Much more than just another ordinary survey of art history, this absorbing, heavily illustrated volume reveals the always interesting and often surprising cross-influences and connections among 50 of the most important painters in European and American art. Handsome and enlightening illustrated spreads present "trees of influence," each of which focuses on a major artist or significant school of art. Included are time lines, reproductions of paintings, and capsule analyses of the works being discussed. For example, a two-page spread on the seventeenth-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer shows readers <li> Influences on Vermeer's work: </li> Older contemporary artists who inspired him, including Pieter de Hooch, Carel Fabritius, and artists from the city of Utrecht who were influenced by the Italian realist painter Caravaggio. Also influencing Vermeer's work were seventeenth-century advances in lens making that included development of the camera obscura. That device helped artists capture realistic details in their paintings. <li> A Time Line spanning Vermeer's life: </li>Major events from his birth in the city of Delft in 1632 to his death in 1675. <li> Later artists inspired by Vermeer: </li>including twentieth-century painters Edward Hopper and Salvador Dali, as well as filmmakers and composers of our own era. Other artists and their works are examined in similar detail. They include Piero della Francesca, Sandro Botticelli, Hieronymus Bosch, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht D¼rer, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and others. Related art movements and schools are discussed with illustrated examples, and include the Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassical eras; Romanticism and Realism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Impressionism; Postimpressionism; Modernism and its trend toward abstraction, including its many schools and movements--Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Op Art, Kinetic Art, Video Art, Post-Modernism, and others. Approximately 225 color illustrations include reproductions of the famous works being discussed.

The World's Most Influential Painters and the Artists They Inspired

Arts & Photography

Denker, Eric

Weller, Dennis P.

Gariff, David

History & Criticism

B E S Pub Co

The first comprehensive examination of one of the masters (ca. 1610-1668) of the Dutch Golden Age.

Jan Miense Molenaer: Painter of the Dutch Golden Age

Hudson Hills

One of Holland's most innovative painters of the seventeenth century, but long overshadowed by his more famous wife, painter Judith Leyster, Molenaer is a key link between Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Jan Steen. His early work consists of colourful genre paintings, portraits, and portrayals of the playful world of children, followed by a concentration on scenes of peasant life, all displaying an inventive symbolism and humour. Contents: Jan Miense Molenaer: Painter of the Dutch Golden Age; Molenaer in his Studio: Props, Models and Motifs; Jan Miense Molenaer in the Comic Mode; Catalogue of the Exhibition; Appendix: The 1668 Inventory of Molenaer's Possessions

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Rembrandt in America: Collecting and Connoisseurship

Published on the occasion of a major exhibition bringing together the best Rembrandt paintings from American collections. The great seventeenth-century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn is one of the most important painters in the history of European art. This richly illustrated volume gathers some fifty of the finest paintings by the Dutch master and his followers from private and public collections across America, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rembrandt had an uncanny ability to depict light and shadow, and to capture the emotions of his sitters. In addition to his portraits, he is also known for historical scenes. Highlighting the authentic Rembrandts in America during the late nineteenth century’s Gilded Age, a time when American tycoons cultivated a passion for collecting European masterpieces, the book also features fifteen to twenty works that were originally attributed to the master’s hand but are now recognized as paintings by his successors, contemporary followers, and later imitators. An introduction focusing on Rembrandt as a cultural phenomenon is followed by essays devoted to his life, the controversy associated with his workshop, and the pursuit of Rembrandt in America. Published in association with the Cleveland Museum of Art, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Keyes, George S.

Rassieur, Tom

Individual Artists

Cleveland Museum of Art Bookstore

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