Keith Christiansen Bücher

Gemeinsam mit dem Metropolitan Museum of Art veranstaltet dieGemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin unter der Schirmherrschaft des deutschen und italienischen Aussenministers im Sommer 2011 eine bereits vielfach beworbene, grosse Publikumsausstellung zur Entwicklung des italienischen Porträts im 15. Jahrhundert. Es werden dabei Meisterwerke von Donatello und Masaccio über Mantegna und Botticelli bis hin zu den Bellini und Leonardo da Vinci in einem anspruchsvollen Schauzusammenhang vereint, der die Entwicklung der Gattung lückenlos nachvollziehbar macht. Eine konzeptionelle Besonderheit bildet dabei die gleichwertige Berücksichtigung der Bildniskunst im Medium der Tafelmalerei, der Marmor-Skulptur, Bronze- und Terrakotta-Plastik sowie in faszinierenden Handzeichnungen und Medailllen. Ausstellung: Bode-Museum, Museuminstel, Berlin 25.8.-20.11.2011, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 19.12.2011-18.3.2012.

"Following Caravaggio's death in 1610, the French artist Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632) emerged as one of the great champions of naturalist painting. The eminent art historian Roberto Longhi honored him as "the most energetic and passionate of Caravaggio's naturalist followers ... With discussions of nearly fifty works, representing practically all of his painted oeuvre, Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio explores both the artist's superlative depictions of daily life and the tumultuous context in which they were produced ... Rich with incident and insight, and beautifully illustrated with Valentin's complex, suggestive paintings, Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio reveals a seminal artist, a practitioner of realism in the seventeenth century who prefigured the naturalistic modernism of Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet two centuries later"--Jacket

This beautiful series lavishly illustrates the world's major fresco cycles from the early fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Each book also contains a comprehensive text, a biography of the artist, a bibliography, and a glossary.

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Providing an exclusive glimpse into one of the finest private art collections in the world, this book presents the extraordinary collection of the Neue Galerie’s co-founder, Ronald S. Lauder To celebrate the Neue Galerie’s twentieth-anniversary year, an exhibition will be presented of selections from the collection of its co-founder. The accompanying book continues with the theme of the tenth anniversary exhibition. Whereas the earlier show and publication focused on pieces from the third century BC to the twentieth century AD from Austria, France, and Germany, this exhibition and book will represent various centuries and media, highlighting Greek and Roman works, and Italian thirteenth- and fourteenth-century gold-ground paintings. Essays by distinguished art historians and curators will reflect on the breadth of these special fields, providing a background for various works, and their incorporation into the collection of the Neue Galerie’s co-founder.

Accompanying a major international exhibition, this catalogue features outstanding portraits in a variety of media, and provides a comprehensive study of Italy's great age of portraiture