Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.)

The essence of line : French drawings from Ingres to Degas ( Book )
6 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in English and held by 497 libraries worldwide
"Rarely seen drawings and watercolors by some of the most influential French artists of the nineteenth century are the subject of this richly illustrated publication from The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum. From revealing preparatory sketches to exquisite finished watercolors, more than 100 works by artists such as Eugene Delacroix, Honore Daumier, Paul Cezanne, and Edgar Degas illuminate the range of French art over the course of a century of innovation. The BMA and the Walters have combined holdings of more than 900 French drawings from the nineteenth century, one of the nation's strongest and richest collections of French art from this period. The publication also includes works from the Peabody Institute Art Collection of the Maryland State Archives." "The Essence of Line offers the first comprehensive discussion of the formation of these collections and their significance for the history of French art. The catalogue includes essays by Jay McKean Fisher, William R. Johnston, and Cheryl K. Snay that provide insights into the artistic, commercial, and social functions that drawings served for their creators and collectors, as well as how collecting patterns influenced the development of modernism. Conservator Kimberly Schenck bridges the worlds of the collector and of the artist by examining the production and the use of drawing materials in an epoch of radical changes in technique as well as style." "Published on the occasion of an exhibition jointly organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum, this book presents a panorama of sketches, watercolors, and presentation drawings, many of them little known outside a small circle of experts. It is correlated with an online database of more than 900 nineteenth-century French drawings in the holdings of these Baltimore museums."--BOOK JACKET.

Stubbs & the horse by Malcolm Warner ( Book )
2 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 460 libraries worldwide

Masterpieces of Italian painting : the Walters Art Museum ( Book )
4 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 399 libraries worldwide
This lavishly illustrated book presents one of the great collections of Italian paintings in North America, and includes major works dating from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries. The volume presents fifty highlights of the collection, many with color details and comparative illustrations. Introductions to each chronological section situate individual works of art within the artistic and stylistic developments of the period. Signature pieces featured in this volume include Virgin and child with saints and angels, ca. 1340-45, by Pietro Lorenzetti; The ideal city, ca. 1480-84, attributed to Fra Carnavale; Madonna and child with saints and three Venetian procurators, 1510, by Giovanni Bellini and workshop; Madonna of the candelabra, ca. 1513, by Raphael and workshop; Portrait of Countess Livia da Porto Thiene and her daughter Porzia, ca. 1551, by Veronese; The penitent Magdalene, ca. 1635, by Guido Reni; and Scipio Africanus freeing Massiva, 1719-21, by Giambattista Tiepolo. Taken together, the Walters Art Museum's holdings constitute a magnificent array of individual works as well as a historical journey through seven centuries of Italian art. A selected bibliography provides both standard reference sources and a selection of the most important recent books and articles on each work and artist featured in the book.--Book jacket.

The repeating image : multiples in French painting from David to Matisse ( Book )
9 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 363 libraries worldwide
"Today, repetitive imagery dominates all forms of visual experience, from the realm of advertising to the spaces of contemporary art. In this innovative project, the authors show that the phenomenon of repetition - often considered merely incidental to the age of mechanical reproduction - was a pervasive attribute of early modern painting long before its embrace by twentieth-century high modernism." "In works by David, Ingres, Delaroche, Gerome, Corot, Millet, Monet, Cezanne, Degas, and Matisse, the reader can compare closely related versions of some of the most familiar imagery of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The authors demonstrate that by making multiples of closely related subject matter in their paintings and in other media, these artists challenged an aesthetic based on the notion of an inimitable, unique masterpiece." "Through beautiful illustrations and essays by leading scholars, this book shows how repetition in early modern painting took on a complex, multivalent significance and that the traditional medium of painting remained undiminished despite the nineteenth-century invention of photography and film."--BOOK JACKET.

Treasures of heaven : saints, relics, and devotion in medieval Europe ( Book )
4 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and held by 321 libraries worldwide

Desire and devotion : art from India, Nepal, and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford collection by Pratapaditya Pal ( Book )
2 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 300 libraries worldwide

The Journal of the Walters Art Museum by Md.) Walters Art Museum (Baltimore ( Serial )
in English and held by 262 libraries worldwide

Untamed : the art of Antoine-Louis Barye by William R Johnston ( Book )
3 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 215 libraries worldwide

The art of ancient Greece by Md.) Walters Art Museum (Baltimore ( Book )
3 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 204 libraries worldwide

Origins of the Russian avant-garde : celebrating the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg ( Book )
3 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 178 libraries worldwide