Dresden in the Ages of Splendor and Enlightenment : Eighteenth-Century Paintings from the Old Masters Picture Gallery

by Marx, Harald; Weber, Gregor J. M.; Stockman, Russell; Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden, Germany); Columbus Museum of Art

• ISBN13: 9780918881373
• ISBN10: 0918881374
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

During the first half of the 18th century, Dresden became a mecca for artists, craftsmen, architects, and theatrical and musical performers. They came from Paris, Venice, Verona, Bologna, Brussels, and Copenhagen, and from nearby Aussig, Erfurt, and Weimar.

Dresden in the Ages of splendor and Enlightenment celebrates and examines for the first time 18th-century painting both collected and produced in Dresden. The landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, and religious and allegorical paintings from the legendary Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister reflect the interplay between collecting and creating art in one of the great artistic centers of 18th-century Europe, one comparable in brilliance with other German-speaking power centers of the period such as Vienna, Munich, or Berlin.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Acknowledgments	xvii
Painting in Dresden in the Eighteenth Century	1	(54)
Harald Marx
Catalogue I / Dresden Painters from the Eighteenth Century	55	(128)
Harald Marx
Gregor J. M. Weber
The Gallery as Work of Art: The Installation of the Italian Paintings in 1754	183	(16)
Gregor J. M. Weber
Catalogue II / Eighteenth-Century Paintings Acquired by the Gallery	199	(64)
Harald Marx
Uta Neidhardt
Katrin Schlechte
Gregor J. M. Weber
Biographies of the Artists	263	(10)
Saxony in the Eighteenth Century: A Brief Chronology	273	(12)
Hans-Peter Luhr
Bibliography	285	(18)
Index of Artists	303