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Pictures and a few thousand words Cezanne, Matisse, Titian . . . there is still plenty new to say about even the greatest artists, finds Martin Gayford
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ANCIENT HISTORY , Voltaire remarked - perhaps a little sweepingly
- is no more than accepted fiction. Art history, on the other hand,
contains a large dose of received opinion - which means the reader
has to be conscious of whose opinion he or she is receiving. Of no
book is this more true than of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the
Artists, the fountain-head of Renaissance lore.
Vasari was not only an author but himself a 16th-century Tuscan
painter. Therefore, he has often been assumed to be a particularly
good source on 16th-century Tuscan painters. But a moment's thought
should warn one that ...
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Fischer von Erlach und die Wiener Barocktradition.
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review
; Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach is a key figure of the Austrian Baroque. His works, which...Vienna in 1993. The first part deals directly with Fischer von Erlach and his son Johann Michael (who completed and altered several of his father...
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Vienna.(E)(Travel)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...to my line of sight. Austrian baroque architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach was commissioned by Emperor Karl VI in 1716 to...through the main entrance arcade of the Fischer von Erlach Wing, within the original framework of the royal...
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Magnificent Schonbrunn : Vienna's Palace of the Arts.
Magazine article from: World and I
; ...1713, was a more simple version of the plans that Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, who at that time was tutor in civil architecture...highest hill in Vienna, These plans, featured in von Erlach's Entwurf einer historichen Architektur, published...
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Reinventing Vienna
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...Hofmannsthal thinking of Count Maximilian von Browne (1705-57)? Joseph von Brentano-Cimaroli (1718-64...tradition, had it rebuilt by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, the supreme master of Austrian...
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The borderless Baroque: a traveling exhibition examines the scope and sensibility of what its curators call "post-Latin American" art. (Import/Export).
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...buildings were designed by the Baroque architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. The exhibition included the work of Wim Delvoye...its meanings. Art history's founding father, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, first used the term in the...
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Piranesi: the aesthetic of eclecticism and his Egyptian style.(Giovanni Battista Piranesi )(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...historischen Architektur (A plan of civil and historical architecture ...), by the Austrian architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (Fig. 3). Piranesi was certainly not alone in his interest in ancient Egypt. (6) He was familiar...
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From imperial stables to an art complex.(Vienna)(MuseumsQuartier)
Magazine article from: Etc. Montreal
; In 1716, when Emperor Karl VI of Austria commissioned Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach to buil the imperial stables in front of the palace gates in Vienna, he could not have imagined that buildings constructed to...
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