Author: Philip Vann
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781848220973
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Keith Vaughan (1912-77) was a major figure in post-war British art who is known for his searching portraits of the male nude and his association with the Neo-Romantic painters. This book provides for the first time a definitive, illustrated account of his life and work, exploring his wide-ranging achievement as a modern British artist.
Vermeer's Hat
Author: Timothy Brook
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 159691727X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In this critical darling Vermeer's captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global. A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another canvas, fruit spills from a blue-and-white porcelain bowl. Familiar images that captivate us with their beauty--but as Timothy Brook shows us, these intimate pictures actually give us a remarkable view of an expanding world. The officer's dashing hat is made of beaver fur from North America, and it was beaver pelts from America that financed the voyages of explorers seeking routes to China-prized for the porcelains so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time, including Vermeer's. In this dazzling history, Timothy Brook uses Vermeer's works, and other contemporary images from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to trace the rapidly growing web of global trade, and the explosive, transforming, and sometimes destructive changes it wrought in the age when globalization really began.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 159691727X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In this critical darling Vermeer's captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global. A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another canvas, fruit spills from a blue-and-white porcelain bowl. Familiar images that captivate us with their beauty--but as Timothy Brook shows us, these intimate pictures actually give us a remarkable view of an expanding world. The officer's dashing hat is made of beaver fur from North America, and it was beaver pelts from America that financed the voyages of explorers seeking routes to China-prized for the porcelains so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time, including Vermeer's. In this dazzling history, Timothy Brook uses Vermeer's works, and other contemporary images from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to trace the rapidly growing web of global trade, and the explosive, transforming, and sometimes destructive changes it wrought in the age when globalization really began.
In His Milieu
Author: Amy Golahny
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9789053569337
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9789053569337
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
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.
Keith Vaughan
Author: Philip Vann
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781848220973
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Keith Vaughan (1912-77) was a major figure in post-war British art who is known for his searching portraits of the male nude and his association with the Neo-Romantic painters. This book provides for the first time a definitive, illustrated account of his life and work, exploring his wide-ranging achievement as a modern British artist.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781848220973
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Keith Vaughan (1912-77) was a major figure in post-war British art who is known for his searching portraits of the male nude and his association with the Neo-Romantic painters. This book provides for the first time a definitive, illustrated account of his life and work, exploring his wide-ranging achievement as a modern British artist.
Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Author: Susan Vreeland
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780756910600
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This luminous story of an alleged 36th Vermeer painting begins in the present day and traces the ownership back to World War II, Amsterdam, and to the work's inspiration.
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780756910600
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This luminous story of an alleged 36th Vermeer painting begins in the present day and traces the ownership back to World War II, Amsterdam, and to the work's inspiration.
The Publishers Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2070
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2070
Book Description
Life
Author: Henry R. Luce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Princeton Alumni Weekly
Author: Jesse Lynch Williams
Publisher: princeton alumni weekly
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
Book Description
Publisher: princeton alumni weekly
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
Book Description
The New Book of Knowledge
Author: William E. Shapiro
Publisher: Grolier, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780717205141
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
An illustrated encyclopedia with articles on history, literature, art and music, geography, mathematics, science, sports, and other topics. Some articles include activities, projects, or experiments.
Publisher: Grolier, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780717205141
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
An illustrated encyclopedia with articles on history, literature, art and music, geography, mathematics, science, sports, and other topics. Some articles include activities, projects, or experiments.
The Great Ideas Today
Author: Robert Maynard Hutchins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description