Author: Helmut Borsch-Supan
Publisher: H.F. Ullmann
ISBN: 9780841600867
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Antoine Watteau
Publisher: London : The Studio
ISBN:
Category : Painting, French
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Helmut Bo rsch-Supan
Publisher: Konemann
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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No other artist made such a mark on 18th-century painting north of the Alps as Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). In a creative phase lasting little more than a decade, he created not the large forceful works artists are often remembered for, but rather small-scale and playful pictures full of quiet charm and gentle wit. He was able to exert artistic influence because, living in a period of upheaval and decline at the end of the era of Louis XIV, he had a presentiment of what was to come: a refinement of the mind and sensory perception, the Enlightenment, and with it new ideas of social justice. The developments that led to the French Revolution at the end of the century are already present in embryo beneath the surface merriment of Watteau's painting. Book jacket.

Author: Pierre Schneider
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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Author: Emily A. Beeny
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606067354
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Jean Antoine Watteau’s death, this publication takes a close, revealing look at his recently rediscovered painting La Surprise. The painting La Surprise by Jean Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) belongs to a new genre of painting invented by the artist himself—the fête galante. These works, which show graceful open-air gatherings filled with scenes of courtship, music and dance, strolling lovers, and actors, do not so much tell a story as set a mood: one of playful, wistful, nostalgic reverie. Esteemed by collectors in Watteau's day as a work that showed the artist at the height of his skill and success, La Surprise vanished from public view in 1848, not to reemerge for more than a century and a half. Acquired by the Getty Museum in 2017, it has never before been the subject of a dedicated publication. Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Watteau's death, this book considers La Surprise within the context of the artist's oeuvre and discusses the surprising history of collecting Watteau in Los Angeles. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from November 23, 2021, to February 20, 2022.

Author: Margaret Morgan Grasselli
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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Author: Camille Mauclair
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Author: Pierre Schneider
Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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Surveys the life, works and times of Antoine Watteau, the greatest painter of 18th century France.

Author: Iris Lauterbach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783822853184
Category : Drawing, French
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Best known for his fêtes galantes such as the famous Pelerinage a l'ile de Cythere, Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a major proponent in the revival of the Baroque style and the formation of the Rococo movement. This book features a chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist.

Author: Aaron Wile
Publisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781907804793
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Offers a new interpretation of Watteau's thoroughly modern vision of war in which the soldier's inner life comes foremost.