Walter Thornbury

The Life of J. M. W. Turner

Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by His Friends and Fellow Academicians

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering two-volume biography (1862) exploring the genius of this Romantic landscape and historical painter, printmaker and Royal Academician.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9781108059428
• ISBN-10: 1108059422
• Artikelnr.: 39177840

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The curtain rises
2. The London of Turner's boyhood
3. The sky painter
4. Love and ambition
5. Turner's contemporaries in water and oil
6. Turner and Girtin at Dr Munro's
7. Turner's friendly rival, Girtin
8. Turner, the drawing-master
9. Rise and progress of water-colour painting in England
10. Turner in Yorkshire
11. Turner in Scotland
12. Turner's home and foreign tours
13. Turner's work for the engravers
14. Turner's art life (1)
15. The 'Liber studiorum'
16. Turner's art life (2)
17. Turner's art life: second period, 1820-35
18. The Polyphemus: 1829
19. Turner's art life, continued
20. The old Téméraire
21. Turner's art life: concluded
22. Turner's note-books and sketches
23. Turner's prices.