WashingtonCrossingtheDelaware-RestoringanAmericanMasterpiece

作者 Carrie Rebora Barratt著Lance Mayer著Gay Myers著Suzanne Smeaton著Eli Wilner著
出版社 YaleUniversityPress
出版时间 2012年1月
ISBN 9780300176421
定价 230.00

内容简介

EmanuelLeutze'slife-sizeWashingtonCrossingtheDelawarecommemoratesthecriticalmomentintheAmericanRevolutionwhenGeorgeWashingtonledasurpriseattackagainsttroopssupportingtheBritishforcesinTrenton.WhenLeutzecreatedthepaintingin1850,?afterhehadreturnedfromAmericatohisnativeGermany,hewashopingtorallysupportfortherevolutionarymovementsthensweepingEurope.HesenttheworktoNewYorkin1851,andwithinfourmonths?50,000peoplehadpaidtoseeit.TodaythepaintingisaniconofAmericanvisualcultureandoneofthemostbelovedobjectsinTheMetropolitanMuseumofArt.?In2007,Leutze'smasterpiecebecamethefocusofthemostambitiousconservationandreframingprojectinthemuseum'shistory.This?bookisabehind-the-scenes?reportonthatproject,prefacedbyanaccountofthehistoryofthepainting'sacquisitionanddisplayatthemuseum.

作者简介

CarrieReboraBarrattisassociatedirectorforcollectionsandadministrationatTheMetropolitanMuseumofArt.LanceMayerandGayMyers,oftheNewLondon,Connecticut,artconservationfirmMayer&Myers,undertookthetreatmentofthepainting.SuzanneSmeatonandEliWilneroversawthedesignandcarvingofitsnewframeatEliWilner&Company,NewYork.

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