Rubens Unveiled

Author : Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Belgium),Nico van Hout,Arnout Balis
Publisher : Ludion
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Painting
ISBN : 9461300131

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Rubens Unveiled by Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Belgium),Nico van Hout,Arnout Balis Pdf

The genius and virtuosity of Rubens' painterly skill is apparent. But how exactly did he work? How did he actually create his paintings? This beautiful book takes the reader through the entire passage from sketch to sale. It looks over the master's shoulder and discovers how he first made pentimenti, oil sketches and model studies before applying his paint to what were at times enormous panels - sometimes in many successive transparent layers, at other times directly with colourful brushstrokes. Rubens was a craftsman, and was familiar with the work of his contemporaries and the latest techniques, on which he himself made variations or adaptations. He employed assistants to carry out parts of a work, negotiated prices, and took a keen interest in the transportation of his work. The words of Rubens himself or his contemporaries feature regularly in this publication so that the genesis of a work can be followed at first hand.

Author : Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Belgique)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:884872970

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Rubens Unveiled by Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Belgique) Pdf

Author : Adam Sammut
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004276383

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Rubens and the Dominican Church in Antwerp by Adam Sammut Pdf

This book is about the Dominican church in Antwerp (today St Paul’s). It is structured around three works of art, made or procured by Peter Paul Rubens: the Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary cycle (in situ), Caravaggio’s Rosary Madonna (Vienna) and the Wrath of Christ high altarpiece (Lyon). Within the artist’s lifetime, the church and monastery were completely rebuilt, creating one of the most spectacular sacred spaces in Northern Europe. In this richly illustrated book, Adam Sammut reconceptualises early modern churches as theatres of political economy, advancing an original approach to cultural production in a time of war. Using methodologies at the cutting edge of the humanities, the place of St Paul’s is restored to the crux of Antwerp’s commercial, civic and religious life.

Author : Valerie Herremans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Church decoration and ornament
ISBN : 946161134X

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Rubens Unveiled by Valerie Herremans Pdf

"This is the second volume in the series "Rubens Unveiled", in which the Rubens Research Project of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp shares the fruits of its research with a wider public. It follows a first book on Rubens's painting technique. This second publication explores the physical, spiritual and cultural context of several major Rubens paintings in the Antwerp Museum's collection, drawn from four once-prominent houses of worship in the city. The Norbertine Abbey of St Michael, the Franciscan Church, and the churches of the Calced and the Discalced Carmelites were all suppressed during the French occupation that began in 1794. The book describes the history of these religious institutions and reveals how they looked, inside and out."--Page 4 de couverture.

Author : Mark Lamster
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307387356

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Master of Shadows by Mark Lamster Pdf

Although his popularity is eclipsed by Rembrandt today, Peter Paul Rubens was revered by his contemporaries as the greatest painter of his era, if not of all history. His undeniable artistic genius, bolstered by a modest disposition and a reputation as a man of tact and discretion, made him a favorite among monarchs and political leaders across Europe—and gave him the perfect cover for the clandestine activities that shaped the landscape of seventeenth-century politics. In Master of Shadows, Mark Lamster brilliantly recreates the culture, religious conflicts, and political intrigues of Rubens’s time, following the painter from Antwerp to London, Madrid, Paris, and Rome and providing an insightful exploration of Rubens’s art as well as the private passions that influenced it.

Author : Jane Jelley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780198789727

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Traces of Vermeer by Jane Jelley Pdf

Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; the glimmer of satin, silver, and linen; we see the softness of a hand on a lute string or letter. We recognize the distilled impression of a moment of time; and we feel it to be real. We might hope for some answers from the experts, but they are confounded too. Even with the modern technology available, they do not know why there is no evidence of any preliminary drawing; why there are shifts in focus; and why his pictures are unusually blurred. Some wonder if he might possibly have used a camera obscura to capture what he saw before him. The few traces Vermeer has left behind tell us little: there are no letters or diaries; and no reports of him at work. Jane Jelley has taken a new path in this detective story. A painter herself, she has worked with the materials of his time: the cochineal insect and lapis lazuli; the sheep bones, soot, earth, and rust. She shows us how painters made their pictures layer by layer; she investigates old secrets; and hears travelers' tales. She explores how Vermeer could have used a lens in the creation of his masterpieces. The clues were there all along. After all this time, now we can unlock the studio door, and catch a glimpse of Vermeer inside, painting light.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Europe
ISBN : ZHBL:ZHBL-00085877

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A Satchel Guide for the Vacation Tourist in Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : George H. Heffner
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547136576

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The Youthful Wanderer by George H. Heffner Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Youthful Wanderer" by George H. Heffner. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Saber Saleuddin,Angela B. Lange,Ian Orchard
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1055 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429555008

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Advances in Invertebrate (Neuro)Endocrinology (2-volume set) by Saber Saleuddin,Angela B. Lange,Ian Orchard Pdf

Advances in Invertebrate (Neuro)Endocrinology: A Collection of Reviews in the Post-Genomic Era (2-volume set) provides an informative series of reviews from expert scientists who are at the forefront of their research into the endocrinology of invertebrates. These two volumes are timely and appropriate in this post-genomic era because of the rapid pace of change brought about by genome projects, functional genomics, and genetics (omics technologies). The volume shows the rich history and strong tradition of cutting-edge research using invertebrates that has opened up our broader understanding of comparative endocrinology and the evolution of regulatory pathways and systems. These reviews set the scene and context for this exciting new era of understanding that has come from this post-genomic revolution. This book undertakes the daunting task of covering most of the diverse endocrine systems that exist among invertebrates. The papers in this book will advance our knowledge of invertebrate endocrinology but also of endocrinology in general, making the book will be valuable to researchers and students.

Author : Jeffrey Muller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004311886

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St. Jacob’s Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens’s Parish Church by Jeffrey Muller Pdf

St. Jacob’s is the only church to survive intact from Antwerp’s Counter Reformation (1585-1794). Jeffrey Muller wreathes together the testimony of masterpieces and archives in Rubens’s parish church to reconstruct art’s integral role in religion and the transformation of society.

Author : Saber Saleuddin,Angela B. Lange,Ian Orchard
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000047479

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Advances in Invertebrate (Neuro)Endocrinology by Saber Saleuddin,Angela B. Lange,Ian Orchard Pdf

Advances in Invertebrate (Neuro)Endocrinology: A Collection of Reviews in the Post-Genomic Era (2-volume set) provides an informative series of reviews from expert scientists who are at the forefront of their research into the endocrinology of invertebrates. These two volumes are timely and appropriate in this post-genomic era because of the rapid pace of change brought about by genome projects, functional genomics, and genetics (omics technologies). The volume shows the rich history and strong tradition of cutting-edge research using invertebrates that has opened up our broader understanding of comparative endocrinology and the evolution of regulatory pathways and systems. These reviews set the scene and context for this exciting new era of understanding that has come from this post-genomic revolution. This book undertakes the daunting task of covering most of the diverse endocrine systems that exist among invertebrates. The papers in this book will advance our knowledge of invertebrate endocrinology but also of endocrinology in general, making the book will be valuable to researchers and students.

Author : Avigdor Arikha
Publisher : ERIS
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781912475179

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On Depiction: Selected Writings on Art by Avigdor Arikha Pdf

A marvellous book which teaches us how to see. There is not a word out of place. And the author’s seriousness allows us to feel his full passion, what really matters for him… This book will provide me lasting company, and I will often look in its pages for backing for my own judgements. —Jean Starobinski When a great painter also happens to be an intelligent and cultivated one, his observations on art count a hundred times more than a critic’s or a historian’s do. A man’s knowledge of his own craft is both irreplaceable and indispensable. —Simon Leys Throughout his whole development I have never ceased to admire the acuteness of his vision and his faultless insight into the art of the past. —Samuel Beckett Avigdor Arikha was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. He was born in Romania to German-speaking Romanian Jewish parents and spent most of his life in Paris. A talented child, he started drawing early on. During the Second World War, he was deported to a concentration camp in the Ukraine, where he drew the horrors he witnessed. These drawings saved his life. During the 1950s, he established himself in Paris and was enjoying a successful career as an abstract painter. In 1965, a Caravaggio exhibition prompted him to convert to drawing from life. He stopped using colour until 1973, when he started again to paint. He worked with a religious, almost war-like, intensity until his death. Arikha was also an erudite and passionate scholar, endowed with a deep understanding of the history of art and its techniques, well-versed in world history and fascinated by science. He wrote many essays and curated important exhibitions of masters such as Poussin, Velázquez and Ingres. In this collection of essays that he wrote between 1965 and 1994, Arikha expounds on art and artists (Mantegna, Velázquez, Poussin, David, Ingres, Degas, Matisse, and more), technique, seeing, and the state of culture in his day which, one could argue, is no more hopeful today, almost thirty years later.

Author : Wendy Bellion
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780807838907

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Citizen Spectator by Wendy Bellion Pdf

In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic art in the early United States, Wendy Bellion investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation, and subjectivity between 1790 and 1825. Focusing on the work of the well-known Peale family and their Philadelphia Museum, as well as other Philadelphians, Bellion explores the range of illusions encountered in public spaces, from trompe l'oeil paintings and drawings at art exhibitions to ephemeral displays of phantasmagoria, "Invisible Ladies," and other spectacles of deception. Bellion reconstructs the elite and vernacular sites where such art and objects appeared and argues that early national exhibitions doubled as spaces of citizen formation. Within a post-Revolutionary culture troubled by the social and political consequences of deception, keen perception signified able citizenship. Setting illusions into dialogue with Enlightenment cultures of science, print, politics, and the senses, Citizen Spectator demonstrates that pictorial and optical illusions functioned to cultivate but also to confound discernment. Bellion reveals the equivocal nature of illusion during the early republic, mapping its changing forms and functions, and uncovers surprising links between early American art, culture, and citizenship.

Author : T. W. Fisher,Thomas S. Bellows,L. E. Caltagirone,D. L. Dahlsten,Carl B. Huffaker,G. Gordh
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1073 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080533018

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Handbook of Biological Control by T. W. Fisher,Thomas S. Bellows,L. E. Caltagirone,D. L. Dahlsten,Carl B. Huffaker,G. Gordh Pdf

For many years the use of chemical agents such as pesticides and herbicides has been effective in controlling the many varieties of pests that infest both agricultural crops and backyard gardens. However, these pests are gradually becoming resistant to these agents, because the agents themselves are acting as selective factors making the pests better and better able to resist and persist. As a result, the use of biological controlling agents is increasing. This book is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook of biological control.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : jideon francisco marques
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Fluency in English How to unlock your full potential in speaking English For beginners and advanced by Anonim Pdf

This book is essential for you to break through and not only improving your spoken skills, but developing them so well that you can speak like a native English speaker.Armed with the proven tips, tricks and techniques in this book, you’ll discover that you’ll be soaring to an entirely new and exciting level of learning within days. On top of that, these guidelines can be used nearly effortlessly.Proven Technique That WorksYou’ll discover what “shadowing” is and how it can painlessly take you to a supreme status in your studies. You’ll also learn about a related method of learning to pronounce English fearlessly. It’s called the “scriptorium method.” Once you try it you’ll realize why so many people praise its effectiveness.English is not an easy language to learn. But if you are using proper methods to learn and speak, you’ll find that your next level of learning is just a click away. Learn and adopt these techniques, tips, and many more secrets revealed in this book, and your English fluency will be in a whole different level in 60 days !Remember: Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.Download Now and Start Speaking Fluent English! Leia menos