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Only thirty-nine when he took over the National Gallery in 1955, Jarvis already had an extraordinary record of achievement and social mobility at home and in England: he had trained with Canada's greatest artists, won a Rhodes scholarship, lunched at the Algonquin Round Table in New York, managed an aircraft factory, written a bestseller, produced films, run a slum settlement, and moved in a London social circle that included Noël Coward and Vivien Leigh. As head of the National Gallery, Jarvis was a provocative public educator, advocating his idea of "a museum without walls" in countless public appearances. Instrumental in bringing modern art to the National Gallery, he shook artists and the art-minded public out of a period of national complacency. This first detailed account of the controversy surrounding his time at the gallery provides an important context for the ongoing and contested role of publicly supported arts and art institutions in this country.

Art museum directors --- Jarvis, Alan, --- National Gallery of Canada --- History.

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Spaces of Connoisseurship explores the ‘who’, ‘where’ and ‘how’ of judging Old Master paintings in the nineteenth-century British art trade, via a comparison of family art dealers Thomas Agnew & Sons (“Agnew’s) and London’s National Gallery. In Spaces of Connoisseurship , Alison Clarke explores the ‘who’, ‘where’ and ‘how’ of judging Old Master paintings in the nineteenth-century British art trade. She describes how the staff at family art dealers Thomas Agnew & Sons (“Agnew’s”) and London’s National Gallery took advantage of emerging technologies such as the railways and photography. Through encounters with pictures in a range of locations, both private and public, these art market actors could build up the visual memory and necessary expertise to compare artworks and judge them in terms of attribution, condition and beauty. Also explored are the display tactics adopted by both commercial outfit and art museum to showcase pictures once acquired. In a time of ever-spiralling art prices, this book tackles the question of why some paintings are preferred over others, and exactly how art experts reach their judgements.

National Gallery (Great Britain) --- Painting --- Oil painting --- Painting, Primitive --- Paintings --- Graphic arts --- History. --- Economic aspects --- History --- Expertising --- Thomas Agnew & Sons --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- art market --- connoisseurship --- expertizing --- National Gallery [London] --- Agnews Gallery [London] --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1910-1919 --- National Gallery London --- London. National Gallery --- Nat︠s︡ionalʹnai︠a︡ galerei︠a︡ (Great Britain) --- London. --- Great Britain. --- National Gallery, London --- Национальная галерея (Great Britain) --- נשונל גלרי (בריטניה) --- Thomas Agnew and Sons

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Ord looks at the gallery's historical and intellectual context - from 1910 when Eric Brown became the gallery's founding director, through Jean Sutherland Boggs, to Shirley Thomson - shedding light on its acquisitions, government policy towards the arts, and the public's deep-rooted suspicion of avant-garde art. In showing how Canadian art came to be housed in a building whose architectural and ideological sources include Gothic cathedrals, Islamic mosques, Egyptian temples, St Peter's Basilica, and the squared-stone facades of the Holy City of Jerusalem, The National Gallery of Canada insightfully explores the relationship of Canada's art and its National Gallery to the project of the Canadian nation state.

Art museums --- Art --- Art collections --- Art galleries --- Galleries, Art --- Galleries, Public art --- Picture-galleries --- Public art galleries --- Public galleries (Art museums) --- Arts facilities --- Museums --- Galleries and museums --- National Gallery of Canada. --- National Museums of Canada --- Canada. --- National Museums of Canada. --- Galerie nationale du Canada --- National Art Gallery of Canada --- NGC --- Musée des beaux-arts du Canada --- Galleria nazionale del Canada

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A captivating account of the formative years of one of Canada's best-known artists, Jackson's Wars follows A.Y. Jackson's education and progress as a painter at home and in Europe. Douglas Hunter captures the life of a complex man and the crucial events and relationships behind the creation of Canada's best-known art collective.

Painters. --- Painters --- Jackson, A. Y. --- Albert Robinson. --- Beaver Hall Group. --- Canadian art. --- Frank Carmichael. --- Frederick Varley. --- Great War. --- Group. --- JEH MacDonald. --- Johnston. --- Lawren Harris. --- Lord Beaverbrook. --- National Gallery Canada. --- Randolph Hewton. --- Seven. --- Tom Thomson. --- World War One. --- landscape art. --- painting. --- war art.

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A short book about different issues in optical technologies. The importance of optical technologies for artwork charaterization is well known, in this book we show some examples where different optical technologies are applied in real cultural heritage artworks.

digital archaeology --- image classification --- stratigraphy --- landscape archaeology --- sediment analysis --- spectroscopy --- proximal sensing --- porcelain --- enamels --- China --- 18th century --- Raman microspectroscopy --- pXRF --- pigments --- arsenic --- cobalt --- Naples yellow --- Dzi bead --- agate --- X-ray diffraction --- X-ray fluorescence --- X-ray absorption near edge structure --- X-ray imaging --- colour --- art --- visual --- accommodation --- binocular vision --- silver nanostars --- surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy --- cross-sections --- copper phthalocyanine --- blue pigment --- analytical diagnostics --- National Gallery of Parma --- Madonna della Misericordia --- pigment identification --- preliminary drawing --- gilding --- Byzantine --- projection mapping --- calibration --- lighting --- cultural heritage --- light damage --- colour difference --- ageing --- monitoring --- imaging spectroscopy --- spectral imaging --- exhibitions --- preventive --- quantitative --- books --- paper --- conservation --- archive --- library --- art conservation --- spectral optimization --- color quality --- LEDs --- light intensity --- illuminance --- exposure --- energy efficiency --- damage --- daguerreotype --- tarnish --- chemical cleaning --- electrocleaning --- synchrotron --- X-ray fluorescence imaging --- non-invasive investigations --- portable/reflectance spectroscopy --- portable Raman spectroscopy --- lead antimonate --- enamel blue --- caput mortuum --- hyperspectral imaging --- 18th century painting --- FORS --- XRF --- photogrammetry --- workflow --- Alhambra’s Tower of the Captive --- n/a --- Alhambra's Tower of the Captive