Main entry:

Borys, Stephen D. (Stephen Donald)

Title & Author:

The splendor of ruins in French landscape painting, 1630-1800 / Stephen D. Borys ; with the assistance of students in the Art History Department at Oberlin College ; essays by T. Barton Thurber, Alan Wintermute, Stephen D. Borys.

Publication:

Oberlin College, Ohio : Allen Memorial Art Museum, ©2005.

Description:

xii, 190 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, Mar. 19-June 19, 2005 and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 17-Oct. 16, 2005."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183) and index.
From 'Learned architecture' to the 'Poetics of ruins': classical building types and motifs in selected French landscape paintings from Claude to Robert / T. Barton Thurber -- Watteau, ruins and the pastoral landscape in French painting, 1700-1750 / Alan Wintermute -- Documenting and collecting ruins in European landscape painting / Stephen D. Borys.

ISBN:

0942946049 (paperback)
9780942946048 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture in art Exhibitions.
Ruins in art Exhibitions.
Landscape painting, French 17th century Exhibitions.
Landscape painting, French 18th century Exhibitions.
Architecture dans l'art Expositions.
Ruines dans l'art Expositions.
Peinture de paysages française 17e siècle Expositions.
Peinture de paysages française 18e siècle Expositions.
Architecture in art
Landscape painting, French
Ruins in art

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs

Added entries:

Thurber, T. Barton.
Wintermute, Alan.
Allen Memorial Art Museum.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 238709
Call No.: BIB 168584
Status: Available