[PDF] The Dawn Of European Art eBook

Author : Thomas F. Mathews
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606065092

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Staking out new territory in the history of art, this book presents a compelling argument for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance. While art historians place the origin of icons in the seventh century, Thomas F. Mathews finds strong evidence as early as the second century in the texts of Irenaeus and the Acts of John that describe private Christian worship. In closely studying an obscure set of sixty neglected panel paintings from Egypt in Roman times, the author explains how these paintings of the Egyptian gods offer the missing link in the long history of religious painting. Christian panel paintings and icons are for the first time placed in a continuum with the pagan paintings that preceded them, sharing elements of iconography, technology, and religious usages as votive offerings. Exciting discoveries punctuate the narrative: the technology of the triptych, enormously popular in Europe, traced by the authors to the construction of Egyptian portable shrines, such as the Isis and Serapis of the J. Paul Getty Museum; the discovery that the egg tempera painting medium, usually credited to Renaissance artist Cimabue, has been identified in Egyptian panels a millennium earlier; and the reconstruction of a ring of icons on the chancel of Saint Sophia in Istanbul. This book will be a vital addition to the fields of Egyptian, Graeco-Roman, and late-antique art history and, more generally, to the history of painting.

Author : Debra Cashion
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004354123

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An anthology of 42 essays by distinguished scholars on current research and methodology in the art history of the late medieval and early modern periods in Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, written in tribute to Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania.

Author : Mar Morosse
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 2024-10-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781963978025

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"Dawn and Dusk: The Protagonists of Early Modern European Art (1400-1789)" is an expansive 600-page academic tome that delves into the lives and works of the key figures who shaped the artistic landscape of Early Modern Europe. From the flourishing of the Renaissance to the complexities of the Baroque and Rococo eras, this book navigates through three centuries of artistic innovation and cultural change.Structured chronologically, the book embarks on a detailed journey beginning in the early 15th century, a time marked by a rebirth of classical ideals, through to the late 18th century, which witnessed the emergence of enlightened thought preluding the modern era. Each chapter meticulously examines the contributions of individual artists, architects, patrons, and theorists, weaving their stories into the broader tapestry of their time."Dawn and Dusk" highlights not only the luminaries such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Caravaggio but also gives voice to lesser-known figures whose influence and work contributed to the period's dynamism. The study meticulously explores how these protagonists not only reflected but also challenged the social, political, and religious contexts of their era through their creative expressions.The book is richly illustrated with more than 200 images, including paintings, sculptures, architectural designs, and sketches, providing a visual feast that complements the detailed textual analysis. Special emphasis is placed on the evolution of artistic techniques, the development of new genres, and the cross-cultural exchanges that shaped the Early Modern European art scene."Dawn and Dusk" is an essential resource for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of art history, offering a comprehensive and engaging overview of the artists and works that defined Early Modern Europe. It serves as both a scholarly reference and a tribute to the enduring legacy of the period's most influential figures, whose innovations laid the groundwork for the modern world's artistic expressions

Author : Dawn Ades
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 25,87 MB
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781941701881

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Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art explores the ways in which artists have sought to explain their world in terms of an alternate reality, drawn from imagination, the subconscious, poetry, nature, myth, and religion. Endless Enigma takes as its point of departure Alfred H. Barr Jr.’s legendary 1936 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, which not only introduced these movements to the American public, but also placed them in a historical and cultural context by situating them with artists from earlier centuries. Presenting works from the twelfth century to the present day, this catalogue is organized into six themes—Monsters & Demons, Dreams & Temptation, Fragmented Body, Unconscious Gesture, Super Nature, and Sense of Place. Works included range from medieval gargoyles to twentieth-century works by Louise Bourgeois, Sigmar Polke, and Pablo Picasso as well as contemporary works by Michaël Borremans, Marcel Dzama, and Raymond Pettibon. Masterworks from the likes of Piero di Cosimo, Francisco de Goya, and Titian are considered alongside those by William Blake and Odilon Redon. Time folds and temporal barriers collapse when Damiano Cappelli meets Edvard Munch, and Salvator Rosa encounters Luc Tuymans and Lisa Yuskavage. Salvador Dalí, Sherrie Levine, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Kerry James Marshall—eight centuries intersect and, as such, this wide-ranging catalogue examines affinities in intention and imagery between works executed across a broad span of time. Organized in collaboration with Nicholas Hall, a specialist in the field of Old Masters and nineteenth-century art, this fully illustrated catalogue is published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, in 2018. It includes new scholarship by Dawn Ades, Olivier Berggruen, and J. Patrice Marandel.

Author : Rachel N. Klein
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0812251946

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A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth century From the antebellum era through the Gilded Age, New York City's leading art institutions were lightning rods for conflict. In the decades before the Civil War, art promoters believed that aesthetic taste could foster national unity and assuage urban conflicts; by the 1880s such hopes had faded, and the taste for art assumed more personal connotations associated with consumption and domestic decoration. Art Wars chronicles three protracted public battles that marked this transformation. The first battle began in 1849 and resulted in the downfall of the American Art-Union, the most popular and influential art institution in North America at mid-century. The second erupted in 1880 over the Metropolitan Museum's massive collection of Cypriot antiquities, which had been plundered and sold to its trustees by the man who became the museum's first paid director. The third escalated in the mid-1880s and forced the Metropolitan Museum to open its doors on Sunday—the only day when working people were able to attend. In chronicling these disputes, Rachel N. Klein considers cultural fissures that ran much deeper than the specific complaints that landed protagonists in court. New York's major nineteenth-century art institutions came under intense scrutiny not only because Americans invested them with moral and civic consequences but also because they were part and parcel of explosive processes associated with the rise of industrial capitalism. Elite New Yorkers spearheaded the creation of the Art-Union and the Metropolitan, but those institutions became enmeshed in popular struggles related to slavery, immigration, race, industrial production, and the rights of working people. Art Wars examines popular engagement with New York's art institutions and illuminates the changing cultural role of art exhibition over the course of the nineteenth century.

Author : Edward Potts Cheyney
Publisher : New York ; London : Harper & Brothers
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 25,83 MB
Release : 1936
Category : History
ISBN :

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Maps on lining-papers.

Author : Benn Steil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198757913

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Traces the history of the Marshall Plan and the efforts to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism during a two-year period that saw the collapse of postwar U.S.-Soviet relations and the beginning of the Cold War.

Author : Dawn V. Rogala
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606064878

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The career of the German-American painter and educator Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) describes the arc of artistic modernism from pre–World War I Munich and Paris to mid twentieth-century Greenwich Village. His career also traces the transatlantic engagement of modern painting with the materials of its own making, a relationship that is perhaps still not completely understood. In these interrelated narratives, Hofmann is a central protagonist, providing a vital link between nineteenth- and twentieth-century art practice and between European and American modernism. The remarkable vitality of his later work affords insight not only into the style but also the literal substance of this formative period of artistic and material innovation. This richly illustrated book, the fourth in the Getty Conservation Institute’s Artist’s Materials series, presents a thorough examination of Hofmann’s late-career materials. Initial chapters present an informative overview of Hofmann’s life and work in Europe and America and discuss his crucial role in the development of Abstract Expressionism. Subsequent chapters present a detailed analysis of Hofmann’s materials and techniques and explore the relationship of the artist’s mature palette to shifts in the style and aging characteristics of his paintings. The book concludes with lessons for the conservation of modernist paintings generally, and particularly those that incorporate both traditional and modern paint media. This book will be of value to conservators, art historians, conservation scientists, and general readers with an interest in modern art.