One Hundred Details from Pictures in the National Gallery |  | Author: Sir Kenneth Clark
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 120
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 067463862X
EAN: 9780674638624
ASIN: 067463862X
Publication Date: January 31, 1991
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This catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery, London, focuses on 32 of the paintings by Guercino remaining in Britain, most of which are illustrated in colour. It includes an essay by Francis Russell, a director of Christie's, London, on the collecting of, and taste for, Guercino in Britain, and an outline of Guercino's career by Michael Helston, Curator of Spanish and later Italian painting at the National Gallery.
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Whatever catches your eye... June 5, 2003
The Sanity Inspector (USA)
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The fearsomely learned art critic and former National Gallery curator Kenneth Clark juxtaposes details from paintings with one another, and compares and contrasts them. The original 1938 work was in black and white; this book is in color, and the paintings have been restored in the interim, too.It's an educational if idiosyncratic package. Clark provides straightforward analysis in many cases, like contrasting a pair of contemporaneous masters, or drawing a connection between a technical aspect of painting from different eras. And he does have a sense of humor: one pair of paintings shows a little girl peering around a corner into a landscape from the following century. This book is good for casual dipping, for instant erudition, and will spark interest in further study of the paintings--and further respect for Kenneth Clark.
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