Flemish Paintings

Arts & Photography

Brown, Christopher

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Natl Gallery England

Rembrandt (16061669) is generally regarded as the finest painter of the Dutch Golden Age.” This new edition of Art in the Making: Rembrandt (published on the 400th anniversary of the artist’s birth) reexamines 21 paintings firmly attributed to Rembrandt and 6 now assigned to followers. It reassesses his technique, materials, and working methods in the light of significant scholarly developments over the last 20 years, addressing problems of attribution that were hardly touched on in the original, groundbreaking edition of 1988.Introductory essays by distinguished conservation, curatorial, and scientific specialists cover the artist’s studio and working methods, the training of painters in 17th-century Holland, and Rembrandt’s materials and technique. The essays are followed by handsomely illustrated catalogue entries on 27 paintings. A comprehensive bibliography provides a rich source of information about the practice of oil painting, not only for Rembrandt but for 17th-century Dutch painting in general.

Art in the Making: Rembrandt

Bomford, David

History & Criticism

This catalogue of Spanish painting in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC is the second volume in the Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. This collection is one of the finest in the western hemisphere and includes important groups of work by El Greco, Goya, Valaquez, Murillo, Valdes Leal and Juan van der Hamen y Leon. The catalogue contains the most comprehensive entries on all works in the National Gallery of Art; with a biographical outline of the artists; a description of, and often fresh observations on the physical condition of each painting; critical discussions of such matters as attribution, chronology, identification of subject matter or sitter, and a summary of previous scholarship. Other material that makes this catalogue the most comprehensive study of these works is the important discovery by Dr David A. Brown, a curator at the Gallery, who identified a painting from the Italian period of Fernando Yanez da la Almedina. This discovery revises the understanding of this Spanish follower of Leonardo da Vinci and his relationship with his collaborator, Gernado Llanos. Also the painting Bullfight often attributed to Goya is here assigned to Eugenio Lucas Vilzamil (1858-1918).

Spanish Paintings of the 15th Through 19th Centuries

BROWN, JONATHAN

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Mann, Richard G.

The loan to The National Gallery by the collector Mr Heinz Berggruen of 69 works by six artists - Cezanne, Seurat, Braque, Miro, Van Gogh and Picasso - is celebrated by an exhibition and an accompanying catalogue. The Berggruen Collection is noted for its major works by key figures of the modern movement, including 41 works by Picasso representing most of the important phases in his career. It complements The National Gallery's collection of Post-impressionist paintings. The works - which include oils, watercolours, drawings and sculptures - are discussed by art historian Richard Kendall, and each is illustrated by a full-page colour plate. A profile of Heinz Berggruen and his role as an art collector is provided by the art dealer Camilla Cazalet. Lizzie Barker of the Gallery Staff examines the relationship between the loan pictures and The National Gallery Collection.

Van Gogh to Picasso: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery

RICHARD KENDALL

Architecture

A Celebration of Art & Architecture: The National Gallery Sainsbury Wing

Amery, Colin

<p>This book, the catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery, London, from July 1991, is the first full consideration in English of the work of Guercino, one of the greatest Italian artists of the 17th century. It focuses on 31 works by Guercino in British collections, all illustrated in colour. 1991 is the 400th anniversary of the birth of Guercino (1591-1666), the leading painter, together with Guido Reni, of the Bolognese school. Guercino enjoyed enormous fame in his own day and for the following two centuries. The National Gallery's "Guercino in Britain" is one of a series of exhibitions of Guercino's paintings and drawings to be held in 1991-2. The catalogue, to be published in conjunction with the Burlington Magazine, includes an introductory essay by Francis Russell on the collecting of and taste for Guercino in Britain, a discussion of Guercino's career by Michael Helston, and full catalogue entries. The catalogue draws on the immense knowledge of Sir Denis Mahon, the</p>

Guercino in Britain: Paintings from British Collections

Helston, Michael

RUSSELL,Francis

This volume brings together over 100 paintings and drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries from the Musee des Beaux-Arts at Lille, one of the greatest of the French provincial museums. It demonstrates the diversity and richness of French art of this period and provides an important overview of the major movements and stylistic developments that flourished then. The revolutionary Neo-Classicism of David, the Romanticism of Delacroix and Gericault, and the Realism of Courbet are seen against a background of traditional academic history and religious painting in a survey that, unusually, does not begin or end at 1800. It discusses exhibiting and selling art in France, the educational ideals, and the market which shaped the nature of French painting in those years. The catalogue entries supply commentary both on works by major artists and on those by lesser figures greatly esteemed by their contemporaries and now again receiving the recognition they deserve.

Tradition & Revolution in French Art 1700-1880: Paintings & Drawings from Lille

Wine, Humphrey

Whiteley, Jon & Linda

Gerard, Alain

Turner's picture "The Fighting Temaraire" depicts the final journey of a ship which fought gallantly at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and was then relegated to harbour duties. This text discusses the making and meaning of this painting of the vessel being towed by two tugs.

Turner: The Fighting Temeraire (Making & Meaning)

Egerton, Judy.

Individual Artists

On Reflection

<p>In this lavishly illustrated book, Jonathan Miler investigates the efforts of painters to represent the effects of light on various reflective surfaces. Discussing a selection of works from artists as diverse as Rembrandt and Rockwell, he shows that the depiction of reflections has challenged painters for centuries.</p>

Miller, Jonathan

Mendes, Valerie D.

National Gallery Great Britain

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