The National Gallery Companion Guide

Author: National Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher: National Gallery London
ISBN: 9780300074819
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
This beautifully illustrated and updated National Gallery Companion Guide introduces art lovers to one of the richest and most representative collections of Western European paintings in the world. Erika Langmuir offers enlightening commentary on more than 200 of the finest works - by painters including Piero della Francesca, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velazquez, Ingres, and Degas - from the National Gallery's collection, along with masterpieces by less familiar artists.

The National Gallery

Author: Erika Langmuir
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857097030
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The National Gallery Companion Guide celebrates over 200 masterpieces from one of the finest art collections in the world. The reader is guided through the history of the Western European painting tradition, from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, with engaging commentaries that illuminate each artist's unique contribution. This comprehensive, newly designed edition has been revised and expanded to feature recent acquisitions by Artemisia Gentileschi, Edgar Degas and Thomas Lawrence, alongside much-loved works by artists ranging from Leonardo and Raphael to Van Gogh and Picasso.

A Companion Guide to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Author: Patrick Elliott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Founded only in 1960, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh already boasts an outstanding collection of modern and contemporary art. The collection includes major works by artists such as Matisse, Picasso, Kirchner, Miro, Magritte, Giacometti, Moore, Lichtenstein and Baselitz, and an exceptional group of Scottish paintings. More than 230 of the finest paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings are illustrated here in colour, alongside descriptions of each work. The book offers a detailed guide to the collection as well as an accessible and informative introduction to modern art.

A Companion Guide to the National Gallery of Scotland

Author: National Gallery of Scotland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
"The National Gallery of Scotland is widely regarded as one of the finest smaller galleries in the world. The collection includes the greatest names in Western art such as Raphael, Titian, El Greco, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Rubens, Watteau, Tiepolo, Canova and many of the impressionists and post-impressionists. It also contains the most comprehensive collection of Scottish art with masterpieces by Ramsay, Raeburn and Wilkie, as well as a host of less familiar names who all made their own contributions to one of the most distinctive of the smaller national schools. This book offers a guide to the collection as well as an accessible and informative introduction to the history of art."--Back cover.

A Companion Guide to Photography in the National Galleries of Scotland

Author: Sara Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Since the invention of photography in the 1840s, Scotland has been at the centre of the history and development of the medium. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, hold outstanding collections of photographic art. This book discusses these collections and offers an introduction to photography.

Colour

Author: David Bomford
Publisher: National Gallery Publications Limited
ISBN: 9781857094428
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
History of art / art & design styles.

The Obama Portraits

Author: Taína Caragol
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691203288
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
Unveiling the unconventional : Kehinde Wiley's portrait of Barack Obama / Taína Caragol -- "Radical empathy" : Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama / Dorothy Moss -- The Obama portraits, in art history and beyond / Richard J. Powell -- The Obama portraits and the National Portrait Gallery as a site of secular pilgrimage / Kim Sajet -- The presentation of the Obama portraits : a transcript of the unveiling ceremony.

Art Museums Plus

Author: Traute M. Marshall
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584656210
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
An engaging guide to over 150 art museums and more throughout New England

Giotto to Dürer

Author: Jill Dunkerton
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300050828
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 414

Book Description
"This book provides a survey of European painting between 1260 and 1510, in both northern and southern Europe, based largely on the National Gallery collection ... some 70 of the finest and best known paintings in the Gallery are examined in detail"--Cover.

The National Gallery

Author: Gustave Geffroy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description