a unique insight into the technique and skill of one of the premier artists of his time.
