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A consistent undercurrent has been Britain's preference for the real world (landscape and portraiture) as against high art and abstraction. This is a survey of the personalities of British painting and an assessment of its latest flowering.

The Grand Tour, the journey made by noblemen and gentlemen of many nations to Italy in search of antique and modern culture, reached its apogee in the 18th century and came to an end with the Napoleonic Wars in the 1790s. This book looks at this vital aspect of European civilization in the age of the Enlightenment from the point of view of several countries and includes the work of foremost artists of the period, among them Canaletto, Richard Wilson, Pompeo Batoni, Joseph Wright of Derby, and Joshua Reynolds.A team of international experts has been brought together to contribute detailed descriptions of ever 200 paintings, sculptures, watercolors, prints, and objets d'art from Europe and America.

52 aquarelles en couleurs parmi toutes celles exécutées par Turner dès 1819. Extraits de textes consacrés à Venise : Suarès, Mann, Barrès, Ruskin, James, Régnier, Goethe et Byron. 1995, 29 x 25 cm., br., 96 pages.

The Turner Collection in The Clore Gallery Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in 1775, and died in 1 85 1 . His lifespan embraced what was perhaps the most fruitful of all periods in British art an age that began with the ...

William Turner (1775 - 1851) gelangt in seinem Werk zu einzigartiger - fast abstrakter - Farbigkeit und atmosphärischer Lichtdurchdrungenheit. Unerreicht sind seine zarten Aquarelle, deren Ausdruckskraft er später in die Ölmalerei umzusetzen weiß. Turners Persönlichkeit wird in Briefen, Gedichten, Notizen und zeitgenössischen Quellen lebendig, die in sechs Kapitel eingewoben sind. Dem Text folgen Chronologien des jeweiligen Jahrzehnts, die ebenfalls Originalzitate des Künstlers, die Routen seiner Reisen sowie Passagen aus seinen Skizzenbüchern und weiteres vielfältiges Dokumentationsmaterial enthalten.