The Portrait Miniature In England

Author : Katherine Coombs
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portrait Miniature in England written by Katherine Coombs and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable account of the development of English miniature painting featuring masterpieces from the VandA's collection, which contains some of the finest examples in existence.

Author : John Murdoch
Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300027785
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Miniature written by John Murdoch and published by New Haven : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Graham Reynolds
Publisher : London, Black
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Portrait Miniatures written by Graham Reynolds and published by London, Black. This book was released on 1952 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cory Korkow
Publisher : Giles
ISBN 13 : 9781907804236
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Portrait Miniatures written by Cory Korkow and published by Giles. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sumptuously illustrated new catalog on British portrait miniatures, all from the world-renowned collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art

Author : Gilbert Collection
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait Miniatures in Enamel written by Gilbert Collection and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 2000-07-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly, comprehensive study of the art of enamels in Europe, presenting examples from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. Demonstrates the extraordinary quality and scope of these exquisite works. This scholarly book contains comprehensive information on the art of enamels in Europe and England. It also examines the techniques and tools of enamelists and presents an overview of artists, patrons and sitters represented in this fine collection.

Author : Cincinnati Art Museum
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300115806
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfect Likeness written by Cincinnati Art Museum and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewelry, fashion, hairstyles, and the decorative arts. Unlike many other genres, miniatures have a tradition in which amateurs and professionals have operated in parallel and women artists have flourished as professionals. This richly illustrated book presents approximately 180 portrait miniatures selected from the holdings of the Cincinnati Art Museum, the largest and most diverse collection of its kind in North America. The book stresses the continuity of stylistic tradition across Europe and America as well as the vitality of the portrait miniature format through more than four centuries. A detailed catalogue entry, as well as a concise artist biography, appears for each object. Essays examine various aspects of miniature painting, of the depiction of costume in miniatures, and of the allied art of hair work.

Author : George Charles Williamson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Portrait Miniatures written by George Charles Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. A. Kennedy
Publisher : London, The Studio
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early English Portrait Miniatures in the Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch written by H. A. Kennedy and published by London, The Studio. This book was released on 1917 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Basil Somerset Long
Publisher : London : Holland P.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Miniaturists written by Basil Somerset Long and published by London : Holland P.. This book was released on 1966 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 13 : 9781855147027
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabethan Treasures written by and published by National Portrait Gallery. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries there was one art form in which English artists excelled above all their continental European counterparts: the painting of miniatures. This fascinating book explores the genre with special reference to two of its most accomplished practitioners, Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, whose astounding skill brought them international fame and admiration. Four centuries ago, England was famous primarily for its literary culture - the dram a of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson and the works of the great lyrical and metaphysical poets. When it came to the production of visual art, the country was seen as something of a backwater. However, there was one art form for which English artists of this period were renowned: portrait miniature painting, or as it was known at the time, limning. Growing from roots in manuscript illumination, it was brought to astonishing heights of skill by two artists in particular: Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) and Isaac Oliver (c .1565-1617). In addition to exhibiting the exquisite technique of the artists, portrait miniatures express in a unique way many of the most distinctive and fascinating aspects of court life in this period: ostentatious secrecy, games of courtly love, arcane symbolism, a love of intricacy and decoration. Bedecked in elaborate lace, encrusted in jewellery and sprinkled with flowers, court ladies smile enigmatically at the viewer; their male counterparts rest on grassy banks or lean against trees, sighing over thwarted love, or more modestly express their hopes in Latin epigrams inscribed around their heads. Often set in richly enamelled and jewelled gold lockets, or beautifully turned ivory or ebony boxes, such miniatures could be concealed or revealed, exchanged or kept, as part of elaborate processes of friendship, love, patronage and diplomacy at the courts of Elizabeth I and James I /VI. This richly illustrated book, like the exhibition it accompanies, explores what the portrait miniature reveals about identity, society and visual culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.