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Caroline Campbell
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English
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Unlocking the human stories behind millennia of art, the eminent curator, taking us from ancient Babylon to contemporary Pyongyang, explains art's power to illuminate our lives and reveals how great art resonates powerfully by transcending the boundaries of time.
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Publisher
National Gallery of Ireland
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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A ground-breaking artist of her time, late sixteenth-century Bolognese artist Fontana is widely considered to be the first woman artist to achieve professional success beyond the confines of a court or a convent. Fontana was the first woman to manage her own workshop, and the first woman to paint public altarpieces and female nudes. She maintained an active career, painting for many illustrious patrons, while also taking on the role of wife and mother....
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National Gallery Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431-1506) and Giovanni Bellini (active c. 1459; died 1516) each produced paintings marked by pictorial and technical innovations that are among the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. Exploring the dynamic between Mantegna's compositional approach and interest in classical antiquity and Bellini's passion for landscape painting, this volume examines how these two artists, who were also brothers-in-law, influenced and responded...
