Copper As Canvas: Two Centuries of Masterpiece Paintings on Copper, 1575-1775
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Softbound. Black wraps. 346 pp. 73+ mostly color plates. VG+ appears to be unread. Item #16359
ISBN: 9780195123975
Recently (1998) exhibited at the Phoenix Art Museum were approximately too of the most important and best-preserved examples of paintings on copper from collections in the United States, Europe, and South America, along with displays of copper mining and copper ores, and copper objects and printing plates from the period. Masters including Jan Breughel the Elder, Claude, El Greco, Reni, Guercino, Rembrandt, and Vernet are among those who produced fine works on copper. Copper as Canvas brings together 100 full-color and sixty-five black-and-white reproductions of these paintings, each accompanied by a detailed entry, as well as an interdisciplinary range of essays covering the history of painting on copper. Several essays on the use of copper as canvas round out this annotated and illustrated exhibition catalogue of 73 works by various European masters. A distinctive looking book, and a tremendous resource on this aspect of artistic creation. Contents: A brief history of European oil paintings on copper, 1560-1775 / Edgar Peters Bowron -- Paintings on copper in Spanish America / Clara Bargellini -- Artists' views of the miner's world / Michael K. Komanecky -- The materials and techniques of European paintings on copper supports / Isabel Horowitz -- Antwerp copper plates / Jergen Wadum -- Copper production, trade and use in Europe from the end of the fifteenth century to the end of the eighteenth century / Ekkehard Westermann. Published to accompany the exhibition held in Phoenix, AZ: Phoenix Art Museum, Dec. 19, 1998 to Feb. 28, 1999, two other locations.
OCLC: 39347992
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