LAWSON, JAMES

Van Dyck Paintings and Drawings

New York: Prestel Verlag, 1999. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. ISBN: 3791320904. Cover is black with wilver lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight. This is a NEW book. This is the English language version [originally published in German]. Lavishly illustrated with dozens of color and b/w photos. Anthony van Dyck, knighted by King Charles I of England, was a masterly artist, who learned well from his master, Sir Peter Paul Reubens, at his studio in Antwerp. He painted many works, both protraits and more epic pictures, but it was as the court painter to Charles I that he really gained his claim to fame. He has brought that court and time to life in a way rarely seen under the hand of one artist [following in the footsteps of Hans Holbein the Younger at the court of Henry VIII]. This book was done in celebration of the 400th birth of van Dyck, featuring an amazing exhibition first in Antwerp and then in London. While this book cannot claim to duplicate the experience of seeing those works hung room after room, immersing you in the world that van Dyck saw and painted, it comes close. The works examined here are his paintings, sketches, engravings and watercolors. From the formal court portraits to the delightful self-portrait on the cover of the DJ. Also includes my two personal favorites: "Triple Portrait of Charles I" 1635, which was done as a study for a bust commissioned to Bernini; and : The Five Eldest Children of Charles I" 1637, one of the most enchanting family groups ever portrayed. There are multiple copies of this title availbable; DJ in a Brodart cover. Wonderful book, I love my copy of this title. Oversized; 3.5#. ; Photographs; 9 1/2 x 11 3/4; 143 pages; Cover has some light bumping. DJ has some edge wear and bumping; in a mylar cover.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 2517

Catalogue: European Art

Keywords: 3791320904 Anthony Van Dyck; Art; Artists; Cultural History; Social History; English Art; English History; Monarchs; Royalty;

LAWSON, JAMES

Van Dyck Paintings and Drawings

New York: Prestel Verlag, 1999. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. ISBN: 3791320904. Cover is black with silver lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight. This is the English language version [originally published in German]. Lavishly illustrated with dozens of color and b/w photos. Anthony van Dyck, knighted by King Charles I of England, was a masterly artist, who learned well from his master, Peter Paul Reubens, at his studio in Antwerp. He painted many works, both protraits and more epic pictures, but it was as the court painter to Charles I that he really gained his claim to fame. He has brought that court and time to life in a way rarely seen under the hand of one artist [he follows in the footsteps of Hans Holbein the Younger at the court of Henry VIII]. This book was done in celebration of the 400th birth of van Dyck, featuring an amazing exhibition first in Antwerp and then in London. While this book cannot claim to duplicate the experience of seeing those works hung room after room, immersing you in the world that van Dyck saw and painted, it comes close. The works examined here are his paintings, sketches, engravings and watercolors. From the formal court portraits to the delightful self-portrait on the cover of the DJ. Also includes my two personal favorites: "Triple Portrait of Charles I" 1635, which was done as a study for a bust commissioned to Bernini; and : The Five Eldest Children of Charles I" 1637, one of the most enchanting family groups ever portrayed. There are multiple copies of this title availbable; the others are not sealed in plastic but have the DJ in a Brodart cover. Wonderful book, I love my copy of this title. Oversized; 3.5#. ; Photographs; 9 1/2 x 11 3/4; 143 pages; Cover has some light bumping; very faint remainder mark. DJ has some edge wear and bumping; in a mylar cover.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 8466

Catalogue: European Art

Keywords: 3791320904 Anthony Van Dyck; Art; Artists; Cultural History; Social History; English Art; English History; Monarchs; Royalty;

PEERS, MRS. C. R.

The Early Northern Painters: Studies in the National Gallery

London: Medici Society, Ltd, 1922. First Edition. Reprint; Hard Cover. Cover is blue with light bumping, edge wear; rubbing/fraying at top and bottom of spine, sunning, but very clean and nice. Gold lettering on the spine. DJ is parchment colored with black lettering on front and spine; some edge wear and bumping; also some light chipping across top, with 1"x 1 1/2" patch at top of back corner missing, but top and bottom of DJ was lined with brown paper, which fills the hole. Some rubbing on spine; both flaps are triimmed a little. The DJ is very clean overall, everything legible and intact. Pages are gilt edged, with sides and bottom pretty well rubbed; top intact. Illustrated with 25 paintings, one, "The Marriage of the Arnolfini, " the frontispiece, in color, the rest in b/w. Pages are very clean and tight, deckled edges, of a high quality, linen type paper, with the date written in pencil at the bottom of the front end paper; in a Brodart cover. The publisher, The Medici Society, "exists to publish the finest colour facsimile reproductions of great paintings..." "...opens her book with a lucid account of the origin of Medieval Painters, north and south of the Alps; she traces from the great classic period the evolution of art to the early Italian Renaissance and thence north of the Alps to Germany and the Netherlands. An account of the Guilds and their influence is well and clearly put. " A very high quality, classy book on the Early Northern Painters of the National Gallery of London. Hard to find book, which is only very rarely found with the matching DJ. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo , 6 x 9; 214 pages. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 6940

Catalogue: European Art

Keywords: Art; Painting; Painters; Artists; Culture; Fine Ar Art; Artists; Painting; Painters; National Gallery; Renaissance Art; Northern Painters; Van Eyck; Cultural History Education European History History Art World History