National Gallery (Great Britain)

Presents photographic reproductions of details from paintings in the National Gallery, London and commentary on them.

One hundred details from the National Gallery

European paintings from the 14th to the 20th century illustrated in colour.

100 Great Paintings : Duccio to Picasso

The National Gallery, London

Christopher Brown

Ashok Roy

David Bomford

"The first of a series of exhibitions ... which aim to present to a non-specialist public the results of technical research undertaken by the National Gallery's Conservation and Scientific Departments ... based on evidence obtained from X-rays, infra-red photographs and the analysis of paint samples by a wide range of modern scientific methods ... the core of the present Catalogue entries is the technical descriptions, which cover the material bases of Rembrandt's paintings"--Introduction.

Rembrandt

The National Gallery

The National Gallery of Painting and Sculpture; with a Catalogue of the Turner Collection, Now on View at Marlborough House

40 Colour Postcards to Send Or Keep

The National Gallery's First Postcard Collection

With Biographical Notices of the Deceased Painters : British and Modern Schools

Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery

Humphrey Wine

"Tradition & Revolution in French Art brings together over 100 paintings and drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries from the Musee des Beaux-Arts at Lille, one of the greatest of the French provincial museums." "The catalogue and the exhibition it accompanies demonstrate the diversity and richness of French art of the period and provide an important overview of the major movements and stylistic developments that flourished throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. The Neo-Classicism of David, the Romanticism of Delacroix and Gericault, and the Realism of Courbet - aspects of French art that are hardly represented in British public collections - are seen against a background of traditional academic history and religious painting in a survey of the period that, unusually, does not begin or end at 1800 or exaggerate one theme - such as the distinct or novel character of Romantic painting or plein-air landscape." "Conventionally, French art has been discussed in terms of polarities - Romantic art opposed to Neo-Classical, Realism in revolt against the academic, the avant-garde versus the official - but at the time the situation was more complex and more dynamic and, as this book demonstrates, some traditional ideas could themselves be revolutionary and some revolutionary art was in many respects traditional. The introductory essays, which give a clear account in English of a crucial period in the history of French art, discuss history and religious paintings, the major institutions for exhibiting and selling art in France, the educational ideals, and the market which shaped the nature of French painting in those years. And in describing the formation of the superb collection at Lille the book also provides a study of the rise of 19th-century French public collections of contemporary art."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Paintings & Drawings from Lille

Tradition & Revolution in French Art, 1700-1880

"Since 1957, when Martin Davies published The French School, an unprecedented amount of research has been undertaken on French seventeenth-century artists. Taking account of this, Humphrey Wine has written afresh on the seventeenth-century paintings in Davies's catalogue; he has also written detailed entries on all subsequent acquisitions in this field. These include, as well as paintings by Claude and Poussin, major pictures such as La Hyre's Allegory of Grammar, the Le Nain brothers' Adoration of the Shepherds and Le Sueur's Alexander and his Doctor.".

The Seventeenth Century French Paintings

Marieke de Winkel

Quentin Buvelot

Rudolf E. O. Ekkart

In the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, every gentleman of standing had himself eternalized in a portrait. In Holland, these gentlemen were burghers, not aristocrats, or princes of the church. They were prosperous merchants, scholars, generals, and stadholders, seen in official and private settings, alone or in the company of colleagues, or surrounded by their wives and children. Seventeenth-century Dutch portraiture is a remarkable phenomenon: never before had so many portraits been painted. Today, these pictures offer insight into the taste, fashion, occupations, and ambitions of affluent 17th-century individuals. The two great masters of Dutch portraiture, Rembrandt and Frans Hals, are both represented here.

The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals

Dutch Portraits

Dawson William Carr

The National Gallery has one of the finest collections of Spanish paintings outside Spain, and this book features nearly all the pictures normally on display.

Spanish Painting

El Greco to Goya

The Taste for Spanish Paintings in Britain and Ireland

Xavier Bray

This new introduction to El Greco (1541-1614) follows the artist from his native island to Venice, Rome, Madrid, and then Toledo, the ecclesiastical capital of Spain. El Greco's ability to assimilate different artistic techniques and approaches to religion and philosophy enabled him to develop one of the most original styles of painting in the history of Europe. Despite his highly successful career he was unappreciated for centuries after his death, and this book examines how his genius was rediscovered in the nineteenth century.

El Greco

Olaf Koester

Cornelius Gijsbrechts

The art of deception that Cornelius Gijsbrechts perfected at the court of Denmark around 1670 is one of the most dazzling feats of visual trickery in the history of European painting. Although the artist himself is a mysterious figure, his pictures not only delight with their illusions, but also force viewers to consider the nature of the real world and the power of art.

The Art of Cornelius Gijsbrechts

Painted Illusions

Ralph Nicholson Wornum

Foreign Schools

Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery : with Biographical Notices of the Painters

Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery ... Foreign Schools ... Sixty-ninth Edition

The National Gallery Review

A Loan Exhibition

Art in Seventeenth Century Holland

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