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Book Synopsis Houdon at the Louvre by : Guilhem Scherf
Download or read book Houdon at the Louvre written by Guilhem Scherf and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an exhaustive catalogue of Houdon's works at the Louvre, we ... also consider sculptures done by the artist's studio, after Houdon, and also in his manner."--Preface.
Book Synopsis Jean-Antoine Houdon by : Anne L. Poulet
Download or read book Jean-Antoine Houdon written by Anne L. Poulet and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-07-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1826) has long been recognized as the greatest European portrait sculptor of the late eighteenth century, flourishing during both the American and French Revolutions as well as during the Directoire and Empire in France. Whether sculpting a head of state, an intellectual, or a young child, Houdon had an uncanny ability to capture the essence of his subject with a characteristic pose or expression. Yet until now, Houdon's exquisite sculptures have never been the subject of a major exhibition. This lavish exhibition catalogue will immediately take its rightful place as the definitive work on Houdon. With more than one hundred color plates and two hundred black and white halftones, Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment illustrates every stage of the sculptor's fascinating career, from his early portrayals of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to his stunning portraits of American patriots such as George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. Indeed the images we hold dear of legendary Enlightenment figures like Diderot, Rousseau, d'Alembert, and Voltaire are based on works by Houdon. More than mere representations, these sculptures provide us fascinating, intimate glimpses into the very core of who these figures were. Houdon's genius animated even his less illustrious subjects, like his portraits of his family and friends, and filled his sculptures of children with delicacy and freshness. Accompanying the images of Houdon's masterworks are four insightful essays that discuss Houdon's views on art (based in part on a newly discovered manuscript written by the artist) as well as his prominence in the highly varied cultures of eighteenth-century France, Germany, and Russia. From aristocrats to revolutionaries, actors to philosophers, Houdon's amazingly vivid portraits constitute the visual record of the Enlightenment and capture the true spirit of a remarkable age. Jean-Antoine Houdon finally gives these gorgeous works their due.
Author :Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Publisher :Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN 13 :1588394271 Total Pages :306 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (883 download)
Book Synopsis The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century by : Ronit Milano
Download or read book The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century written by Ronit Milano and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century, Ronit Milano probes the rich and complex aesthetic and intellectual charge of a remarkably concise art form, and explores its role as a powerful agent of epistemological change during one of the most seismic moments in French history. The pre-Revolutionary portrait bust was inextricably tied to the formation of modern selfhood and to the construction of individual identity during the Enlightenment, while positioning both sitters and viewers as part of a collective of individuals who together formed French society. In analyzing the contribution of the portrait bust to the construction of interiority and the formulation of new gender roles and political ideals, this book touches upon a set of concerns that constitute the very core of our modernity.
Book Synopsis The Sculptures of Houdon by : H. H. Arnason
Download or read book The Sculptures of Houdon written by H. H. Arnason and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Louvre Museum by : Musée du Louvre
Download or read book The Louvre Museum written by Musée du Louvre and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Masterpieces from the Louvre by : Musée du Louvre
Download or read book Masterpieces from the Louvre written by Musée du Louvre and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Treasures of the Louvre by : Michel Laclotte
Download or read book Treasures of the Louvre written by Michel Laclotte and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tiny-format work covers one of the world's finest art collections - the Louvre in Paris. It gives a history of the museum itself and takes the reader on a guided tour of its seven departments - paintings, drawings, sculpture, decorative arts and Egyptian, Greco-Roman and Oriental art.
Book Synopsis The Louvre Museum by : Musée du Louvre
Download or read book The Louvre Museum written by Musée du Louvre and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Companion to the Louvre by : Musée du Louvre
Download or read book A Companion to the Louvre written by Musée du Louvre and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Appropriations, Department of State, 1928 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Download or read book Appropriations, Department of State, 1928 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Departments of State and Justice, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations: Department of State. Hearings Before the Subcommittee by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Download or read book Departments of State and Justice, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations: Department of State. Hearings Before the Subcommittee written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoirs of the Life and Works of Jean Antoine Houdon by : Charles Henry Hart
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life and Works of Jean Antoine Houdon written by Charles Henry Hart and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louvre written by Daniel Soulié and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A color guide to four hundred works of art housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris, including paintings, prints and drawings, sculptures, decorative arts, and works from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.
Book Synopsis A Key to the Louvre: Memoirs of a Curator by : Michel Laclotte
Download or read book A Key to the Louvre: Memoirs of a Curator written by Michel Laclotte and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An art world insider provides a witty and penetrating account of fifty years at the center of international culture. Art historian, curator, and museum director Michel Laclotte has been at the forefront of French cultural life over the past half century. This informal autobiography sheds light on his brilliant career with warmth and directness. Highlights include twenty years as chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Musée du Louvre, heading the team that created the Musée dOrsay, and taking the reins of the Louvre to lead the effort that culminated in the museums transformation into the ?Grand Louvre,” one of the worlds preeminent cultural attractions. Raising the curtain on fifty years of Western art scholarship, intrigue, and achievement, Laclotte introduces an extraordinary cast of characters who set Frances cultural direction in the postwar period from Charles de Gaulle and André Malraux in the 1950s to François Mitterand in the 1980s and 1990s. His story overlaps with virtually every major scholarly figure in French art history of the last half-century, as well as Laclottes mentors and colleagues throughout and beyond Europe, from Roberto Longhi and Anthony Blunt to Sir John Pope-Hennessy and Millard Meiss. An incomparable testament to a period of seismic change in the museum world, this volume will be essential reading for art world afficianados and all students of art and modern culture.
Book Synopsis The Empress of Art by : Susan Jaques
Download or read book The Empress of Art written by Susan Jaques and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A German princess who married a decadent and lazy Russian prince, Catherine mobilized support amongst the Russian nobles, playing off of her husband's increasing corruption and abuse of power. She then staged a coup that ended with him being strangled with his own scarf in the halls of the palace, and herself crowned the Empress of Russia. Intelligent and determined, Catherine modeled herself off of her grandfather in-law, Peter the Great, and sought to further modernize and westernize Russia. She believed that the best way to do this was through a ravenous acquisition of art, which Catherine often used as a form of diplomacy with other powers throughout Europe. She was a self-proclaimed "glutton for art" and she would be responsible for the creation of the Hermitage, one of the largest museums in the world, second only to the Louvre. Catherine also spearheaded the further expansion of St. Petersburg, and the magnificent architectural wonder the city became is largely her doing. There are few women in history more fascinating than Catherine the Great, and for the first time, Susan Jaques brings her to life through the prism of art.
