This survey of Lawrence’s first twenty-five years tells the story of an exceptional artist growing up at the end of the century as Britain created its own unique artistic voice. Like his Renaissance predecessors Raphael, Michelangelo and Dürer, the young Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) was considered to be a boy genius. He first came to public attention when he was cited in a scientific paper on ‘early genius in children’; shortly afterwards his family moved to Bath where the eleven-year-old was k...
The Visionary Art of William Blake (Library of Modern Religion)
by Naomi Billingsley
William Blake (1757-1827) is considered one of the most singular and brilliant talents that England has ever produced. Celebrated now for the originality of his thinking, painting and verse, he shocked contemporaries by rejecting all forms of organized worship even while adhering to the truth of the Bible. But how did he come to equate Christianity with art? How did he use images and paint to express those radical and prophetic ideas about religion which he came in time to believe? And why did h...
Rome, Travel and the Sculpture Capital, c.1770-1825
The world that shaped Europe's first national sculptor-celebrities, from Schadow to David d'Angers, from Flaxman to Gibson, from Canova to Thorvaldsen, was the city of Rome. Until around 1800, the Holy See effectively served as Europe's cultural capital, and Roman sculptors found themselves at the intersection of the Italian marble trade, Grand Tour expenditure, the cult of the classical male nude, and the Enlightenment republic of letters. Two sets of visitors to Rome, the David circle and the...
The Art and Thought of John La Farge: Picturing Authenticity in Gilded Age America offers an unprecedented portrait of one of the most celebrated artists of the Gilded Age and opens a window onto nineteenth-century American culture. The book reveals how the work of John La Farge contributed to a rich philosophical dialogue concerning the trustworthiness of human perception. In his struggle against a 'common truth' of iconic symbols presented by a new mass visual culture, La Farge developed a sub...
Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century (Material Culture of Art and Design)
Things change. Broken and restored, reused and remade, objects transcend their earliest functions, locations, and appearances. While every era witnesses change, the eighteenth century experienced artistic, economic, and demographic transformations that exerted unique pressures on material cultures around the world. Locating material objects at the heart of such phenomena, Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century expands beyond Eurocentric perspectives to discover the mobile, transcultu...
The Paintings of Eugene Delacroix: v.5 & 6 (The paintings of Eugene Delacroix: a critical catalogue)
This two-volume set completes Lee Johnson's "Catalogue Raisonne" of Delacroix, of which volumes three and four were awarded the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art in November 1987. These final volumes aim to consider all Delacroix's works of art for public places relating them to the preparatory drawings and oil sketches. Besides discussing the preliminary studies and illustrating some that have not previously been published, the catalogue places each scheme in the context of the building or...
This biography of the French Romantic artist Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) offers a portrait of his life, loves, work and perpetual struggle for recognition. Delacroix's work marked a complete break from the neo-classical values of his predecessors such as David and his mentor Guerin. He became a dazzling colourist, depicting scenes of hunting, contemporary battles and animals in combat. Rubens, Gericault and Constable all influenced his paintings, and his imagination was fired by the works of Sh...
Collecting With Vision: Treasures from the Chrysler Museum of Art
by Jefferson C Harrison, Brooks Johnson, and Gary E Baker
A beautifully illustrated survey of five centuries of art from the collections of one of America's leading museums, now updated to include new acquisitions since 2007. Featuring highlights from the great collection of the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, this volume includes paintings, sculpture, photography, glass, decorative arts and arts of the ancient world and non-Western cultures. There are paintings by leading American artists, such as Copley, Cole, Bierstadt, Homer, Cassatt an...
Anselm Feuerbach (1829 –1880) gilt neben Hans von Marées und Arnold Böcklin als der vielleicht konsequenteste Vertreter der so genannten Deutschrömer und einer klassisch orientierten Malerei des Neuidealismus, einer vor allem deutschen Klassifizierung und Vereinnahmung aus dem Geist der Gründerzeit und der Wende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert. Er selbst leistete solchen Prägungen in Wort und Bild Vorschub. Die unvoreingenommene Betrachtung seiner Malerei in ihren Quellen, Vergleichen und nach Verla...
Licht und Leinwand
Die „Geburtsstunde" der Fotografie im Jahr 1839 hat die internationale Bildwelt fasziniert und erschüttert zugleich. Nie zuvor war es möglich gewesen, Abbilder der Wirklichkeit so schnell und präzise zu erschaffen – und dies ganz ohne Pinsel oder Stift. Der Ausstellungskatalog erzählt die wechselvolle Geschichte von Malerei und Fotografie im 19. Jahrhundert, die geprägt ist von Konkurrenzangst, Experimentierfreude und Künstlerstolz. Er schlägt einen Bogen von der Medienrevolution 1839 bis in di...
"This stylish and erudite thematic study of the influence Romanticism exerts upon Western culture and particularly the visual arts is the companion volume to Honour's equally valuable Neo-classicism.... The text is supported by a useful selection of illustrations Excellent footnotes and a good index. Finely produced, Romanticism will stimulate the graduate and inform the undergraduate." —Choice "An interpretation that rings true for our own time.... His approach to his vast subject is essentiall...
This fascinating book studies Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845–1902), one of the great Orientalist painters of the Third Republic in France. Renowned during his time but little known today, Benjamin-Constant created massive architectural compositions based on travels to Spain and Morocco, in which he set fierce-looking Moors and dispassionate odalisques. His history paintings, based on stories from the Bible and Byzantine history, were the culmination of his ventures into Orientalism, and his...
A handsome volume exploring Delacroix’s works, his artistic contemporaries, and the generations of great artists he inspired Eugène Delacroix (1789–1863), a dominant figure in 19th-century French art, was a complex and contradictory painter whose legacy is deep and enduring. This important, beautifully illustrated book considers Delacroix in his own time, alongside contemporaries such as Courbet, Fromentin, and the poet Charles Baudelaire, as well as his significant influence on successive gener...
French Art of the Eighteenth Century (Dallas Museum of Art Publications (YUP))
This beautiful book brings together ten years of research on a superb collection of 18th-century French masterworks, which was formed by the late Michael L. Rosenberg and is now on deposit at the Dallas Museum of Art. This research, originally presented in lectures at the museum by an impressive roster of scholars and curators of European art, combines close studies of individual paintings by such artists as François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, and Louis Léopold Boilly with rich accounts of t...
Varieties of Romantic Experience (British Art Centre at Yale Series (YUP))
by Charles Ryskamp and Matthew Hargraves
This lavishly illustrated book considers Romanticism as a truly international phenomenon by bringing together for the first time nearly two hundred British, French, German, Danish, and Dutch drawings from the outstanding collection of Charles Ryskamp. Taking its cue from David Wilkie’s appeal in 1824 “to show that the arts are cosmopolitan and that all national prejudice is foreign to them,” the book demonstrates the diversity inherent in the phenomenon called Romanticism; it also highlights the...
At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, a new generation of painters led by the precociously talented David Wilkie took London's art world by storm. Their novel approach to the depiction of everyday life marked the beginning a trajectory that links the art of the Age of Revolution with the postmodern culture of today. What emerged from the imagery of Wilkie and other early 19th-century British genre painters—among them William Mulready, Edward Bird, and the controversial watercolorist Thomas Heap...
Art, Theatre, and Opera in Paris, 1750-1850
Art, Theatre, and Opera in Paris, 1750-1850: Exchanges and Tensions maps some of the many complex and vivid connections between art, theatre, and opera in a period of dramatic and challenging historical change, thereby deepening an understanding of familiar (and less familiar) artworks, practices, and critical strategies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout this period, new types of subject matter were shared, fostering both creative connections and reflection on matters of dec...
Laurits Tuxen (1853-1927) was a phenomenally talented artist, and thanks to his skill for both painting and diplomacy, he would establish himself as one of the most important European court painters in the nineteenth century, active, amongst other places, in Great Britain, where he created a number of memorable portraits of Queen Victoria and her family, and in Russia, where he depicted coronations and weddings in the families of the Czars. This book offers the first complete presentation of Tux...
In this new monograph, part of Phaidon's Art and Ideas series, Simon Lee, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art the University of Reading, examines the work of Delacroix within the framework of his turbulent times, as France experienced the upheavals of the Napoleonic era. Written in a lively and accessible style, and incorporating the latest scholarship on the artist, Lee provides fresh analyses into the life and times of Delacroix and uncovers the creative process behind his most famous works.
A necessary contemporary reframing of a classic nineteenth-century artist. Josef Mánes (1820–71) was a creator on whom the Czech revivalist society placed its hopes for the creation of a national art. Mánes was a painter, draftsman, decorator, author of models for applied art and architecture, and an enfant terrible of the domestic art scene. A disgraced artist but an entertaining companion, he was idealized and profaned in various cultural and political contexts. This volume offers a new pers...
Delacroix
by Sebastian Allard, Come Fabre, Dominique De Font-reaulx, Michele Hannoosh, and Asher Ethan Miller
A comprehensive monograph on the preeminent French Romantic artist whose work changed the course of European painting Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) created extraordinary paintings that were known for their dynamic color, brushwork, and movement as well as their original subject matter. This in-depth monograph, written by French and American experts, examines Delacroix’s engagement with the work of his predecessors, studies the effect of the artist’s prodigious life on his work, and explores his i...
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