Fine Art: Traditional Painting & Sculpture/Art History

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FINNISH NATIONAL GALLERY, THE.

Author: Marjatta Levanto and Susanna Laitala
Country: Finland
Language: English
Year Published: 1992
No. of pages: 64
Illustrations: 74 Color Illustrations. 4 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 13”x 10”
Weight:
ISBN: 9514768329
Biblio/Bio: Bibl.
Code: 1250

Price: $29.50

Fittingly, this book is a work of art in itself, as it traces the development of Finland’s oldest and largest art museum, and presents an overview of the treasures that are stored in the three museums and the central art archives that comprise the Finnish National Gallery.

FISCHER, PAUL.

Author: Carlsen, Helge
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish
Year Published: 1991
No. of pages: 191
Illustrations: 70 Color Illustrations. 62 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 12 1/2”x 9 1/2”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 8772454350
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bio.
Code: 0454

Price: $85.00

A master painter from Denmark, Paul Fischer (1860-1934) painted crowded Copenhagen cityscapes with incredible detail. No one could portray buying flowers or the daily stables better and more realistically than he. Helge Carlsen: Paul Fischer - His Life and the Way his Art was Received. Erik Mortensen: The Painter - An Art Historical Essay, Paul Fischer as a Painter, Drauphtsman, Printer and Photographer. Beautiful full-page color reproductions.

FLEMISH PAINTINGS 1600-1800.

Author: Koester, Olaf
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 2000
No. of pages: 424
Illustrations: 35 Color Illustrations. 210 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 11”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 7.00
ISBN: 8790096053
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bios. Index.
Code: 4858

Price: $135.00

This catalogue raisonné covers a collection of Flemish paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries, derived from the old Royal Danish Collection. Following an introduction to the collection, entries on the paintings are arranged by artist with a biography and bibliography for each painting, as well as information about provenance. Includes key landscape, still-life, and genre painting by masters such as Jan Brueghel the Elder, Jacob Jordaens, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Brueghel II and more.

FLORANS KONSTNÄRER (Artists of Flora). Botaniska Illustrationer och Illustratörer i Norden (Botanical Illustrations and Illustrators in the North)

Author: Björk, Monica
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Year Published: 1999
No. of pages: 143
Illustrations: 162 Color Illustrations. 45 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound w/ jacket
Size: 12”x 9”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9151835029
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Index.
Code: 3958

Price: $75.00

The Danish king’s roses from the 1700s, exotic papaya and passionflowers, columbines and gorgeous tulips- all have been painted with the finest brushwork in the treasured floral illustrations of the North. A generous selection of watercolors from five centuries, including the plants with which Carl von Linné decorated his bedroom as well as the plants depicted in the famous royal Danish porcelain, Flora Danica. A comprehensive history of botanical illustrations supplemented by living portraits of artists who continue to capture the beauty and detail of flora.

FOR THE PRIVILEGED FEW Islamic Miniature Painting from The David Collection. Islamic Miniature Painting from The David Collection

Author: von Folsach, Kjeld
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 2007
No. of pages: 236
Illustrations: 160 Color Illustrations. 0 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 13”x 10”
Weight: 5.00
ISBN: 978-87-91607-09-
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Index.
Code: 6553

Price: $195.00

Islamic miniature paintings have historically been produced as both illustrations for books and as discrete works intended to be kept in an album. The techniques used in their making share similarities with the Byzantine tradition of miniature painting and have recently shown up in some contemporary artists' work as well--including Shahzia Sikander's. For the Privileged Few is published on the occasion of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's thorough Islamic miniature exhibition, spanning from the thirteenth through the nineteenth centuries, which originated at The David Collection in Copenhagen--famed for its selection of Islamic art. With 185 full-color images, most of them plates, this volume is an important addition to the existing scholarship on the subject. Text by David Collection Director Kjeld von Folsach explains the primacy of this group of artworks--which includes both book illustrations and discrete paintings from the last 800 years.