| Description: In this tour, we introduce participants to the art of portrait painting. We present portraits grouped according to various aspects, such as their format, the depicted sitters, their setting and their function. We present images with detailed explanations of the portraits of 57 artists, active in the 14th to 19th centuries, selected for the innovative nature of their portraits, influencing artists in many countries or their dominant role in determining contemporary portraiture in their native country or the place of their activities. Finally, we enable participants to view examples corresponding to their interests from the over 4.800 portrait paintings in the WGA collection. Sources: SCHNEIDER, Norbert, The Art of the Portrait, Benedikt Taschen Verlag Gmbh, Cologne, 1994; KANZ, Roland, Portraits, Taschen Gmbh, Cologne, 2008; REBEL, Ernst, Self-portraits, Taschen Gmbh, Cologne, 2008; CHRISTIANSEN, Keith and WEPPELMANn, Stefan (editors), The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2012; SALLAY, Dóra, TÁTRAI, Vilmos, VÉCSEY, Axel (editors), Botticelli to Titian, Two Centuries of Italian masterpieces, Szépmuvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2010; DOBOS, Zsuzsanna (editor), Caravaggio to Canaletto, The Glory of Italian Baroque and Rococco Painting, Szépmuvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2014; LEVEY, Michael, Painting and Sculpture in France 1700-1789, Pelican History of Art, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1993; KIERS, Judikje, TISSINK, Fieke, The Golden Age of Dutch Art, Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, 2000. |
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