Rooms With A View – The Open Window in the Nineteenth Century (Metropolitan Museum of Art) - Softcover

Rewald, Sabine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300169779 ISBN 13: 9780300169775

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2011

Synopsis

During the first half of the 19th century, the open window emerged as a consistent motif in German, Danish, French, and Russian art. "Rooms with a View" is the first book to explore this intriguing theme in European art, with its Romantic intimations of unfulfilled longing and its associated qualities of poetry, luminosity, and interiority. Artists depicted this intangible mood with images of contemplative figures in hushed, sparely furnished rooms; painters diligently at work in their studios; simple, serene displays of light entering a chamber; and, windows as the focal point of views in their own right. "Rooms with a View" features forty oils and thirty works on paper by both well-known and largely undiscovered artists, including Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Adolph Menzel, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Martinus Rorbye, Jean Alaux, Leon Cogniet, and Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy.

About this title

About the Author

Sabine Rewald is Jacques and Natasha Gelman Curator, Department of 19th-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300169779
• ISBN 13: 9780300169775
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120