Author: Vries, Lyckle de:
Title: How to create Beauty. De Lairesse and the theory and practice of making art.
Description: 2011, (17 x 24 cm), 224 pp. English text, ca. 100 ills., paperback Incl. CD-rom ¶ Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711) was the most successful Dutch painter of his time, admired by the patricians of Amsterdam and the court of William III of Orange. An eighteenth-century critic called him 'undoubtedly the greatest genius there ever was in painting'. After a century of neglect his rehabilitation began in 1970 when the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum acquired a series of his monumental grisaille paintings. De Lairesse wrote a booklet on the art of drawing (1701) and a manual on painting (1707). The latter, the Groot Schilderboek, is the subject of this fine new study by art historian Lyckle de Vries. This book may change our appreciation of Dutch seventeenth-century painting since it shifts the reader's attention from art theory and iconology to practical studio work: designing and making paintings in an attempt to create beauty and quality.
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Title: How to create Beauty. De Lairesse and the theory and practice of making art.
Description: 2011, (17 x 24 cm), 224 pp. English text, ca. 100 ills., paperback Incl. CD-rom ¶ Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711) was the most successful Dutch painter of his time, admired by the patricians of Amsterdam and the court of William III of Orange. An eighteenth-century critic called him 'undoubtedly the greatest genius there ever was in painting'. After a century of neglect his rehabilitation began in 1970 when the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum acquired a series of his monumental grisaille paintings. De Lairesse wrote a booklet on the art of drawing (1701) and a manual on painting (1707). The latter, the Groot Schilderboek, is the subject of this fine new study by art historian Lyckle de Vries. This book may change our appreciation of Dutch seventeenth-century painting since it shifts the reader's attention from art theory and iconology to practical studio work: designing and making paintings in an attempt to create beauty and quality.
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Price: EUR 29.50 = appr. US$ 32.06 Seller: Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.
- Book number: 5054
- Book number: 5054
See more books from our catalog: Kunstgeschiedenis / History of Art