Copper as canvas
Subtitle: two centuries of masterpiece paintings on copper, 1575-1775
By: [organized by] Phoenix Art Museum.
Contributors: Phoenix Art Museum.; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.; Mauritshuis (Hague, Netherlands)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Copper painting -- Exhibitions; Painting -- 16th century -- Exhibitions; Painting, Modern -- 17th century -- Exhibitions; Painting, Modern -- 18th century -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "Recently exhibited at the Phoenix Art Museum were approximately too of the most important and best-preserved examples of paintings on copper from collections in the United States, Europe, and South America, along with displays of copper mining and copper ores, and copper objects and printing plates from the period. Masters including Jan Breughel the Elder, Claude, El Greco, Reni, Guercino, Rembrandt, and Vernet are among those who produced fine works on copper." "Copper as Canvas brings together 100 full-color and sixty-five black-and-white reproductions of these paintings, each accompanied by a detailed entry, as well as an interdisciplinary range of essays covering the history of painting on copper."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Phoenix Art Museum, Dec. 19, 1998-Feb. 28, 1999, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Mar. 28-June 13, 1999, the Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, June 26-Aug. 22, 1999.