[PDF] Oudrys Painted Menagerie eBook

Author : Mary Morton
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 2007-06-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892368896

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In the 1720s and 1730s, Jean-Baptiste Oudry established himself as the preeminent painter in France of hunts, animals, still lifes, and landscapes. Oudry’s Painted Menagerie focuses on a suite of eleven life-size portraits of exotic animals from the royal menagerie at Versailles, painted by Oudry between 1739 and 1752. These paintings eventually found their way into the ducal collection in Schwerin, Germany. Among them is the magnificent portrait of Clara, an Indian rhinoceros who became a celebrity in mid-eighteenth-century Europe. Her portrait has been out of public view for more than a century, and it is presented here in its newly conserved state.

Author : Mary Tavener Holmes
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Indian rhinoceros
ISBN : 9780892368808

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A life-size portrait of the famous rhinoceros named Clara is the centerpiece of the J. Paul Getty Museums exhibition Oudrys Painted Menagerie. In her honor, the Getty has produced this book for children that tells the true story of this 5,000-pound animal and her owner, an 18-century Dutch sea captain. Full color.

Author : Sarah Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 1350203602

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How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question, which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers, also emerged as a key theme in depictions of animals in eighteenth-century art. This book examines the ways in which painters such as Chardin, as well as sculptors, porcelain modelers, and other decorative designers portrayed animals as sensing subjects who physically confirmed the value of material experience. The sensual style known today as the Rococo encouraged the proliferation of animals as exemplars of empirical inquiry, ranging from the popular subject of the monkey artist to the alchemical wonders of the life-sized porcelain animals created for the Saxon court. Examining writings on sensory knowledge by La Mettrie, Condillac, Diderot and other philosophers side by side with depictions of the animal in art, Cohen argues that artists promoted the animal as a sensory subject while also validating the material basis of their own professional practice.

Author : Scott Allan
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606060384

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An unprecedented reexamination of Gérôme's career and his place in art history.

Author : Glynis Ridley
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 2005-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802142337

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Awarded the prestigious Institute of Historical Research Prize, Ridley's sparkling history brings vividly to life the tragicomic story of a rhinoceros named Clara who became a star in 18th century Europe.