Wattaeu at Work
"La Surprise"
ISBN: PB: 9781606067352,
Getty Publications,
November 2021
88 pp., 21,9x18,4 cm, illus.
88 pp., 21,9x18,4 cm, illus.
The painting La Surprise by Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) belongs to a new genre of painting invented by the artist himself-the fete galante. These works, which show graceful open-air gatherings filled with scenes of courtship, music and dance, st...
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21.99 GBP
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Poussin and the Dance
ISBN: PB: 9781857096729,
Yale University Press,
National Gallery London,
October 2021
144 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 70 colour and black&white illus.
144 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 70 colour and black&white illus.
Poussin's scenes of bacchanalian revelry, tripping maenads and skipping nymphs are often described as "dancelike" and "choreographed". The artist's dancing pictures helped him develop a new approach to painting that would become the model for the Fre...
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25.00 GBP
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Manet and Modern Beauty
The Artist's Last Years
ISBN: HB: 9781606066041,
Getty Publications,
June 2019
400 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, colour illus.
400 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, colour illus.
The name Manet often evokes the provocative, heroically scaled pictures he painted in the 1860s for the Salon, but in the late 1870s and early 1880s the artist produced quite a different body of work: stylish portraits of actresses and demimondaines,...
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55.00 GBP
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