De Arte Graphica (Paris, 1668) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook De Arte Graphica (Paris, 1668) write by Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy. This book was released on 2005. De Arte Graphica (Paris, 1668) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edition commentée de ce poème latin de 549 vers sur l'art de la peinture qui connut un succès considérable aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.
The Fountain of Latona
The Fountain of Latona - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fountain of Latona write by Thomas F. Hedin. This book was released on 2022-05-27. The Fountain of Latona available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ovid tells the story of Latona, the mother by Jupiter of Apollo and Diana. In her flight from the jealous Juno, she arrives faint and parched on the coast of Asia Minor. Kneeling to sip from a pond, Latona is met by the local peasants, who not only deny her effort but muddy the water in pure malice. Enraged, Latona calls a curse down upon the stingy peasants, turning them to frogs. In his masterful study, Thomas F. Hedin reveals how and why a fountain of this strange legend was installed in the heart of Versailles in the 1660s, the inaugural decade of Louis XIV’s patronage there. The natural supply of water was scarce and unwieldy, and it took the genius of the king’s hydraulic engineers, working in partnership with the landscape architect André Le Nôtre, to exploit it. If Ovid’s peasants were punished for their stubborn denial of water, so too the obstacles of coarse nature at Versailles were conquered; the aquatic iconography of the fountain was equivalent to the aquatic reality of the gardens. Latona was designed by Charles Le Brun, the most powerful artist at the court of Louis XIV, and carried out by Gaspard and Balthazar Marsy. The 1660s were rich in artistic theory in France, and the artists of the fountain delivered substantial lectures at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on subjects of central concern to their current work. What they professed was what they were visualizing in the gardens. As such, the fountain is an insider’s guide to the leading artistic ideals of the moment. Louis XIV was viewed as the reincarnation of Apollo, the god of creativity, the inspiration of artists and scientists. Hedin’s original argument is that Latona was a double declaration: a glorification of the king and a proud manifesto by artists.
Rembrandt and His Critics 1630–1730
Rembrandt and His Critics 1630–1730 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rembrandt and His Critics 1630–1730 write by Seymour Slive. This book was released on 2013-03-09. Rembrandt and His Critics 1630–1730 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. My greatest debt in the writing of this book is to my teacher Dr. Ulrich Middeldorf, who taught me the methodology of research in art history, and who guided my studies of art theory and criticism. This study, which in an earlier form was accepted as a doctoral dissertation by the University of Chicago, was begun under Dr. Middeldorf's guidance, and during all stages of its preparation I benefited from his invaluable suggestions and criticism. A United States Government Grant enabled me to complete my researches on Rembrandt in the Netherlands, where I studied at the Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht with Dr. J.G. van Gelder, who was particularly generous with his knowledge and time. He read the manuscript and proofs, and offered numerous suggestions and additions which have been of great benefit to me. Special acknowledgement is made to the Kunsthistorisch lnstituut der Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht for generously finding a place for this study in the Utrechtse Bij dragen tot de Kunstgeschiedenis. I am also much indebted to Dr. H. Schulte Nordholt of the Kunsthistorisch lnstituut for his valuable advice and his help inseeing the book through the press.
The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della pittura (2 vols.)
The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della pittura (2 vols.) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della pittura (2 vols.) write by Claire Farago. This book was released on 2018-01-29. The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della pittura (2 vols.) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This first complete English translation, including over 250 full-color images, is a longitudinal cultural history of how art came to be institutionalized in the history of western representational practices.
Lectures on Art
Lectures on Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lectures on Art write by Christian Michel. This book was released on 2020-08-25. Lectures on Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the first time, a critical selection of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture’s highly influential conférences is available in English. Between 1667 and 1792, the artists and amateurs of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris lectured on the Académie’s conférences, foundational documents in the theory and practice of art. These texts and the principles they embody guided artistic practice and art theory in France and throughout Europe for two centuries. In the 1800s, the Académie’s influence waned, and few of the 388 Académie lectures were translated into English. Eminent scholars Christian Michel and Jacqueline Lichtenstein have selected and annotated forty-two of the most representative lectures, creating the first authoritative collection of the conférences for readers of English. Essential to understanding French art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these lectures reveal what leading French artists looked for in a painting or sculpture, the problems they sought to resolve in their works, and how they viewed their own and others’ artistic practice.
