This volume reproduces over 1000 works in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, in colour, many printed with gold. Every full-page colour plate is accompanied by a commentary, and the artists covered include Giotto, Leonardo, Rubens, Rembrandt, Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso.
Master chefs such as Julia Child, Jeremiah T ower and Alice Waters take their inspiration from world famo us paintings by the likes of Pissarro, Matisse and Constable and use them to recreate fresh, evocative and accessible me als. '
This collection of Western art spans the major historical eras, with hundreds of photographs, illustrations, documents, and drawings. Sister Wendy Beckett is a British nun and self-taught art critic whose books and television art tours have made her internationally renowned and beloved.
Few individuals have exerted as profound an influence on 20th-century American art and culture as Alfred Stieglitz (1846-1964). This two-volume boxed set is the catalogue of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the most complete Stieglitz holding in the world, donated to the gallery by his ...
The familiar words of the New Testament gospels and masterpiece paintings from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., are combined to create this magnificent picture book. Pivotal events in the life of Christ are illustrated through paintings by such artists as Duccio, Botticelli, El Greco, and Gerard David. Full-color paintings.
In a career that spans more than fifty years, photographer Irving Penn has created some of the most arresting portraits, influential fashion studies, and provocative still lifes of the twentieth century. Although much of his work was undertaken for reproduction in magazines, since the early 1960s he has also made a limited number of platinum ...
One of the most glorious and creative periods in the history of colour printmaking occurred in 18th-century France. Newly invented engraving and etching techniques were combined with new ways of printing a single image from multiple plates, allowing printmakers to replicate a broad palette of colours using variants of only four: blue, red, yellow ...
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Marguerite Northrup, [from old catalog], New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. [from old catalog], United States. National Gallery of Art. [from old catalog]
A Renaissance Christmas brings together superlative works of art from the astounding permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art. Here are world-renowned masterpieces as well as lesser-known but equally evocative Renaissance paintings. 30 color illustrations.
Lotto is an often-overlooked painter of the High Renaissance who is usually associated with the Venetian school. He combined elements of both Venetian naturalism and Roman classicism, but his paintings were distinctive for their brighter colors and humble representation of figures. This catalog accompanied a 1998 traveling exhibition.
This catalogue of the early Netherlandish paintings in the National Gallery of Art inaugurates a projected series of more than two dozen volumes fully cataloguing the Gallery's holdings of paintings, sculpture, photographs, and decorative arts. This volume contains entries for paintings in the National Gallery that were produced in the fifteenth ...
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) was called "the father of us all" by Picasso, although Cezanne worked outside of the mainstream for most of his life. For a period, he painted alongside the Impressionists, and was mentored by Camille Pissarro. His father never accepted Cezanne's desire to be a painter, and this rejection possibly played a role in his ...
Beginning with a celebration of childhood and ending with praise for the renewed creativity of age, this giftbook marries poems illuminating the journey of life with art from the collection at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA. Four paintings from Thomas Cole create the book's framework.
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