Alexandre Cabanel : the tradition of beauty /

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Imprint:München : Hirmer Verlag ; Köln : Wallraf-Richartz Museum, ©2011.
Description:125 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language:English
Subject:Cabanel, Alexandre, -- 1823-1889 -- Exhibitions.
Cabanel, Alexandre, -- 1823-1889.
Exhibition catalogs.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8360303
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Varying Form of Title:Tradition of beauty
Other authors / contributors:Blühm, Andreas.
Cabanel, Alexandre, 1823-1889.
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum.
ISBN:9783777436913
3777436917
Notes:Catalog of the exhibition held at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Köln, 4 February-15 May, 2011.
其他题名:the tradition of beauty.
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:One of the foremost artists of 19th century France, Alexandre Cabanel (1823 - 1889), will be featured in his first exhibition at the Wallraf in Spring 2011. In cooperation with Musée Fabre in Montpellier, the Wallraf in Cologne will present over 60 works by a man who rose from the rank of a lowly carpenter's son to become court painter to Napoleon III. In order to give these graceful works by the last of the great salon painters just the right ambience, the Wallraf has secured the services of a distinguished compatriot of Cabanel: Star designer Christian Lacroix has been commissioned to design a special interior exclusively for the exhibition. Lacroix studied at the Academy of Arts in Montpellier the hometown of Cabanel and regards the painter as one of his all-time favourites. Exhibition: Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Köln (4.2-15.5.2011).
Other form:Online version: Alexandre Cabanel. München : Hirmer Verlag ; Köln : Wallraf-Richartz Museum, ©2011
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Andreas Blühm
  • Preface ; Cabanel, reconsidered / Michel Hilaire
  • Catalogue / Sylvain Amic
  • The years in Rome
  • Cabanel and the salon
  • The birth of Venus
  • The painter of the second empire
  • Cabanel and the portrait
  • Paradise lost
  • Cabanel : drama and literature.