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The Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen

Author : Graham Reynolds
Publisher : Royal Collection Trust
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen written by Graham Reynolds and published by Royal Collection Trust. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Collection contains a comprehensive group of miniatures. This catalogue describes the portrait miniatures dating from the origins of the art in the 1520s up to the end of the 17th century. Over 450 examples are included, and each is reproduced in colour, and most are actual size. The catalogue contains work by Lucas Horenbout, Hans Holbein the Younger, Nicholas Hilliard, Isaac Oliver, John Hoskins, Jean Petitot, Samuel Cooper and Charles Boit. There are portraits of virtually every sovereign from Henry VII to Queen Anne; Louis XIV and his court are well-represented, as is the house of Brunswick-Luneberg. There are likenesses too of major literary and religious figures of the period, as well as people associated with major historical events.

Perfect Likeness

Author : Cincinnati Art Museum
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300115806
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Perfect Likeness written by Cincinnati Art Museum and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewelry, fashion, hairstyles, and the decorative arts. Unlike many other genres, miniatures have a tradition in which amateurs and professionals have operated in parallel and women artists have flourished as professionals. This richly illustrated book presents approximately 180 portrait miniatures selected from the holdings of the Cincinnati Art Museum, the largest and most diverse collection of its kind in North America. The book stresses the continuity of stylistic tradition across Europe and America as well as the vitality of the portrait miniature format through more than four centuries. A detailed catalogue entry, as well as a concise artist biography, appears for each object. Essays examine various aspects of miniature painting, of the depiction of costume in miniatures, and of the allied art of hair work.

Elizabethan Treasures

Author :
Publisher : National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 13 : 9781855147027
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Elizabethan Treasures written by and published by National Portrait Gallery. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries there was one art form in which English artists excelled above all their continental European counterparts: the painting of miniatures. This fascinating book explores the genre with special reference to two of its most accomplished practitioners, Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, whose astounding skill brought them international fame and admiration. Four centuries ago, England was famous primarily for its literary culture - the dram a of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson and the works of the great lyrical and metaphysical poets. When it came to the production of visual art, the country was seen as something of a backwater. However, there was one art form for which English artists of this period were renowned: portrait miniature painting, or as it was known at the time, limning. Growing from roots in manuscript illumination, it was brought to astonishing heights of skill by two artists in particular: Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) and Isaac Oliver (c .1565-1617). In addition to exhibiting the exquisite technique of the artists, portrait miniatures express in a unique way many of the most distinctive and fascinating aspects of court life in this period: ostentatious secrecy, games of courtly love, arcane symbolism, a love of intricacy and decoration. Bedecked in elaborate lace, encrusted in jewellery and sprinkled with flowers, court ladies smile enigmatically at the viewer; their male counterparts rest on grassy banks or lean against trees, sighing over thwarted love, or more modestly express their hopes in Latin epigrams inscribed around their heads. Often set in richly enamelled and jewelled gold lockets, or beautifully turned ivory or ebony boxes, such miniatures could be concealed or revealed, exchanged or kept, as part of elaborate processes of friendship, love, patronage and diplomacy at the courts of Elizabeth I and James I /VI. This richly illustrated book, like the exhibition it accompanies, explores what the portrait miniature reveals about identity, society and visual culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

Mesrop of Xizan

Author : Mikayel Arakelyan
Publisher : Paul Holberton Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780955339332
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Mesrop of Xizan written by Mikayel Arakelyan and published by Paul Holberton Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminator, painter, scribe, clerk, teacher, doctor of theology, restorer and binder, Mesrop was one of the greatest Armenian artists of his and following generations. He was prolific, working for at least forty-two years in Sos (New Julfa) from 1608 to 1651.

Miniatures

Author : Dudley Heath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Miniatures written by Dudley Heath and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Treasuring the Gaze

Author : Hanneke Grootenboer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226309711
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Treasuring the Gaze written by Hanneke Grootenboer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more conventional mementoes, such as lockets containing a coil of a loved one’s hair. The fashion lasted only a few decades, and by the early 1800s eye miniatures had faded into oblivion. Unearthing these portraits in Treasuring the Gaze, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes that the rage for eye miniatures—and their abrupt disappearance—reveals a knot in the unfolding of the history of vision. Drawing on Alois Riegl, Jean-Luc Nancy, Marcia Pointon, Melanie Klein, and others, Grootenboer unravels this knot, discovering previously unseen patterns of looking and strategies for showing. She shows that eye miniatures portray the subject’s gaze rather than his or her eye, making the recipient of the keepsake an exclusive beholder who is perpetually watched. These treasured portraits always return the looks they receive and, as such, they create a reciprocal mode of viewing that Grootenboer calls intimate vision. Recounting stories about eye miniatures—including the role one played in the scandalous affair of Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Prince of Wales, a portrait of the mesmerizing eye of Lord Byron, and the loss and longing incorporated in crying eye miniatures—Grootenboer shows that intimate vision brings the gaze of another deep into the heart of private experience. With a host of fascinating imagery from this eccentric and mostly forgotten yet deeply private keepsake, Treasuring the Gaze provides new insights into the art of miniature painting and the genre of portraiture.

European Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870998080
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book European Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1996 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalog of the museum's collection of some 300 European portrait miniatures dating from the early 16th to the mid-19th centuries. Each piece is described in detail and illustrated with bandw and color photos. Includes an overview of the history of miniature painting, notes on artists, and indices of artists, collectors, makers, and sitters. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

... A Guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the Specimens of Mediaeval and Later Times in the Gold Ornament Room

Author : British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ... A Guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the Specimens of Mediaeval and Later Times in the Gold Ornament Room written by British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Richard Cosway, R.A.

Author : George Charles Williamson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Richard Cosway, R.A. written by George Charles Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Collecting Old Miniatures

Author : Sir James Henry Yoxall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Collecting Old Miniatures written by Sir James Henry Yoxall and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Antiquary

Author : Sir Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Antiquary written by Sir Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arts of Isfahan

Author : Alice Taylor
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 089236338X
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Book Arts of Isfahan written by Alice Taylor and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth century, the Persian city of Isfahan was a crossroads of international trade and diplomacy. Manuscript paintings produced within the city’s various cultural, religious, and ethnic groups reveal the vibrant artistic legacy of the Safavid Empire. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum, Book Arts of Isfahan offers a fascinating account of the ways in which the artists of Isfahan used their art to record the life around them and at the same time define their own identities within a complex society.

The Connoisseur

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reports

Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reports written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Antiquary

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Antiquary written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Guide to the Mediaeval Antiquities

Author : British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the Mediaeval Antiquities written by British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New ser. v. 6-10 include 77th-81 Report of the trustees, 1946-50 (previously published separately)