(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
4) Stubbs
Description
George Stubbs is the greatest painter of horses who ever lived, and so much more - a man who literally dissected his subject before he felt able to paint it. But Stubbs was no dispassionate observer, instead he brought a weight of feeling to his work that sometimes makes the spine tingle. Stubbs' great triumph is "Whistlejacket," a portrait of a horse without a background that concentrates the eye on the beautifully observed body of the greatest racehorse...
Author
Description
"In the 120 years that divide Hogarth's early works around 1730 from the death of Turner in 1851, Britain's status as an artistic nation was dramatically transformed. From being a provincial backwater, it became one of the most progressive in Europe. Hogarth himself brought modern life into painting and treated it with high moral seriousness disguised as satire. Ramsay, Reynolds, Gainsborough and Lawrence revolutionized portraiture, introducing a...
Author
Description
"From 1775, when John Hamilton Mortimer exhibited his 'Death on a pale horse' to Lord Leighton's abortive project for a Revelation fresco inside the Dome of St. Paul's in the mid-1800s, apocalyptic subjects played an unusually prominent role in British art. This book is the first study of apocalyptic art of this era."--Jacket
In ILL
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by San Antonio College Library can be requested from other ILL libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request