<p>Artwork by Walter van Beirendonck.</p>

Walter Van Beirendonck:Believe!

Arts & Photography

Fashion

NAi Publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Silver has been a cherished heirloom and gift for centuries. Historians claim that by 3100 B.C. ambassadors to the Egyptian king from Crete brought silver vases as gifts. Today, sterling silver is a favorite medium for creative and innovative designers because it is soft and malleable and can be shaped into any form. The mystical white metal has marked historical milestones throughout the ages, served as a medium of exchange and become an essential metal in today's world of high-tech consumer goods. Silver's main asset is the diversity of its uses. Its unique properties include beauty, strength, sensitivity to light, malleability and ductility, electrical and thermal conductivity, reflectivity and the ability to endure extreme temperature changes. These properties allow scientists and engineers around the world to undertake groundbreaking research that changes the way we live. This generously illustrated volume presents almost 200 beautiful and rare pieces of utilitarian silver from the art nouveau and art deco period, selected from a private silver collection. Both experts in silverware from this period and fans of art nouveau and art deco will be surprised by the number of splendid pieces from this collection. It brings together objects by various renowned silversmiths, including Christopher Dresser, Charles Robert Ashbee, Omar Ramsden and Alwin Carr, and Edward Spencer, Henry Wilson and Paul Cooper. American silversmiths include the Kalo Shop, the International Silver Company of Meriden, The Gorham Manufacturing Company and Howard Crisp. The color photographs of the objects are accompanied by extensive captions, monograms and hallmarks, providing substantial new information. In addition, A Personal Touch includes essays by silver specialists: Eric Turner, of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, examines reforms in the work of English silversmiths and describes the pieces in this collection that illustrate these developments. Lynn Springer Roberts, former curator at The Art Institute of Chicago, writes about American silverware from the early 20th century, and Reinhard S nger, of the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe, focuses on continental silver, paying special attention to beautifully decorated cutlery.

A Personal Touch: Late 19th and 20th Century Silver From The Seawolf Collection

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Turner, Eric

Thomas, Mienke Simon

Roberts, Lynn Springer

Duncker, Veena

Sanger, Reinhard

Antiques & Collectibles

<p>The combined collections of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Rijksmuseum, the Teylers Museum and the Rijksprentenkabinet in Leiden together contain over 40 drawings by Spanish master artists. The drawings cover more than four centuries of work and reveal the development of the Spanish art of drawing. Among these works on paper are masterworks from the Spanish Golden Age, including Jusepe de Ribera, Bartoloma Murillo and the famous School of Madrid. The collections also contain unique works by the sculptors Alonso Berruguete and Pedro de Meia, of whom very little is known. Of particular interest herein are drawings from the 19th century, most of them by Francisco de Goya. The majority of works included in this publication are unknown, proving particularly resourceful to the scholar of Spanish art history as well as to avid fans of works on paper. This publication is the first to document this particular collection.</p>

Spanish Master Drawings 1500-1900: Drawings in Dutch Public Collections

De Goya, Francisco

Tatsakis, Sandra

Berruguete, Alonso

De Mena, Pedro

De Ribera, Jusepe

Murillo, Bartolome

History & Criticism

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