National Portrait Gallery: The Collection - Softcover

 
9781855145733: National Portrait Gallery: The Collection
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1855145731 ISBN 13: 9781855145733
Verlag: National Portrait Gallery Publications, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

A concise panorama of Britain’s most influential individuals, from Elizabeth I to David Bowie

Published to celebrate the reopening of London’s National Portrait Gallery after a three-year redevelopment project, this engaging and inviting book takes the reader on a chronological journey through Britain’s history in portraiture from the Tudors to now, featuring the country’s most impactful and famous individuals—from Queen Elizabeth I to Mary Seacole, and Virginia Woolf to David Bowie. The book is richly illustrated with beautiful paintings, photographs, sculptures, drawings and digital works. This selection of the most popular and recognizable portraits from the collection is accompanied by short chapter introductions that introduce key historical periods, their most exciting figures and their most important historical, political, social and cultural moments. This accessible structure allows the reader to dip into any of the beautiful portraits and their stories, and understand their place in British history.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rab MacGibbon is Cross-Collections Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, London. He is the author of Icons and Identities (2021), and a contributor to Love Stories: Art, Passion & Tragedy (2020), Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures from Hilliard to Oliver (2019) and The Lost Prince: The Life & Death of Henry Stuart (2012).

Dr Nicholas Cullinan is Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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National Portrait Gallery: The Collection is published to celebrate the reopening of the Gallery after a three-year redevelopment project. Designed by Daniela Rocha, this engaging and inviting book takes the reader on a chronological journey through Britain’s history in portraiture, from the Tudors to Now, featuring the country’s most impactful and famous individuals, from Queen Elizabeth I to Mary Seacole, and Virginia Woolf to David Bowie. The book is richly illustrated with beautiful paintings, photogra

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Verlag
National Portrait Gallery Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1855145731
ISBN 13 
9781855145733
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
127
Herausgeber
MacGibbon Rab
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