Hudson River School Visions

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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0300101848
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Hudson River School Visions by : Sanford Robinson Gifford

Download or read book Hudson River School Visions written by Sanford Robinson Gifford and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2003 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanford Gifford (American, 1823-1880), a leading Hudson River School landscape painter and a founder of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was so esteemed by the New York art world that, at his untimely death, the Museum mounted a show of his work-the first monographic exhibition accorded any artist-and published a Memorial Catalogue that, for nearly a century, remained the principal source on his oeuvre. Gifford's art, which was inspired by the work of Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, and by that of British artist J.M.W. Turner, and enriched by his travels in Europe (from 1855 to 1857, and from 1868 to 1869), came to be called "air painting," for he made the ambient light of each scene-color saturated and atmospherically potent-the key to its expression. His approach to painting and his unique style gave rise to a highly distinctive body of work with enchanting and mesmerizing effect. This publication examines seventy paintings by the artist and includes comparative illustrations of related works by Gifford, his Hudson River School mentors and colleagues, and those painters, in addition to Cole and Turner, who exerted influence on his art, including Frederic Edwin Church and John F. Kensett. The essays discuss Gifford's place in the Hudson River School, his numerous Catskill Mountain subjects, his experiences and perceptions as a traveler both at home and abroad, and the variety of his patrons. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

American Paradise

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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870994972
Total Pages : 367 pages
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Download or read book American Paradise written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1987 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Hudson River School of American painters, shows works by Church, Cole, and Inness, and describes the background of each painting.

The Palladian Revival

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300059830
Total Pages : 314 pages
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Download or read book The Palladian Revival written by John Harris and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1726, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, built an addition to his modest country house on the river Thames at Chiswick. The structure was a free standing villa, which is the subject of this book. The author explores the villa's architectural inspiration and the evolution of its design.

Fresh from the Farm 6pk

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ISBN 13 : 9781418914219
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First

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Total Pages : 578 pages
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Memoirs of the Court of King James the First

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Total Pages : 476 pages
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Kumba Africa

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663205043
Total Pages : 123 pages
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Yvain

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300187580
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Revealing Reveiling

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438424892
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Revealing Reveiling by : Sherifa Zuhur

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Portraits of Nature

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Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Gardening in the North

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Debrett's Bibliography of Business History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Typical American

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547524099
Total Pages : 307 pages
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The Big 'L'

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Palladian Style

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Publisher : Phaidon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Palladian Style written by Steven Parissien and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 2000-01-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the Palladian style, inspired by the Classicism of Italian architect Palladio.

The Architecture of Colen Campbell

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
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Louis Sullivan

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Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393304985
Total Pages : 224 pages
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Download or read book Louis Sullivan written by Wim De Wit and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1986 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the best-designed architecture books to appear in recent memory . . ., handsomely illustrated with a fuller selection of historical views of Sullivan's work than can be found in any other book now in print, and supplemented by a fine new set of color photographs of Sullivan's most important surviving buildings." -Martin Filler, New York Review of Books