Gemälde- und Skulpturenbestand
Title | Gemälde- und Skulpturenbestand PDF eBook |
Author | Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (Köln) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783598403095 |
New Stone Architecture
Title | New Stone Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | David Dernie |
Publisher | Laurence King Publishing |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Architecture, Modern |
ISBN | 1856693120 |
A discussion of stone construction and the nature of stone as a material. Aimed at practising architects and students, this study describes the new technologies that make the new stone forms possible. This is followed by 33 case studies from around the world.
Dawn of the Golden Age
Title | Dawn of the Golden Age PDF eBook |
Author | Wouter T. Kloek |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 732 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300060165 |
Designed as a catalogue for an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in 1994, this offers a survey of the paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and applied art produced 1580-1620. The book contains five essays followed by a catalogue which reproduces work from the era along with data on the artists.
Catalog of the Library of the Museum of Modern Art: Col
Title | Catalog of the Library of the Museum of Modern Art: Col PDF eBook |
Author | Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 702 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Painting and Patronage in Cologne, 1300-1500
Title | Painting and Patronage in Cologne, 1300-1500 PDF eBook |
Author | Brigitte Corley |
Publisher | Harvey Miller |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Cologne in the later Middle Ages was an elegant and wealthy mercantile city much favoured by popes and emperors. The largest town in Northern Europe, the site of an important university and seat of a major archbishopric, it had a cosmopolitan population of painters, illuminators, sculptors and goldsmiths and a patrician class who were sophisticated collectors and knowledgeable patrons of art. This book - the first such study in English - traces the development of the Cologne school of painting over two centuries. It begins with the period before 1400, when the adaption of French ideas to the indige- nous tradition produced an elegant, genteel art, characterized by elongated figures and graceful gestures. A change was heralded by the Veronica Master's introduction of the International Courtly Style around 1400, with its sophisticated iconography, costly pigments, exquisite punchwork, gesso jewels and precious brocade fabrics, and by the Dombild Master's introduction around 1440 of Eyckian proportions and realism. In the final phase of this development, the Master of the St Bartholomew Altarpiece opened the door to the Renaissance with his highly distinctive style and innovative iconography. The book is fully illustrated and accompanied by a translation of the guild regulations; a biographical index of archbishops and lay patrons; and a hand- list of cited panels grouped according to location.
St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne
Title | St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Bradford Montgomery |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9783039118526 |
The cult of St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgin Martyrs of Cologne was the most widespread relic cult in medieval Europe. The sheer abundance of relics of the Eleven Thousand Virgins, which allowed for the display of immense collections, shaped the notion of corporate cohesion that characterized the cult. Though the primacy of St. Ursula as the leader of this holy band was established by the tenth century, she was conceived as the head of a corporate body. Innumerable inventories and liturgical texts attest to the fact that this cult was commemorated and referenced as a collective mass - Undecim millium virginum. This group identity informed, and was formulated by, the presentation of their relics, as well as much of the imagery associated with this cult. This book explores the visual, textual, performative, and perceptual aspects of this phenomenon, with particular emphasis on painting and sculpture in late medieval Cologne. Examining the ways in which both texts and images worked as vestments, garbing the true core of relics which formed the body of the cult, the book examines the cult from the core outward, seeking to understand hagiographic texts and images in terms of their role in articulating relic cults.
Art of the 20th Century
Title | Art of the 20th Century PDF eBook |
Author | Karl Ruhrberg |
Publisher | Taschen |
Pages | 850 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9783822859070 |
The original edition of this ambitious reference was published in hardcover in 1998, in two oversize volumes (10x13"). This edition combines the two volumes into one; it's paperbound ("flexi-cover"--the paper has a plastic coating), smaller (8x10", and affordable for art book buyers with shallower pockets--none of whom should pass it by. The scope is encyclopedic: half the work (originally the first volume) is devoted to painting; the other half to sculpture, new media, and photography. Chapters are arranged thematically, and each page displays several examples (in color) of work under discussion. The final section, a lexicon of artists, includes a small bandw photo of each artist, as well as biographical information and details of work, writings, and exhibitions. Ruhrberg and the three other authors are veteran art historians, curators, and writers, as is editor Walther. c. Book News Inc.