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Author : Colin B. Bailey
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ISBN 13 : 9780875981796
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Treasures from the Nationalmuseum of Sweden written by Colin B. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2017-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nationalmuseum (Stockholm).
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ISBN 13 : 9789171008503
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Highlights written by Nationalmuseum (Stockholm). and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalmuseum is Sweden’s leading art gallery and this volume presents a selection of its best-known masterpieces – paintings, sculptures and works of applied art – from the Renaissance to our own era. Nationalmuseum’s collections also contain numerous works of art that for different reasons have fallen into obscurity. A number of these are also highlighted: unique and fascinating works that have hitherto rarely been displayed but which really merit attention. 00Why do some works of art become more famous and popular than others? Words like “highlights”, “classics” and “masterpieces” are often used unreflectingly in catalogues and home pages produced by galleries, but what in fact is a “masterpiece”? Who gives it this label and how have attitudes to masterpieces shifted through the years? These are some of the questions posed in this volume. 00Highlights: Famous and Forgotten Art Treasures from Nationalmuseum also includes a special section on portraits. The role of portraits in today’s visual culture is discussed in the light of history. Starting from questions about self-images and identity, it probes the link between a number of historical portraits and “selfies” – our own period’s self-portraits taken at arm’s length with a mobile camera. 00Exhibition: Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden (15.05-31.08.2014).
Author : The Economist
Publisher : The Economist
ISBN 13 : 1610396812
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Treasure Palaces written by The Economist and published by The Economist. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exuberant celebration of the world's museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Ali Smith, and more tell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, the Mus'e Rodin in Paris, and the Prado in Madrid. These essays, collected from the pages of The Economist's Intelligent Life magazine, reveal the special hold that some museums have over us all. Acclaimed novelist William Boyd visits the Leopold Museum in Vienna -- a shrine to his favorite artist, Egon Schiele, whom Boyd first discovered on a postcard as a University student. In front of her favorite Rodins, Allison Pearson recalls a traumatic episode she suffered at the hands of a schoolteacher following a trip to the Mus'e in Paris. Neil Gaiman admires the fantastic world depicted in British outsider artist Richard Dadd's "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke," a tiny painting that also decorated the foldout cover of a Queen album, housed in the Victorian room of Tate Britain's Pre-Raphaelite collection. Ann Patchett fondly revisits Harvard University's Museum of Natural History -- which she discovered at 19, while in the throes of summer romance with a biology student named Jack. Treasure Palaces is a treasure trove of wonders, a tribute to the diversity and power of the museums, the safe-keepers of our world's most extraordinary artifacts, and an intimate look into the deeply personal reveries we fall into when before great art.
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ISBN 13 : 9789171008824
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Art Treasures from the Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalmuseum is one of Europe's oldest art museums, engendered by 18th-century enlightenment and the age of revolutions. It was founded in 1792, one year before the Louvre in Paris, and opened for the public two years later at the Royal Palace. The museum is based on the transfer of Gustav III's collection to public ownership and was at the same time established in memory of the dead king. The museum therefore houses major sections of the earlier royal collections and in this way differs, for example, from several large North American museums. Nationalmuseum's collections are incredibly rich. Over 700,000 objects offer many possibilities for everyone. In order to provide visitors with a clearer idea of the history of the collections and the riches they contain, this volume offers an introduction and examples. Its ambition is to give readers as representative and inspiring a selection as possible.
Author : Börje Magnusson
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783775743259
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Dutch Drawings in Swedish Public Collections written by Börje Magnusson and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2018 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, holds the most extensive collection of Dutch master drawings in Sweden. It comprises important works by Rembrandt and his pupils, as well as drawings by Abraham Bloemart, Jan van Goyen, Herman Saftleven, Willem van de Velde and many other artists. Although trade contacts between the Netherlands and Sweden were lively in the seventeenth century, they account for only a small part of the collection. The bulk of the drawings was acquired by Swedish collectors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Foremost among them was Count Carl Gustaf Tessin, whose acquisitions at the 1741 Paris sale of the financier Pierre Crozat make up the core of the collection.This catalogue, the result of a long-term research project, includes almost 600 drawings, of which approximately 130 are previously unpublished. Besides the Nationalmuseum, it draws on the collections of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, The Gothenburg Museum of Art, the Uppsala University Library and other institutions.
Author : Robert K. Wittman
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307461483
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Priceless written by Robert K. Wittman and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.” In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a real-life international thriller to rival The Thomas Crown Affair. Rising from humble roots as the son of an antique dealer, Wittman built a twenty-year career that was nothing short of extraordinary. He went undercover, usually unarmed, to catch art thieves, scammers, and black market traders in Paris and Philadelphia, Rio and Santa Fe, Miami and Madrid. In this page-turning memoir, Wittman fascinates with the stories behind his recoveries of priceless art and antiquities: The golden armor of an ancient Peruvian warrior king. The Rodin sculpture that inspired the Impressionist movement. The headdress Geronimo wore at his final Pow-Wow. The rare Civil War battle flag carried into battle by one of the nation’s first African-American regiments. The breadth of Wittman’s exploits is unmatched: He traveled the world to rescue paintings by Rockwell and Rembrandt, Pissarro, Monet and Picasso, often working undercover overseas at the whim of foreign governments. Closer to home, he recovered an original copy of the Bill of Rights and cracked the scam that rocked the PBS series Antiques Roadshow. By the FBI’s accounting, Wittman saved hundreds of millions of dollars worth of art and antiquities. He says the statistic isn’t important. After all, who’s to say what is worth more --a Rembrandt self-portrait or an American flag carried into battle? They're both priceless. The art thieves and scammers Wittman caught run the gamut from rich to poor, smart to foolish, organized criminals to desperate loners. The smuggler who brought him a looted 6th-century treasure turned out to be a high-ranking diplomat. The appraiser who stole countless heirlooms from war heroes’ descendants was a slick, aristocratic con man. The museum janitor who made off with locks of George Washington's hair just wanted to make a few extra bucks, figuring no one would miss what he’d filched. In his final case, Wittman called on every bit of knowledge and experience in his arsenal to take on his greatest challenge: working undercover to track the vicious criminals behind what might be the most audacious art theft of all.
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ISBN 13 : 9789171009067
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Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Zorn - A Swedish Superstar written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anders Zorn's life and career are almost unparalleled in Swedish art history.
Author : Nils Lindhagen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Art treasures from Vienna written by Nils Lindhagen and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeanette Greenfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521477468
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (774 download)
Download or read book The Return of Cultural Treasures written by Jeanette Greenfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of Greenfield's pioneering study about the legal, political and historical aspects of cultural restitution.
Author : Johan Cederlund
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847841510
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Anders Zorn written by Johan Cederlund and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying a major retrospective of Anders Zorn’s work, this is the first volume in English to explore the Swedish Impressionist’s entire career in depth. Anders Zorn (1860–1920) is one of Sweden’s most accomplished and beloved artists. Renowned for his light, expressive watercolors, he attained mastery of the genre at an early age and later applied his techniques to oil painting. Zorn is often compared with the artists John Singer Sargent and Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, contemporaries who also were known for their portraits of high-society figures. Taking up residence in London and then in Paris, Zorn established himself as an international portrait painter, depicting fashionable clients in a style both elegant and relaxed. He became a favorite among wealthy American collectors, bankers, and industrialists who sat for him, including art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner and three U.S. presidents. Although perhaps best known for his portraits, Zorn brought equal skill to painting genre scenes and views of nature. This handsome volume provides a thorough introduction to the artist and his works, from portraiture to landscapes and his famous nudes. Four illustrated essays are accompanied by a chronology, selected bibliography, an exhibition checklist, and an index.
Author : Martin Goldberg
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ISBN 13 : 9781910682401
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)
Download or read book The Galloway Hoard written by Martin Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cache of over 100 gold, silver and other items, the richest collection of rare and unique Viking-age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland, was unearthed by a metal detectorist in 2014. A large fundraising campaign ensured that what has come to be known as 'the Galloway Hoard' was saved for the nation. Having lain undiscovered since the beginning of the 10th century, it now provides an extremely rare opportunity to research and reveal many lost aspects of the Viking Age. There is a chance to see the treasure at the National Museum of Scotland 18 February - 18 October 21. The exhibition will subsequently go on tour to Kirkcudbright, Aberdeen and Dundee.The accompanying book places the hoard in a wider historical context and showcases the conservation and research work currently being undertaken to understand the hoard and its secrets. Exhibition: National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK (29.05.-12.09.2021) / Kirkcudbright Galleries, UK (10.2021) / Aberdeen Archives, UK (2022).
Author : Gertrud Serner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Treasures of Swedish Art written by Gertrud Serner and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nationalmuseum (Sweden)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Masterpieces of the Swedish National Museum written by Nationalmuseum (Sweden) and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wolfram Koeppe
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588394743
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Extravagant Inventions written by Wolfram Koeppe and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition "Extravagant Inventions: the Princely Furniture of the Roentgens" on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 30, 2102, through January 27, 2013.
Author : James Ponti
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481436325
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Framed! written by James Ponti and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get to know the only kid on the FBI Director’s speed dial and several international criminals’ most wanted lists all because of his Theory of All Small Things in this hilarious start to a brand-new middle grade mystery series. So you’re only halfway through your homework and the Director of the FBI keeps texting you for help…What do you do? Save your grade? Or save the country? If you’re Florian Bates, you figure out a way to do both. Florian is twelve years old and has just moved to Washington. He’s learning his way around using TOAST, which stands for the Theory of All Small Things. It’s a technique he invented to solve life’s little mysteries such as: where to sit on the on the first day of school, or which Chinese restaurant has the best eggrolls. But when he teaches it to his new friend Margaret, they uncover a mystery that isn’t little. In fact, it’s HUGE, and it involves the National Gallery, the FBI, and a notorious crime syndicate known as EEL. Can Florian decipher the clues and finish his homework in time to help the FBI solve the case? Kirkus Reviews praised the “solid, realistic friendship bolstered by snappy dialogue,” and School Library Journal said “mystery buffs and fans of Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider series are in for a treat.”
Author : Pontus Grate
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Treasures of Swedish Art written by Pontus Grate and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nationalmuseum (Sweden)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book A Swedish Legacy written by Nationalmuseum (Sweden) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
