Museum Masterpieces, Book 1
Title | Museum Masterpieces, Book 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Rollin |
Publisher | Alfred Music |
Total Pages | 30 |
Release | 2014-10-13 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1470625040 |
In Museum Masterpieces, Book 1, composer Catherine Rollin has created musical expressions of some of the great works of art found in museums throughout the world. The paintings that inspired these pieces are beautifully displayed on a four-page color insert at the center of the book, along with historical notes about each painting. Titles: *American Gothic (Grant Wood) *Black Square and Red Square (Kazimir Malevich) *Carmencita (William Merritt Chase) *A Dash for the Timber (Frederic Remington) *L'étoile (The Star) (Edgar Degas) *Le fifre (The Fife Player) (Édouard Manet) *Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci) *The Nut Gatherers (William-Adolphe Bouguereau) *Reeds and Cranes (Suzuki Kiitsu) *Senecio (Paul Klee)
Museum Masterpieces, Book 2
Title | Museum Masterpieces, Book 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Rollin |
Publisher | Alfred Music |
Total Pages | 30 |
Release | 2014-10-13 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1470625059 |
In Museum Masterpieces, Book 2, composer Catherine Rollin has created musical expressions of some of the great works of art found in museums throughout the world. The paintings that inspired these pieces are beautifully displayed on a four-page color insert at the center of the book, along with historical notes about each painting. Titles: *Car and Hunting Fox (Umberto Boccioni) *La charmeuse de serpents (The Snake Charmer) (Henri Rousseau) *Cirque (Circus) (Georges Seurat) *The Girl with a Pearl Earring (Johannes Vermeer) *Jeunes filles au piano (Young Girls at the Piano) (Pierre-Auguste Renoir) *Noah's Ark: Genesis (Charles McGee) *Nocturne in Black and Gold---The Falling Rocket (James Abbott McNeill Whistler) *Primavera (Sandro Botticelli) *Sunrise on the Matterhorn (Albert Bierstadt) *Washington Crossing the Delaware (Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze)
Museum Masterpieces, Book 4
Title | Museum Masterpieces, Book 4 PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Rollin |
Publisher | Alfred Music |
Total Pages | 30 |
Release | 2014-10-13 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1470625075 |
In Museum Masterpieces, Book 4, composer Catherine Rollin has created musical expressions of some of the great works of art found in museums throughout the world. The paintings that inspired these pieces are beautifully displayed on a four-page color insert at the center of the book, along with historical notes about each painting. Titles: *At the Front (George Cochran Lambdin) *Dancers (Theo van Doesburg) *Dancers, Pink and Green (Edgar Degas) *Improvisation (Childe Hassam) *The Kiss (Gustav Klimt) *States of Mind: The Farewells (Umberto Boccioni) *Summer (Thomas Dewing) *Watson and the Shark (John Singleton Copley)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title | The Metropolitan Museum of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Calley Galitz |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | 546 |
Release | 2016-09-20 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0847846598 |
This monumental new book is the first to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings from the encyclopedic collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one of the largest, most important, and most beloved museums in the world. This impressive volume's broad sweep of material, all from a single museum, makes it at once a universal history of painting and the ideal introduction to the iconic masterworks of this world-renowned institution. More than 1,000 lavish color illustrations and details of 500 masterpiece paintings, created over 5,000 years in cultures across the globe, are presented chronologically from the dawn of civilization to the present. These works represent a grand tour of painting from ancient Egypt and classical antiquity and prized Byzantine and medieval altarpieces, to paintings from Asia, India, Africa and the Americas, and and the greatest European and North American masters. The Metropolitan Museum of Art includes and introduction and illuminating texts about each artwork written specially for this volume by Kathryn Calley Galitz, whose experience as both curator and educator at the Met makes her uniquely qualified. European and American artists include Duccio, El Greco, Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, Bronzino, Caravaggio, Turner, Velázquez, Goya, Rubens, Rembrandt, Brueghel, Vermeer, David, Renior, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Degas, Sargent, Homer, Matisse, Picasso, Pollock, Jasper Johns, and Warhol. The artworks are arranged in rough chronological order, without regard to geography or culture, offering a visual timeline of the history of painting, from the earliest examples on pottery jars made over five thousand years ago to canvases on which the paint has barely dried. Freed from the constraints imposed by the physical layout of the Museum, the paintings resonate anew; and this chronological framework reveals unexpected visual affinities among the works. For those wishing to experience the unparalleled breadth and depth of the Met's collection, or study masterpieces of painting from throughout history, this important volume is sure to become a classic cherished by art lovers around the world.
Museum Masterpieces, Book 3
Title | Museum Masterpieces, Book 3 PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Rollin |
Publisher | Alfred Music |
Total Pages | 30 |
Release | 2014-10-13 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1470625067 |
In Museum Masterpieces, Book 3, composer Catherine Rollin has created musical expressions of some of the great works of art found in museums throughout the world. The paintings that inspired these pieces are beautifully displayed on a four-page color insert at the center of the book, along with historical notes about each painting. Titles: *Bank of the Oise at Auvers (Vincent van Gogh) *Evocation of Butterflies (Odilon Redon) *The Factory and the Bridge (Olga Rozanova) *The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Katsushika Hokusai) *The Gulf Stream (Winslow Homer) *Hommage à Blériot (Robert Delaunay) *The Starry Night (Vincent van Gogh) *A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (Georges Seurat) *Water Lilies (Claude Monet)
Masterpieces of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title | Masterpieces of the Metropolitan Museum of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Burn |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0870998498 |
Each reproduction is accompanied by a text that includes pertinent information about the work.
Harley-Davidson(R) Museum Masterpieces
Title | Harley-Davidson(R) Museum Masterpieces PDF eBook |
Author | Dain Gingerelli |
Publisher | Motorbooks International |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2010-10-14 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 0760338949 |
Features 51 bikes from the Harley-Davidson Museum with profiles of each bike and its place in history, along with technical specifications and trivia.