Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters (ES 6-vol. set)

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-4-902454-55-0
Verlag: Edition Synapse

Buch, Englisch, 2091 Seiten, 6-vol. set, Gewicht: 4014 g

- Following the style of the most famous book of Renaissance art history, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, this is one of the most comprehensive books of British art history covering the early period to the early nineteenth century.

- Alain Cunningham compiled this monumental work with the support of his contemporaries, such as John Gibson Lockhart, the editor of Quarterly Review and Robert Southey. It took several years to complete.

- The book selected forty-seven British artists; not only famous painters and architects like William Hogarth, William Blake, Joshua Reynolds, and Inigo Jones, but also some relatively forgotten figures from the Elizabethan period up to the nineteenth century.

- Contains detailed bibliographic information, together with both historical and aesthetic background of the times in which the artists flourished.

- An essential addition to the holdings of all art libraries (and universities with art courses) which do not hold the original book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shioe, Kozo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1: (2nd ed. 1830, c.362pp + 10 b/w plates)

The Early Painters

William Hogarth

Richard Wilson

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Thomas Gainsborough

Volume 2: (2nd ed. 1830, c.353pp + 7 b/w plates)

Benjamin West

James Barry

William Blake

John Opie

George Morland

Edward Bird

Henry Fuseli

Volume 3: (1st ed. 1830, c.371pp + 9 b/w plates)

Grinling Gibbons

Caius Gabriel Cibber

Louis Francis Roubiliac

Joseph Wilton

Thomas Banks

Joseph Nollekins

John Bacon

Anne Damer

John Flaxman

Volume 4: (1st ed. 1831, c.356pp + 8 b/w plates)

William of Wykeham

Inigo Jones

Sir Christopher Wren

Sir John Vanbrugh

James Gibbs

William Kent

Earl of Burlington

Sir William Chambers

Volume 5: (1st ed. 1833, c.315pp + 4 b/w plates)

George Jameson

Allan Ramsay

George Romney

Alexander Runciman

John Singleton Copley

John Hamilton Mortimer

Sir Henry Raeburn

John Hoppner

William Owen

George Henry Harlow

Richard Parkes Bonington

Volume 6: (1st ed. 1833, c.334pp + 4 b/w plates)

Richard Cosway

David Allan

James Northcote

Sir George Howland Beaumont

Sir Thomas Lawrence

John Jackson

Henry Liverseege

James Burnet