Rembrandt to Gainsborough
Subtitle: masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery
By: Ian A.C. Dejardin, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, and Giles Waterfield.
Contributors: Shawe-Taylor, Desmond.; Waterfield, Giles.; Dulwich Picture Gallery.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.; J.B. Speed Art Museum.
Publisher: Merrell Holberton Publishers; American Federation of Arts; Amer Federation of Arts; Merrell Pub Ltd
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Dulwich Picture Gallery -- Exhibitions; Painting, European -- 17th century -- Exhibitions; Painting, European -- 18th century -- Exhibitions; Painting, Baroque -- Europe -- Exhibitions; Painting -- England -- London -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "Founded in 1811, Dulwich Picture Gallery was England's first public museum. The gallery is home to one of the most important collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art in the world, including works by Rembrandt, Rubens, and Van Dyck; Poussin and Watteau; Tiepolo and Canaletto; Murillo and Velazquez; and Hogarth and Gainsborough, among many others. Ninety masterpieces of the Baroque and Rococo periods are illustrated and discussed in this publication, which features some of the finest of the gallery's holdings."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Exhibition itinerary, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Oct. 24, 1999-Jan. 9, 2000, and the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, Jan. 25-Apr. 9, 2000.