The Grove Dictionary of Art. From David to Ingres, Early 19th-Century French Artists

Janet Turner

ISBN 10: 0312229704 / ISBN 13: 9780312229702

Published by Grove Art/ Saint Martin's Press, New York, New York, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Grove Dictionary of Art. From David to Ingres, Early 19th-Century French Artists
• Publisher: Grove Art/ Saint Martin's Press, New York, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312229704
• ISBN 13: 9780312229702
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • French Art
  • Art, European

About this title

Synopsis

The Grove Dictionary of Art, the award-winning 34-volume set that was launched to critical acclaim in 1996, represents the knowledge of more than 6,800 of the world's leading scholars. It is now the preeminent reference resource for the visual arts. The new GroveART series makes this comprehensive and authoritative art scholarship accessible and affordable to all audiences for the first time. Complete with a multi-page color plate section as well as extensive black and white images throughout, each volume in the series will focus on one particularly popular area or period of art history. Broad enough to appeal to the general reader, but thorough enough for the art historian, each book will reflect the depth and excellence of coverage that brought such acclaim to The Grove Dictionary of Art.

This unprecedented book draws together biographies of artists who worked in one of the most exciting and dramatic political eras in France, when Paris became the artistic capital of Europe. It features in-depth studies of such well-known Neo-classical artists as Jacques-Louis David, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the artist most revered by his fellow countrymen. Also included are artists of the Romantic Movement, like Delacroix and Gericault, as well as the painters of the Barbizon School, whose plein-air landscapes anticipated those of the Impressionists.

About the Author

Jane Turner was General Editor of the Grove Dictionary of Art. A specialist in Old Master drawings, she is currently completing catalogs of 17th-century Dutch drawings for the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.