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Bird Paintings: The Eighteenth Century

Door Christine E. Jackson

Categorie	Schilderkunst
Boeknummer	#304313-KD17
Titel	Bird Paintings: The Eighteenth Century
Auteur	Jackson, Christine E.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Antique Collectors Club
Jaar van uitgave	1994
ISBN10	1851491996
ISBN13	9781851491995
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original gilt letterd blue cloth, dust jacket, (full page) illustrations in colour and b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting	This is the second part of a five-volume series. This book presents a representative selection of colour pictures of birds painted during the 18th century. It portrays the artists' increasing sensitivity to nature. A detailed text accompanies the pictures and reveals the growth in the popularity of watercolour as a medium for painting birds. In the 18th century, several artists continued to produce bird paintings in the same style and composition of the Old Masters. When a new sensitivity to nature became universal, naturalists recorded, named and illustrated species with increasing skills. Old myths were replaced by observation and evidence. Exotic birds were being discovered in the newly-explored countries of North America, India and, at the end of the century, Australia. This age of d... (Lees verder)iscovery was also a period when the potential of watercolour painting was developed and proved to be the perfect medium for depicting birds. In bird art, as in so many other aspects of 18th century life, this was an age of sense and sensitivity.
Pagina's	143
Conditie	Goed — Name and year on title page.
Prijs	€ 15,00

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