Dutch Flower Painting 1600-1750
Author: Peter Mitchell
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Details of the lives of the painters and the story of the development of this genre
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Dutch Flower Painting
Author: Paul Taylor
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780300053906
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dutch Flower Painting, 1600-1720
Author: Paul Taylor
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780300053906
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At the time of the great tulip speculation of the 1630s in Holland, the most desirable tulip bulbs were auctioned for more money than the most expensive houses in Amsterdam. At the same time flower paintings which were remarkable for their apparent realism were produced all over Holland and purchased by Dutch families as enduring substitutes for the real thing. This beautiful book reveals the fascinating genesis and growth of a whole genre of paintings that has rarely been studied. Paul Taylor begins by discussing Holland's 'tulipomania' and its effect on the way people thought about floral still lifes. He then considers the religious messages associated with the flower paintings, exploring how religious writers spoke of flowers as moral signposts from God and how some flower paintings were meant to remind viewers of the transience of earthly existence. Flower paintings were not bought only as records of luxury objects or for moral edification, however. They were also enjoyed as works of art, as masterpieces of illusion, composition and colour harmony, so Taylor analyses the art-theoretical writings of the time in order to understand how artists and connoisseurs responded to flower pieces. He concludes by analysing the paintings themselves, tracing the development and refinement of the actual practice of flower painting.
Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780894682117
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Heda's Banquet Piece, Frans Hals' Willem Coymans, and Rembrandt's Lucretia. Paintings by these and other masters attracted the American collectors P. A. B. Widener, his son Joseph, and Andrew W. Mellon, whose bequests form the heart of the National Gallery's distinguished and remarkably cohesive collection of ninety-one Dutch paintings.
Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Walter A. Liedtke
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 1109
ISBN-13: 1588392732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents a catalog that surveys the Dutch paintings found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Flowers and Nature
Dictionary of Belgian and Dutch Flower Painters Born Between 1750 and 1880
Dutch and Flemish Flower Pieces (2 vols in case)
Author: Sam Segal
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-09-25
Total Pages: 1266
ISBN-13: 9004427457
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This richly illustrated book provides an overview of all known Dutch and Flemish artists up to the nineteenth century, who painted or drew flower pieces, or else made prints of them.
The Collection of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Paintings Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward
Author: Fred G. Meijer
Publisher: Spotlight Poets
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9789040088025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1939, the Ashmolean Museum received a bequest of ninety-four still-life paintings by Dutch and Flemish artists, assembled over many years by Theodore and Daisy Linda Ward. The collection - known as the Daisy Linda Ward Bequest - is one of the most important of its kind. The original catalogue of the collection written by Professor J.G. van Gelder and published in 1950, has long been out of print. Knowledge of the subject also changed significantly since 1950. The present catalogue written by one of the leading present-day scholars of still-life paintings is much more than a revised version of van Gelder's publication. It includes an essay on the background to the collection and a discussion of the taste for and the interpretation of Netherlandish still-life painting. It also includes an extensive discussion of each of the works dealing with questions of style and content and ranging widely over other issues affecting the history of the subject. This book will serve not only as a catalogue of the collection but also as an important and up-to-date work of reference.
Tulip
Author: Celia Fisher
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2017-04-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1780238037
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A long time ago, you could only find them on the slopes of remote mountain ranges in Asia, but today they are the very symbol of modern genetics, a species unrivalled for the variety of colors and forms that breeders can create: tulips. In this book, Celia Fisher traces the story of this important and highly popular plant, from its mountain beginnings to its prevalence in the gardens of Mughal, Persian, and Ottoman potentates; from its migration across the Silk Road to its explosive cultivation in the modern European world. Fisher looks at how tulips’ intensely saturated color has made them an important species for botanists and gardeners. Initially rare in sixteenth century Netherlands, tulips sparked such frenzy among aristocratic collectors that they caused the first economic bubble and collapse. Exploring the ways cultivators have created one hybrid after another—in an astonishing range of colors and shapes—Fisher also shows how tulips have inspired art and literature throughout the centuries, from Ottoman Turkey to the paintings of the Dutch Masters, from Alexandre Dumas’s novel The Black Tulip to contemporary artist David Cheung painting them atop pages of the Financial Times. Stunningly illustrated, this book offers a unique cultural history of one of our most important flowers.
