Between five and ten million paintings were produced in the Dutch republic in the seventeenth century. There was a greater demand for art, probably becuase of the purchaising power of the middle classs. The art market was regulated by the local Guild of Saint Luke.
"Building on art-historian Bernard Smith's insights about modernism's debts to the high imperial occult and exotic, this book explores the transcultural, 'anti-modern vitalist', and magical-syncretic dimensions of the arts of the period 1880-1960. Avoiding simplistic hypotheses …
An historical review of Irish art brings into view the many gifted artists who have been linked to foreign traditions.
Richard Smith: seven exhibitions 1961-75
by Smith, Richard, Rose, Barbara, Tate Gallery
Geschiedenis van en toelichting op de schenkingen en legaten aan de kunstcollectie van de Staat der Nederlanden. Geschiedenis van en toelichting op de schenkingen en legaten aan de kunstcollectie van de Staat der Nederlanden.
"Michelangelo's originality as an artist lay not only in ideas about perfection and beauty, but also in his unique approach to the artistic process and art's site specificity. Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel and the sculptures of the Medici Chapel and Julius II's t…
"Michelangelo's originality as an artist lay not only in ideas about perfection and beauty, but also in his unique approach to the artistic process and art's site specificity. Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel and the sculptures of the Medici Chapel and Julius II's t…
"Saints and Spectacle examines the origins and reception of the Middle Byzantine program of mosaic decoration. This complex and colorful system of images covers the walls and vaults of churches with figures and compositions seen against a dazzling gold ground. The surviving elev…
The great experiment: the Moscow Museum of Painterly Culture, 1918-1928 -- The center of artistic life: the Peoples' School of Art in Vitebsk, 1919-1923 -- The last citadel: the Petrograd Museum of Artistic Culture GINKhUK, 1919-1926 -- Epilogue.
This book explores the cultural transfers and transformations that define the transatlantic Spanish world in the Baroque era.