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Stealing the Mystic Lamb

Author : Noah Charney
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1586489240
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Stealing the Mystic Lamb written by Noah Charney and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece is on any art historian's list of the ten most important paintings ever made. Often referred to by the subject of its central panel, The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, it represents the fulcrum between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is also the most frequently stolen artwork of all time. Since its completion in 1432, this twelve-panel oil painting has been looted in three different wars, burned, dismembered, forged, smuggled, illegally sold, censored, hidden, attacked by iconoclasts, hunted by the Nazis and Napoleon, used as a diplomatic tool, ransomed, rescued by Austrian double-agents, and stolen a total of thirteen times. In this fast-paced, real-life thriller, art historian Noah Charney unravels the stories of each of these thefts. In the process, he illuminates the whole fascinating history of art crime, and the psychological, ideological, religious, political, and social motivations that have led many men to covet this one masterpiece above all others.

Van Eyck: the Ghent Altarpiece

Author : Elisabeth Dhanens
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Van Eyck: the Ghent Altarpiece written by Elisabeth Dhanens and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1973 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Van Eyck

Author : Till-Holger Borchert
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 050002345X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Van Eyck written by Till-Holger Borchert and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning compilation of the work of Jan van Eyck, the master Flemish painter, is being published to coincide with a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition in Ghent. Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (1390–1441) towered above his contemporaries. With his unprecedented technique, scientific knowledge, and unparalleled powers of observation, Van Eyck lifted oil painting to previously unknown heights and helped determine the course of Western art. In 2020, the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent will host the largest ever exhibition of Van Eyck’s work. Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution includes artwork by Van Eyck, several pieces from his studio, and international masterpieces from the late Middle Ages while making the world of Van Eyck more tangible than ever. This tie-in exhibition catalog unravels some of the myths that surround Van Eyck and his techniques, while showing his complete oeuvre and influence in a new perspective. Including essays by leading experts from around the world, Van Eyck will prove to be an indispensable resource for Van Eyck fans and scholars alike.

Portraits of Ghent

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942084891
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Ghent written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By creating a snapshot of the Ghent community during its Bicentennial year, this collection of portraits provides a record for the future. Digital and smartphone technologies have enabled us to capture billions of fleeting moments yet, only a tiny fraction are intended to have lasting impact or to be printed and archived in any way. Photographs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are more readily to-hand, often serving as our only tactile document of history. "All of Us: Portraits of an American Bicentennial " is Richard Beaven's response to: a 'box of prints in the basement' from today which can be rediscovered and held by the community of tomorrow. Beaven's aim was to reflect a broad narrative of our town through those who live and work here. For nearly a year, he sought out and connected with possible subjects most of who were strangers beforehand. He photographed as diverse a representation of the community as he could find portraying each person in a similar way and describing each by name and their time connected with Ghent. He resisted any additional categorization ensuring an equal platform for all. The viewer is left to imagine and question for themselves what makes each subject unique or familiar based only on gesture, expression and setting. This was a humbling and deeply insightful journey for Beaven's. He would like to thank his Ghent neighbors for their time, support and the gift of understanding that we truly have more in common than that which separates us.

Living Pictures

Author : Noa Turel
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300247575
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Living Pictures written by Noa Turel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant new interpretation of the emergence of Western pictorial realism When Jan van Eyck (c. 1390–1441) completed the revolutionary Ghent Altarpiece in 1432, it was unprecedented in European visual culture. His novel visual strategies, including lifelike detail, not only helped make painting the defining medium of Western art, they also ushered in new ways of seeing the world. This highly original book explores Van Eyck’s pivotal work, as well as panels by Rogier van der Weyden and their followers, to understand how viewers came to appreciate a world depicted in two dimensions. Through careful examination of primary documents, Noa Turel reveals that paintings were consistently described as au vif: made not “from life” but “into life.” Animation, not representation, drove Van Eyck and his contemporaries. Turel’s interpretation reverses the commonly held belief that these artists were inspired by the era’s burgeoning empiricism, proposing instead that their “living pictures” helped create the conditions for empiricism. Illustrated with exquisite fifteenth-century paintings, this volume asserts these works’ key role in shaping, rather than simply mirroring, the early modern world.

The Ghent Altarpiece

Author : Bart Fransen
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782930054384
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book The Ghent Altarpiece written by Bart Fransen and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The outer panels of the Ghent Altarpiece had been overpainted to a considerable extent. The virtuosity of the Eyckian technique and aesthetics remained hardly visible. And yet, this had never been observed before the start of the conservation treatment. By removing the overpaint, the tonal richness and the coherent rendering of light and space once again came to the fore. Especially the suggestion of volumes and the spaciousness of the ensemble gained strength because of the virtuoso play of deep shadows and bright light accents, and not in the least because of the surprising trompe-l'oeil effect of the frames conceived as a stone framework. Or to put it in the words of the comments of one of the experts, dr. Maryan Ainsworth: The paintings live and breathe again in the time of the Van Eyck brothers. The sharp observation skills, the quick, accurate execution, the knowledge, curiosity and ingenuity about all the things that are depicted, are now unveiled after centuries. The profit for the knowledge of and further research into the essence of Eyckian aesthetics is considerable. And finally there is the discovery that the much-discussed quatrain was applied simultaneously with the polychromy of the frames: a real 'coup de foudre' in the discourse of the current art-historical research! The subtleties of the Eyckian technique could also be mapped out in more detail. How the Van Eycks managed to keep the final result and the desired effect in mind during every phase of the execution, from imprimatura to finishing touch. The artists made a statement about the art of painting, giving 'technique' as such a new prominence. The Ghent Altarpiece may be understood at some point as a major showpiece for a highly sophisticated pictorial technique.

The Mystic Lamb

Author : HARRY. DE PAEPE
Publisher : SelfMadeHero
ISBN 13 : 9781910593899
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book The Mystic Lamb written by HARRY. DE PAEPE and published by SelfMadeHero. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flemish painter Jan Van Eyck is one of Belgium's most significant artists, famous for his early contributions to the Northern Renaissance movement of the 15th century. His polyptych classic, the Ghent Altarpiece (or The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb), is considered a masterpiece of European art and one of the most influential paintings ever made. In The Mystic Lamb, the famous Flemish illustrator Jan Van der Veken and history professor Harry De Paepe, produce a series of works in honour of Van Eyck's coveted treasure. The book discusses Jan Van Eyck and explores why his paintings were so exceptional, as well as the robbery of two parts of the work in 1934, which was never resolved. This is an easy-to-read collection of interesting anecdotes alongside illustrations telling you everything you ever wanted to know about Jan Van Eyck and The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb.

The Collected Papers of Emmanuel Ghent

Author : Victoria Demos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317404777
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Papers of Emmanuel Ghent written by Victoria Demos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together an engaging study, using Emmanuel Ghent’s collected papers, of theoretical and personal origins of the relational turn in psychoanalysis. Emmanuel Ghent was one of the founders of relational psychoanalysis, and his ideas have been hugely influential. However, he published sparingly and his papers are scattered across a range of sources. In this book, his key writings are reproduced, along with analyses and critiques by major contemporary psychoanalytic figures such as Adam Phillips, Jessica Benjamin, Seth Warren, Adrienne Harris and Barry Magrid. This book provides a thorough examination of the key tenets of Ghent’s thinking and illustrates the continued importance of his theoretical and clinical work for the next generation of psychoanalysts.

The Other Renaissance

Author : Paul Strathern
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639363947
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book The Other Renaissance written by Paul Strathern and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original, illuminating history of the northern European Renaissance in art, science, and philosophy, which often rivaled its Italian counterpart. It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time. This "Other Renaissance" was initially centered on the city of Bruges in Flanders (modern Belgium), but its influence was soon being felt in France, the German states, London, and even in Italy itself. The northern Renaissance, like the southern Renaissance, largely took place during the period between the end of the Medieval age (circa mid-14th century) and the advent of the Age of Enlightenment (circa end of 17th century). Following a sequence of major figures, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine de' Medici, Rabelais, van Eyck, and Shakespeare, Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of how this "Other Renaissance" played as significant a role as the Italian renaissance in bringing our modern world into being.

Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife

Author : Andrew Oliver
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674691520
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife written by Andrew Oliver and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume affords a visual documentation of the most varied political career in American history and exemplifies the work of the principal American portraitists from the days of Copley and Stuart to the dawn of the Daguerrean era. Included in the 159 illustrations are all the known life portraits, busts, and silhouettes of John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams, along with important replicas, copies, engravings, and representative likenesses of their siblings. The book is organized into seven chapters which generally coincide with the major divisions of John Quincy Adams' political career. Within each chapter are discussed the artists, their relationships with the Adams's, and the provenance of each of their works. A chronology of John Quincy Adams' life for each period accompanies the chapter to which it pertains. Information about the size of each likeness, the inscriptions if any, the date executed, and present ownership where known is summarized in the List of Illustrations. The Adams's, as they watched themselves age over the years in the marble, ink, or oil of the artists who portrayed them, recorded much by way of commentary on the artistic talent and process at hand. The author makes use of the diaries and correspondence preserved in the Adams Papers, thus combining a learned appreciation with an intimate glimpse of Adams's as they saw themselves.

The Flemish, Dutch and German Schools of Painting

Author : John Thomas James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Flemish, Dutch and German Schools of Painting written by John Thomas James and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings

Author : John Denison Champlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings written by John Denison Champlin and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Designs of William Morris

Author : Editors of Phaidon Press
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714834658
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Designs of William Morris written by Editors of Phaidon Press and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1995-10-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A miniature edition of William Morris designs.

Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers

Author : Michael Bryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers written by Michael Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: