"Costume and fashion were a lifelong obsession for James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). His exquisite depictions of women and the details of their clothing contributed to his career as one of the most accomplished and successful—if controversial—artists of the nineteenth century. This lavishly illustrated book focuses on fashion in Whistler’s art as a key to understanding his life and work and as a new means of exploring his relationship ..."
The FrickCollection Director's Choice von Ian Wardropper, FrickCollection Paperback, 80 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2015 von Scala Arts Publishers Inc. Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-85759-969-5, ISBN: 1-85759-969-1
"The Frick Collection was founded by Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), the Pittsburgh coke and steel industrialist, philanthropist and art collector. On his death, he bequeathed his New York residence and remarkable collection of western paintings, sculpture and decorative arts to the public. Designed and built in 1913-14, the mansion is reminiscent of the noble houses of Europe, providing a grand, domestic setting for the art from the Renai ..."
FrickCollection Handbook of Paintings von Scala Publishers, FrickCollection Paperback, 168 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2006 von Scala Arts Publishers Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1-85759-328-0, ISBN: 1-85759-328-6
"handbook of paintings Frick Collection Elaine Koss. Front cover illustration: Jean-
Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Comtesse d'Haussonville Back cover illustrations (
top to bottom): Hans Holbein the Younger, Sir Thomas More (detail); Johannes ..."
"This is the richly-illustrated catalog from the museum show Poussin, Claude and Their World: Seventeenth Century Drawings from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Foreword by the Director of the École des Beaux-Arts, Henry-Claude Cousseau, and Samuel Sachs II, Director of The Frick Collection. Essays by artists who have taught at the school, Vincent Bioulès and Pierre Buraglio, offer a special perspective on the pleasure to be derived from such w ..."
"Luigi Valadier (1726–1785) was an extraordinarily inventive Roman metalsmith, talented draughtsman, and maker of both table decorations and objects in gilt bronze, marble, and hard stone. His exquisite table centrepieces—produced for popes, royalty, and aristocrats, in Rome, as well as in France, England, Spain and Portugal—were considered the height of luxury in the eighteenth-century, and his fame spread far and wide. This new volume ..."
"In 1646, on a panel fewer than nine inches wide, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) produced one of his most captivating images. In private hands and publicly exhibited only a handful of times, this extraordinary painting, Abraham Entertaining the Angels, is among the artist’s lesser-known masterpieces and it is the inspiration for Divine Encounter. Rembrandt took an unusual and dramatic approach to Biblical subjects. He made use of the vi ..."
"Giovanni Bellini s "St. Francis in the Desert" (c. 147678) is a masterpiece of Venetian Renaissance art that has inspired generations of visitors to The Frick Collection. This monumental panel painting portrays the beloved Christian saint alone in a mountainous wilderness, stepping forward from his simple shelter into a golden light that seems to transfigure him spiritually. For centuries, viewers have puzzled over the work s meaning; u ..."
"La cultura y el arte espa?oles despertaron a partir de 1870 en los Estados Unidos un enorme inter?s que fue en aumento hasta la d?cada de 1930. Este libro estudia por qu? y de que manera muchos de los grandes coleccionistas norteamericanos -entre ellos Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry Clay Frick, Charles Deering, Archer Huntington, William Randolph Hearst y Algur Meadows- aumentaron y enriquecieron con obras de arte espa?ol sus respectiv ..."
"This elegantly designed, fully illustrated volume presents exquisite drawings by Spanish artists over the course of two centuries, featuring works by Ribera, Murillo and Goya from public and private collections in the New York area. Published to accompany a major exhibition at The Frick Collection in New York, this book presents the character, range and depth of the Spanish tradition of drawing from the early 17th to the early 19th cent ..."
Rococo Exotic(1st Edition) French Mounted Porcelains and the Allure of the East von Kristel Smentek, FrickCollection Paperback, 52 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2007 von FrickCollection ISBN-13: 978-0-912114-36-1, ISBN: 0-912114-36-3
"In 2000, The Frick Collection's "Flagellation of Christ" was confirmed to be by the artist Cenni di Pepo (c. 1240-c. 1302), known as Cimabue, following the discovery of "The Virgin and Child Enthroned with Two Angels" (now in the National Gallery, London), a panel known to have been painted by the Florentine master. Visitors to the exhibition, presented from October 3 to December 31, 2006, had the rare opportunity to see these two panel ..."
"An examination of Dürer's drawings of his own body, as dictinct from his explicit self-portraits, and their meaning for the artist himself and for his place in Western European art. From The Council of The Frick Collection Series."