Widely acknowledged in his time as a premier painter of still-life and genre scenes, Jean-Baptiste-Simion Chardin (1699-1779) created unsentimentalised works that appeal to viewers today for their richness of feeling and simplicity of composition. This sumptuously illustrated book reproduces in full colour 99 of Chardin's works and arranges them ...
The French artist Chardin is regarded as one of the most important 18th-century painter of still life and genre scenes. This book explores his life and works, covering paintings, pastels and engravings.
The work of the great French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) is most often associated with classically inspired settings and figures depicting solemn scenes from mythology or the Bible. Yet he also created some of the most influential landscapes in Western art, endowing them with a poetic quality that has been admired by artists as different ...
Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) was the greatest French painter of the 17th century, and one of the greatest painters of all time. His profound understanding of the art of antiquity and of the Italian Renaissance led him to create works of such sophistication, clarity and discipline that they remained the model for all classicising artists up to ...
This book gathers together 100 paintings from every school from the 1400s to the early 1900s selected by the prominent art historian, ex-Director and current President of the Musee du Louvre, Pierre Rosenberg. American museums often have a work in their collections that has no equivalent in any European museum except in its country of origin. ...
Pierre Rosenberg, the distinguished art historian and director of the Musee du Louvre, has long admired and studied both paintings and drawings. This dual interest may seem commonplace but is in fact highly unusual: specialists in the field of drawing rarely write about painting, and vice versa. "From Drawing to Painting" offers a unique ...
More than 100 paintings explore the important, often surprising, roles played by the cat in proverbs, fables, popular superstitions, and Christian iconography.
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Pierre Rosenberg, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France), N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, Art Institute of Chicago, Réunion des musées nationaux (France), Musée du Louvre
Limoges enamels, the richest surviving corpus of medieval metalwork, were renowned throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. Yet today they are little known outside academic circles. The present volume, published in conjuction with the exhibition Enamels of Limoges, 1100-1350, brings to deserved public attention nearly two hundred of the most ...
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Jean Pierre Cuzin, Georges du Mesnil de La Tour, Pierre Rosenberg, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France), Réunion des musées nationaux (France)
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Pierre Rosenberg, Nicolas Poussin, Louis-Antoine Prat, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France), Réunion des musées nationaux (France), Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
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