Adam Elsheimer is first recorded in 1600 and by 1610 he was dead. But, rather like Giorgione, who had died young in Venice 100 years earlier, Elsheimer was influential on the coming century to a degree out of all proportion to his brief career and small oeuvre.
Philip IV of Spain (r. 16211665) was known as the Planet King, shining brightly in the universe of the arts even if the Golden Age of Spanish painting coincided with imperial decline. The Buen Retiro Palace surpassed any palace ever built in Europe for the collection of paintings it contained, most of them commissioned in the 1630s from the finest painters in Europe at the timeVelzquez and Zurbarn, Rubens, Claude, Poussin, Jan Both, Herman van...
Catalog of an exhibition of the same title at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 8 December 2004-6 March 2005. The exhibition also shown at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 17 March-19 June 2005, and, in reduced form at the National Academy Museum, New York, 14 July-9 October 2005.
In the 1470s, one of the most innovative artists working in Bruges illuminated a Book of Hours for Jean Carpentin, lord of Gravile and prominent citizen of Normandy. Known as the Master of the Dresden Prayer Book after one of his other masterpieces, this artist and members of his workshop enriched the pages of Carpentin¿s manuscript with miniatures, historiated initials and boldly colored borders in which human figures, monsters and monkeys ar...
The Courtauld Gallery holds the finest group of works by Paul Czanne (18391906) in Britain. This is the catalogue to an exhibition showing the entire collection together for the first time, marking the culmination of The Courtauld Institute of Arts 75th anniversary. The importance of the collection lies not only in its exceptionally high quality but also in its wide range, with seminal paintings and rarely seen drawings and watercolors from th...
The best known of the Official War Artists sent to France, Orpen was the only one to publish an extensive memoir of his experiences and observations. He was a talented writer, and his accounts of the last two years of the Great War and the Peace Conference that followed it are vivid, lucid and shrewd. This compelling book was first published in 1921.
To accompany the exhibition 'Theatres of life: drawings from the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor' at the Wallace Collection, London, 8 November 2007-27 January 2008, at the Djanogly Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham, 12 April 2007-1 June 2008, at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, during 2009"--T.p. verso.
This catalogue accompanied an exhibition at the Groeninge Museum, Bruges, which celebrated one of the greatest European artists of the late fourteenth century, Andr¿eauneveu, apparently born in Valenciennes c. 1335. Active throughout the Southern Netherlands, his reputation grew swiftly and in 1364 he was commissioned by the King of France, Charles V, to create a group of royal tombs at St Denis. In the 1370s he oversaw another ambitious funer...
For more than forty years Linley Sambourne was a cartoonist for the British mangazine Punch. When he died in 1910, a host of obituaries paid tribute to his contribution to late Victorian and Edwardian political satire. His home is now a museum.
The oldest commercial art gallery in the world, print sellers to the Prince Regent, and pioneers of photographic publishing, Colnaghi have sold some of the most important Old Master works to come on the market to private collectors and museums across the world. In celebration of their 250th anniversary, they are producing a commemorative catalogue, which traces the history of the gallery from its foundation in 1760 by the enterprising firework...
The Harold Samuel Collection Art Collection of Dutch and Flemish seventeenth-century pictures is one of the finest groups of Old Master paintings assembled in Britain over the past hundred years, but one of the least known. Sir Harold Samuel, 1st and last Lord Samuel of Wych Cross (19121987) bequeathed the collection to the City of London to hang at Mansion House.
The Courtauld Gallery houses one of the most significant collections of works on paper in Britain, with approimately 7, 000 drawings and watercolours and 20, 000 prints ranging from the REnaissance to the 20th Century. Accompanying the second Summer Showcase at the Gallery, this book serves as an introduction to the largest but least well-known part of the Gallery's outstanding collection - its holdings of prints. This selection of some thirty...
