An edition of Rendez-vous with art (2014)

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An edition of Rendez-vous with art (2014)

Rendez-vous with art

The fruits of a lifetime of experience by a cultural colossus, Phillippe de Montebello, the longest-serving director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in its history, distilled in conversations with an acclaimed critic. Beginning with a fragment of yellow jasper - all that is left of the face of an Egyptian woman who lived 3,500 years ago - this book confronts the elusive questions: how, and why, do we look at art? Philippe de Montebello and Martin Gayford talked in art galleries or churches or their own homes, and this book is structured around their journeys. But whether they were in the Louvre or the Prado, the Mauritshuis of the Palazzo Pitti, they reveal the pleasures of truly looking. De Montebello shares the sense of excitement recorded by Goethe in his autobiography - "akin to the emotion experienced on entering a House of God" - but also reflects on why these secular temples might nevertheless be the "worst possible places to look at art." But in the end both men convey, with subtlety and brilliance, the delights and significance of their subject matter and some of the intense creations of human beings throughout our long history.

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Thames & Hudson
Language
English
Pages
248

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Table of Contents

Yellow jasper lips at the Met
an afternoon in Florence
A flood and a chimera
Immersed in the Bargello
A sense of place
The case of the Duccio Madonna
In the Met Café
Princely collections
An artistic "Education sentimentale"
Lost in the Louvre
Crows and the power of art
Heaven and Hell in the Prado
Hieronymous Bosch and the hell of looking at art with other people
Titian and Velazquez
"Las Meninas"
Goya : an excursion
Rubens, Tiepolo, Goya again
Rotterdam : museums and their discontents
Star-spotting at the Mauritshuis
Where do you put it?
Exploring the rainforests of Paris
Hunting lions at the British Museum
Lunch in the Great Court
Fragments.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
701/.1
Library of Congress
N7477 .D46 2014, N7477

The Physical Object

Pagination
248 pages
Number of pages
248

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27168150M
ISBN 10
050023924X
ISBN 13
9780500239247
LCCN
2014932752
OCLC/WorldCat
889943163

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