Ingres

Whiteley, Jon

Hippocrene Books

Oxford was the home base for England's Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group that included, for a time, a few women. This book delves into how and why Rossetti, Millais, Hunt and others broke the conventional rules of picture making in their day.

Oxford and the Pre-Raphaelites (Ashmolean-Christie's Handbooks)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Ashmolean Museum

This fascinating book, which accompanied a major exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt, sets out to re-appraise the work of 17th-century landscape painter Claude Lorrain and look at it through fresh eyes. It unites in a single volume paintings, drawings and prints from all periods of the artist's life, highlighting not only the well-documented similarities between paintings and related works on paper, but also the essential differences between these different art forms.

Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape

Sonnabend, Martin

Lund Humphries

Oxford and the Pre-Raphaelites

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Arthur Schwartz Sales Co

Book by Simpson, Juliet, Flandrin, Jules Leon, Flandrin, G., Lacambre, Genevieve, Whiteley, Jon, Farrant, Tim

Jules Flandrin, 1871-1947: The Other Fin De Siecle

Lacambre, Geneviève

Farrant, Tim

Simpson, Juliet

Flandrin, Jules Leon

Flandrin, G.

Book by Simpson, Juliet, Flandrin, Jules Leon, Flandrin, G., Lacambre, Genevieve, Whiteley, Jon, Farrant, Tim

Jules Flandrin 1871-1947: The Other Fin De Siecle

French Drawing & Watercolors (Ashmolean Handbooks)

This history of French drawing is not the same thing as a history of French painting, although they often overlap and merge. Drawing is the foundation where creativity first finds its expression.

Claude Lorrain (1604 - 1682) is known as the father pf European landscape painting. His influence has been enormous, not only on the art of his immediate followers but on European landscape painters throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. The impact of his art has been felt particularly in Britain, where 18th- and early 19th-century artists, collectors and connoisseurs contributed to a cult of Claude which has left a lasting effect on British attitudes to the countryside. As a result, Claude's art has become very familiar and we have tended to see Claude through his influence. This fascinating new book, which accompanies a major exhibition of Claude's work at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt, sets out to re-appraise his work and look at it through fresh eyes. It unites in a single volume paintings, drawings and prints from all periods of the artist's life, highlighting not only the well-documented similarities between paintings and related works on paper, but also the essential differences between these different art forms. The range of works reproduced in this book, alongside its critical scholarly text, make it an essential purchase for all those interested in Claude, the landscape, and European landscape painting in general. It gives new insight into the creative process and achievement of one of the most enchanting of European masters.

Claude Lorrain: An Exhibition of Prints, Drawings and Paintings

Individual Artists

The Ashmolean is the oldest museum in the United Kingdom, with collections of unparalleled importance. It has the world's largest holdings of drawings by Raphael and a major group of works by Michelangelo. It is these, amongst many others, that form the cornerstone of this exhibition.

Master Drawings

Whistler, Catherine

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<li>Accompanies the first Stradivarius exhibition of its kind in the UK</li>
<li>Unique opportunity to view works from private collections</li>
<li>Includes many previously unpublished images, including new photography for all instruments and Cremona workshop tools, plus rare archive material including the Church of San Domenico where Stradivari was originally buried</li>
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 Antonio Stradivari is, perhaps, the only maker of violins who ranks alongside Van Gogh and Turner as an artist. A household name to many, he is associated with secret formulae and mystical processes ensuring the world's greatest soloists seek his instruments. He excites controversy, although none of his violins have raised so much heated debate as the Ashmolean'sMessiah, making headline news some ten years ago when doubt was cast on its age. Stradivari's birthplace is unknown, he may have been born in 1644, and even his apprenticeship to Nicola Amati is uncertain. He died rich and famous in Cremona in 1737. Since then his instruments have increased in fame and are now regarded as supreme examples of the violinmaker's craft. Despite the great fame of Stradivari's violins, there has never been a monographic exhibition of his work in the UK. The exhibition at the Ashmolean will include 21 instruments, representative of Stradivari's range and output across the years, alongside exceedingly rare examples of stringed instruments other than those of the violin family. The prize items to be featured in the exhibition are already in the Ashmolean: The Potter, The Messiah and the guitar of 1688, all works of the greatest rarity. The exhibition and the accompanying catalogue will allow the public to see the work of one of the greatest violinmakers of all time. Stradivarius also presents the most recent research on Stradivarius' instruments. Contents: Introduction by James Ehnes Essay on Stradivarius by Charles Beare Essay on Stradivarius' work including dendrochronology of the instruments The luthier's perspective: How Stradivari violins are built and what makes them so good? By Peter Beare Catalogue entries Technical information

Stradivarius

Beare, Peter

Beare, Charles

Music

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