Présentation de l'activité de portraitiste du peintre vénitien de la fin de la Renaissance, qui eut pour modèles des princes, des papes, des empereurs, des hommes de lettres célèbres, etc. Ses portraits témoignent de son évolution stylistique au cours de sa longue carrière, de son ascension sociale et de sa renommée européenne.
Une exploration des différentes méthodes employées par les artistes du siècle d'or hollandais pour créer leurs peintures à l'aide d'esquisses préliminaires et de dessins de construction. Les feuilles d'études sont présentées en regard des oeuvres peintes dont elles constituent les fondations.
How the culture of Renaissance Venice shaped Titian's timeless paintings of women.
A new ideal of feminine beauty arose in 16th-century Venice, as women acquired new rights of inheritance and more social power. As a result, through the writings of poets and humanists, the construction of the desired, beloved woman began to acquire civic significance. The crucial impetus for the visual realization of this ideal came from Venice's greatest artist: Titian. For him, artistic beauty was identical with female beauty. He was less interested in the canon of exterior beauty than in a woman's character, in femininity as such. Titian elevates every depiction of a woman into a celebration of womanhood.
This book illustrates the Venetian representation of women in the 16th century, using comparisons between Titian and other painters of his time, such as Sebastiano del Piombo, Lotto, Palma il Vecchio, Paris Bordone, Veronese and Tintoretto. It surveys the various aspects of Late Renaissance female idealization: from realistic portraits to increasingly poetic variations, where female representation reaches its zenith as history, myth and allegory.
This richly illustrated volume also looks at the clothes and coiffures sported by sitters in both real and ideal portraits, and discusses contemporary fashion with its predilection for sumptuous fabrics and costly jewels and pearls.
Titian (1488/90-1576), born Tiziano Vecellio, is considered one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance in Venice, alongside Tintoretto and Veronese. He was born in the Republic of Venice, where he apprenticed for Giovani Bellini, and where he lived until his death.
A scholarly reappraisal of Luini's appropriation of Da Vinci's motifs and compositions.
This volume examines a selection of paintings from the 1520s by Italian Renaissance painter Bernardino Luini (c. 1480/85-1532) that were highly influenced by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), endeavoring to reconceive Luini's much-criticized lack of originality vis-à-vis the older master.
Luini's critics, the book argues, fail to consider the function of his paintings as devotional images for the general public. Not only did Luini simplify and clarify da Vinci's motifs--rendering them accessible to uneducated viewers--but he also helped set a new standard for the depiction of sacred subjects, drawing inspiration from other artists such as Andrea Solario.
While little is known about the public's perception of religious art during this period, the compositions of Luini's paintings provide clues--as detectable in the way he foregrounds figures and frames their interactions with one another and the beholder.
Des grands nus aux célèbres portraits, la vie tourmentée de Modigliani, « l'ange au visage grave ». Une présentation de la vie de l'artiste, avec 50 chefs-d'oeuvre. Une table chronologique, les fiches techniques des oeuvres, une brève anthologie critique et les conseils bibliographiques, en 96 pages en couleurs.
Les chefs-d'oeuvre de l'artiste qui a mis à nu les passions les plus inquiétantes de l'homme contemporain. Une présentation de la vie de l'artiste, avec 50 chefs-d'oeuvre. Une table chronologique, les fiches techniques des oeuvres, une brève anthologie critique et les conseils bibliographiques, en 96 pages en couleurs.
Cinq oeuvres originales de Kent Monkman.
À l'occasion de la réouverture du Centre culturel canadien à sa nouvelle adresse rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré en mai 2018, l'artiste Kent Monkman réalisera cinq peintures ancrée dans l'histoire du pays pour ce nouvel espace. En mettant en parallèle les peintures classiques qui inspirent les tableaux de l'artiste, ainsi que des objets amérindiens provenant du Musée des Confluences, le catalogue proposera une réflexion sur la subversion des images opérées par Kent Monkman.
De descendance crie et irlandaise, l'artiste canadien aborde souvent dans son travail la relation de pouvoir qui existe et a existé entre les communautés blanches et autochtones, depuis l'arrivée des premiers colons dans le grand Nord. Les thèmes du colonialisme, de l'acculturation forcée, de la xénophobie et de l'homophobie y sont traités avec irrévérence et parfois humour, afin d'établir un dialogue autour de l'identité canadienne.
L'ouvrage contiendra également une interview de l'artiste, réalisée spécialement pour l'occasion par la directrice adjointe du Centre culturel canadien, qui permettra au lecteur de mieux comprendre l'oeuvre de Kent Monkman.
A sublime compendium of drawings from the school of Renaissance virtuoso Gaudenzio Ferrari This book presents the 16th-century cartoons of Northern Italian Renaissance artist Gaudenzio Ferrari (c. 1471-1546) and his students, who largely practiced in a style that combined elements of Milanese realism and Venetian color palettes in painting and sculpture. Donated in 1832 to the Pinacoteca dell'Accademia Albertina in Turin by King Charles Albert of Savoy, this collection of drawings has been carefully preserved through several centuries to arrive, reproduced in high resolution for the first time, within the pages of this volume. Nearly 60 preparatory drawings of varying sizes provide insight into the processes behind paintings by Ferrari and many of his students, who would go on to become significant figures themselves, such as Bernadino Lanino, Gerolamo Giovenone and Giuseppe Giovenone the Younger. These documents give readers a glimpse into what art education looked like in the Renaissance era, long before the arrival of modern fine arts academies.
