Painting in Britain
Subtitle: 1530-1790, Fifth Edition (The Yale University Press Pelican Histor)
Edition: 5 Sub edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: February 23, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780300058321
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Painting & paintings; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Painting; Art; Art & Art Instruction; United Kingdom, Great Britain; History - General; Art / History / General; European; Techniques - Painting; 17th-18th centuries; Great Britain; Painting, British; Painting, Modern; Painting, Renaissance
Description: "The field covered by this volume includes the work and influence of foreign-born painters such as Holbein and Van Dyck as well as native masters from Gower and Hilliard to Gainsborough, Stubbs, and Sandby. We can follow step by step the development and flowering of British painting, and can compare, for example, the work of the English Sir Joshua Reynolds with the Scottish Allan Ramsay. Portrait and landscape, history piece, miniature, water colour, there is a record of them all. The text is both scholarly and eminently readable and the illustrations comprise well known examples of British painting and others seldom or never before reproduced between the covers of a book. This new edition includes an introductory essay by Michael Kitson bringing readers up-to-date with the latest approaches to the period, as well as colour plates and a revised bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.