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Book Synopsis William and Henry Walters, the Reticent Collectors by : William R. Johnston
Download or read book William and Henry Walters, the Reticent Collectors written by William R. Johnston and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-10-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprisingly, the story of how William Walters and his son Henry created one of the finest privately assembled museums in the United States has not been told."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe by : Natalie Zemon Davis
Download or read book Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe written by Natalie Zemon Davis and published by Walters Art Gallery. This book was released on 2012 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication accompanies the exhibition Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, held at the Walters Art Museum from October 14, 2012, to January 21, 2013, and at the Princeton University Art Museum from February 16 to June 9, 2013."
Book Synopsis The Archimedes Codex by : Reviel Netz
Download or read book The Archimedes Codex written by Reviel Netz and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a Christie's auction in October 1998, a battered medieval manuscript sold for two million dollars to an anonymous bidder, who then turned it over to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore for further study. The manuscript was a palimpsest-a book made from an earlier codex whose script had been scraped off and the pages used again. Behind the script of the thirteenth-century monk's prayer book, the palimpsest revealed the faint writing of a much older, tenth-century manuscript. Part archaeological detective story, part science, and part history, The Archimedes Codex tells the extraordinary story of this lost manuscript, from its tenth-century creation in Constantinople to the auction block at Christie's, and how a team of scholars used the latest imaging technology to reveal and decipher the original text. What they found was the earliest surviving manuscript by Archimedes (287 b.c.-212 b.c.), the greatest mathematician of antiquity-a manuscript that revealed, for the first time, the full range of his mathematical genius, which was two thousand years ahead of modern science.
Download or read book Majolica Mania written by Susan Weber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of the most important ceramic innovation of the 19th century Colorful, wildly imaginative, and technically innovative, majolica was functional and aesthetic ceramic ware. Its subject matter reflects a range of 19th-century preoccupations, from botany and zoology to popular humor and the macabre. Majolica Mania examines the medium’s considerable impact, from wares used in domestic settings to monumental pieces at the World’s Fairs. Essays by international experts address the extensive output of the originators and manufacturers in England—including Minton, Wedgwood, and George Jones—and the migration of English craftsmen to the U.S. New research including information on important American makers in New York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia is also featured. Fully illustrated, the book is enlivened by new photography of pieces from major museums and private collections in the U.S. and Great Britain.
Download or read book Sacred and Stolen written by Gary Vikan and published by SelectBooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred and Stolen is the memoir of an art museum director with the courage to reveal what goes on behind the scenes. Gary Vikan lays bare the messy underbelly of museum life: looted antiquities, crooked dealers, deluded collectors, duplicitous public officials, fakes, inside thefts, bribery, and failed exhibitions. These backstories, at once shocking and comical, reveal a man with a taste for adventure, an eagerness to fan the flames of excitement, and comfort with the chaos that often ensued. A Minnesota kid who started out as a printer’s devil in his father’s small-town newspaper, Vikan ended up as the director of The Walters Art Museum, a gem of a museum in Baltimore. Sacred and Stolen reveals his quest to bring the “holy” into the museum experience as he struggles to reconcile his passion for acquiring sacred works of art with his suspicion that they were stolen. The cast of characters in his many adventures include the elegant French oil heiress, Dominique de Menil, the notorious Turkish smuggler, Aydin Dikmen, his slippery Dutch dealer, Michel van Rijn, the inscrutable and implacable Patriarchs of Ethiopia and Georgia, and the charismatic President of Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze—along with a mysterious thief of a gorgeous Renoir painting missing from a museum for over sixty years. When the painting suddenly shows up, it’s Vikan who tracks down the culprit. In his afterword Vikan explains his coming to grips with the realities of art dealing in our present dangerous world that includes the fanatical iconoclasm of the Islamic State. We know of the violent destruction and looting of precious treasures of antiquity and unscrupulous black market art dealers who take advantage of international conflicts to possess them. Sacred and Stolen is a truly eye-opening account of art dealing in the modern world.
Book Synopsis Pearls on a String by : Amy Sue Landau
Download or read book Pearls on a String written by Amy Sue Landau and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts, presented at The Walters Art Museum from November 8, 2015 to January 31, 2016 and at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco from February 26 to May 8, 2016."
Book Synopsis Egyptian Art by : Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.)
Download or read book Egyptian Art written by Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.) and published by Giles. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 79 objects from the museum's internationally renowned collection of ancient Egyptian art.
Book Synopsis The Medieval World by : Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.)
Download or read book The Medieval World written by Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.) and published by Giles. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderfully written and illustrated introduction to the subject of medieval art and society.
Book Synopsis Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson by : Stanley Mazaroff
Download or read book Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson written by Stanley Mazaroff and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting Italian Renaissance paintings during America’s Gilded Age was fraught with risk because of the uncertain identities of the artists and the conflicting interests of the dealers. Stanley Mazaroff’s fascinating account of the close relationship between Henry Walters, founder of the legendary Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, and Bernard Berenson, the era’s preeminent connoisseur of Italian paintings, richly illustrates this important chapter of America’s cultural history. When Walters opened his Italianate museum in 1909, it was labeled as America’s “Great Temple of Art.” With more than 500 Italian paintings, including self-portraits purportedly by Raphael and Michelangelo, Walters’s collection was compared favorably with the great collections in London, Paris, and Berlin. In the midst of this fanfare, Berenson contacted Walters and offered to analyze his collection, sell him additional paintings, and write a scholarly catalogue that would trumpet the collection on both sides of the Atlantic. What Berenson offered was what Walters desperately needed—a badge of scholarship that Berenson’s invaluable imprimatur would undoubtedly bring. By 1912, Walters had become Berenson’s most active client, their business alliance wrapped in a warm and personal friendship. But this relationship soon became strained and was finally severed by a confluence of broken promises, inattention, deceit, and ethical conflict. To Walters’s chagrin, Berenson swept away the self-portraits allegedly by Raphael and Michelangelo and publicly scorned paintings that he was supposed to praise. Though painful to Walters, Berenson’s guidance ultimately led to a panoramic collection that beautifully told the great history of Italian Renaissance painting. Based primarily on correspondence and other archival documents recently discovered at the Walters Art Museum and the Villa I Tatti in Florence, the intriguing story of Walters and Berenson offers unusual insight into the pleasures and perils of collecting Italian Renaissance paintings, the ethics in the marketplace, and the founding of American art museums.
Book Synopsis Ethiopian Art by : Deborah Ellen Horowitz
Download or read book Ethiopian Art written by Deborah Ellen Horowitz and published by Third Millenium Pub Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of Ethiopian art at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore is one of the largest and finest outside of Ethiopia, both in terms of depth and range. This book celebrates the art of the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia in metalwork, processional crosses, painted icons and illuminated manuscripts used in the services of the Church and reveals a vibrant artistic world of color, ritual and spirituality.
Book Synopsis Pearls of the Parrot of India by : John William Seyller
Download or read book Pearls of the Parrot of India written by John William Seyller and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amir Khusraw Dihlawi (1253-1325) was one of the most famous Mughal poets of the Indian subcontinent and the self-styled Parrot of India. His Pearls of poetry are seen here in his Khamsa, one of the most admired texts in the Islamic world. This copy marks the culmination of the development of the deluxe Mughal manuscript in the 1590s. The writing of the Walters Khamsa fell to the most highly esteemed calligrapher of the day, Muhammad Jusayn al-Kashmiri, then at the zenith of his career. The Khamsa must have been understood at several different levels at the Mughal court. For some, it was a stellar work of literature. Others undoubtedly saw the manuscript as a repository of visual art, captivated by the sophistication of the calligraphy and the brilliance of the paintings. Still others found this book a bibliographic gem, a precious object to hold and behold.
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain by : Sir Henry Thompson
Download or read book A Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain written by Sir Henry Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Prayers in Code by : Kathryn B. Gerry
Download or read book Prayers in Code written by Kathryn B. Gerry and published by Walters Art Gallery. This book was released on 2009 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Masterpieces of Italian Painting by : Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.)
Download or read book Masterpieces of Italian Painting written by Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.) and published by Giles. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book introduces the general public and scholarly audience alike to one of the great collections of Italian paintings, with examples of major works dating from the 12th to the 18th centuries. The volume presents fifty paintings, many with color details and comparative illustrations. Introductions to each chronological section situate individual works of art within the artistic and stylistic developments of the period. Signature pieces featured in this volume include Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels , ca. 1340-45, by Pietro Lorenzetti; The Ideal City , ca. 1480-84, attributed to Fra Carnavale; Madonna and Child with Saints and Three Venetian Procurators , 1510 by Giovanni Bellini and workshop; Madonna of the Candelabra , ca. 1513, by Raphael and workshop; and Portrait of Countess Livia da Porto Thiene and Her Daughter Porzia , ca. 1551, by Veronese. Taken together, these paintings constitute a fabulous historical journey through seven centuries of Italian art. A select bibliography provides both standard reference sources and a selection of the most important recent books and articles on each work and artist featured in the book.
Book Synopsis The Walters Art Museum by : Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.)
Download or read book The Walters Art Museum written by Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.) and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A handbook for the world-class collection of The Walters Art Museum. Highlighting the museum's broad range of objects and artworks from around the world and throughout history, with descriptions of each featured work from experts in the field"--
Book Synopsis Crosscurrents by : Virginia McCord Mecklenburg
Download or read book Crosscurrents written by Virginia McCord Mecklenburg and published by Giles. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents over eighty modernist artworks by some of the twentieth century's leading artists.
Book Synopsis The Circle and the Line by : Eleanor Hughes
Download or read book The Circle and the Line written by Eleanor Hughes and published by Giles. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 160 wonderful pieces by the modernist Baltimore-based jeweler, Betty Cooke (b 1924).
