Konsthistoria & stilar 1600 - 1800

Mäktigt reser sig Skoklosters slott över det uppländska landskapet. Ingen som är i dess närhet kan undgå den demonstration av makt och rikedom som fältherren greve Carl Gustaf Wrangel här iscensatte under det århundrade Sverige blev stormakt. Skok...

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PUBLISHED TO ACCOMPANY THE ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME EXHIBITION AT THE RIJKSMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM, THIS IS THE FIRST MAJOR STUDY ON VERMEER'S LIFE AND WORK FOR MANY YEARS. ---------- 'Proust was once so excited to see a Vermeer show that he collaps...

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1592 kom den 21-årige Michelangelo Merisi från Caravaggio, "en kraftig yngling med tunt svart skägg, kraftiga ögonbryn och mörka ögon", till Rom med ambitionen att bli stadens främste målare. Beskrivningen stämmer bra med de många självp...

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Fram till nu har ytterst lite publicerats om Erik Nilsson Wallin - 1700-talets store målare från Nilsvallen vid Sveg i Härjedalen. I många år har författaren Bosse Yman sökt efter ledtrådar till Erik Wallins liv. Till 250-årsminnet av Wallins död ...

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Skokloster Castle - A Unique Historical Site Skokloster Castle dominates the surrounding landscape in Uppland province. It is impossible to escape the display of power and affluence that Count Carl Gustaf Wrangel put on here during Sweden's Age of...

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Bringing together more than 100 items of clothing, this book reveals the intricacies of Japanese dress from the 18th century to the present. Including garments for women, men and children, the details have been selected both for their exquisite be...

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This is the first book to concentrate on Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Halss highly innovative approach to male portraiture. Frans Hals is one of the greatest portrait painters of all time and, together with Rembrandt, is one of the most eminent ...

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Despite numbering at just 35, his works have prompted a New York Times best seller; a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth; record visitor numbers at art institutions from Amsterdam to Washington, DC; and special crowd-control measures...

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Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: Violent in temper, precise in technique...

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A New York Times Best Art Book of 2019 A riveting book . . . few stones are left unturned.Roberta Smiths Top Art Books of 2019, The New York Times This fascinating and enlightening study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to prov...

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Belonging to the wider circle of Calvinist exiles from Catholic Flanders working in the Saint-Germain des-Prs area of Paris, Moillon was the sole female practitioner of a group that included Sbastien Stosskopf, Jacques Linard, and Lubin Baugin. Lo...

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Examined through the lens of cutting-edge scholarship, Artemisia Gentileschi clears a pathway for non-specialist audiences to appreciate the artist's pictorial intelligence, as well as her achievement of a remarkably lucrative and high-profile car...

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was one of the most innovative painters of his time, and one of the most momentous artists of any era. Rescued from neglect, he has become a cultural icon in the late twentieth century, not only for hi...

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This second book in Moshe Barasch's series on art theory surveys the development of the field from the early eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. During this period theories of the visual arts, particularly of painting and sculpture, u...

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18th Century Male Tailoring: Theatrical and Historical Tailoring c16801790 introduces the reader to English eighteenth century tailoring and covers the drafting of patterns, cutting out in cloth and construction techniques in sequence for the tail...

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Learn about key movements like impressionism, cubism and symbolism in The Art Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Art in this overview guide ...

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"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." Edgar Degas Covering every era and over 650 artists, this comprehensive, illustrated guide offers an accessible yet expansive view of art history, featuring everything from iconic ...

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**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historians** 'Alice Loxton is the star of her generation ... the next big thing in history' DA...

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Följ med på en spännande inblick i ett arkitektoniskt och unikt mästerverk, Nicodemus Tessin den yngres hem på Slottsbacken mitt i Stockholms hjärta. Palatsets fasad är inspirerad av italienska palats med en inredning i fransk barock av högsta kla...

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"Tidig musik", vilken musik är det egentligen?Måste jag spela denna musik på ett särskilt "tidstroget" sätt?Om jag spelar denna musik som jag vill, blir det fel då? Dessa och många andra frågor har Clas Pehrsson mött under sitt...

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Velzquez's Las Meninas was sequestered in the Spanish royal collections from 1656, when it was painted, until the opening of the Museo del Prado in 1819. From that moment, it has been one of the most famous masterpieces of western painting, inspir...

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We may never know what the Mona Lisa is really smiling about, but we do know that there's much more to the masterpieces of Renaissance art than the beauty that meets the eye. There are layers of significance hidden below the surface of the wo...

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His works have prompted a New York Times bestseller; a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth; record visitor numbers at art institutions from Amsterdam to Washington, DC; and special crowd-control measures at the Mauritshuis, The Hague,...

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Stitching La Mode: Patterns and Dressmaking from Fashion Plates of 1785-1795 brings to life womens unique and extravagant fashions of 1785-1795 in a beautifully illustrated and accessible way. The book consists of scaled patterns directly based on...

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This catalogue will accompany the Bruegel to Rubens exhibition held at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford between 23 March and 23 June 2024. Through a selection of over 100 world-class drawings created by Flemish artists in the sixteenth and seventeen...

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John Constable is one of the greatest painters of the English weather. His depictions of the sky are essential components of all his landscape paintings, from famous works such as The Hay Wain and Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows to his numero...

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Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers how Artemisia overcame a turbulent past to become one of the foremost painters of her day. As a young...

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Pierre Rosenberg, the distinguished art historian and director of the Musee du Louvre, has long admired and studied both paintings and drawings. This dual interest may seem commonplace but is in fact highly unusual: specialists in the field of dra...

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder is one of the world's most original artists who founded a dynasty of painters. His most popular works include Children's Games, Hunters in the Snow and Peasant Wedding Feast. He collaborated with Rubens on severa...

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The most famous 18th-century copper engraver, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (17201778) made his name with etchings of ancient Rome. His startling, chiaroscuro images imbued the citys archaeological ruins with drama and romance and became favorite sou...

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