- Hardcover: 198 pages
- Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; Re-issue edition (1 Sep 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0810919729
- ISBN-13: 978-0810919723
- Product Dimensions: 33.8 x 27.2 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 318,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"From the first chapter, about its history, to the double-page photographs of the galleries, readers will feel as if [former] director Ryskamp is giving them a private tour. Photographers di Liberto and Taylor highlight the stunning integration of the 14th- through 19th-century paintings, furniture, sculpture and other art objects with the rooms; other photographs present individual pieces. Curators Davidson, Galassi, Munhall and Tscherny explain the background of the artists as well as their works... The folio size and 178 color plates should have immediate appeal to general readers and art lovers, while the detailed descriptions of each piece in the collection should satisfy scholars." - Library Journal"
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Covering a wide array of great paintings, as well as rarely-published sculptural treasures and numerous masterpieces of the decorative arts, this is an illustrated survey of the Frick Collection, housed in a Fifth Avenue mansion in New York City. It was founded by Henry Clay Frick, an industrialist whose interest in and knowledge of art led him to begin buying artworks in about 1880. Separate sections of the book are devoted to paintings, sculpture and the decorative arts, presenting colour reproductions of some of the collection's most prized works. They include Bellini's "St Francis in the Desert", Holbein the Younger's portrait of Sir Thomas More, El Greco's "Purification of the Temple", three Vermeers, seascapes and landscapes by Turner, and works by Degas, Renoir, Monet and Whistler. There are also portrait busts by Andrea del Verrocchio and Jean-Antoine Houdon, and furniture made for Marie-Antoinette, as well as views of the mansion and the richly furnished rooms in which the works are installed.
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