Author: KEYES, GEORGE S.
Title: Mirror of empire : Dutch marine art of seventeenth century / George Keyes ; with essays by George Keyes [et al.]
Description: Cambridge ; New York : Minneapolis Institute of Arts ; Cambridge University Press 1990.Fine copy in the original color-printed. stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xiv. 444 p. : ill. (some col.). maps ; 23 x 29 cm. Notes: Published in connection with the exhibition. held at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Sept. 23-Dec. 31. 1990; The Toledo Museum of Art. Jan. 27-Apr. 21. 1991; Los Angeles County Museum of Art. May 23-Aug. 11. 1991. Includes bibliographical references (p. 432-444). Summary: Mirror of Empire is the catalogue accompanying a travelling exhibition. It includes many of the works of both Willem Van de Velde the Elder and Willem Van de Velde the Younger. The catalogue focuses on paintings. drawings. prints. sea charts and related cartographical material. while stressing the relationship among marine art and Dutch history. commerce and the tremendous significance of Dutch ship design. The book provides biographies and contributors' essays that help explain the works of art within the larger historical context of their period. Subject: Marine art. Dutch - Exhibitions. Marine art - 17th century - Netherlands - Exhibitions. History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800. Art/ General design/ Graphic Arts. Other names: Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Toledo Museum of Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Genre: Bibliography. Catalogue. Illustrated. ISBN: 0912964405. Weight in Kg appr.:

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