A real Van Gogh

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Lauren B. Hewes

"Portraits in the Collection of the American Antiquarian Society grew out of a project initiated by Georgia B. Barnhill, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts at the American Antiquarian Society, to update the documentation of the Society's portrait collection reflecting its growth since 1946. This work was undertaken by Lauren B. Hewes. The collection is an eclectic one that represents many aspects of the history of the Society: the interests of benefactors who gave their collections to the Society and the impulse to commemorate the Society's leadership. A number of portraits came into the collection with or because of related manuscript or book collections or were commissioned by the Society and for these there is extraordinary information about the circumstances of their production."--BOOK JACKET.

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Tim Wilcox

It attempts to show some of the connections between our most important figurative painters, working today with all the confidence and power of maturity, and those artists who advanced realist painting before the Second World War: Sickert, Bomberg, Spencer and Coldstream. Also includes works by Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, John Lessore , Euan Uglow, and John Wonnacott.--Cf. Editor's preface.

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Ariane Thomas

Témoignages longtemps inespérés et uniques à ce jour, les peintures de Tell Ahmar sont parmi les plus anciennes peintures conservées au musée du Louvre. Il y a plus de deux mille cinq cents ans, elles couvraient les murs d'un palais royal édifié dans les provinces occidentales de l'empire assyrien, sur le site de Tell Ahmar en Syrie actuelle. Les kilomètres de peintures qui y étaient miraculeusement conservées ont révélé un extraordinaire décor où se déployaient des scènes de guerre, de chasse ou d'audiences royales, fourmillant de détails et de mouvements. Le musée du Louvre conserve des fragments originaux de ces superbes peintures dont le reste a depuis disparu, hormis quelques vestiges au musée national d'Alep.

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Henry Pluckrose

Describes the various materials and techniques used by artists and provides illustrated, step-by-step instructions for creating variety of art projects.