Title & Author:

Copper as canvas : two centuries of masterpiece paintings on copper, 1575-1775 / [organized by] Phoenix Art Museum.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Description:

xx, 346 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Phoenix Art Museum, Dec. 19, 1998-Feb. 28, 1999, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Mar. 28-June 13, 1999, the Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, June 26-Aug. 22, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Summary:

Recently 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.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0195123964 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780195123968 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0195123972 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780195123975 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Copper painting Exhibitions.
Painting 16th century Exhibitions.
Painting, Modern 17th century Exhibitions.
Painting, Modern 18th century Exhibitions.
Peinture sur cuivre Expositions.
Peinture 16e siècle Expositions.
Peinture 17e siècle Expositions.
Peinture 18e siècle Expositions.
Copper painting.
Painting.
Painting, Modern.
Schilderkunst.
Koper.
Dragers (materiaal)

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Phoenix Art Museum.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Mauritshuis (Hague, Netherlands)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 201659
Call No.: ND1605 .C6 1999
Status: Available