Author: LIEVENS - Wheelock jr., Arthur K. & Stephanie S. Dickey et al:
Title: Jan Lievens. A Dutch Master Rediscovered.
Description: September 2008, (21,6 x 25,4 cm), 352 pp. English text, 230 colour ills., 76 in b/w., hardcover/ dustwrappers. Catalogue to the exhibitions in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Milwaukee Art Musuem and Rembrandthuis Amsterdam. Jan Lievens (1607-1674) was one of the most fascinating and enigmatic Dutch artists of the seventeenth century. Daring and innovative as a painter, printmaker, and draftsman, he created powerful character studies, genre scenes, landscapes, formal portraits, and religious and allegorical images that were widely praised and valued during his lifetime. This beautiful book, the first overview of the full range of Lievens' career, features more than 50 paintings, many of them newly discovered in private collections, and more than 75 prints and drawings, providing a reassessment of his place in the history of art.Lievens began his career in his native Leiden, where he worked closely with his compatriot Rembrandt, who admired and collected Lievens' works. Lievens then moved to London, Antwerp, and Amsterdam, and his peripatetic career and multitude of working styles, say the authors of this book, may explain why his reputation today is not as high as it should be. This book offers a necessary corrective, returning to Lievens the esteem he deserves.
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Title: Jan Lievens. A Dutch Master Rediscovered.
Description: September 2008, (21,6 x 25,4 cm), 352 pp. English text, 230 colour ills., 76 in b/w., hardcover/ dustwrappers. Catalogue to the exhibitions in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Milwaukee Art Musuem and Rembrandthuis Amsterdam. Jan Lievens (1607-1674) was one of the most fascinating and enigmatic Dutch artists of the seventeenth century. Daring and innovative as a painter, printmaker, and draftsman, he created powerful character studies, genre scenes, landscapes, formal portraits, and religious and allegorical images that were widely praised and valued during his lifetime. This beautiful book, the first overview of the full range of Lievens' career, features more than 50 paintings, many of them newly discovered in private collections, and more than 75 prints and drawings, providing a reassessment of his place in the history of art.Lievens began his career in his native Leiden, where he worked closely with his compatriot Rembrandt, who admired and collected Lievens' works. Lievens then moved to London, Antwerp, and Amsterdam, and his peripatetic career and multitude of working styles, say the authors of this book, may explain why his reputation today is not as high as it should be. This book offers a necessary corrective, returning to Lievens the esteem he deserves.
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Price: EUR 35.00 = appr. US$ 38.04 Seller: Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.
- Book number: 5554
- Book number: 5554
See more books from our catalog: Monografieën / Monographs