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Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds Farington, Joseph ; Pallas Athene (UK) Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-"1792) was the most fashionable painter of his time. His talent and ambition made him the first English painter of European stature--"an especially impressive feat considering portraiture, his chosen field, was often ignored or dismissed. His position at the heart of British intellectual life gave painting a new presence and transformed the way art was made and appreciated in Britain. Seven Discourses on Art Reynolds, Joshua ; Kessinger Publishing When the artist is once enabled to express himself with some degree of correctness, he must then endeavour to collect subjects for expression; to amass a stock of ideas, to be combined and varied as occasion may require. He is now in the second period of study, in which his business is to learn all that has hitherto been known and done. Having hitherto received instructions from a particular master, he is now to consider the art itself as his master. He must extend his capacity to more sublime and general instructions.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (The Frick Collection, New York) Born at Plympton, Devonshire, Reynolds served a brief apprenticeship under Thomas Hudson in London before launching his career as a portrait painter in Plymouth. Between 1749 and 1752 he was in Italy, where the study of ancient art and the Italian masters profoundly affected his style. Soon after his return he became the most fashionable portraitist in London. Reynolds was a prolific painter whose variety of approach was envied by his rival, Thomas Gainsborough. As the first President of the Royal Academy, Reynolds delivered a series of “Discourses” that were highly influential in shaping British aesthetic theory. He was a close friend of some of the leading personalities of his time, including Dr. Johnson, Goldsmith, Burke, and Garrick. Works in the Collection: General John Burgoyne, Lady Skipwith
Wallace Collection London: Lady Elizabeth Seymour-Conway, Mrs.Susanna Hoare and Child, Frances, Countess of Lincoln, Mrs.Elizabeth Carnac, Miss Jane Bowles, Miss Nelly O'Brien, The Strawberry Girl, Mrs. Mary Nesbitt, Mrs. Mary Robinson ('Perdita'), Mrs. Jane Braddyll, Saint John the Baptist, in the Wilderness, The 4th Duke of Queensbury ('Old Q') as Earl of March
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Books: Sir Joshua Reynolds : The Painter in Society by Richard Wendorf. Hardcover (November 1996), Sir Joshua Reynolds : The Painter in Society by Richard Wendorf. Paperback (March 1998) That Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) became the most fashionable painter of his time was not simply due to his artistic gifts or good fortune. The art of pleasing, Richard Wendorf contends, was as much a part of Reynolds's success--in his life and in his work--as the art of painting. Conceived as an experiment in cultural criticism, written along the fault lines of art history and literary studies, “Sir Joshua Reynolds” explores the ways in which portrait-painting is embedded in the social fabric of a given culture as well as in the social and professional transaction between the artist and his or her subject. In addition to providing a new view of Reynolds, Wendorf's book develops a thoroughly new way of interpreting portraiture. "You practice an art ruled by men. Worse still, it is one in which your brother is preeminent. This was the delicate position in which Frances Reynolds, professional portraitist and the sister of Sir Joshua, found herself--which is only one of the fascinating highlights of Richard Wendorf's portrait of the 18th century's most fashionable painter...The subtitle of “Sir Joshua Reynolds” suggests something of its originality, for it is not about the painter of society as much as the painter in society, revealing how the enterprise of portrait-painting illumines the nature of the period."
--Robert Taylor, BOSTON GLOBE

Opere uniche: Matta, Emilio Isgrò, Lucio Del Pezzo, Rodolfo Aricò, Giovanni Sesia, Marco Lodola, Plumcake, Dario Brevi, Angelo Dozio, Agostino Ferrari, Battista Luraschi, Umberto Mariani

Collezione 8X8 di Cesare Zavattini: Carla Accardi, Vincenzo Agnetti, Titina Maselli, Franco Angeli, Augusto Murer Fabio Mauri, Bruno Caruso, Ezio Gribaudo, Sergio Sarri, Ilia Peikov, Luigi Parzini, Simona Weller, Pron Pachner, Agostino Pisani

  Grafica: Valerio Adami, Franco Angeli, Piero Gilardi, Sandro Chia, Giuseppe Spagnulo, Emilio Greco, Pericle Fazzini, Dadamaino, Peter Phillips, Dalì, Man Ray, Victor Vasarely, Sutherland, Masson, Gentilini, Schifano, Matta, Rotella, Baj, Guttuso, Dorazio, Fiume, Carla Tolomeo, Annigoni, Aligi Sassu, Migneco, Orfeo Tamburi, Cantatore, Mario Nigro

.grafiche rare: Giuseppe Spagnulo, Mario Nigro, Dadamaino, Peter Phillips, Franco Angeli, Piero Gilardi, Sandro Chia, Valerio Adami

Art and Fashion "out of season" paintings ...Thus I dared looking for those "common values" in the world of Fashion among many people who hold out without having to rely on an understanding. The outcome is amid paintings and sculptures "out of season" dedicated to abstract expressions, levity and photo advertising, important pictures, objects and perfumes, play and strangely enough to some elderly portraits......so is there really a necessity for a subject?...Art and Fashion