Masterpiece Paintings: From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (691 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810914247 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 148 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Five Stars" according to frank snyder. fine. Pleasing samples kennedy19 Boston's Museum of Fine Arts contains one of the most pleasing permanent collections in America. This book is a fine sampler of some favorites among the paintings, lavishly reproduced in color and featuring intelligent commentaries about each one. Highlights include famous works by Sargent, Rembrandt, Munch, and Renoir, although you may also discover some hidden gems that you were not previously aware of. If you have ever visited the musuem, this book makes a fine souvenir. If you have. An aesthetic feast Patto I've been to the MFA many times, but I decided to make my next visit even more pleasurable than usual by boning up on the painting collections.The introduction is a bit dull, unless you're particularly interested in the history of the MFA and its curators. But the individual write-ups on the masterpieces are full of fascinating information.I liked reading about the symbolism of the objects in Rogier van der Weyden's complex painting of St. Luke painting the Virgin and Child. I was intr
THEODORE E. PETER C. This magnificent art treasury, first published by Abrams in 1986 and now back in print, features 125 superb examples of Western painting from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, one of the finest-and among the oldest-collections in America. STEBBINS, JR., was for many years a distinguished curator of American paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 125 illustrations in full color, 11 x 11". SUTTON, formerly a curator of European painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, is now director of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. The artworks displayed here-reproduced in full color and accompanied by insightful commentary by the curatorial staff-represent the cream of the museum's holdings. Canvases by the Americans John Singleton Copley, John Singer Sargent, and Winslow Homer; by the European Old Masters Rubens, Titian, El Greco, Velzquez, and Rembrandt; by the great Impressionists Manet, Monet, Renoir, Czanne, and Van Gogh; and by modern artists such as Picasso, Pollock, and O'Keeffe bear evidence of the quality and scope of one of the great repositories of Western painting
Masterpiece Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston presents 125 of the museum's finest treasures. By 1888, an observer was describing the enthusiasm with which self-confident Boston families were buying the works of "those mad outlaws, the Impressionists." Such early acquisitions form the basis of the MFA Boston's superlative collection, which could never be amassed today; the museum owns 38 works by Monet, for example, the largest group of Monets outside Paris. Issued to celebrate the refurbishing of a new wing, Masterpiece Paintings was first published in 1986; this is why the final section, titled "Modern Paintings," appears rather charmingly dated. Beginning with a crucifixion of 1310 by Duccio, the first great artist of the Italian Renaissance, they exemplify the different schools and styles of Western painting. --John Stevenson. The works are grouped by country rather than chronologically, t