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A golden age of European art : celebrating fifty years of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation / edited by James Clifton and Melina Kervandjian ; with essays by Barbara Baert, Andrea Bayer, Anne Dunlop, Steven F. Ostrow, Lisa Pon, Martin Postle, and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. ; collection checklist by Josine Corstens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, author.
- Baert, Barbara, author.
- Bayer, Andrea, author.
- Dunlop, Anne, author.
- Ostrow, Steven F., author.
- Pon, Lisa, author.
- Postle, Martin, author.
- Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr., 1943- author.
- Corstens, Josine, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation--Art collections--Catalogs.
- Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation.
- Painting, European--Catalogs.
- Painting, European.
- Painting--Private collections.
- Art museums.
- Texas--Houston.
- Painting--Private collections--Texas--Houston--Catalogs.
- Painting.
- Local Subjects:
- Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 280 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
- Distribution:
- New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press.
- Other Title:
- Celebrating fifty years of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
- Place of Publication:
- Houston, Texas : The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, [2016]
- Contents:
- Foreword / Charles W. Hall
- Sarah Campbell Blaffer and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / Gary Tinterow
- A history of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation / James Clifton
- Young men with arrows and the Blaffer Saint Sebastian / Anne Dunlop
- Balthasar van der Ast and the artifice of still life / Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.
- Giuliano Bugiardini : a master of theme and variation / Andrea Bayer
- Pietro Longhi's elephant : public spectacle and marvel of nature / Steven F. Ostrow
- Meditation on The white monk : Richard Wilson and the art of "good breeding" / Martin Postle
- The Blaffer Fundation's Saint John's Head : the Johannesschüssel phenomenon / Barbara Baert
- Printing communities : Blaffer books and Jewish-Christian relationships in early modern Venice / Lisa Pon
- Checklist of Old Master paintings in the Blaffer Collection.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-274) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780300207811
- 0300207816
- OCLC:
- 907206491
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