Masterworks from the Musee Des Beaux-Arts, Lille - Hardcover

O'Neill, John P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810964171 ISBN 13: 9780810964174

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992

Synopsis

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this catalogue presents more than 40 paintings and nearly 50 drawings from the little known museum and its outstanding collection, by such artists including Rubens, Raphael, Pontormo, Delacroix, David Goya, Jordaens, Courbet, Donatello, and van Gogh. Each work is discussed by a specialist and illustrated in color with full details of provenance and exhibition history. Introductory essays recount the fascinating history of the MusTe des Beaux-Arts, while other essays include overviews of the paintings and drawings in the collection. 9.25x11.75". Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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From Publishers Weekly:

Paintings by Goya, Courbet, Raphael and Gericault are featured in this tony catalog of a loan exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, a sampling of treasures from the Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lille, one of France's major museums. Highlights include van Gogh's moody oil, Study of Cows, completed just prior to his suicide; Peter Paul Rubens's dramatic paintings created for the churches and convents of Lille; Donatello's stylized marble relief, The Feast of Herod ; David d'Angers's four bas-reliefs depicting the invention of printing in the four corners of the world; and 15th-century Dutch painter Dieric Bouts' allegory The Fall of the Damned , which recalls Hieronymus Bosch's visions of Hell. There are also superb drawings by Delacroix, Raphael, Poussin, David and Durer. Essays by Liedtke and Groswold, Met curators and other scholars accompany more than 130 color and black-and-white plates.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0810964171
• ISBN 13: 9780810964174
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Shultz Ellen