Renaissance watercolours : from Dürer to Van Dyck / Mark Evans with Elania Pieragostini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Mark, 1954- author.

Pieragostini, Elania, author.

Contributor:

Victoria and Albert Museum.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Watercolor painting, Renaissance--Exhibitions.

Watercolor painting, Renaissance.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

256 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm

Distribution:

[London] : Distributed in North America by Abrams, an imprint of ABRAMS.

Place of Publication:

London : V&A Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

Spanning the period 1450-1640, this book considers diverse watercolours together for the first time, bringing together 150 paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbein, Nicholas Hilliard and Anthony Van Dyck, as well as works by less well-known figures such as Giulio Clovio, Joris Hoefnagel, Jacopo Ligozzi and Jacques le Moyne. It highlights the intellectual breadth and artistic quality of the Renaissance watercolour, an art form which reached as far afield as the New World and the court of the Mughal emperor.

Contents:

Watercolour painting and the renaissance terms and issues

'An art so new' Capturing the landscape

'Painting natural things' Images of plants and animals

'An energy and inner virtue' the reinvention of portraiture

Contrasts and correspondences The new world and Asia.

Notes:

Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name scheduled for 16 May to 20 September 2020 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781851779772

1851779779

OCLC:

1144719198

Publisher Number:

40030131322