Schneider, Norbert
Contents: The great age of the portrait -- Origins of the portrait -- Early portrait of a ruler -- Portraits of Renaissance women -- The psychological portrait -- Portraits and caricatures -- Portraits of Renaissance humanists -- Mythologising portraits -- Portraits of popes and cardinals -- Portraits of artists and collectors -- Artists' self-portraits -- Portrait of a friend -- "Teste composte" --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Benedikt Taschen 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 757.094 SCHOrmond, Richard
Summary: Many of the sitters in this collection were John Singer Sargent's close friends. They are posed informally, sometimes in the act of painting or singing, and it is evident from the bold way they confront us that they are personalities of a creative stamp. Brilliant as these pictures are as works of art and penetrating studies of character, they are also records of relationships, allegiances,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The National Portrait Gallery 2015
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 702 SARGENT ORMSummary: With editing completed by filmmaker Ken Kobland after the death of director/producer Marion Cajori, this movie describes the life and work of an artist who has reinvented portraiture. Close photographs his subjects, blows up the image to gigantic proportions, divides it into a detailed grid and then uses a complex set of colors and patterning to reconstruct each face. The artist describes his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthouse Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHUInmann, Christiane.
Summary: Chronologically arranged, explores civilizations from ancient times to medieval and Renaissance Europe and to modern England and America, examining the depiction of women and the books they read in art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prestel 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 INMSummary: "Portraiture has managed to flourish in modern painting in spite of the popularization of photography, the decline of traditional patronage, and modernism's increasing emphasis on abstraction. However problematic modern styles have been for representational art, painters have continued to discover new possibilities in the imaging of the human face. This book explores the challenge of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Modern Art 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 PICLeveille, Paul.
Summary: Outlines an approach for painting portraits that emphasizes a concentration on shapes rather than on creating a likeness, features seven examples of portraits in the works, and includes information on tools, materials, and setup.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.45 LEVBlake, Wendon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1979
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 751.45 BLABeauman, Sally.
Summary: "Before the summer is over, a catastrophic event changes the life of three young sisters in 1967 England"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABurns, Paul C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1979
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 751.45 BURCumming, Laura
Summary: From one of the world's most expert art critics, the incredible true story--part art history and part mystery--of a Velazquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it. When John Snare, a nineteenth-century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he stumbled on a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 CUMGraves, Douglas R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Publishers 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.4542 GRABeauman, Sally.
Summary: "Before the summer is over, a catastrophic event changes the life of three young sisters in 1967 England"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEAMurakami, Haruki
Summary: "The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art--as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby--and a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers"-- A painter retreats into a solitary house...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MurakamiIndiana, Gary.
Summary: From the Publisher: In the summer of 1962, Andy Warhol unveiled 32 Soup Cans in his first solo exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles-and sent the art world reeling. The responses ran from incredulity to outrage; the poet Taylor Mead described the exhibition as "a brilliant slap in the face to America." The exhibition put Warhol on the map-and transformed American culture forever. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2010