Modern and Contemporary Art at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Title | Modern and Contemporary Art at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780890901984 |
Collecting African American Art
Title | Collecting African American Art PDF eBook |
Author | John Hope Franklin |
Publisher | Museum of Fine Arts (Houston) |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Architecture |
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"Celebrating an important aspect of cultural history, this book showcases the institutional and private efforts to collect, document, and preserve African American art in Houston during the 20th and 21st centuries"--Provided by publisher.
Hockney-Van Gogh
Title | Hockney-Van Gogh PDF eBook |
Author | Hans den Hartog Jager |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780500239971 |
A parallel look at Hockney and Van Gogh's love of nature as expressed in their landscape paintings
Spectacular Rubens
Title | Spectacular Rubens PDF eBook |
Author | Alejandro Vergara |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 2014-10-14 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1606064304 |
The six glorious scenes that make up the Triumph of the Eucharist series by Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) are highlights of the Museo Nacional del Prado’s superb collection of Flemish paintings. Completed in 1626, these brilliantly detailed sketches were painted at the behest of the Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia in preparation for a series of monumental tapestries that are now considered among the finest made in Europe in the seventeenth century. Unfortunately, additions to the wooden supports, introduced after the paintings were created, made the panels considerably larger than Rubens intended and over time caused serious damage to the original sections. With the aid of the Getty Foundation’s Panel Paintings Initiative, the panels have been restored and returned to their original dimensions by the Prado, and the magnificent oil sketches can once again be placed on public view. This lushly illustrated and illuminating volume provides new insight into the history of the Eucharist series of paintings and tapestries and attests to Rubens’s exhilarating art. Spectacular Rubens is published on the occasion of an exhibition of the paintings, on view at the Museo Nacional del Prado from March 25 through June 29, 2014, and at the J. Paul Getty Museum from October 14, 2014, through January 4, 2015.
Alice Neel
Title | Alice Neel PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Neel |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Art |
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"Explores the themes and stylistic developments of the art of Alice Neel, one of the greatest American painters of the twentieth century, with works spanning nearly seven decades, four essays and additional texts addressing themes and specific works, three artists' appreciations, and a chronology and bibliography"--Provided by publisher.
Cleopatra
Title | Cleopatra PDF eBook |
Author | Stacy Schiff |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0316121800 |
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well; incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men. They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and -- after his murder -- three more with his protégé. Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean; the relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most influential woman of the age. The two would together attempt to forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled their ends. Cleopatra has lodged herself in our imaginations ever since. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way, Cleopatra's supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff 's is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.
Texas
Title | Texas PDF eBook |
Author | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
Publisher | Abradale Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2000-10 |
Genre | Architecture |
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Provides the first assessment of the artists who have shaped the rich history of art in Texas, from its 19th-century origins to the diversity of the present scene.