Oudry S Painted Menagerie

Author : Mary Morton
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892368891

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Oudry's Painted Menagerie by Mary Morton Pdf

In the 1720s and 1730s, Jean-Baptiste Oudry established himself as the preeminent painter in France of hunts, animals, still lifes, and landscapes. Oudry’s Painted Menagerie focuses on a suite of eleven life-size portraits of exotic animals from the royal menagerie at Versailles, painted by Oudry between 1739 and 1752. These paintings eventually found their way into the ducal collection in Schwerin, Germany. Among them is the magnificent portrait of Clara, an Indian rhinoceros who became a celebrity in mid-eighteenth-century Europe. Her portrait has been out of public view for more than a century, and it is presented here in its newly conserved state.

Author : Mary Tavener Holmes
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Indian rhinoceros
ISBN : 0892368802

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My Travels with Clara by Mary Tavener Holmes Pdf

A life-size portrait of the famous rhinoceros named Clara is the centerpiece of the J. Paul Getty Museums exhibition Oudrys Painted Menagerie. In her honor, the Getty has produced this book for children that tells the true story of this 5,000-pound animal and her owner, an 18-century Dutch sea captain. Full color.

Author : Sarah Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350203600

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Enlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art by Sarah Cohen Pdf

How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question, which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers, also emerged as a key theme in depictions of animals in eighteenth-century art. This book examines the ways in which painters such as Chardin, as well as sculptors, porcelain modelers, and other decorative designers portrayed animals as sensing subjects who physically confirmed the value of material experience. The sensual style known today as the Rococo encouraged the proliferation of animals as exemplars of empirical inquiry, ranging from the popular subject of the monkey artist to the alchemical wonders of the life-sized porcelain animals created for the Saxon court. Examining writings on sensory knowledge by La Mettrie, Condillac, Diderot and other philosophers side by side with depictions of the animal in art, Cohen argues that artists promoted the animal as a sensory subject while also validating the material basis of their own professional practice.

Author : Scott Allan,Mary G. Morton
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606060384

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Reconsidering Gérôme by Scott Allan,Mary G. Morton Pdf

An unprecedented reexamination of Gérôme's career and his place in art history.

Author : Jessica Priebe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000470383

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François Boucher and the Art of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century France by Jessica Priebe Pdf

While earlier studies have focused predominantly on artist François Boucher’s artistic style and identity, this book presents the first full-length interdisciplinary study of Boucher’s prolific collection of around 13,500 objects including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, porcelain, shells, minerals, and other imported curios. It discusses the types of objects he collected, the networks through which he acquired them, and their spectacular display in his custom-designed studio at the Louvre, where he lived and worked for nearly two decades. This book explores the role his collection played in the development of his art, his studio, his friendships, and the burgeoning market for luxury goods in mid-eighteenth-century France. In doing so, it sheds new light on the relationship between Boucher’s artistic and collecting practices, which attracted both praise and criticism from period observers. The book will appeal to scholars working in art history, museum studies, and French history.

Author : Maryann Macdonald
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781683352938

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Rosa's Animals by Maryann Macdonald Pdf

Painter and sculptor Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) led a highly nontraditional life, especially for a woman in the nineteenth century. She kept lions as pets, was awarded the Legion of Honor by Empress Eugénie, and befriended “Buffalo Bill” Cody. She became a painter at a time when women were often only reluctantly educated as artists. Her unconventional artistic work habits, including visiting slaughterhouses to sketch an animal’s anatomy and wearing men’s clothing to gain access to places like a horse fair, where women were not allowed, helped her become one of the most beloved female painters of her time. Among the artworks discussed are The Horse Fair and Ploughing in the Nivernais. Along with her life story are a list of museums that house her work, a bibliography, and an index.

Author : Heather Eleanor MacDonald
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300220179

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French Art of the Eighteenth Century by Heather Eleanor MacDonald Pdf

"Since 2004, the Dallas Museum of Art has been the repository of the renowned collection of eighteenth-century French art assembled by the late Michael Rosenberg. The long-term loan of these masterpieces greatly enhances the collection of European art at the Museum, and the series of scholarly lectures funded by the Foundation, the Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture Series, gives a powerful boost to its European art program. Those lectures, presented by top scholars in the field of European art history, are re-presented in this volume"--

Author : Linda Walsh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781118475515

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A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art by Linda Walsh Pdf

A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the social, economic, philosophical, and political debates that helped shape them. Covers both artistic developments and critical approaches to the period by leading contemporary scholars Uses an innovative framework to emphasize the roles of tradition, modernity, and hierarchy in the production of artistic works of the period Reveals the practical issues connected with the production, sale, public and private display of art of the period Assesses eighteenth-century art’s contribution to what we now refer to as ‘modernity’ Includes numerous illustrations, and is accompanied by online resources examining art produced outside Europe and its relationship with the West, along with other useful resources

Author : David Pullins
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-08-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606068885

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The Mobile Image from Watteau to Boucher by David Pullins Pdf

This book provides a new way of thinking about eighteenth-century French art and visual culture by prioritizing production over reception. Abandoning the ideologically driven discourse that distinguished fine from decorative art between the 1690s and 1770s, The Mobile Image reveals how the two have been inextricably bound from the earliest stages of artistic instruction through the daily life of painters’ workshops. In this study, author David Pullins defines artisanal and artistic means of learning, seeing, and making through a system of “mobile images”: motifs that were effectively engineered for mobility and designed never to be definitive, always awaiting replication and circulation. He examines the careers of Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and François Boucher, situating them against a much broader cast of actors—such as printmakers, publishers, anonymous studio assistants, and architects, among others—to place eighteenth-century painting within a wider context of media and making.

Author : Mieke Roscher,André Krebber,Brett Mizelle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110536553

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Handbook of Historical Animal Studies by Mieke Roscher,André Krebber,Brett Mizelle Pdf

Author : Charissa Bremer-David,J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781606060520

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Paris by Charissa Bremer-David,J. Paul Getty Museum Pdf

Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Apr. 26-Aug. 7, 2011, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sept. 18-Dec. 10, 2011.

Author : Robert Wenley,Charles Avery,Samuel Shaw,Helen Cowie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1913645029

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Miss Clara and the Celebrity Beast in Art 1500-1860 by Robert Wenley,Charles Avery,Samuel Shaw,Helen Cowie Pdf

The forgotten story of the rhinoceros Miss Clara, the most famous animal of the eighteenth century. "Miss Clara" arrived in Europe from the Dutch East Indies in 1741 and was toured around Europe to huge acclaim and excitement. The first rhinoceros to be seen on mainland Europe since 1579, Clara quickly became an object of great wonder and affection. Her fame generated a massive industry in souvenirs and imagery, from life-size paintings by major masters to cheap popular prints. There were even Clara-inspired clocks and hairstyles. This book brings us the story of the phenomenon of Clara, with a particular focus on three-dimensional representations of her, set within the context of other celebrity pachyderms represented by artists between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. At the core of the book is a small bronze statue of Miss Clara held by the Barber Museum, where it is a favorite of visitors. Accompanying essays put the works in their proper historical and artistic context.

Author : Jennifer Milam,Nicola Parsons
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781644532348

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Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century by Jennifer Milam,Nicola Parsons Pdf

This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experience occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. The event that gave rise to the collection was the 15th David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies, which launched a new Australian and New Zealand Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Two strands of interest are explored by the individual authors. The first four essays work with ideas about material objects and identity formation, suggesting how the artist's physical environment contributes to the sense of self, as a practicing artist or artisan, as an individual patron or collector, or as a woman or religious outsider. The last four essays address the intellectual work that can be expressed through or performed by objects. Through a consideration of the material formation of concepts, this book explores questions that are implicated by the need to see ideas in painted, sculpted, illustrated, and designed forms. In doing so, it introduces new visual materials and novel conceptual models into traditional accounts of the intellectual history of the Enlightenment.

Author : Nora Nachumi,Kristina Straub
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532645

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Making Stars by Nora Nachumi,Kristina Straub Pdf

Making Stars provides multiple perspectives on the simultaneous emergence of modern forms of life writing and celebrity culture in eighteenth-century Britain. Crossing multiple genres and media, contributors reveal the complex and varied ways in which these modern ways of thinking about individual identity mutually conditioned their emergence during this formative period.

Author : Hugh Ridley
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781398425941

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Bird Painting Between Art and Science by Hugh Ridley Pdf

Have you ever wondered why so many scientific handbooks on birds use paintings rather than photographs, or why the painters Killian Mullarney and Lars Johnson are such significant figures in ornithology? This book gives an account of the 500 years during which bird-painting reached such heights, and it traces the growth of scientific realism in this field. It shows how scientific understanding has shaped the art, and how artistic style has left its mark on the science. Birds cross frontiers unhindered, and the language of painting too knows no national barriers. This book explores the huge contribution of German painting to the international tradition. It looks at the work of great artists – Dürer and Rembrandt. It introduces the fascinating but neglected artists who made the landmark handbooks of the past. It pays tribute to those major figures of the last 150 years who brought the art to its perfection: Josef Wolf and Bruno Liljefors, and looks briefly at the competition with photography at the start of the twentieth century. It reveals the interlocking of art with the science of ornithology, as it was developed by figures such as Buffon and Darwin.