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The Splendor of Ruins in French Landscape Paintings 1630 - 1800

Thurber, T. Barton

Borys, Stephen D

and, Wintermute, Alan

Allen Memorial Art Museum

Inspired by the discovery and excavation of ancient Roman treasures, patrons, artists, and scholars from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries strove to recreate the legendary greatness of classical Rome in paintings, sculptures, and on paper. The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College's collections are rich in such representations imparting the spirit of the architecture, mythology, and antiquities of the Eternal City. This illustrated catalogue considers a selection of vivid and imaginative Renaissance and Enlightenment artistic and intellectual interpretations of Rome's classical monuments and antiquities in the context of the city's cultural, political, and social history. In the tradition of sophisticated curatorial thinking at the Hood, the thematic grouping of the pieces suggests a highly nuanced approach to issues of place, memory, status, iconography, aesthetics, and historical imagination. Essays by T. Barton Thurber, "Survival and Revival of the Classical Tradition: Antiquity in Rome from the Baroque Era to the Age of Enlightenment", and Adrian W. B. Randolph, "How Great Rome Was the Ruins Teach': Antiquity in Renaissance Rome", provide general overviews of the circumstances inspiring the featured representations of Rome. Introduction by Derrick R. Cartwright; bibliography.

Antiquity in Rome: From the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment

Arts & Photography

Randolph, Adrian W. B.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Hood Museum of Art

European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art

European Art at Dartmouth is the second in a series of catalogues from the Hood that will highlight different areas of the museum's collection, following the publication last year of American Art at Dartmouth. European Art is the first book to present the quality and variety of these works in the museum, of which only a small portion is exhibited regularly though hundreds are used for teaching each year. The fully illustrated catalogue includes an introductory essay by T. Barton Thurber that documents the history of the formation of the collection as well as entries by thirty American and European scholars. The catalogue highlights over 150 objects from the Italian and German Renaissance, the Dutch Golden Age, the Enlightenment and Romantic periods, and the early modern era. Featured artists include Andrea Mantegna, Pietro Perugino, Albrecht Durer, Claude Lorrain, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Davidsz de Heem, Louis-Leopold Boilly, John Constable, Georges Braque, and Pablo Picasso. The European holdings of the Hood Museum of Art, now far more varied in nature, serve diverse audiences within and well beyond the College community and its environs.

History & Criticism

Univ Pr of New England

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