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Item Number: 124925
Title: British Portrait Miniatures : The Cleveland Museum of Art
Author: Korkow, Cory
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781907804236
Description: London: Giles, in association with the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. 28cm., hardcover, 296pp., 365 color illus. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: The Cleveland Museum of Art British portrait miniatures collection is world-renowned for its exceptional quality, and is one of the finest outside the Royal Collection and Victoria & Albert Museum in the UK. There are highlights from the work of all the leading miniaturists, including Nicholas Hilliard, Isaac Oliver, Samuel Cooper and Richard Cosway. Author Cory Korkow, a specialist in European art, includes new research about the artists, sitters and owners, stylistic analysis, as well as numerous conservation photos. New high-resolution details reveal these diminutive portraits as they have never been seen before, allowing the whole collection to be studied in detail for the first time. This comprehensive book will appeal to dealers and collectors as well as the academic and scholarly market; much of the specialist information such as provenance, artists’ biographies, exhibition and sales information are included within the entry for ease of access. But the book’s appeal also lies in the particular charm of the miniature; as intimate objects to be admired up-close and turned in the hand, they are likenesses for private meditation and selective display. A study of portrait miniatures reveals personalities— their romances, heartbreaks, and comic vanities—as well as relationships between sitter and artist. This lavishly illustrated new volume,reveals the distinctive character of these enigmatic portraits.
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