Edgar Peters Bowron's Books

Inventive storytelling: the early subject pictures -- Batoni's British patrons and the grand tour -- Painter of princes and prince of painters -- Restorer of the Roman school: final years and reception -- Drawings, working methods, and studio practices.

The museum's distinguished director in the 1930s and 1940s, Chick Austin, acquired notable works by Strozzi, Luca Giordano, Claude, and the first authentic Caravaggio in an American museum. Today the Atheneum can present an exhibition beginning with such renaissance masters as Piero di Cosimo and Sebastiano del Piombo, continuing with the finest examples of Baroque painting, and culminating in a blaze of rococo splendor with Tiepolo, Canaletto, Guardi, Melendez, Greuze, and Goya. This catalogue includes a history of the collection by Eric Zafran and entries on the individual paintings by distinguished scholars."--BOOK JACKET.

This beautiful and important book highlights the collection of European drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery, one of America's premier university museums. From intimate studies to exquisite finished compositions, this selection of works documents the history of European drawing practices beginning with late-medieval model books and progressing to the verge of the modern period. The accompanying text--written by a team of scholars--offers a unique introduction to various critical and technical aspects of the study of master drawings, brought to life through drawings from a range of national schools and in a variety of media. Among the drawings examined in this handsomely produced volume are an animated pen and ink sketch by Giulio Romano, a pastoral landscape by Claude Lorrain, a forceful and humorous caricature by Guercino, a scene from the epic poem Orlando Furioso by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and a delicate portrait by Edgar Degas.

In association with the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Katalog towarzyszący wystawom w: Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais w Paryżu, 9 luty - 16 maj 1988; National Galery of Canada w Ottawie, 16 czerwiec - 28 sierpień 1988; Metropolitan Museum of Art w Nowym Jorku, 27 wrzesień - 8 styczeń 1989.

This meticulously researched catalogue presents an authoritative assessment of the works of Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), one of the 18th century's most celebrated painters. Born in Lucca, Batoni established himself in Rome and received commissions from popes, princes, and British aristocrats on the Grand Tour. Batoni was highly sought after for his theatrical yet incisive--and often flattering--portraits. Connoisseurs and cognoscenti also prized his learned and technically brilliant allegorical, religious, and mythological compositions. With entries on more than 480 paintings and 250 drawings, this magnificent two-volume set provides the most complete examination to date of Batoni's entire oeuvre. Featuring beautiful, high-quality reproductions, the book provides thorough details on provenance and exhibition history as well as biographies of the portrait sitters. New analysis of the works, resulting from decades of research, reinterprets some of Batoni's iconography, identifies new textual and visual sources of his imagery, and reveals insights gleaned from unpublished archival materials"--

Published to coincide with the opening of the Audrey Jones Beck building in March of 2000, this illustrated catalogue - the first single volume dedicated to this collection - features one hundred of the most important European paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The works, which range in date from the early Renaissance to the beginning of the twentieth century, are all featured as full-page color plates. The accompanying text is accessible, providing insights into the artists' lives and explaining - in general terms - the stylistic evolution of the history of European painting. Furthermore, new research on unpublished works has been incorporated into the entries." "With beautiful reproductions and informative commentary, Masterworks of European Painting will be of great appeal to art lovers and scholars alike."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

In association with the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

This beautifully produced book features 60 works by such illustrious artists as Francis Bacon, Gustave Courbet, Salvador Dali, Lucian Freud, Thomas Gainsborough, Edouard Manet, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Andrew Wyeth, and many more. Four fascinating essays by distinguished scholars discuss the dog in the context of the art of the 16th through the 21st centuries.

Book's by Edgar Peters Bowron

Pompeo Batoni

Pompeo Batoni

Renaissance to Rococo

Renaissance to Rococo

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

A Gift to America

A Gift to America

Degas

Degas

Pompeo Batoni

Pompeo Batoni

Masterworks of European Painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Masterworks of European Painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Pompeo Batoni

Pompeo Batoni

A Gift to America

A Gift to America

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