Author: Michel Strauss
Publisher: Halban
ISBN: 1905559682
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Michel Strauss embarked on an enduring love affair at the age of six when he saw for the first time paintings by Manet, Monet and Degas: the passion aroused by these artists never left him. This passion, this 'eye' as he calls it led to his becoming Head of the Impressionist Department at Sotheby's where he remained for forty years. He describes the personalities he met along the way: the collectors, the dealers, the colleagues and even the forgers, as well as the clients who shared his passion. There were times of boom and times of recession, there were very difficult times -in particular the anti-trust era -and there were times that brought great delight and a sense of achievement, in particular the British Rail Pension Fund sale which Michel had helped set up and which exceeded all expectations. An authoritative and highly respected figure in the art world, Michel Strauss has handled the greatest of all Impressionist works, some of which it was thought had been lost forever.
Pictures, Passions and Eye
Author: Michel Strauss
Publisher: Halban
ISBN: 1905559682
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Michel Strauss embarked on an enduring love affair at the age of six when he saw for the first time paintings by Manet, Monet and Degas: the passion aroused by these artists never left him. This passion, this 'eye' as he calls it led to his becoming Head of the Impressionist Department at Sotheby's where he remained for forty years. He describes the personalities he met along the way: the collectors, the dealers, the colleagues and even the forgers, as well as the clients who shared his passion. There were times of boom and times of recession, there were very difficult times -in particular the anti-trust era -and there were times that brought great delight and a sense of achievement, in particular the British Rail Pension Fund sale which Michel had helped set up and which exceeded all expectations. An authoritative and highly respected figure in the art world, Michel Strauss has handled the greatest of all Impressionist works, some of which it was thought had been lost forever.
Publisher: Halban
ISBN: 1905559682
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Michel Strauss embarked on an enduring love affair at the age of six when he saw for the first time paintings by Manet, Monet and Degas: the passion aroused by these artists never left him. This passion, this 'eye' as he calls it led to his becoming Head of the Impressionist Department at Sotheby's where he remained for forty years. He describes the personalities he met along the way: the collectors, the dealers, the colleagues and even the forgers, as well as the clients who shared his passion. There were times of boom and times of recession, there were very difficult times -in particular the anti-trust era -and there were times that brought great delight and a sense of achievement, in particular the British Rail Pension Fund sale which Michel had helped set up and which exceeded all expectations. An authoritative and highly respected figure in the art world, Michel Strauss has handled the greatest of all Impressionist works, some of which it was thought had been lost forever.
Touching the Passion — Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces through the Eyes of Faith
Author: Donna L. Sadler
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004364374
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
In Touching the Passion — Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces through the Eyes of Faith, Donna Sadler explores the manner in which worshipers responded to the carved and polychromed retables adorning the altars of their parish churches. Framed by the symbolic death of Christ re-enacted during the Mass, the historical account of the Passion on the retable situated Christ’s suffering and triumph over death in the present. The dramatic gestures, contemporary garb, and wealth of anecdotal detail on the altarpiece, invited the viewer’s absorption in the narrative. As in the Imitatio Christi, the worshiper imaginatively projected himself into the story like a child before a dollhouse. The five senses, the sculptural medium, the small scale, and the rhetoric of memory foster this immersion.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004364374
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
In Touching the Passion — Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces through the Eyes of Faith, Donna Sadler explores the manner in which worshipers responded to the carved and polychromed retables adorning the altars of their parish churches. Framed by the symbolic death of Christ re-enacted during the Mass, the historical account of the Passion on the retable situated Christ’s suffering and triumph over death in the present. The dramatic gestures, contemporary garb, and wealth of anecdotal detail on the altarpiece, invited the viewer’s absorption in the narrative. As in the Imitatio Christi, the worshiper imaginatively projected himself into the story like a child before a dollhouse. The five senses, the sculptural medium, the small scale, and the rhetoric of memory foster this immersion.
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose
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Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Pages : 530
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The Pourtraiture of the Image of God in Man, in His Three Estates of Creation, Restauration, Glorification
Author: John WEEMES
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Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Reflections for Every Day in the Year, on the Works of God, in Nature and Providence. From the German of C. C. Sturm. A New Edition ... with ... Engravings, Etc
Author: Christoph Christian STURM
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or A Dictionary Of Arts, Sciences, And Miscellaneous Literature; Enlarged And Improved
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Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Pages : 454
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Reflections for Every Day in the Year, on the Works of God ... A New Edition, Etc
Author: Christoph Christian STURM
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Pages : 452
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Sturm's Reflections on the Works of God and His Providence Throughout All Nature
Author: Christoph Christian Sturm
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Category : Devotional exercises
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Category : Devotional exercises
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Scandalous Passion
Author: Emilie Rose
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Everyone has at least one secret. And Phoebe Lancaster's could ruin her life. If the intimate photographs of her with her college lover, Carter Jones, ever came to light, it could end her grandfather's polical career. That's why she'll do anything to get them back, even if it means seeing Carter again.
Publisher: Harlequin
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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Everyone has at least one secret. And Phoebe Lancaster's could ruin her life. If the intimate photographs of her with her college lover, Carter Jones, ever came to light, it could end her grandfather's polical career. That's why she'll do anything to get them back, even if it means seeing Carter again.
The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities of Nature and Art, Science and Literature
Author: John Platts
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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