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The Oxford Companion to Western Art
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The Oxford Companion to Western Art

Hugh Brigstocke

The Oxford Companion to Western Art, written by over 100 distinguished art historians and specialists, provides in-depth coverage of Western Art with entries on artists and their works, styles and movements, art forms and art terms, combined with more modern methodologies, focused on patronage, taste, theory, and criticism, and the scientific examination of materials and techniques. Critical appreciation and factual information on over 1700 artists from classical times to the 20th century are included with 49 feature articles covering a broad spectrum of topics from art history and its methods to wall painting.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
2001
Print ISBN-13:
9780198662037
Published to Oxford Reference:
2003
Current Online Version:
2003
eISBN:
9780191727597

Author

Hugh Brigstocke, author

Hugh Brigstocke is a writer and editor, and since 2000 the editor of the journal, The Walpole Society. He was for many years a Curator at the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, where he published a critical catalogue of the Italian and Spanish Paintings (1978; revised 1993) and co-organized the exhibition Poussin. Sacraments and Bacchanals (1981). From 1983–1987 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Grove Dictionary of Art. He has also worked in various capacities at Sotheby's, London, including as head of the Old Master Paintings department. He has catalogued several exhibitions, including Poussin Drawings (Ashmolean, Oxford, 1990). In 2001 he took up a Paul Mellon Research Fellowship at the British School, Rome.

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