Holbein Portrait Drawings (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

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Write a customer review. Read reviews that mention portrait drawings holbein portrait reproductions dover poor collection drawing library art sketches. Showing of 15 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. As other reviewers have noted, this is a book with sub-par reproductions of some of Holbein's more famous pictures.

Since I'd read the reviews and knew this going in, and since I found it for a low price as a used book, I decided to add it to my Tudor-history collection anyway. I'm glad I bought it, but it is not at all what I've come to expect of most Dover publications. I don't understand why they didn't get appropriate permissions and put together a book of quality reproductions. I'd have asked for a refund if I had purchased this book new and for full price.

You can find copies of most of Holbein's work on the internet, and many of them are high-resolution, very clear and worth the trouble of searching them out. If you want to have hard-copies to hand, this book will fill the bill - but find a low-priced copy, as it hasn't much value, to my mind. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Collects a large number of black-and-white plates of Holbein's portrait sketches for his paintings of Henry VIII's court.

There aren't more of them. For even the least ambitious student of drawing, Holbein is a name to conjure with. His use of line and simple shapes to create powerful likeness with minimal means is unmatched by any of his contemporaries. The elegance and economy of means with which he captures likeness, often using only a few precisely-drawn shapes to create people so real you want to have coffee with them is an act of technique that has baffled and inspired students of drawing for centuries.

If you are learning to draw and copying great masters is part of your training routine, you absolutely cannot go wrong with Holbein. One person found this helpful. For the price, I suppose you get what you pay for, which are a great collection of drawings but terrible reproductions.

I am in awe of Hans Holbein - his portrait drawings are brilliant and subtle - but these reproductions are so dark and muddy I'm not sure how they could be useful either for enjoyment or to learn from, unless you don't have access to the internet. Hervey's identification of the sitters has remained the standard one, affirmed in extended studies of the painting by Foister, Roy, and Wyld , Zwingenberger , and North , who concludes that "the general coherence of the evidence assembled by Hervey is very satisfying"; however, North also notes that, despite Hervey's research, "[R]ival speculation did not stop at once and is still not entirely dead".

However, scholars have argued that this identification of was incorrect. John North, for example, remarks that "[T]his was a natural enough supposition to be made by a person with limited local knowledge, since the two brothers lived on the family estates together at the end of their lives, but it is almost certainly mistaken". North's book analyzes the painting and shows it to be representing Good Friday through various clues on the instruments.

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Their companies evolved into five multinationals concentrating their power and wealth as they undermine the public sector. In the film Calvary , Dylan Moran 's character urinates on the painting. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Peter Apian 's arithmetic book.

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Still-life painting was not merely an aesthetic exercise, although technique and composition was extremely important. It was also meant to provide a record of familiar objects—china, flowers, vegetables, fruits, dead birds, game and fish, et al—and to provide reference points for the flow of the seasons, the passing of time and mortality tempus omnia terminat— time brings an end to all things. Still life painting also reflected the wealth and social standing of the patrons—and often the sources of that wealth and position were depicted in the work: Art historians like to ascribe an iron-clad iconography to still life painting, where every element is depicted for a specific reason, each with absolute symbolic meaning.

This may be largely true, but I believe that individual artists also included objects based on aesthetic and personal criteria that superceded the established iconography. Asparagus has been around a long time. Since the 17th century, it has been highly valued for its culinary and medicinal properties. The only painter I have come across, prior to Manet, who made asparagus a primary subject in his work, is Adriaen Coorte active c. This 17th-century Dutch master, whose work was largely unknown until the s, painted many pictures where asparagus is a very important—or sole—element in the composition.

This was unusual among his peers, not least because asparagus was a luxury item in the 17th century. Many 17th-century European artists painted asparagus in combination with other still life elements.

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Isaak Soreau , Basket of Fruit and Vegetables , c. French artist Louise Moillon had a long and successful career as a painter of Naturalist still life. She was noted for her sensitive rendering of plants and her exceptional use of chiaruscuro. Moillon was raised in a family of painters and her father also owned a prominent art gallery on the Left Bank. Her paintings, mostly gouache or tempera on vellum, were collected by the Medicis and other aristocratic families and were highly prized and valued. I will close my homage to the asparagus with this amusing 18th century etching which I found on Bibliodyssey.

Elaborate wigs were all the rage at the time and many satirical artists found it irresistible to parody them. Among the vegetables and herbs adorning this creation, note the large bunch of asparagus at the top. Venetian Red Bookshelf is a monthly feature which highlights books of interest from our bookshelves and studio worktables. Wild nature may have no pre-ordained plan, but gardens necessarily do. With the human psyche as creator of the garden, meaning was accorded beyond the sum of its botanical parts.

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Thus, the motifs and allegories found in the garden offer a tantalizing reflection of human culture and psychology. Gardens in Art is plus pages of pure visual delight. While covering a lot of bases, the book educates without resorting to copious amounts of pretentious text. The text on each topic is contained within one page and each image is accompanied by three or four carefully chosen points that elaborate on the topic at hand. The first part of the book concerns itself with the history of the garden—the concept of sacred and profane gardens in ancient civilizations; the elaborate gardens of Renaissance popes and princes; the regal gardens of the Baroque; the Enlightenment ideals, which liberated the garden from rigid constructs; and the manifestations of the public garden.

But the section on Monastic gardens truly enlightens on the symbolism of the Medieval quadrant-design and the connection of various plants to the Virgin Mary. The second, and longer, section of Gardens in Art guides the reader through chapters on the various elements of the garden—plants and pruning methods, water, statuary, architectural structures. While the elements themselves have have remained remarkably constant through the ages, their expression has changed, depending on the aesthetic requirements of the day. Within the serious discussion regarding the meaning of gardens lie fascinating cultural tidbits, such as,.

The circular garden was created in the Medieval era as a reflection of the universe. The concept of the secret garden originated in the Renaissance derived from the Medieval courtly love tradition. The number of exotic plan species in 19th-century England increased considerably after the invention of the Wardian case, a kind of portable greenhouse that made the long sea voyage transport possible.

S harawaggi , the term for a popular 17th-century asymmetrical garden,which emulated Chinese examples, was a Dutch corruption of a Japanese word. All delicious in their own way! My only disappointment with the book is almost its near exclusive focus on Western art.

I doubt I shall enter another garden without the contents of this book on my mind. Next on my reading list: Nature and Its Symbols. Wider Connections Guide to Imagery series Codex de sphaera unique feature that allows you to turn the pages of this beautiful Renaissance book Tomb chapel of Nebamun More Gardens in Art. Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. Moore died Thursday at age He left behind a body of work that testifies to potential that the camera has to be both objective recorder and subjective persuader. Martin Luther King, In September, , as a year-old photographer for the Montgomery Alabama Advertiser , he was the only photographer on the scene when an argument broke out between the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

His pictures of the police manhandling Dr. King during his arrest were compelling for their irony; the foremost advocate of non-violence is being roughed up like a petty criminal. The pictures were distributed nationwide by the Associated Press. Life magazine published one of them and quickly put Moore under contract.

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Courtesy Mason Murer Gallery. Armed federal marshalls protected Meredith in every class until he graduated in In recording the events, Moore told a compelling story to an otherwise ignorant American public of what would turn out to the first flashpoint in race relations. Birmingham was pretty tough for me, yet I was very aggressive. I was determined because I hated to see what happened in Birmingham. But I did get arrested, and with my reporter who was working along side me. I went out on my own when I resigned from the paper and decided to freelance.

And I went to Mississippi when I knew there would be some problems. It was important for me to become involved. Birmingham was the most important.