Drama & beauty : great European paintings from the Bob Jones Collection / Erin Rodman Jones ; project editor, Richard P. Townsend.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Erin Rodman, author.

Contributor:

Townsend, Richard P., project editor.

Jones, Bob, 1939- writer of foreword.

Bob Jones University. Art Gallery and Museum.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jones, Bob, Jr., 1911-1997.

Jones, Bob.

Bob Jones University. Art Gallery and Museum--Catalogs.

Bob Jones University.

Bob Jones University. Art Gallery and Museum.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

152 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Drama and beauty

Great European paintings from the Bob Jones Collection

Place of Publication:

Greenville, South Carolina : Museum & Gallery, Inc. ; London : in association with D Giles Limited, 2022.

Summary:

This beautifully illustrated catalog -- celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Bob Jones Collection -- presents a fascinating survey of religious European art from the 14th through the 19th centuries. Bob Jones Jr. founded the collection as an educational effort and opened it on the campus of the university named after his father in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1951. Those first 25 paintings included works by Bicci di Lorenzo, Luca Giordano, El Greco, and Tintoretto, and today the collection comprises over 400 paintings, as well as a wide range of sculpture, decorative arts, and antiquities. It is widely recognized among scholars as one of the finest collections of Renaissance and Baroque paintings in America, and a document of the revival of the taste for Baroque pictures in the mid-20th century. Erin Jones's introduction provides an overview of the history of the various iterations of the Museum & Gallery, even as it looks forward to a new home in the center of its community. Richard P. Townsend's essay presents the most in-depth examination to date of Bob Jones Jr. as a collector, extensively using letters, invoices, and photographs to paint a picture of Jones hitherto not available. At the heart of the volume is the presentation of 55 paintings, featuring works by great European masters including Botticelli, Bouts, Cranach, Guercino, Jordaens, Preti, Reni, Ribera, Rubens, Tiepolo, and Zurbarán. - Back cover.

Contents:

Foreword / Bob Jones III

Introduction / Erin Rodman Jones

The collector behind the pictures : Bob Jones Jr. and Old Master paintings in America / Richard P. Townsend

Catalogue. Italian. Crucifix / Francesco di Vannuccio

Madonna and child with saints / Niccolò di Pietro Gerini

Madonna and child with saints / Baldassarre di Biagio del Firenze

Madonna and child with St. John the Baptist and an angel / Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino

Madonna and child with angels / Master of the Greenville Tondo

Madonna and child with an angel / Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi

Rest on the flight into Egypt / Francesco Granacci

Procession to Calvary / Giovanni Antonio Bazzi

Madonna of the lake ("Madonna del lago") / Marco D'Oggiono

St. Sebastian / Studio of Andrea d'Agnolo

The visit of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon / Jacopo Robusti

The body of Christ prepared for burial / Cavaliere Giovanni Baglione

St. Cecilia / Giovanni Lanfranco

St. John the Evangelist / Domenico Zampieri

St. Matthew / Guido Reni

Madonna and child / Carlo Dolci

The young Christ / Giovanni Battista Salvi

St. Anthony of Padua / Giovanni Francesco Barbieri

Landscape with the baptism of Christ / Salvator Rosa

Christ cleansing the temple / Luca Giordano

Christ seats the child in the midst of the disciples / Mattia Preti

The return from the flight into Egypt / Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari

St. James the Greater / Pompeo Batoni

A philosopher holding a book / Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Spanish. St. Augustine and St. Roch

St. Catherine appearing to the family of St. Bonaventure

St. John the Baptist in the wilderness / attributed to Antonio del Castillo Saavedra

Ecce homo / Jusepe de Ribera

The Annunciation / Francisco de Zurbarán

Flemish and German. St. Michael the Archangel and St. Agnes / Colijn de Coter

The man of sorrows / Albrecht Bouts

The Holy Family / Joos van der Beke

Christ before Pilate / Master of St. Severin

Procession to Calvary / Master of the Holy Blood (Maître du Saint-Sang)

Triptych : The Nativity, flight into Egypt, and Adoration of the Magi / Jan Swart van Groningen

Salome with the head of St. John the Baptist / Lucas Cranach the Elder

Lamentation over the dead Christ / Abraham Janssens

Christ on the cross / Peter Paul Rubens

The presentation of Christ in the temple / Jacob Jordaens

The adoration of the Magi / Jan Boeckhorst, called Lange Jan

Dutch. Christ healing the blind man / Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem

Christ and the Samaritan woman / Abraham Bloemaert

The Holy Family in the carpenter shop / Gerrit van Honthorst, called Gherardo delle Notti

St. Mary Magdalene turning from the world to Christ / Jan Hermansz van Bijlert

Esther accusing Haman / Jan Victors

Solomon's prayer for wisdom / Govaert Flinck

French. St. Sebastian aided by St. Irene / Trophime Bigot

King David playing the harp / Simon Vouet

Pentecost / Charles Le Brun

The Christ of derision / Philippe de Champaigne

The nineteenth century. Isaiah's lips anointed with fire / Benjamin West

The visitation / Johann Friedrich Overbeck

Vashti refuses the king's summons / Edwin Long

The martyrdom of St. Perpetua and St. Felicitas / Félix Louis Leullier

The Ascension / Gustave Doré

Acknowledgements / Richard P. Townsend

Bibliography.

Notes:

"Drama & Beauty: Great European Paintings from the Bob Jones Collection is published on the occasion of the collection's 70th anniversary and is underwritten by the Beauty Matters Comprehensive Campaign." - Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-149) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Contains:

Townsend, Richard P. Collector behind the pictures : Bob Jones Jr. and Old Master paintings in America.

ISBN:

9781913875206

1913875202

OCLC:

1298548611