Portrait of the Artist - Rilegato

Reynolds, Anna; Peter, Lucy; Clayton, Martin

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1909741329 ISBN 13: 9781909741324

Casa editrice: Royal Collection Pubns, 2016

Riassunto

Dürer’s Self-Portrait at Age Twenty-Eight. Hockney’s Self-Portrait with Cigarette. Melzi’s drawing of Leonardo da Vinci, widely regarded as the most reliable surviving likeness of this most famous Old Master. Throughout history, many of the world’s most renowned artists have made portraits to represent themselves and others.

The first book to focus on images of artists from within the Royal Collection, Portrait of the Artist brings together paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs by artists from across the centuries, including works by Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, David Hockney, and Lucian Freud. While some of the portraits included in this book were created to showcase the artist’s talent, others were motivated by more personal reasons, to preserve the images of cherished friends. Anna Reynolds, Lucy Peter, and Martin Clayton explore the miscellany of themes running throughout the discipline of portraiture, from the rich symbolism found in images of the artist’s studio to the transformation of styles with which artists depictedthemselves, changing their portrayals to align with their changing status. They also explore the relationships between artists and patrons, including the important role of the monarchy in commissioning and collecting portraits of artists.

Published to accompany a major exhibition opening in the fall at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, Portrait of the Artist provides a fascinating new perspective on this tradition, with lavish color illustrations of works from the fifteenth century to the present.
 

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Recensione:

Accompanying Buckingham Palace's exhibition, this lavishly illustrated catalogue takes us on a delightful whirl through portraits and self-portraits of artists collected by Royals through the centuries. There is David Hockney's luminous self-portrait created on an iPad, David Dawson's photograph of Lucian Freud painting The Queen, a bankrupt Rembrandt's melancholy self-portrait, and cartoonist Thomas Rowlandson's 1810 satirical watercolour of the bohemian artist's life. On a darker note, Cristofano Allori painted his own handsome head in his Judith With The Head Of Holofernes (1613) - chopped off and gripped by its curly hair, in the hands of his tempestuous ex-lover. Highly recommended.

--Rebecca Wallersteiner, The Lady

This sumptuous book examines not only artist s self-portraits, but also paintings of artists by their friends and contemporaries. [...] This volume is packed with information and with many images this book is everything you need on a most interesting subject. --Bill Spence, Gazette and Herald

Catalogues! At their best, not only beautifully illustrated but providing provocative essays and analyses of individual works of art. Portrait of the Artist by Anna Reynolds, Lucy Peter and Martin Clayton published by Royal Collection Trust [...] is a superb example: surprising, beautiful and enjoyable, replete with the unexpected from Rembrandt to Prince Philip. --Marina Vaizey, The Tablet

L'autore:

Anna Reynolds is Curator of Paintings, Royal Collection Trust. Lucy Peter is Assistant Curator of Paintings, Royal Collection Trust. Martin Clayton is Head of Prints and Drawings, Royal Collection Trust. All three authors have previously published on works from the Royal Collection Trust.
 

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• Editore: Royal Collection Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1909741329
• ISBN 13: 9781909741324
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 255