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Love and Loss American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures ~ Love and Loss American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures Ms Robin Jaffe Frank on FREE shipping on qualifying offers Portrait miniatures small enough to fit in the palm of the hand are uniquely personal works of art From colonial times to the age of photography

Love and Loss American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures ~ Love and Loss American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures Robin Jaffee Frank A poignant investigation into American private life between 1760 and 1840 Love and Loss gathers together more than 100 portrait miniatures painted both by miniaturists and by such renowned easel artists as Benjamin West John Singleton Copley and Charles Willson Peale

Love and Loss American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures ~ Portrait miniatures small enough to fit in the palm of the hand are unique among works of art for their highly personal associations At the height of their American popularity from 1760 to about 1840 these cherished portraits were frequently commissioned as a way to hold on to absent loved ones

Love and Loss American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures ~ Love and Loss American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures A sea change in public taste had taken place when the small densely painted miniatures of the colonial era were overtaken by the large transparent ivories of the federal era heralded by British miniaturists like Archibald Robertson and exemplified in America by the work of Edward

Love and Loss American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures ~ Love and Loss American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures B lushing virginal brides to be Rare intimate depictions of our nations heroes A behindthescenes look at formal society

Love and Loss American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures ~ Love and Loss American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures includes close to 140 of these exquisite works of art most of them small enough to fit in the palm of the hand as a few large easel paintings that show how these intensely personal images were worn as jewelry Visitors will not only be able to appreciate the charm and beauty of the miniatures but also to examine their construction and learn the engaging often poignant stories behind them

Love and Loss American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures ~ In Love and Loss American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures most of the works considered are from Yale’s own superb collection including the substantial promised bequest of Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch and Alvin Deutsch Cleverly designed in a seven by five and onehalf inch format “that responds so sympathetically to the small scale and private purpose of miniatures” xi—many of which are reproduced lifesize lending a special intimacy to her subject–her study serves as the

Love and loss American portrait and mourning miniatures ~ Portrait miniatures small enough to fit in the palm of the hand are unique among works of art for their highly personal associations At the height of their American popularity from 1760 to about 1840 these cherished portraits were frequently commissioned as a way to hold on to absent loved ones

American Portrait Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century ~ Love and Loss American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures Exhibition catalogue New Haven Yale University Press 2000 Johnson Dale T American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection New York Metropolitan Museum of Art 1990 See on MetPublications

Why Dont I Read All My Books Literary Hub ~ I own a book called Love and Loss American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures itself a small object with a haunting image on the cover a tiny 19thcentury portrait of a dead teenage book came out in 2000 to accompany an exhibition of miniatures at Yale University Art Gallery and I bought it not long afterward though I can’t remember precisely when or why