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Ingres and the Studio
An exploration of the portrait art of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, focusing on his studio practice and his training of students.
Nature's Workshop
Renoir's works and writing on the decorative arts
The Renaissance Nude
A gloriously illustrated examination of the origins and development of the nude as an artistic subject in Renaissance Europe Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more than 250 artworks by the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and book illustrations reveal private, sometimes shocking, preoccupations as well as surprising public beliefs—the Age of Humanism from an entirely new perspective. This book presents works by A...
George May of Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania, and His Descendants
George May (1730-1797) of Mifflin and Juniata Co, Pennsylvania married Katherine DeWalt (1742-d.before 1795) the daughter of Michael DeWalt and Maria Barbara Schmidt. He married (2) Mary Miller, the widow of Theobald Miller of Penn's Twp. Eleven children were born to the first marriage. Their son George (1766-1849) married Barbara VanGundy, the daughter of Christian VanGundy, and they lived in Ross Co., Ohio. Another son John (1771-1859) married Maria Margaret Strouse, the daughter of Philip Strouse, and they also lived in Ross Co. Nine generations of descendants are given. Family members lived in Illinois, Oklahoma, Kansas and elsewhere.
Animating the Antique
Framed by tensions between figural sculpture experienced in the round and its translation into two-dimensional representations, Animating the Antique explores enthralling episodes in a history of artistic and aesthetic encounters. Moving across varied locations—among them Rome, Florence, Naples, London, Dresden, and Paris—Sarah Betzer explores a history that has yet to be written: that of the Janus-faced nature of interactions with the antique by which sculptures and beholders alike were caught between the promise of animation and the threat of mortification. Examining the traces of affective and transformative sculptural encounters, the book takes off from the decades marked by the arch...
Illiana Genealogist
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