Pierpont Morgan Library
Author
Publisher
The Morgan Library & Museum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Accompanying an exhibition of drawings by Guercino from the collection of the Morgan Library & Museum, Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman offers an overview of the artist's graphic work, ranging from his early genre studies and caricatures, to the dense and dynamic preparatory studies for his paintings, and on to highly finished landscape and figure drawings that were independent works"--
Author
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
This richly illustrated book explores the huge creative endeavour behind Tolkien's enduring popularity. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 images of his manuscripts, drawings, maps and letters, the book traces the creative process behind his most famous literary works - 'The Hobbit', 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Silmarillion' and reproduces personal photographs and private papers (some of which have never been seen before in print). 0Tolkien drew...
Author
Publisher
The Morgan Library Museum
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
This book shows how Mary Shelley created a monster. Commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of Frankenstein, it traces the origins and impact of her novel - a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of horror, and a forerunner of science fiction. Shelley conceived the archetype of the mad scientist who dares to flout the laws of nature. She devised a conflicted creature, eloquent and repulsive, torn between good and evil. In the movies he can...
Author
Publisher
The Morgan Library & Museum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Monsters possess transformative powers, rendering them at once profoundly dangerous and utterly fascinating. Medieval Monsters explores the cultural importance and rich variety of monstrosities in the art of the Middle Ages, with examples drawn from the Morgan Library & Museum's renowned collection of illuminated manuscripts. While presenting a lively array of strange beauties and frightful anomalies--demons and dragons, centaurs, and unicorns--the...
Publisher
Silvana editoriale
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
The Seeds of Knowledge exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York highlights Dr. Peter Goop's extraordinary collection of fifteenth- to seventeenth-century European printed herbals. Doctors, pharmacists, and laypeople of the day made essential tools of these elaboratedly illustrated texts featuring both folkloric and therapeutic uses for plants. The quality of texts and images alike were honed constantly as scientific knowledge of the plants...
Author
Publisher
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"Drawing, often considered a minor art, was central to Surrealism from the very beginning. Automatic drawing, exquisite cadavers, and frottage are just a few of the techniques invented by Surrealists as means to tap into the subconscious realm. While previous books have examined the connection between drawings and Surrealist paintings, Drawing Surrealism is the first to recognize the medium as a fundamental form of Surrealist expression, and to explore...
Publisher
J. Paul Getty Museum
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"This publication was prepared to accompany the exhibition Holbein: Capturing Character, scheduled to open at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, in 2021, and at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, in 2022. The catalogue explores Hans Holbein's approach to portraiture and self-identity in the Renaissance"--
Publisher
Published by The Flemish Research Centre for the Arts in the Burgundian Netherlands, Musea Brugge, and The Morgan Library & Museum, New York in association with Paul Holberton Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Hans Memling was one of the most important, prolific and versatile painters active in 15th-century Bruges, and one of the leading artists of the Early Netherlandish School. Commissioned by Abbot Jan Crabbe, one of Memling's most signifcant and erudite patrons, the triptych of the Crucifixion - in particular its wings, with their complex and meticulously conceived background landscapes and the convincing realism of the portraits - ostentatiously demonstrate...
