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Language
English
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"This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In his earlier, award-winning novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. Now, in The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, he deftly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape...
Author
Publisher
Plympton
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Goldfinch, introduced millions of readers to a painting that becomes a lifelong obsession. Painted in 1654 by Carel Fabritius, the work is of a small bird, chained to its perch. This mysterious portrait, a masterpiece of the Dutch Golden Age, has been lost and found, adored and abandoned, for nearly four centuries. Now more famous than ever, this painting is the subject of its own book--a look behind...
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (80 min.) : Blu-ray, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did seventeenth century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically, 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning ten years, his adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces, to the north coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney, and even to Buckingham Palace to see a Vermeer...
6) Rembrandt
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Briefly examines the life and work of the seventeenth-century Dutchman who was one of the greatest artists of all time. Through reproductions of his better-known paintings and humorous cartoon illustrations, the life and work of Rembrandt are presented so that young readers can understand his significance. Learning about art and great artists can be fun. Learning about art & great artists can be fun.
Publisher
Image Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2010, 2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (40 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bertrand's DVD takes the viewer into the heart of van Gogh's paintings and life. His letters are used to explain his art. The locations that inspired him are also part of the film.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
Nederlands
Description
Go behind the scenes of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever mounted, now on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Capturing the imagination of the art world, with glowing reviews, global press, and tickets sold out through the entirety of its run, the Rijksmuseum's Vermeer retrospective is nothing short of a historic event. This fascinating documentary is a unique opportunity to discover what goes on behind the scenes at exhibitions of this scale,...
Author
Publisher
Liveright
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 379 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting―casually at first, and then more and more obsessively―the country’s great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age and began to unearth the strange, inspiring, and terrifying stories of the artists who gave shape to one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity. Beyond the sainted Rembrandt―who...
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this look at seven paintings by Jan Vermeer, author Bob Raczka takes on the role of interviewer and the people in the paintings become his willing subjects.
16) Van Gogh
Author
Publisher
Childrens
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portrait ; 24 cm.
Language
English
17) Rembrandt
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 34 cm.
Language
English
18) Johannes Vermeer
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1030L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An overview of the life and work of the seventeenth-century Dutch painter, famous for creating realistic scenes of everyday life.
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