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European Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Author : Catherine Hess,Timothy Husband
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998-02-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892362554

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European Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Catherine Hess,Timothy Husband Pdf

The Getty Museum’s collection of postclassical European glass represents a well-defined chapter within the history of the medium. These objects—which range in date from the late Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century—originated in important Italian, German, Bohemian, Netherlandish, Silesian, and Austrian centers of production. The sixty-eight pieces presented in this catalogue include vessels made to resemble rock crystal or chalcedony; glass blown into unusually large or remarkably refined shapes; and glass decorated with ornament that is intricately applied, elegantly enameled, or gilded. Each object is described in detail, including provenance, bibliography, and relevant comparative examples. An introductory essay traces the history of European glass from classical times to the present.

Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Author : Gillian Wilson,Catherine Hess
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-07
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780892366323

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Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Gillian Wilson,Catherine Hess Pdf

J. Paul Getty had a passion for the exquisitely made furniture and decorative objects of eighteenth-century France, which he began collecting in the 1930s. Gillian Wilson, curator of decorative arts since 1971, has broadened and strengthened the collection, adding Boulle furniture, mounted oriental porcelain, tapestries, clocks, ceramics, and more. In the 1980s and 1990s the Museum continued to enlarge its decorative arts holdings, creating a European sculpture department in 1984 and adding glass, maiolica, goldsmiths’ work, pietre dure, and furniture from Italy and Northern Europe. This book is a revised and expanded edition of Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). In addition to more than forty recent acquisitions—among these four wall sconces from Versailles that once belonged to Marie Antoinette and an elaborate upholstered bed from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld—it includes the results of years of research. Designed for scholars, students, and devotees of the decorative arts, this volume provides a comprehensive look at the Getty's fine collection.

The Arts of Fire

Author : Catherine Hess,Linda Komaroff,George Saliba
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art, Islamic
ISBN : 9780892367580

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The Arts of Fire by Catherine Hess,Linda Komaroff,George Saliba Pdf

Students and scholars of the Italian Renaissance easily fall under the spell of its achievements: its self-confident humanism, its groundbreaking scientific innovations, its ravishing artistic production. Yet many of the developments in Italian ceramics and glass were made possible by Italy's proximity to the Islamic world. The Arts of Fire underscores how central the Islamic influence was on this luxury art of the Italian Renaissance. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum on view from May 4 to August 5, 2004, The Arts of Fire demonstrates how many of the techniques of glass and ceramic production and ornamentation were first developed in the Islamic East between the eighth and twelfth centuries. These techniques - enamel and gilding on glass and tin-glaze and lustre on ceramics - produced brilliant and colourful decoration that was a source of awe and admiration, transforming these crafts, for the first time, into works of art and true luxury commodities. Essays by Catherine Hess, George Saliba, and Linda Komaroff demonstrate early modern Europe's debts to the Islamic world and help us better understand the interrelationships of cultures over time.

Painting on Light

Author : Barbara Butts,Lee Hendrix
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892365791

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Painting on Light by Barbara Butts,Lee Hendrix Pdf

The names Albrecht Dürer and Hans Holbein the Younger evoke the dazzling accomplishments of Renaissance panel painting and printmaking, but they may not summon images of stained glass. Nevertheless, Dürer, Holbein, and their southern German and Swiss contemporaries designed some of the most splendid works in the history of the medium. This lavish volume is a comprehensive survey of the contribution to stained glass made by these extraordinarily gifted draftsmen and the equally talented glass painters who rendered their compositions in glass. Included are discussions of both monumental church windows and smaller-scale stained-glass panels made for cloisters, civic buildings, residences, and private chapels. The subjects of these rarely seen drawings and panels range from religious topics to secular themes, including love, planets, hunts, and battles. Focusing on stained glass produced in Germany and Switzerland from about 1495 to 1530, Painting on Light includes drawings by Dürer, Holbein, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Baldung Grien, Jörg Breu the Elder, Hans Burgkmair, Urs Graf, Hans von Kulmbach, Hans Leu the Younger, Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, Hans Schäufelein, Hans Weiditz, and others. This informative book is published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Getty Museum from July 11 through September 24, 2000, and from November 7, 2000, to January 4, 2001, at the Saint Louis Art Museum.

Summary Catalogue of European Sculpture in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Author : Peter Fusco
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892364886

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Summary Catalogue of European Sculpture in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Peter Fusco Pdf

Although one of the newer collections in the Getty Museum, sculpture occupies an important place in the Museum’s acquisition efforts. For the first time, the entire sculpture collection is catalogued in a book designed for scholars and students of sculpture. Reproductions of each piece are accompanied by text that identifies the sculptor, the medium, the dimensions, and the year the work was created.

Looking at European Sculpture

Author : Jane Bassett,Peggy Fogelman
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 089236291X

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Looking at European Sculpture by Jane Bassett,Peggy Fogelman Pdf

This book offers definitions of the techniques, processes, and materials used in the production of postclassical European sculpture. Concise and readable explanations of the technical terms most frequently encountered by the museum-goer are presented in an easily portable format. With numerous illustrations drawn from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum - most of them in color - this volume will be indispensable to all readers wishing to increase their enjoyment and understanding of European sculpture.

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal

Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892360901

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal by The J. Paul Getty Museum Pdf

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 13 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, decorative arts, drawings, paintings, and photographs. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 13 includes articles written by Helayna I. Thickpenny, Michael Pfrommer, Klaus Parlasca, Heidemaire Koch, Jean-Dominique Augarde, Colin Streeter, Gillian Wilson, Charissa Bremer-David, C. Gay Nieda, Adrian Sassoon, Selma Holo, Marcel Roethlisberger, Louise Lippincott, Mark Leonard, Burton B. Fredericksen, Nigel Glendinning, Eleanor Sayre, and William Innes Homer.

A Renaissance Treasury

Author : Laurie Winters,Joseph R. Bliss,Charles Avery,Russell Bowman,Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts,Milwaukee Art Museum
Publisher : Hudson Hills
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1555951740

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A Renaissance Treasury by Laurie Winters,Joseph R. Bliss,Charles Avery,Russell Bowman,Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts,Milwaukee Art Museum Pdf

Winters introduces Richard Flagg and Erma Flagg's collection of some hundred objects made during 1450 to 1900. Most of the beautifully crafted, highly decorative, yet functional pieces are examples of Renaissance and Baroque marvels; they include clocks (a particularly varied and sumptuaous collection), sculpture, inlaid boxes, china and glassware, tankards, metalwork, and furniture. Each of the 77 individual chefs-d'oeuvres documented in this catalog, celebrating the gift of the Flaggs to the Milwaukee Art Museum, are exceptional examples of artisty combined with technical achievement. Such is the case with a 15th-century Cassone from Florence replete with intarsia and coat of arms, signaling a marital alliance between the nobility. Another magnificent piece, highlighted through an individual entry in the catalog, is a 15th-century limestone tympanum, possibly from the Burgundy region of France, showing the enthroned Virgin and Child. The physical properties of this volume are as elaborate as the objects it defines; lavish full-page color plates illustrate the pieces, lengthy catalog entries provide detailed information, and the whole is supplemented with appendixes consisting of checklist and glossary. 69 colour & 29 b/w illustrations

Molten Color

Author : Karol Wight
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781606060537

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Molten Color by Karol Wight Pdf

The first half of this exquisitely illustrated book examines the earliest techniques for making glass, including casting, core-forming, and mosaic. All were used for centuries prior to the development of glass blowing, in which molten glass is inflated at the end of a hollow tube. This technique, which started in the middle of the first century, led to entirely new shapes and decorative approaches. The second half of the book looks at glass made during the Roman imperial period.

Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts

Author : Charissa Bremer-David,Catherine Hess,Jeffrey W. Weaver,Gillian Wilson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892364558

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Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts by Charissa Bremer-David,Catherine Hess,Jeffrey W. Weaver,Gillian Wilson Pdf

This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from Gobelins and Beauvais, bronze firedogs from Fontainebleau, and a lathe-turned ivory goblet of astonishing complexity from Saxony are among the other highlights of this handsome volume.

Clearly Inspired

Author : Karen S. Chambers,Tampa Museum of Art
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Glass art
ISBN : 0764909320

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Clearly Inspired by Karen S. Chambers,Tampa Museum of Art Pdf

For five thousand years, artisans have worked in glass to create forms that serve and delight. But only recently have artists turned their hands and minds to this traditionally utilitarian and decorative material. Clearly Inspired: Contemporary Glass and Its Origins contrasts the work of contemporary glass artists with examples of earlier glass that have inspired them to rediscover or reinvent forgotten techniques. Transforming an ancient craft into a contemporary art, they honor the past while making visual statements that are very much of our time.

"Glass Exchange between Europe and China, 1550?800 "

Author : EmilyByrne Curtis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351565486

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"Glass Exchange between Europe and China, 1550?800 " by EmilyByrne Curtis Pdf

In this study, Emily Byrne Curtis explores as her subject lenses, spectacles, aventurine glass, and windows found in China from the sixteenth century. She traces their technological development back to the glassworks in Murano, Venice, and explores their significance in terms of Venice's commerce with China. Because glassware also figured among the gifts which three papal legates from the Vatican presented to the Kangxi and Yongzheng emperors, the author examines many documents from the archives in Rome and the Vatican; the study therefore touches, to an extent, on the history of the Catholic Church in China. Curtis also discusses in the volume some contemporary Chinese references and verses to European glassware, and in the case of enamel materials, she discloses the pronounced effect their use had upon the decor of Chinese porcelains.

Decorative Arts

Author : Charissa Bremer-David,Peggy Fogelman,Peter Fusco,Catherine Hess
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993-09-09
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780892362219

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Decorative Arts by Charissa Bremer-David,Peggy Fogelman,Peter Fusco,Catherine Hess Pdf

This volume includes concise, illustrated entries on the more than 450 examples of furniture, porcelain, and silver from the Museum's collection. New to this expanded edition are sections devoted to maiolica and glass. An index of previous owners and updated bibliographies are of particular help to the scholar.

European Art of the Fifteenth Century

Author : Stefano Zuffi
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892368314

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European Art of the Fifteenth Century by Stefano Zuffi Pdf

Influenced by a revival of interest in Greco-Roman ideals and sponsored by a newly prosperous merchant class, fifteenth-century artists produced works of astonishingly innovative content and technique. The International Gothic style of painting, still popular at the beginning of the century, was giving way to the influence of Early Netherlandish Flemish masters such as Jan van Eyck, who emphasized narrative and the complex use of light for symbolic meaning. Patrons favored paintings in oil and on wooden panels for works ranging from large, hinged altarpieces to small, increasingly lifelike portraits. In the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice, and Mantua, artists and architects alike perfected existing techniques and developed new ones. The painter Masaccio mastered linear perspective; the sculptor Donatello produced anatomically correct but idealized figures such as his bronze nude of David; and the brilliant architect and engineer Brunelleschi integrated Gothic and Renaissance elements to build the self-supporting dome of the Florence Cathedral. This beautifully illustrated guide analyzes the most important people, places, and concepts of this early Renaissance period, whose explosion of creativity was to spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth century

Paper Promises

Author : Mazie M. Harris
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781606065495

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Paper Promises by Mazie M. Harris Pdf

Scholarship on photography’s earliest years has tended to focus on daguerreotypes on metal or on the European development of paper photographs made from glass or paper negatives. But Americans also experimented with negative-positive processes to produce photographic images on a variety of paper formats in the early decades of the medium. Paper Promises: Early American Photography presents this rarely studied topic within photographic history. The well-researched and richly detailed texts in this book delve into the complexities of early paper photography in the United States from the 1840s to 1860s, bringing to light a little-known era of American photographic appropriation and adaptation. Exploring the economic, political, intellectual, and social factors that impacted its unique evolution, both the essays and the carefully selected images illustrate the importance of photographic reproduction in shaping and circulating perceptions of America and its people during a critical period of political tension and territorial expansion. Due to the fragility of paper photography from this period, the works in this catalogue are rarely displayed, making the volume an essential tool for any scholar in the field and a very rare peek into the mid-nineteenth century.