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.
Looking at Art Nouveau from an international perspective, this text examines its origins and meaning within an art-historical, literary and social context. It covers all the major designers of the period and the environment in which they worked, describing the variation in forms and ideas expressed in key schools of thought. An important section ...
This beautifully illustrated book commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the National Gallery of Art's acquisition of the Index of American Design. Widely regarded as one of the New Deal's most important art projects, the Index began in 1935 as a unit of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Its aim was to compile and ...
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. '
The National Gallery of Art collection of Italian fifteenth-century paintings, the finest in any American museum, has not been published in its entirety since the 1979 Catalogue of Italian Paintings by Fern Rusk Shapley. Among the altarpieces, devotional works, portraits, and allegorical scenes are many world-famous masterpieces. In addition to ...
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 ...
Magnificent art masterpieces depict events in the life of Jesus. Works by such great artists as Botticelli, Durer, Giotto, Raphael and Rembrandt illuminate Gospel narratives and combine to create a fascinating, insightful and extraordinarily beautiful volume. 60 full-color plates. 34 black-and-white engravings and drawings.
This catalogue of Spanish painting in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC is the second volume in the Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. This collection is one of the finest in the western hemisphere and includes important groups of work by El Greco, Goya, Valaquez, Murillo, Valdes Leal and Juan van der Hamen ...
The collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington includes works by the greatest masters of Western art from the twelfth century to the present. In terms of quality and scope the Gallery ranks among the finest museums in the world, and its treasures are viewed by over six million visitors each year.
This major new addition to the Scala Books list is both a popular guide to the National Gallery of Art and an introduction to the principal themes in Western art history from the 12th century to the present, using examples from the Gallery's permanent collection. With over 300 color illustrations, this work presents the full scope of the NGA's ...
This book brings together works of art from the permanent collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, including Giorgione's "Adoration of the Shepherds", Raphael's "Alba Madonna" and "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt" by Gerard David. Also included are lesser known works such as Bernaert van Orley's "Marriage of the Virgin", "The ...
As their antidote to the pressures of the turn-of-the-century world, the impressionists left a celebrated and adored legacy of paintings depicting flowers, gardens, afternoon walks, and summer evenings. From Monet and Renoir to Cassatt and Manet, this unparalleled series of visual idylls and literary vignettes is the ideal impressionist memento. ...
Founder of J.P. Morgan & Co. and creator of U.S. Steel, power player J.P, Morgan was also a collector of art, and one who bought on a truly grand scale, purchasing paintings, drawings, objects d'art, books, and manuscripts. Here, author Louis Auchincloss, president of the Museum of the City of New York, provides both a detailed history of the ...
Presented here are 277 paintings in the National Gallery of Arlington (Washington DC), the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow) and the Hermitage (Leningrad). Masterworks from the great national collections of the US and Russia are brought together, featuring the art of Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Matisse, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, ...
The National Gallery collection catalogued here includes some of the most important Italian baroque paintings in America. Featuring works by Vassallo, Strozzi, Creti, Ricci, Tiepolo, Bellotto, Guardi, and Carracci, it includes encyclopedic essays on the works, artist biographies and summaries of provenance, exhibition histories, references, and ...
This fantastic volume brings together the national art treasures of the United States and the Soviet Union in a breathtaking collection of 277 full-color paintings by such masters as Monet, Cezanne and Van Gogh.
The almost one hundred titles catalogued in British Books trace the origins and development of architectural illustration in Britain. The collection is particularly rich in the eighteenth century, and includes almost all of the great folio albums recording the archaeological investigations of antiquity and most of the volumes documenting the ...
This fascinating book is the first critical examination of the East Building, I. M. Pei's celebrated addition to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Distinguished contributors consider this iconic building from various historical vantage points, from the evolution of its design to its place in 20th-century museum architecture. Essays ...
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