Masterpieces Of The J Paul Getty Museum Decorative Arts

Author : Peter Fusco,Peggy Anne Fogelman,Marietta Cambareri,Deborah Gribbon
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892365135

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Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: European Sculpture by Peter Fusco,Peggy Anne Fogelman,Marietta Cambareri,Deborah Gribbon Pdf

The J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European sculpture featured in this volume ranges in date from the late fifteenth century to the very early twentieth and includes a wide variety of media: marble, bronze, alabaster, terracotta, plaster, wood, ivory, and gold. The earliest sculpture represented is the mysterious Saint Cyricus by Francesco Laurana; the latest is a shield-like portrait of Medusa by the eccentric Italian sculptor Vincenzo Gemito. Among the more than forty works included in this handsomely illustrated volume are sculptures by Antico (Bust of a Young Man); Cellini (a Satyr designed for Fontainebleau); Giambologna (a Female Figure that may represent Venus); Bernini (Boy with a Dragon); and Carpeaux (Bust of Jean-Léon Gérôme). Well represented here is the Museum’s splendid collection of Mannerist and early Baroque bronzes, including such masterpieces as Johann Gregor van der Schardt’s Mercury and two superb works by Adriaen de Vries: Juggling Man and Rearing Horse. These works are indicative of the extraordinary quality of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of post-Classical European sculpture.

Author : Charissa Bremer-David,Catherine Hess,Jeffrey W. Weaver,Gillian Wilson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,7 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.

Author : Charissa Bremer-David,Catherine Hess,Jeffrey W. Weaver,Gillian Wilson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892364589

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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 French-language volume.

Author : J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : 0500170053

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Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum by J. Paul Getty Museum Pdf

Author : J. Paul Getty Museum,Thomas Kren
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015040159827

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Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum by J. Paul Getty Museum,Thomas Kren Pdf

The Getty Museum's collection of illuminated manuscripts, featured in this book, comprises masterpieces of medieval and Renaissance art. Dating from the tenth to the sixteenth century, they were produced in France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, England, Spain, Poland, and the eastern Mediterranean. Among the highlights are four Ottonian manuscripts, Romanesque treasures from Germany, Italy, and France, and English Gothic Apocalypse, and late medieval manuscripts painted by such masters as Jean Fouquet, Girolamo da Cremona, Simon Marmion, and Joris Hoefnagel. Included are liturgical books, devotional books for private use, books of the Bible, histories by Giovanni Boccaccio and Jean Froissart, and a Model Book of Calligraphy.

Author : J. Paul Getty Museum,Elana Towne-Markus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Bronze age
ISBN : 0892364203

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Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum by J. Paul Getty Museum,Elana Towne-Markus Pdf

"From third-millennium-B.C. marble statuettes to gem-encrusted gold jewelry of the fourth and fifth centuries A.D., the collection of antiquities in the J. Paul Getty Museum testifies to the extraordinary skill and artistic achievements of sculptors, potters, painters, metalsmiths, and other artisans of the ancient Mediterranean world. Indicating both the quality of the individual pieces and the range of the collection, this volume illustrates many of the outstanding objects, among them a rare life-size Greek bronze statue depicting a victorious youth and J. Paul Getty's personal favorite, the marble statue known as the Lansdowne Herakles. Also included are a number of Greek and Etruscan terracotta vases, bronze and marble sculpture, and delicate late Classical and Ptolemaic gold jewelry."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Gillian Wilson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780892360505

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Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Gillian Wilson Pdf

J. Paul Getty began to collect French decorative arts in the 1930s and continued to do so until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection has continued to grow since then at a rapid pace and contains over three hundred individual pieces at the time this book is published. This volume illustrates fifty of them. The selection represents a cross section of the collection, which covers the period from approximately 1660 to 1800. In the eighteenth century it became fashionable in Parisian society to decorate the interiors of houses with Far Eastern materials such as lacquer and porcelain. This taste was catered to by the marchands-merciers, members of a guild who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, the antique dealer, and the picture dealer. These men devised highly ingenious settings for Far Eastern porcelains to adapt their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. Information about them and their clientele has been used in cataloguing the Getty Museum’s collection of mounted oriental porcelain, which is large and of high quality. This book is not a catalogue, nor is it a mere picture book or checklist. Each piece has been chosen because it represents a particular aspect of the crafts involved in the production of objects that were made by Parisian craftsmen for the crown, the nobility, and the rich bourgeoisie. The pieces are arranged in chronological order. Translations of the French archival extracts, an index, and a concise bibliography have been provided.

Author : J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : 0500170096

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Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum by J. Paul Getty Museum Pdf

Presenting works from the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA, this volume includes tapestries from Gobelins and Beauvais, bronze firedogs from Fontainebleau, a complex lathe-turned ivory goblet from Saxony, fine examples of furniture and porcelain, and glass and tin-glazed earthenware. The volume is one of a series of seven books presenting the finest works from the collection at The Getty Center in Los Angeles, USA which opened in late 1997.

Author : Getty Trust Publications
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-08
Category : Design
ISBN : 0892364602

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Decorative Arts by Getty Trust Publications Pdf

Author : Charissa Bremer-David
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Painting, Flemish
ISBN : OCLC:1419364222

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Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts by Charissa Bremer-David Pdf

Author : Bates Lowry,Isabel Barrett Lowry
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-02-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892365364

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The Silver Canvas by Bates Lowry,Isabel Barrett Lowry Pdf

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.

Author : John Walsh,Deborah Gribbon
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997-12-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892364763

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The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections by John Walsh,Deborah Gribbon Pdf

Provides a history of the buildings that have housed the Getty Museum collections, overviews the collections themselves, and offers a biography of J. Paul Getty

Author : Charissa Bremer-David,Peggy Fogelman,Peter Fusco,Catherine Hess
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,5 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.

Author : Gillian Wilson,Catherine Hess
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,8 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.

Author : Burton B. Fredericksen
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892360222

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Masterpieces of Painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Burton B. Fredericksen Pdf

J. Paul Getty began collecting Old Master paintings in the 1930s. He founded his Malibu museum in the early 1950s and continued to contribute to its collections until his death. As he left the museum generously endowed, major works of art have continued to be acquired. Mr. Getty’s personal preferences inclined toward Renaissance and Baroque painting of the Italian and Netherlandish schools, with some excursions into the art movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The masterpieces reproduced here show the care which he and the museum trustees have devoted to the formation of a new museum’s collection. The J. Paul Getty Museum’s new building was opened to the public in January 1974. It is a replica of the Villa dei Papiri excavated at Herculaneum and provides a spectacular setting for the collection of classical antiquities. The paintings collection is housed in more conventional galleries on the second floor.