Debra Pincus

Alessandra Sarachi

Sarah Blake McHam

Alison Luchs

Matteo Ceriana

Adriana Augusti

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Maryland

The great Venetian sculptors of the High Renaissance, led by Tullio Lombardo (c. 1455-1532), explored a poetic and nostalgic approach to classical antiquity in their work. Their expression shares much with Mantegna, Bellini, Giorgione, and Titian in these painters' imaginative evocations of ancient history, mythology, philosophy, and poetry. Featuring a range of Tullio's work, including his sensuous and dramatic double-portrait reliefs, this book introduces the romantic qualities and beautiful craftsmanship of the sculptor and his closest followers, including his brother Antonio Lombardo, Simone Bianco, Antonio Minello, and Giammaria Mosca. Essays examine Tullio's innovations and the Venetian cultural setting where he developed them in dialogue with the northern Italian masters of Renaissance painting. Twelve works, carefully selected from this milieu, exemplify the creative approach and influ­ence of Tullio and the Lombardo workshop. Published in association with the National Gallery, Washington Exhibition Schedule: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (7/4/09 - 10/31/09)

Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture

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Barbara Haskell

Harry Cooper

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In Full Swing

"Hailed as a precursor of both pop art and contemporary abstraction, Stuart Davis captured the energy of mass culture and modern life. Beginning in 1921, a series of breakthroughs led him to develop a more abstract approach. Fusing American urban experience with European modernism, his style evolved over the next four decades to become a dominant force in postwar art. The book features some 100 works, from his 1921 paintings of tobacco packages to his abstract Egg Beater series of the late twenties, the ambitious WPA murals of the thirties, and the bold works of his last two decades, in which jagged shapes and bright colors tangle with vigorous calligraphy. The volume pays special attention to his transformative recycling of earlier works; and a chronology-drawing on previously unpublished sources-represents the most complete biography to date, painting a vivid picture of economic hardship, political activism, personal struggle, and eventual triumph"--

Stuart Davis

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The Chandler-Pohrt Collection

Art of the American Indian Frontier

David Breslin

Matt Jolly

Abstract Painting from the National Gallery of Art, 1950-1975

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Make It New: Abstract Painting from the National Gallery of Art, 1950-1975, the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, July-October 2014, organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in collaboration with the Clark Art Institute."

Make It New

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Ger Luijten

Open-Air Painting in Europe 1780-1870

True to Nature

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Rena M. Hoisington

From Its Origins to Goya

How an ingenious printmaking technique became a cross-cultural phenomenon in Enlightenment Europe Driven by a growing interest in collecting and multiplying drawings, artists and amateurs in the eighteenth century sought a new technique capable of replicating the subtlety of ink, wash, and watercolor. They devised an innovative and versatile new medium—aquatint—which would spread in use across Europe within a few decades, its distinctive dark tones making possible a remarkable variety of ingenious imagery. In this illuminating book, Rena M. Hoisington traces how the aquatint technique flourished as a cross-cultural and cosmopolitan phenomenon that contributed to the rise of art publishing, connoisseurship, leisure travel, drawing instruction, and the popularity of neoclassicism. She offers new insights into sophisticated experiments by artists such as Francisco Goya, Maria Catharina Prestel, Paul Sandby, and Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. Marvelously illustrated with rare works from the National Gallery of Art’s collection of early aquatints, this engaging book provides a fresh look at how printmaking contributed to a vibrant exchange of information and ideas in Europe during the Enlightenment. Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC October 24, 2021–February 21, 2022

Aquatint

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Bert Stern

Adventures

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Mary G. Morton

George T. M. Shackelford

Gustave Caillebotte

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The Painter's Eye

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Mary Morton

David Ogawa

Sébastien Allard

Heather McPherson

Women

Corot

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The Chester Dale Collection

James Clifton

Liesbeth M. Helmus

Arthur K. Wheelock

Stijn Alsteens

Anne W. Lowenthal

The Art of Joachim Wtewael

"The exhibition is organized by the Centraal Museum Utrecht; the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation."--Title page verso.

Pleasure and Piety

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Elizabeth Prelinger

Andrew Robinson

Master Prints

A major new study of Edvard Munch's prints, regarded by many as his finest works.

Edvard Munch

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Margaret Morgan Grasselli

A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors

The McCrindle Gift

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Carol C. Mattusch

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Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples

Pompeii and the Roman Villa

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John Marciari

Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594) was among the most distinctive artists of the Italian Renaissance. Yet, although his bold paintings are immediately recognizable, his drawings remain unfamiliar even to many scholars. Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice offers a complete overview of Tintoretto as a draftsman. It begins with a look at drawings by Tintoretto's precedents and contemporaries, a discussion intended to illuminate Tintoretto's sources as well as his originality, and also to explore the historiographical and critical questions that have framed all previous discussion of Tintoretto's graphic work. Subsequent chapters explore Tintoretto's evolution as a draftsman and the role that drawings played in his artistic practice--both preparatory drawings for his paintings and the many studies after sculptures by Michelangelo and others--thus examining the use of drawings within the studio as well as teaching practices in the workshop. Later chapters focus on the changes to Tintoretto's style as he undertook ever larger commissions and accordingly began to manage a growing number of assistants, with special attention paid to Domenico Tintoretto, Palma Giovane, and other artists whose drawing style was influenced by their time working with the master. The book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, opening at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, in 2018 and travelling to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in early 2019. All of the drawings in the exhibition are discussed and illustrated, and a checklist of the exhibition is also included in the volume, but the book is a far more widely ranging account of Tintoretto's drawings and a comprehensive account of his work as a draftsman.

Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice

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Diane Waggoner

Tim Barringer

Joanne Lukitsh

Jennifer L. Roberts

Britt Salvesen

British Photography and Painting , 1848-1875

The rich dialogue between photography and Pre-Raphaelite art explored within this fascinating catalogue is organised around the themes of landscape, portraiture, literary and historical narratives and modern-life subjects. Fully illustrated with over 200 images, this volume combines groundbreaking scholarship with stunning imagery.

The Pre-Raphaelite Lens

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Northern European Paintings from the Heinz Family Collection

Still Lifes of the Golden Age

Sarah Greenough

Andrea Nelson

Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art

A rich and varied examination of contemporary photographs at the National Gallery of Art, as seen through the lens of time

The Memory of Time

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Kimberly Jones

Simon Kelly

Sarah Kennel

Helga Kessler-Aurisch

Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet

More than 100 works by artists such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875), Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867), Jean-François Millet (1814-1875), Claude Monet (1840-1926), Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884), and Eugène Cuvelier (1837-1900) explore the French phenomenon of plein-air (open-air) painting and photography in the region of Fontainebleau, a pilgrimage site for aspiring landscape artists. The forest also inspired a new school of landscape photography, as figures such as Gustave Le Gray and Eugène Cuvelier, working side by side with painters, explored the camera's potential to reveal nature in a fresh and unadorned manner. The exhibition also includes 19th-century artists' equipment and tourist ephemera.

In the Forest of Fontainebleau

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John Oliver Hand

Greta Koppel

Till-Holger Borchert

Anu Mänd

Ariane van Suchtelen

Matthias Weniger

Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe

Michel Sittow (c. 1469-1525) was the greatest Estonian artist of the Renaissance. As his renown as a portraitist spread among the royal courts of Europe in the late fifteenth century, Sittow led the life of the itinerant artist, leaving his native Reval, the Hanseatic port city known today as Tallinn, to reside at courts in Spain, The Netherlands, and Denmark. Michel Sittow: Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe is the first monographic exhibit of this masterful artist's oeuvre. The 144-page catalog with 90 illustrations features rare paintings by Sittow and other art works by his contemporaries, along with insightful essays by leading European and American scholars including John Oliver Hand of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Greta Koppel of the Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn.--Provided by publisher.

Michel Sittow

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Robert Echols

Frederick Ilchman

Artist of Renaissance Venice

Tintoretto

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Judith Brodie

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Three Centuries of American Prints from the National Gallery of Art

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Mia Fineman

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Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop

Photographic manipulation is a familiar phenomenon in the digital era. What will come as a revelation to readers of this captivating, wide-ranging book is that nearly every type of manipulation we associate with Adobe's now-ubiquitous Photoshop software was also part of photography's predigital repertoire, from slimming waistlines and smoothing away wrinkles to adding people to (or removing them from) pictures, not to mention fabricating events that never took place. Indeed, the desire and determination to modify the camera image are as old as photography itself--only the methods have changed.

By tracing the history of manipulated photography from the earliest days of the medium to the release of Photoshop 1.0 in 1990, Mia Fineman offers a corrective to the dominant narrative of photography's development, in which champions of photographic "purity," such as Paul Strand, Edward Weston, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, get all the glory, while devotees of manipulation, including Henry Peach Robinson, Edward Steichen, and John Heartfield, are treated as conspicuous anomalies. Among the techniques discussed on these pages--abundantly illustrated with works from an international array of public and private collections--are multiple exposure, combination printing, photomontage, composite portraiture, over-painting, hand coloring, and retouching. The resulting images are as diverse in style and motivation as they are in technique. Taking her argument beyond fine art into the realms of politics, journalism, fashion, entertainment, and advertising, Fineman demonstrates that the old adage "the camera does not lie" is one of photography's great fictions.





Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press






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Faking It

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Philip Brookman

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The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker

Photography Reinvented

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