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Language: en
Pages: 217
Pages: 217
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-22 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms in the Unite
Language: en
Pages: 794
Pages: 794
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher:
Contains transcripts of conversations between artist Chuck Close and twenty-seven of his fellow artists who were also subjects of his paintings.
Language: en
Pages: 316
Pages: 316
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-29 - Publisher: Routledge
In the early 1820s, in the gloomy aftermath of the 1789 Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, the French Romantic painter Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) made five
Language: en
Pages: 308
Pages: 308
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-03-15 - Publisher: Manchester University Press
Portraiture, the most popular genre of painting, occupies a central position in the history of Western art. Despite this, its status within academic art theory
Language: en
Pages: 238
Pages: 238
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-24 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book offers a new approach to the history of Greek portraiture by focusing on portraits without names. Comprehensively illustrated, it brings together a wi