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The National Gallery website.
The National Gallery, London, houses one of the greatest collections
of European painting in the world. These pictures belong to the
public and entrance to see them is free.
Titian
Matt's Old Masters: Titian, Rubens, Velasquez, Hogarth by Matthew Collings
(Weidenfeld & Nicholson, November 2003)
Collings drags the Old Masters out of the rarefied, hallowed atmosphere of the
museum and into the light of the early 21st century to see what they have to
offer us now in terms of meaning and, most importantly, pleasure. He brings
us a political campaign to make painting be taken seriously. His journey starts
with Titian and the birth of modern painting and follows the painterly tradition
through Rubens, Velasquez and finally to our own William Hogarth, the bridge
to where art and painting are now. Buy the book from Amazon.
Titian by Filippo Pedrocco (Rizzoli Publications, 2001)
Showcases the remarkable career of Italian Renaissance master Titian, in a lavishly
illustrated look at his complete oeuvre, including his colourful religious works,
allegories, and mythological paintings. Buy from Amazon.
Titian by Charles Hope (Chaucer Press, November 2003)
Titian's vibrant colours and exciting brushwork have made his work a constant
inspiration to artists, from Rubens to the Impressionists and beyond. Every
generation has found something new to admire in his astonishing technique, which
enabled him to produce fresh interpretations of the most familiar religious
and mythological stories as well as portraits and landscapes. Buy from Amazon.
Olga's
Gallery - Titian (1488/90 - 1576)
Excellent site with over 100 online paintings listed chronologically and well
referenced. There is also information on his life and his works.
Tiziano
Veccellio
Nice biography with a well-indexed selection of his paintings. Top
of page
Rubens
Matt's Old Masters: Titian, Rubens, Velasquez, Hogarth by Matthew Collings
(Weidenfeld & Nicholson, November 2003)
Collings drags the Old Masters out of the rarefied, hallowed atmosphere of the
museum and into the light of the early 21st century to see what they have to
offer us now in terms of meaning and, most importantly, pleasure. He brings
us a political campaign to make painting be taken seriously. His journey starts
with Titian and the birth of modern painting and follows the painterly tradition
through Rubens, Velasquez and finally to our own William Hogarth, the bridge
to where art and painting are now. Buy the book from Amazon.
Rubens by Charles Scribner (Thames & Hudson, 1989)
Traces the life and career of the Flemish artist, shows a selection of his paintings,
and discusses their background. Buy from Amazon.
Rubens: Drawing on Italy by Jeremy Wood (National Galleries of Scotland, 2002)
Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most inventive and prolific artists in the
history of western art. This book explores the ways in which Rubens studied,
copied, and adapted the work of artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian.
Buy from Amazon.
Rubens and His Age: Treasures from the Hermitage Museum, Russia edited by Christine
Goettler and Christina Corsiglia (Merrell Publishing, 2001)
Contains over 150 artworks belonging to the amazing Hermitage Museum in St.
Petersberg. Many have never before been seen in publication and many art objects
which Rubens either owner, designed or commissioned, decorate the pages of this
beautiful volume. Buy from Amazon.
Olga's
Gallery - Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)
Excellent site with over 100 online paintings listed chronologically and referenced.
There is also biographical information.
Peter
Pauwel Rubens
Biography, art and an excellent glossary. Top
of page
Velazquez
Matt's Old Masters: Titian, Rubens, Velasquez, Hogarth by Matthew Collings (Weidenfeld
& Nicholson, November 2003)
Collings drags the Old Masters out of the rarefied, hallowed atmosphere of the
museum and into the light of the early 21st century to see what they have to
offer us now in terms of meaning and, most importantly, pleasure. He brings
us a political campaign to make painting be taken seriously. His journey starts
with Titian and the birth of modern painting and follows the painterly tradition
through Rubens, Velasquez and finally to our own William Hogarth, the bridge
to where art and painting are now. Buy the book from Amazon.
Venus at Her Mirror: Velazquez and the art of nude painting by Andreas Prater
(Prestel Publishing, 2002)
Velazquez' self-admiring Venus is compared to her depictions in other well-known
works by admiring artists, including da Vinci, Giorgione, and Titian and into
the modern world of advertising. These comparisons provoke intriguing perspectives
on the evolution of eroticism, feminism, and Christianity in art, and offer
an understanding of the influence that one artist and one work can have on generations
that follow. Buy from Amazon.
Velazquez: Basic Art Album by Norbert Wolf (Taschen Verlag, 2000)
Velazquez met Rubens in 1628 and soon after made a first trip to Italy. The
pictures he painted there reveal a growing interest in both colour range and
in the male nude but his greatness lies perhaps in his empathetic studies of
such characters as the dwarf playmates of the royal children. The weathering
of the skin, rags and mortality, as well as the ageing face of the despondent
monarch increasingly preoccupied him in later years. The power, insight and
brilliant technique of these paintings were to prove profoundly influential
on such later artists as Manet, Delacroix, Picasso and Bacon. Buy from Amazon.
The Cambridge Companion to Velazquez edited by Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt (Cambridge
University Press, 2002)
Offers a fresh approach to the vast literature on one of the greatest painters
of Golden Age Spain. Velazquez's portraits of his patron, King Philip IV, and
his wives are examined in an effort to reconstruct their reception by contemporaries
and an account of the relationships between poetry, theatre and the visual arts
at the Spanish court is also given. Buy from Amazon.
Olga's
Gallery - Diego Velazquez (1599 - 1660)
Excellent site with over 70 online paintings listed chronologically and well
referenced. There is also information on his life and his works.
Diego
Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez
Biographical information along with paintings and historical information from
the period. Top
of page
Hogarth
Matt's Old Masters: Titian, Rubens, Velasquez, Hogarth by Matthew Collings
(Weidenfeld & Nicholson, November 2003)
Collings drags the Old Masters out of the rarefied, hallowed atmosphere of the
museum and into the light of the early 21st century to see what they have to
offer us now in terms of meaning and, most importantly, pleasure. He brings
us a political campaign to make painting be taken seriously. His journey starts
with Titian and the birth of modern painting and follows the painterly tradition
through Rubens, Velasquez and finally to our own William Hogarth, the bridge
to where art and painting are now. Buy the book from Amazon.
Hogarth: A Life and world by Jenny Uglow (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002)
Entertaining and well-researched volume on Hogarth, who moved in the worlds
of theatre, literature, journalism and politics and found subjects for his work
over the whole gamut of 18th-century London. Hogarth was made wealthy by his
engravings for "The Harlot's Progress", but remained highly critical
of the growing gulf between the luxurious lives of the ruling elite and the
wretched poverty of the masses. Buy from Amazon.
The Other Hogarth: Aesthetics of difference edited by Bernadette Fort and Angela
Rosenthal (Princeton University Press, 2001)
A group of international art historians and cultural theorists show that issues
of class, gender, and race reverberate throughout Hogarth's paintings. Buy from
Amazon.
Olga's
Gallery - William Hogarth (1697-1764)
Excellent site with over 50 online paintings listed chronologically and referenced.
There is also a biography.
William Hogarth
Lots of information on the life and works of Hogarth with books and reviews,
articles and bibliographies.
Hogarth
Another online gallery with over 50 of his works including sketches and engravings
that can be clicked and enlarged to a much bigger size. Top
of page
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