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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Old masters"”.
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Old masters and aspirations : the Randlords, art and South Africa
… made vast fortunes from exploiting deposits of gold and diamonds in South Africa, using local labour. These mining magnates accumulated their wealth first in Kimberley in the 1870s and, later, in Johannesburg in the late 1880s. Thereafter, most of them moved to Britain, where they lived for the …
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O papel da estampa didática na formação artística na Academia Imperial de Belas Artes: O acervo do Museu D.João VI
… of showing in Brazil works of arts by European masters. The study aims to present part of the collection of prints of MDJVI and historical relevance of your use in didactic teaching drawing at the Academy Brazilian. In particular, this research analyzed techniques, themes and forms of the human …
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This is a Present from a Small, Distant World
… paintings in the style of the Dutch and Old Masters, and media installations which depict natural landscapes as distanced, deconstructed forms. What I explore most in my practice is our damaged relationship with land and nature, and our capitalist and media ecologies as artificial …
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If I Could Have Opened My Heart
… indirect process of painting influenced by Old Masters.
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The European art and Canadiana collections of Robert Wilson Reford (1867-1951)
… shipping business, amassed a large collection of Old Master and European pictures which included a significant number of British paintings of the eighteenth century, and showed a preference for portraits. Highlights included portraits by Bronzino, Veronese, Gainsborough, Reynolds, and Hoppner, a …
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St. Nicholas Magazine: A Portable Art Museum
… of fine art and architecture from Antiquity, the Old Masters, and contemporary academic artists illustrated fictional serials, accompanied art historical information, and stood alone as art work for the reader to visually consider. Innovative page layouts took their inspiration from the aesthetic …
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Collaborative Painting Between Minds and Hands: Art Criticism, Connoisseurship, and Artistic Sodality in Early Modern Italy
… the notion of the united corpo and the manifold meanings of the artist’s mano. Hardly insistent on uniformity or anonymity, writers generally believed that collaboration actualized the ideals of a range of social, cultural, theoretical, and cosmological models in which variously formed types …
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The reception of Dutch genre painting in England, 1695-1829
… is also considered. A chapter is devoted to Reynolds, who changed the debate by conflating low and high genre and attacking both for literal copying rather than for humorous vulgarity. Part Two examines the erosion of the belief that Dutch art was inferior, discussing changes in the art world …
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Antichi maestri italiani al Thorvaldsens Museum di Copenaghen: il collezionismo di un artista danese nella Roma del primo Ottocento
… e la catalogazione del piccolo nucleo di Italian Old Masters - che ammonta a quaranta dipinti tra originali, copie antiche e moderne - collezionati a Roma nel primo Ottocento dallo scultore danese Bertel Thorvaldsen (Copenaghen 1770-1844), oggi conservati presso il Thorvaldsens Museum di …
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Financial Implications of Investing in the Global Art Market: Risk, Return and Diversification
… the S&P 500 by 4.0%. The rate of return for Old Masters varied depending upon time period and art indices providers and underperformed consistently. The S&P 500 had higher volatility than the art market. However, all comprehensive art market measures outperformed T-Bills with higher …
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From Onegin to Ada: Nabokov's Canon and the Texture of Time
… Delights in pride of place. Ada animates the Old Masters, but there are also no fewer than three film adaptations depicted in the novel, betraying an ongoing struggle between the media (and echoing Stanley Kubrick and Nabokov's skirmishes over Lolita the film). If it is to survive beyond …