Desmond Shawe-Taylor Livres

"The 'Conversation Piece' is an intriguing contradiction - the high-life group, but caught informally, off-guard. Popular in seventeenth-century Dutch painting, it developed to include sporting events and 'Grand Tourists', and reached its apogee in the eighteenth century in the masterpieces created by Johan Zoffany for his English patrons, including George III." "This new publication accompanies the first exhibition on this subject for over thirty years, presenting early Dutch and Flemish genre paintings against their successors in the informal portraiture of Stubbs and Hogarth, as well as iconic works by Zoffany himself. It also provides a unique opportunity to connect the study of the 'conversation' in eighteenth-century English art to its seventeenth-century European predecessors." --Book Jacket.

Dutch artists dominated the genre of landscape painting in the seventeenth century, and Dutch Landscapes brings together more than one hundred lavish color images of their beautiful paintings, which remain popular with art lovers and museum-goers today.          The volume is dominated by stunning evocations of the landscape of Holland—its manmade lowlands and richly foreboding skies—populated with peasants at their labors and aristocrats riding off to the hunt. But Dutch artists didn’t limit themselves to views of their they also ventured to Italy, where the wildly different landscape inspired new approaches and themes, from Arcadian wilderness to the lively activity of the Roman streetscape. And then there was the sea—the source of the Netherlands’ prosperity—which painters captured in all its drama and power.             Desmond Shawe-Taylor’s accessible notes to each picture link the paintings and explore their relationships, their shared approaches, and their many innovations; the result is a book that brings to life the Dutch Golden Age in all its glory.

Offizieller Katalog zur Ausstellung The British Royal Collection Brüssel, Royal Museum of Fine Arts (01.05.2008 – 15.09.2008) Ihre königliche Majestät lässt bitten! Die Royal Collection, durch persönliche Vorlieben und Sammelleidenschaften der englischen Königinnen und Könige über Jahrhunderte gewachsen, ist eine der erlesensten Gemäldesammlung der Welt. Dieser Referenztitel zur flämischen Malerei vereint in einmaliger Weise Meisterwerke u. a. von Pieter Bruegel dem Älteren, Van Dyck und Rubens. Mit ihrer brillanten Maltechnik und eingängigen, originellen Bildfindungen schufen diese Maler einen eindrucksvollen Gegenpart zum Goldenen Zeitalter der niederländischen Malerei. Die faszinierende Entfaltung der flämischen Malerschule wird hier vor dem Hintergrund der politischen Wirren der Zeit anschaulich und mit großem Sachverstand dargelegt. · Die Sammlung der Königin Elizabeth II. – einmalig und einzigartig! · Meisterwerke u. a. von Pieter Bruegel dem Älteren, Van Dyck und Rubens · Referenztitel zur flämischen Malerei