Painting: Musee D'Orsay
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (917 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 8857212467 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A beautiful book We just returned from Paris, and a visit to the Musee D'Orsay. This book has it all. The color and content are terrific.. "Fabulous!" according to All things kitchen. To my knowledge this is the best recent book on the paintings in the D'Orsay. Finally a a good catalogue with excellent plates of all the paintings in this wonderful museum. Unlike many of it's predecessors including many of the books offered in the museums gift shop this new book on The D'orsay is comprehensive with very high quality color balanced reproductions of all the paintings.I know the works in this museum quite well and I can say with confidence this is the first book I have seen in 20 years of looki. Elizabeth Sawyer said Extremely Disappointed. I purchased this book after visiting the Orsay and reading very positive reviews posted on Amazon. I purchased it to enjoy the artwork that I'd seen in person and to use as a coffee table book. I was extremely disappointed when I received it. The Orsay is known for it's collection of Impressionist art, but I felt the book displayed very little of that style. Prints were not clear and colors were very faded. While I understand nudity as part of art, especially during the Impressionist and Modern periods, this b
Stéphane Guégan is curator at the Musée d’Orsay and has published numerous works, notably on Ingres, Delacroix, Chassériau, Gauguin, and Turner.
For its new hanging in the picture galleries, the Musée d’Orsay is highlighting its extraordinary masterpieces to offer the public an increasingly complete yet fresh survey of that fruitful and varied era, one of the most creative and abundant in the history of art.. The history of painting between 1848 and 1914 through one of the most beautiful collections of pictures in the world. Built up over time through purchases by the state, donations and bequests from artists, collectors, and patrons, and also thanks to an active acquisitions policy, the Musée d’Orsay’s collection of pictures today constitutes an exceptional holding represented by the greatest names and schools of painting between 1848 and 1914, such as symbolism (Moreau, Puvis de Chavannes, Redon), realism (Courbet, Fantin-Latour), the Barbizon school (Corot, Millet, Rousseau), impressionism (Caillebotte, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley), post impressionism (Seurat, Gauguin, van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec), and the Nabis (Bonnard, Denis, Vuillard). Published for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the museum at the start of 2012, the volume presents 300 works in an order that is both chronological and thematic, thereby offering a comprehensive overview of the history of painting of the period, with the didactic intent of rendering it accessible to the widest possible public
About the Author Stéphane Guégan is curator at the Musée d’Orsay and has published numerous works, notably on Ingres, Delacroix, Chassériau, Gauguin, and Turner.