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 Scottish
Treasures: Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Scotland
by National Gallery of Scotland – Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: National Galleries of Scotland (January 2004)
  Masterpieces
from the National Gallery (National Gallery Company)
by Erika Langmuir Paperback: 88 pages Publisher: National Gallery
London (February 28, 2007)
This handsomely designed and illustrated book presents thirty-six
masterpieces from the National Gallery’s remarkable and
unparalleled collection, introducing major artists through their
most renowned works. Each of the featured paintings––which
together outline the main innovations in art history––is
discussed in fascinating detail. Among those included are Van
Eyck’s Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife,
Piero della Francesca’s The Baptism of Christ, Botticelli’s
Venus and Mars, Leonardo da Vinci’s The Virgin
of the Rocks, Dürer’s Saint Jerome, Michelangelo’s
The Entombment, Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne,
Bronzino’s An Allegory with Venus and Cupid, Caravaggio’s
The Supper at Emmaus, Rembrandt’s Belshazzar’s
Feast, Poussin’s A Bacchanalian Revel before a Term
of Pan, Velázquez’s The Rokeby Venus,
Vermeer’s A Young Woman Standing at a Virginal, Turner’s
The Fighting Temeraire, Ingres’ Madame Moitessier,
Monet’s Bathers at La Grenouillère, Degas’
Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, Cézanne’s
Self Portrait, Seurat’s Bathers at Asnières,
and Van Gogh’s Sunflowers.
  Beyond
the Naked Eye: Details from the National Gallery (National
Gallery London Publications) by Jill Dunkerton, Rachel Billinge
– Hardcover: 80 pages Publisher: Yale University Press
(January 25, 2006)
What admirer of a great Renaissance painting has not wished
for the chance to approach it closely and examine each tiny
detail? This unique book permits just such a close-up view of
some of the most beautiful masterpieces in the National Gallery,
London. Using photography taken through a microscope, this book
shows details from paintings that would not normally be seen:
a gem sparkling on a ringed finger, a minute insect, intricate
brushwork, the texture of a painted surface.
Each of the macrophotographs in the book documents around a
half-inch section of a Renaissance panel painting, revealing
the smallest details in works by Lucas Cranach, Jan van Eyck,
Fra Angelico, Raphael, and many others. The complete paintings
are shown at the back of the book. Beautifully designed and
illustrated, this jewel of a book is an irresistible treasure
for every art lover.
 Whistler,
Sargent, and Steer: Impressionists in London from Tate Collections
by Tate Britain (Gallery), David Fraser Jenkins, Avis Berman,
Tenn.) Frist Center for the Visual Arts – Hardcover: 116
pages Publisher: Visual Arts (February 2002)
Arriving at their mature styles independently of one another,
the renowned American expatriate painters James McNeill Whistler
and John Singer Sargent and the British artist Philip Wilson
Steer are often credited with bringing modern art to London
near the end of the 19th century. Inspired by the lively brushwork
of painters from Velázquez to Monet, each of these artists
developed a distinctive approach to Impressionism, utilizing
spontaneously applied strokes of paint and closely modulated
colors to caputre the effects of light as it played across the
fingure and landscape.
This selection of masterworks by the three artists reveals the
stylistic links that give evidence of their shared aesthetic
lineage. Essays by Tate curator David Fraser Jenkins and art
historian Avis Berman provide insight into their lives and works
within the cultural milieu of fin-de-siècle London, including
the experiences of the young and somewhat eccentric aesthete
W. Graham Robertson.
Portrait Sculpture: A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection
C.1675-1975 
by Aileen Dawson – Hardcover: 247 pages Publisher: British
Museum Press (November 1999)
  The
British School (National Gallery London Publications)
by Judy Egerton – Hardcover: 456 pages Publisher: National
Gallery London (July 11, 1998)
Those unhappy with the small illustrations and brief captions
in The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue (LJ
3/15/96) should be delighted with this coverage of the 61 works
currently representing the British School in the National Gallery,
London. Part of their revised series of national school catalogs
(the previous British School catalog is from 1959), this particular
volume boasts an impressive format and numerous color illustrations.
Artists include Boxall, Chantrey, Constable, Gainsborough, Hogarth,
Hoppner, Jackson, Jones, Lawrence, Linnell, Reynolds, Sargent,
Shee, Sievier, Stubbs, Turner, Wilson, Wood, Wright of Derby,
and Zoffany. Egerton is a retired assistant keeper of the British
School at the Tate Gallery, where many National Gallery paintings
have been transferred over the years. Her conviction is that
the public should have as much information as possible about
the making and subsequent history of these artworks. Recommended
for both public and academic libraries for the combination of
updated scholarship with what she calls a "chattier"
approach than the previous catalog. —Anne Marie Lane,
American Heritage Ctr., Laramie, WY Copyright 1998 Reed Business
Information, Inc.
Masterpieces of Western Art - The National Gallery: A Private
View Volume 2
Run Time: 162.0 minutes
This Fascinating and authoritative survey looks at the history
of European art through the rich and varied collection of London's
National Gallery. Eminent art critic Edward Mullins examine
the styles, schools and key personalities of European art, from
the alterpieces and frescoes of Duccio and Giotto to the innovative
techniques of the Impressionists. VOLUME 2: Following the paths
of developing schools of European art from the 16th to the 19th
centuries, we explore the exuberant paintings of Rubens and
Van Dyck. We can compare them with sensitive portraits of Northern
vision. In the south, we are guided through the vivid works
of El Greco and Goya, and can enjoy the expansive flowering
of the Baroque, which is contrasted with Chardin's calm interiors
and figures. We can then take delight—as Gainsborough,
Constable and Turner evidently did—in the English landscape,
and come face to face with portraits by Reynolds, before following
the revolutionary canvases of Degas, through Monet's Impressionism,
to the climax of Van Gogh's Sunflowers.
  The
National Gallery: 100 Plates in Colour (Volume I &
II) Complete Set by P. G. Brockwell, M. W. and Lippmann, F.
W. Konody (Author) – Hardcover Publisher: T.C. & E.C.
Jack (1909)
 Treasures
of the Musee by Francoise Cachin (Introduction), Xavier
Carrere D'Orsay – Hardcover, 204 pages (June 1995) Artabras
The Musee D'Orsay in Paris, formerly a grand train station,
houses one of the world's finest collections of 19th-century
art. Opened as a museum in 1986, its constant flow of traffic
is a testament to a worldwide love affair with impressionist
art. While the museum contains an extensive collection of drawings,
sculpture, decorative arts, architecture, and photography from
1848-1914, its true pride is its collection of paintings. Flip
through pages of work by some of history's most celebrated artists:
Ingres, Delacroix, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Monet, Cézanne,
Rodin, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Toulouse-Lautrec. While the bulk
of the 240 color illustrations are devoted to paintings, a fine
selection of the museum's entire collection is reproduced here.
 Paintings
in the Uffizi & Pitti Galleries by Mina Gregori, Antonio
Paolucci (Contributor), Marco Chiarini (Contributor) –
Hardcover 1st Eng edition (December 1994) Bulfinch Press
Few collections can rival the Uffizi and Pitti galleries in
the quality and pedigree of their holdings. The more than 800
fine color plates contained in this massive volume allow a dramatic
visual introduction to these two Italian museums. Complementing
the excellent reproductions are more than serviceable introductory
essays, which underline the role of the Medici in originally
shaping the collections and providing perceptive insights into
the stylistic epochs and artistic personalities encompassed
by these stellar repositories. The individual paintings are
adequately identified and tersely discussed in terms of dating
and acquisition. Although not as lavish in the quantity or the
scale of their illustration, Caterina Caneva and others' The
Uffizi: Guide to the Collections and Catalogue of All Paintings
and Pitti Palace: Guide to the Collections and Complete Catalogue
of the Palatine Gallery (both LJ 5/15/93) permit the less affluent
general collection an attractive, if less spectacular, admission
to these universes of pictorial genius. —Robert Cahn,
Fashion Inst. of Technology, New York Copyright 1995 Reed Business
Information, Inc.
 Treasures
of the Uffizi: Florence by Abigail Asher – Hardcover,
144 pages (October 1996) Abbeville Press, Inc.
Italy's most famous museum, the Uffizi in Florence, houses a
spectacular collection of Renaissance art as well as works by
later masters. In this grand tour of one of history's preeminent
public art collections, the greatest works by early Renaissance
artists such as Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael
are presented, along with work by later Italians and other artists
from throughout Europe. 216 full-color illustrations.
 Treasures
of the Louvre
by Michel Laclotte, Musee Du Louvre (Corporate Author) –
Hardcover: 279 pages
Publisher: Artabras Publishers; 1st Artabras Ed edition (September
1994)
 Paintings
in the Louvre by Lawrence, Sir Gowing, Musee Du Louvre,
Sir Lawrence Gowing, Michel Laclotte (Designer) – Hardcover,
688 pages (June 1994) Stewart Tabori & Chang
Though many cities boast impressive art collections, Paris's
Louvre is the art museum, and this 1987 title gathers more than
800 of its most famous items spanning 500 years of European
art. LJ's reviewer found Gowing's text slightly prejudiced (LJ
1/88), but the hundreds of illustrations are simply stunning.
As its original incarnation sold for $85, even at $50 this is
a good buy. —Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information,
Inc.
 Louvre:
Portrait of a Museum by Nicholas D' Archimbaud, Nicholas
D'Archimbaud, Bruno De Cessole, Nicholas D'Archinbaud, Federic
Valloire – Hardcover, 336 pages (October 1998) Stewart
Tabori & Chang
This sumptuous, 335-page book, which is illustrated with 650
original photographs by the author as well as hundreds of works
of art in the Louvre's vast holdings (plus archival plans and
documents), is the next best thing to being in Paris, at the
great museum itself. This history of 600 years of royal patronage,
architectural adjustment, and voracious collecting of sculptures,
treasures, paintings, and antiquities is for the cultured traveler,
the intelligent tourist, and the art-loving amateur. The picture
captions are warmly written and discursive, often with only
minimal details about size and materials, and the text is much
too user-friendly for art historians. But there is a great deal
of information here, which could be absorbed only through long
hours of perusal. The book is divided into three main sections:
Eight Centuries of History; Architecture; and The Louvre's Seven
Departments, including painting, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, and
Egyptian antiquities, sculpture, and the decorative arts. The
building itself is treated to a long discussion of the kings,
queens, and presidents who have tried and failed to have the
last word on its appearance and use. Torn down, rebuilt, redesigned,
and, finally, wrenched into the late 20th century by I.M. Pei's
controversial glass pyramid, the Louvre is an evolving work
of art. (This book looks like the sort a parent leaves open
on a coffee table, attempting to edify the children, but note
the two or three full-page reproductions of artworks depicting
tumescent male organs.) —Peggy Moorman |
 The
Hermitage: Masterpieces of the Painting Collections (Masterpieces
S.)
– Paperback: 160 pages Publisher: Scala Publishers (September
9, 2004)
French Art Treasures At The Hermitage: Splendid Masterpieces,
New Discoveries by Albert Grigor'evich Kostenevich,
Frank Althaus (Translator) – Hardcover, 408 pages (Nov
1999) Harry N Abrams
The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, holds one of
the world's finest collections of French art from 1860 to 1950.
Now, for the first time, art lovers can marvel at the full scope
of the museum's magnificent holdings in this field, and read
about how the collection was created. This extravagantly illustrated
book showcases all of the Hermitage's celebrated Impressionist
and Post-Impressionist masterworks—by Monet, Renoir, Czanne,
Gauguin, van Gogh, and others-as well as an astounding 60 works
by Matisse and 40 by Picasso. But it also features a panoply
of paintings by other artists—among them Bonnard, Vuillard,
Dufy, and Derain-plus a trove of never-before-seen treasures,
including works in storerooms, paintings on canvas backs, and
five works-by Utrillo, Rouault, and others-acquired through
a recent gift to the museum from Boris Yeltsin. 476 illustrations,
433 in full color, 6 gatefolds
 The
Hermitage: The Biography of a Great Museum by Geraldine
Norm – Hardcover, 400 pages 1st Ed edition (April 1998)
Fromm Intlan
Geraldine Norman, the English cultural reporter and author,
has written a scholarly page-turner about the political intrigue,
murders, royal indiscretions, property seizures, heroic preservation
efforts, wartime crises, obscenely prodigal spending, and equally
obscene fiscal cutbacks that have shaped the long history of
the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. It puts our millennial
excesses in perspective to learn that the Russian empress Catherine
the Great bought Old Master paintings at the rate of one every
other day from 1762 to 1772, tapering down to one or two a week
for the next couple of decades. Catherine dubbed her royal digs
the "hermitage," or retreat, "where she could
forget her rank and relax," writes Norman. (One of Catherine's
rules: Visitors "shall be joyful but shall not try to damage,
break, or gnaw at anything.") The empress was "gluttonous"—her
own word—in her acquisition of art, buying 4,000 paintings,
massive amounts of classical sculptures, porcelains and other
decorative arts, the stray Michelangelo marble or two, and a
national treasury's worth of engraved gems. Plus 38,000 books,
not to mention four roomfulls of prints. And that's just part
of the collection. Reading Norman's well-crafted tale of the
great museum, a reader absorbs vast amounts of history and fiscal
detail, while turning pages through machine-gun fire, lovers'
trysts, clandestine international negotiations, and other thrills.
—Peggy Moorman
 British
Art Treasures from Russian Imperial Collections in the Hermitage
by Brian Allen (Editor), Larissa Dukelskaya (Editor),
L. A. Dukelskaia (Editor) – Hardcover, 328 pages (November
1996) Yale Univ Press
More than two hundred years ago, Russian Empress Catherine the
Great and some of her courtiers developed a taste for British
art and collected some spectacular items including paintings,
drawings, sculpture, silver, and Wedgwood ceramics. This sumptuously
illustrated book tells the story of the acquisition of these
treasures and of the cultural relations between Britain and
Russia in the eighteenth century.
Hidden Treasures Revealed by Albert Kostenevich –
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (September 1, 1998)
An astonishing feast of unknown masterpieces, this glorious
album is a historic event that deepens our understanding of
modern art. It documents an exhibition at Russia's Hermitage
Museum in St. Petersburg, unveiling a large trove of French
impressionist and post-impressionist paintings?by Monet, Renoir,
Matisse, Pissarro, Degas, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec,
Picasso, etc.?whose existence had been a carefully guarded secret
for half a century. The paintings were seized from German private
collections during WWII and transferred to the Hermitage's storage
rooms. Many of these works have never been exhibited before,
even in prewar times. Among the 74 full-page color plates are
Van Gogh's psychologically charged White House at Night, painted
six weeks before his death; Degas's Interior with Two Figures,
a symbolic drama of alienation between the sexes; vibrant pictures
made in Tahiti by Gauguin; and canvases by Daumier, Delacroix,
Edouard Vuillard, Andre Derain. Kostenevich, a Hermitage curator,
has provided an extensive commentary on each picture. BOMC main
selection. —Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information,
Inc.
 Great
Art Treasures of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (2 Volume
Set) by Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh (Russia), Yaroslav
Domansky (Unk), Boris B. Piotrovsky (Designer), Mikhail B. Piotrovsky
(Designer) – Hardcover: 2 pages
Publisher: Harry N Abrams; Slipcase edition (November 1994)
Sampling the treasures of one of the world's greatest art museums,
this extraordinary, gorgeously illustrated two-volume slipcased
catalogue of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, sweeps
from Paleolithic mammoth ivory birds carved in Malta some 22,000
years ago to paintings by Rembrandt, El Greco, Raphael, Poussin,
Gauguin, Van Gogh, Caspar David Friedrich, Picasso, Bonnard
and Kandinsky. More than 1500 color plates-accompanied by informal
commentaries and linked by short essays contributed by 90 Hermitage
curators-showcase the museum's diverse collections in painting,
sculpture (Rodin, Michelangelo, Bernini) and European drawings
and prints (Durer, Degas, Redon, Kathe Kollwitz). Among the
astonishing antiquities are idols and petroglyphs of ancient
Russian forest tribes, mural paintings from Huns' burial mounds
in Mongolia, Scythian clothes and utensils and Roman marble
sculptures. Decorative and applied arts include textiles, mosaics,
glassware, ceramics, jewelry, coins and arms and armor from
Russia and around the world. Suslov is former director of the
Hermitage. —Copyright 1994 Cahners Business Information,
Inc.
  Paintings
in the Hermitage by Colin T Eisler – Hardcover:
649 pages Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang; Reprint edition
(October 1, 1995)
  Hermitage
Museum of St. Petersburg Format: 
Color, NTSC
Language: English, French, Spanish
DVD Release Date: October 31, 2000
Run Time: 500 minutes
 Masterpieces
of the Hermitage: Museum of St. Petersburg
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Prado by Santiago Alcolea Blanch, Richard-Lewis Rees
(Translator), Angela patr Hall – Hardcover, 474 pages (December
1996) Abradale Press
One of Europe's finest museums, the Prado in Madrid boasts masterpieces
by El Greco, Velazquez, Titian, Raphael, Rubens, Watteau and
Gainsborough, to name a few. This tony album lets one trace
Goya's years of exile in Bordeaux, stumble into Bosch's fiery
allegorical world and confront the intense, defiant gaze of
Durer's Self-Portrait . There are a few modernist works here
(Picasso, Miro), but emphasis is on the 15th through 19th centuries,
with paintings organized by school (Spanish, Italian, German,
etc.) so that readers can follow the evolution of each national
style. With 275 color reproductions plus essays on each school
and a ponderous 102-page history of the museum by Spanish art
historian Blanch, the album is studded with delightful surprises,
including Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny (1838-1874), who must
rank as one of Europe's great lyric painters. —Copyright
1991 Reed Business Information, Inc
 The
Prado Museum: Collection of Paintings by Museo Del Prado,
Christopher Brown (Contributor), Francis Haskell, Sanchez, Alessandro
Bettagno – Hardcover, 670 pages (November 1997) Harry N
Abrams
If you've never been to the Prado Museum in Madrid, you're blissfully
unaware of all you've been missing. One look at this exquisite
catalogue of the collection and you'll be scouring the papers
for cheap fares to Spain. Known for housing some of the finest
works by Goya, El Greco, and Velázquez, the museum's
scope and variety of work—Titian, Rubens, Bosch, Bruegel,
and Poussin, among others—are truly amazing. Clear, informative
essays by scholars of European art accompany sections covering
the museum's collections of Spanish, Italian, Flemish, Dutch,
German, French, and English paintings. Each of the 861 color
plates in this airy, elegant book jumps off the page and begs
to be more closely examined. Most of the museum's works were
either commissioned by the Spanish court or purchased by Spanish
ambassadors, and the collection is a testament to their fine
taste and vision.
 The
Prado Museum
by Santiago Alcolea Blanch, Santiago Alcolea – Hardcover:
416 pages Publisher: Ediciones Poligrafa S.A. (January 15, 2003)
Renowned as the largest art gallery in the world, the Prado
houses sculptures, drawings, coins, and other works of art--but
it is its incomparable collection of paintings which has drawn
fame worldwide. Included in its store of more than 8,600 paintings
are works by members of the Italian, Flemish, Spanish, French,
Dutch, and German schools. Albrecht Dürer, Anton van Dyck,
Correggio, El Greco, Goya, Hieronymous Bosch, José de
Ribera, Lucas Cranach, Nicolas Poussin, Pieter Brueghel, Rafael,
Rembrandt, Rogier van der Veyden, Rubens, Sandro Botticelli,
Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Tiziano, Velázquez, and nearly every
other master painter from the 12th to the 20th century. The
history of the Prado began during the reign of Charles III,
when he tried to create a single collection under one roof,
but it did not really concretize as an institution until the
reign of Fernando VII, under whom the Royal Museum of Painting
and Sculpture was founded in 1819. King Fernando's death caused
inheritance problems and endangered the unity of the collection,
but with the disapearance of the Spanish monarchy, the museum
became national property and was renamed the Prado Museum. Only
a tenth of the Prado's immense collection of works are normally
on show at any one time in the museum's two buildings: the Villanueva
and the Casón del Buen Retiro, but this will soon change.
Architect Rafael Moneo has designed a plan to join the existing
neo-classical building with two nearby historical buildings,
the cloister of the San Jerónimo church and a 17th-century
palace, by buried passageways, and has included a 400-seat underground
auditorium as well. Completion of the project is scheduled for
October 2003.
 Spirit
of an Age: Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie,
Berlin by Claude Keisch (Editor) – Hardcover: 192
pages Publisher: National Gallery London (May 11, 2001)
Berlin's Alte Nationalgalerie was established in 1876 as a repository
of contemporary German art. Like much of the city, it suffered
under the Third Reich, but the reunified German capital is again
asserting its status as a preeminent cultural capital and renovating
this and other state museums. Once its neoclassic building is
upgraded, the Nationalgalerie will be the place in Berlin to
see the many forms of 19th-century German painting. Until then,
77 of the museum's finest paintings are traveling to America
and the United Kingdom. This companion to the exhibition is
made up of large reproductions accompanied by short but densely
informative commentaries by the curator-authors. Most of the
works selected are by artists rarely seen outside Germany, though
others, such as the operatic landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich
and chiaroscuro still lifes by Adolph Menzel, will be more familiar
to U.S. audiences. A chronology of German arts and history from
1800 to 1914 provides a solid armature for the general essays
on 19th-century culture, which comprise the main text. A good
primer on an important epoch; recommended for academic and larger
public libraries. —Douglas F. Smith, Oakland P.L. Copyright
2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
| Musee Des
Beaux-Arts Du Havre |
Boudin to Dufy: Impressionist and Other Masters from the
Musees Des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre by Musee Des Beaux-Arts
Du Havre, Margot Heller (Editor), Tim Wilcox – Hardcover,
Published by Scolar Press, 1995
The channel port of Le Havre played a key role in the development
of Impressionist painting. It was there that Monet painted Impression,
sunrise, the work that gave the movement its name. Many other
artists of the period were associated with the town, from Monet's
teacher Boudin to the colourful and exuberant favourite of a
younger generation, Raoul Dufy.
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