Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Subjects & Themes - Human Figure

George Villiers, erster Herzog von Buckingham, war als Vertrauter und Gunstling gleich zweier englischer Konige - James' I. und seines Sohnes Charles' I. - politisch so einflussreich und umstritten wie im Europa des beginnenden 17. Jahrhunderts sonst vielleicht nur Kardinal Richelieu. Peter Paul Rubens und Anthonis van Dyck erhielten die Auftrage zu einer Folge von Portraits, mit welchen der Herzog dieser Wahrnehmung ein selbstgeschaffenes Bild seiner Person entgegenzusetzen suchte. Mit diesem Band nimmt die Autorin erstmals eine zusammenhangende Betrachtung der intensiven Sammler- und...

For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elite and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavor. But in the second half of the 16th century, access began to widen to the urban middle class, including merchants, lawyers, physicians, clergy, writers, and musicians. As portraiture proliferated in English cities and towns, the middle class gained social visibility--not just for themselves as individuals, but for their entire class or industry.

In Citizen Portrait, Tarnya...

Ausgehend vom Ingeborgpsalter, dem Codex Manesse und den Wandmalereien in der Torre Aquila in Trient werden Strukturen und Trager der Gestik im Mittelalter exemplarisch in Form von kurzen Notaten untersucht. Dabei werden zahlreiche Querverbindungen zu Literatur und Musik gezogen. Das Buch liefert so ein umfassendes Kompendium zur Entschlusselung der sprechenden Gebarden in den narrativen Zusammenhangen der mittelalterlichen Bildwelt.

Award-winning illustrator Gabriel Campanario first introduced his approach to drawing in The Art of Urban Sketching, a showcase of more than 500 sketches and drawing tips shared by more than 100 urban sketchers around the world. Now, he drills down into specific challenges of making sketches on location, rain or shine, quickly or slowly, and the most suitable techniques for every situation, in The Urban Sketching Handbook series.

It's easy to overlook that ample variety of characters that walk the streets everyday. From neighbors, dog walkers and shoppers to...

This iteration of the American Encounters series addresses artists' conceptions of political and military authority through portraiture during and after North American and European revolutionary upheavals in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The works discussed demonstrate shifting ideals of leadership through examination of artistic style, from restrained Neoclassicism to dynamic Romanticism, as well as the iconography of martial and civilian power. The publication also explores the proliferation and replication of images of leaders, particularly George Washington, as...