Author: Robin Jaffee Frank
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300087246
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
"Most often, portrait miniatures were painted in watercolor on thin disks of ivory. They were sometimes worn as jewelry, sometimes framed to be viewed privately. Many were painted by specialists, although renowned easel artists - including Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, and Charles Willson Peale - also created them to commemorate births, engagements, marriages, deaths, and other joinings or separations. The book traces the development of this exquisite art form, revealing the close ties between the history of the miniature and the history of American private life."--BOOK JACKET.
Love and Loss
Author: Robin Jaffee Frank
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300087246
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
"Most often, portrait miniatures were painted in watercolor on thin disks of ivory. They were sometimes worn as jewelry, sometimes framed to be viewed privately. Many were painted by specialists, although renowned easel artists - including Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, and Charles Willson Peale - also created them to commemorate births, engagements, marriages, deaths, and other joinings or separations. The book traces the development of this exquisite art form, revealing the close ties between the history of the miniature and the history of American private life."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300087246
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
"Most often, portrait miniatures were painted in watercolor on thin disks of ivory. They were sometimes worn as jewelry, sometimes framed to be viewed privately. Many were painted by specialists, although renowned easel artists - including Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, and Charles Willson Peale - also created them to commemorate births, engagements, marriages, deaths, and other joinings or separations. The book traces the development of this exquisite art form, revealing the close ties between the history of the miniature and the history of American private life."--BOOK JACKET.
The Portrait Miniature in England
Author: Katherine Coombs
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
A highly readable account of the development of English miniature painting featuring masterpieces from the VandA's collection, which contains some of the finest examples in existence.
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
A highly readable account of the development of English miniature painting featuring masterpieces from the VandA's collection, which contains some of the finest examples in existence.
Treasuring the Gaze
Author: Hanneke Grootenboer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226309711
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more conventional mementoes, such as lockets containing a coil of a loved one’s hair. The fashion lasted only a few decades, and by the early 1800s eye miniatures had faded into oblivion. Unearthing these portraits in Treasuring the Gaze, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes that the rage for eye miniatures—and their abrupt disappearance—reveals a knot in the unfolding of the history of vision. Drawing on Alois Riegl, Jean-Luc Nancy, Marcia Pointon, Melanie Klein, and others, Grootenboer unravels this knot, discovering previously unseen patterns of looking and strategies for showing. She shows that eye miniatures portray the subject’s gaze rather than his or her eye, making the recipient of the keepsake an exclusive beholder who is perpetually watched. These treasured portraits always return the looks they receive and, as such, they create a reciprocal mode of viewing that Grootenboer calls intimate vision. Recounting stories about eye miniatures—including the role one played in the scandalous affair of Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Prince of Wales, a portrait of the mesmerizing eye of Lord Byron, and the loss and longing incorporated in crying eye miniatures—Grootenboer shows that intimate vision brings the gaze of another deep into the heart of private experience. With a host of fascinating imagery from this eccentric and mostly forgotten yet deeply private keepsake, Treasuring the Gaze provides new insights into the art of miniature painting and the genre of portraiture.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226309711
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more conventional mementoes, such as lockets containing a coil of a loved one’s hair. The fashion lasted only a few decades, and by the early 1800s eye miniatures had faded into oblivion. Unearthing these portraits in Treasuring the Gaze, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes that the rage for eye miniatures—and their abrupt disappearance—reveals a knot in the unfolding of the history of vision. Drawing on Alois Riegl, Jean-Luc Nancy, Marcia Pointon, Melanie Klein, and others, Grootenboer unravels this knot, discovering previously unseen patterns of looking and strategies for showing. She shows that eye miniatures portray the subject’s gaze rather than his or her eye, making the recipient of the keepsake an exclusive beholder who is perpetually watched. These treasured portraits always return the looks they receive and, as such, they create a reciprocal mode of viewing that Grootenboer calls intimate vision. Recounting stories about eye miniatures—including the role one played in the scandalous affair of Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Prince of Wales, a portrait of the mesmerizing eye of Lord Byron, and the loss and longing incorporated in crying eye miniatures—Grootenboer shows that intimate vision brings the gaze of another deep into the heart of private experience. With a host of fascinating imagery from this eccentric and mostly forgotten yet deeply private keepsake, Treasuring the Gaze provides new insights into the art of miniature painting and the genre of portraiture.
Portrait Miniatures in Enamel
Author: Gilbert Collection
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A scholarly, comprehensive study of the art of enamels in Europe, presenting examples from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. Demonstrates the extraordinary quality and scope of these exquisite works. This scholarly book contains comprehensive information on the art of enamels in Europe and England. It also examines the techniques and tools of enamelists and presents an overview of artists, patrons and sitters represented in this fine collection.
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A scholarly, comprehensive study of the art of enamels in Europe, presenting examples from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. Demonstrates the extraordinary quality and scope of these exquisite works. This scholarly book contains comprehensive information on the art of enamels in Europe and England. It also examines the techniques and tools of enamelists and presents an overview of artists, patrons and sitters represented in this fine collection.
The History of Portrait Miniatures
Author: George Charles Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Miniature painting
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Miniature painting
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Modern Masters of Miniature Art in America
Author: Wes Siegrist
Publisher: Wes Siegrist
ISBN: 0982127839
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher: Wes Siegrist
ISBN: 0982127839
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
British Portrait Miniatures
Author: Cory Korkow
Publisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781907804236
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A sumptuously illustrated new catalog on British portrait miniatures, all from the world-renowned collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Publisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781907804236
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A sumptuously illustrated new catalog on British portrait miniatures, all from the world-renowned collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Richard Cosway, R.A.
Author: George Charles Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The History of Portrait Miniatures
Author: George Charles Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Miniature painting
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Miniature painting
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
European Portrait Miniatures
Author: Bernd Pappe
Publisher: Michael Imhof Verlag
ISBN: 9783865689696
Category : Miniature painters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"European portrait miniatures of the 17th to 20th centuries – far too rarely the focus of art historians’ attention – are illuminated from various viewpoints in a series of essays by nineteen internationally recognized specialists. This volume brings together studies of the many and varied uses of miniature portraits, their functions in both private and public life, and significant yet little-known collections, along with various artists and special production techniques." -- Publisher's website
Publisher: Michael Imhof Verlag
ISBN: 9783865689696
Category : Miniature painters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"European portrait miniatures of the 17th to 20th centuries – far too rarely the focus of art historians’ attention – are illuminated from various viewpoints in a series of essays by nineteen internationally recognized specialists. This volume brings together studies of the many and varied uses of miniature portraits, their functions in both private and public life, and significant yet little-known collections, along with various artists and special production techniques." -- Publisher's website