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Nationalism and French Visual Culture, 1870–1914

In examining the forces that shaped the arts of this period―from the academy to the avant-garde, and from the museum to public spaces―this volume explores the relationship between the arts and political conflict and the impact of nationalism during the early modern period in France.

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Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe

In the first book to survey the practice of collecting sculpture from late medieval times to the 19th century, 20 renowned scholars explore the collections of eminent artists and great princes throughout Europe.

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Reconsidering Vermeer’s Perfectionism

What can we learn about 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer by examining the pigments in his paintings?

By Diane Richard
Shown from about the knees up, a pale, smooth-skinned woman in a fur-lined yellow jacket looks out at us as she sits writing at a table in this vertical painting. The woman’s body faces the table to our left. She turns her head to gaze at us from the corners of her dark gray eyes under faint brows. She has a wide nose, and her pale lips are closed. Her light brown hair is pulled back and held in place with white bows, and gleaming teardrop-shaped pearl earrings dangle from her ears. Her lemon-yellow jacket is trimmed with ermine fur, which is white with black speckles, at the cuffs and down the front opening. A full, elephant-gray skirt falls to the floor beneath the jacket. Both hands rest on the table, and she holds a quill in her right hand, farther from us, on a piece of paper. She leans forward in her wooden chair. The back panel of the chair is covered in black fabric and lined with brass studs. Two gilded finials, carved into lions’ heads, face the woman’s back with mouths open. The table is covered with a celestial-blue cloth crumpled near the left edge of the canvas. On the table are a strand of pearls, a pale yellow ribbon, and a black box with three brown panels studded with pearls around silver keyholes. Two pewter gray vessels are visible just beyond it, in front of a second chair, which faces us. On the putty-gray wall behind the woman, a framed painting hangs in the upper left quadrant of the composition. The painting-within-the painting is done in muted tones of brown and shows a cello and other unidentifiable objects.
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Romare Bearden, American Modernist

This volume considers the work of painter Romare Bearden (1911–1988) in the contexts of American and international modernism as well as African American art history.

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French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century

15 international scholars present their latest research into the contexts and meanings of French genre painting of the 18th century, from Jean-Antoine Watteau to Louis-Leopold Boilly.

 

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The Woodcut in Fifteenth-Century Europe

Essays examine the technological, social, political, religious, personal, and institutional contexts of 15th-century woodcuts and challenge many assumptions about the phenomenon of early printing.

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Orsanmichele and the History and Preservation of the Civic Monument

This far-ranging collection of essays—the first book-length scholarly exploration of Orsanmichele since 1996—marks the conclusion of a decades-long campaign to restore the magnificent medieval church and its art, most notably Orsanmichele’s celebrated niche sculptures.

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